Hello. I just joined this forum, which is my first and only. I am not a huge fan of the inter webs, but after ending back here from multiple google searches for pipe related minutia, I thought I would give it a try.
Ok, about me. I currently live in...California. I am not from California, but this is just where life has me at the moment. Just hopefully not for a long moment.
I started smoking a pipe about a year and a half ago, using it to quit my 15 year pack a day plus habit of reds, and can-a-day habit of grizzly. I’ve always been a big fan of tobacco in all its wonderful shapes and forms, and I’ve participated in just about everything besides snuff...that stuff always mystified me. But, just using a pipe to quit cigarettes, I realized that I had found my favorite vessel of consumption for the wonderful tobbacer.
I usually like more traditional pipe shapes, especially billiards and billiard variations. I usually like to smoke mostly Virginia and Virginia/Periques, but I like a lot of variety within those categories (meaning everything from Orlik Golden Sliced through Bayou Morning Flake, and perdy much everything in between). But my staples consist of Bayou Morning Flake (and Bayou Morning), McConnells Scottish Flake, Hal O’ the Wynd, Haddo’s Delight, Stonehenge Flake, and Habana Daydream (maybe I just like Perique...) And then I have saved up a small stock of Latakia blends (Like Maltese Falcon and Platation Evening) for when the mood strikes me. I sometimes smoke other stuff, just usually not aromatics. But I guess it all just comes down to my mood when I’m choosing what to smoke.
Where I live isn’t the easiest place to buy pipe tobacco, so I do most of my purchasing from Smokingpipes.com and the like.
Other than that, I’m a Carpenter, a Vet, husband, father, and weirdo. And I think that about covers it. I’m happy to be here (I think).
Ok, about me. I currently live in...California. I am not from California, but this is just where life has me at the moment. Just hopefully not for a long moment.
I started smoking a pipe about a year and a half ago, using it to quit my 15 year pack a day plus habit of reds, and can-a-day habit of grizzly. I’ve always been a big fan of tobacco in all its wonderful shapes and forms, and I’ve participated in just about everything besides snuff...that stuff always mystified me. But, just using a pipe to quit cigarettes, I realized that I had found my favorite vessel of consumption for the wonderful tobbacer.
I usually like more traditional pipe shapes, especially billiards and billiard variations. I usually like to smoke mostly Virginia and Virginia/Periques, but I like a lot of variety within those categories (meaning everything from Orlik Golden Sliced through Bayou Morning Flake, and perdy much everything in between). But my staples consist of Bayou Morning Flake (and Bayou Morning), McConnells Scottish Flake, Hal O’ the Wynd, Haddo’s Delight, Stonehenge Flake, and Habana Daydream (maybe I just like Perique...) And then I have saved up a small stock of Latakia blends (Like Maltese Falcon and Platation Evening) for when the mood strikes me. I sometimes smoke other stuff, just usually not aromatics. But I guess it all just comes down to my mood when I’m choosing what to smoke.
Where I live isn’t the easiest place to buy pipe tobacco, so I do most of my purchasing from Smokingpipes.com and the like.
Other than that, I’m a Carpenter, a Vet, husband, father, and weirdo. And I think that about covers it. I’m happy to be here (I think).