Hello from Alaska!

[crwfshkid]

Just making my first dive into the deep end. Thanks to this forum, I just purchased:

Balkan Supreme
C&D Briar Fox
Presbyterian
HH Burley Flake
Captan Blue Ready Rubbed
HH Old Dark Fired Flake
Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky

I appreciate all of the help. Looking forward to learning more. I reckon I'll need to add another pipe into the rotation to let mine rest...

 

[jaxonlee]

Just making my first dive into the deep end. Thanks to this forum, I just purchased:

Balkan Supreme
C&D Briar Fox
Presbyterian
HH Burley Flake
Captan Blue Ready Rubbed
HH Old Dark Fired Flake
Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky

I appreciate all of the help. Looking forward to learning more. I reckon I'll need to add another pipe into the rotation to let mine rest...

Sounds like a terrific dive into the deep end! That's a nice mix indeed.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Welcome to the forum from Chicago! Now that you have some tobacco blends, you can go to the tobacco subforum and tell us what you think. Since you are from Alaska, as a word of caution, use terms we understand. Whenever alaskan_piper posts a review, he always references moose. He'll say it "tastes like raw moose", "tastes like sauteed moose", "tastes like broiled moose" or "tastes like bbq moose." Most us have never tasted moose so the reference is just lost. (He also says things like "Haunted, knock it off or one day you'll be in the cross hairs of my moose gun! He's a kidder!)

 

[cshubhra]

Welcome!!!

 

[mso489]

Welcome from central N.C. There's much to be said for matches for lighting pipes, the softness of the flame and the control.

 

[WLC]

Welcome to the forum from Chicago! Now that you have some tobacco blends, you can go to the tobacco subforum and tell us what you think. Since you are from Alaska, as a word of caution, use terms we understand. Whenever alaskan_piper posts a review, he always references moose. He'll say it "tastes like raw moose", "tastes like sauteed moose", "tastes like broiled moose" or "tastes like bbq moose." Most us have never tasted moose so the reference is just lost. (He also says things like "Haunted, knock it off or one day you'll be in the cross hairs of my moose gun! He's a kidder!)

Just be wary if he ever says it tastes like moose nuggets....

And welcome from another newbie Alaskan that has just taken up the pipe.

 

[neilnoff]

Welcome from Texas. Ditto on the previous comments re: Zippo with a pipe insert.

 

[crwfshkid]

Thanks, everyone!

 

[docpierce]

I've been lurking here for a few months, popping in to read some thread here and there, but the lockdowns have me reaching out. This place seems amazing and inviting. I did a dozen years in the Air Force, but now I have a job where I could keep flying instead of sitting a desk

I'm a super casual pipe smoker, with just a Peterson Donegal Rocky and a local B&M blend (Stoney's Blend).

Looking to get into some tins, having seen several recent threads that had a ton of information. The Instant Cellar thread seems like it has a great start for me to dig into.

I've really only have used a Bic or matches for lighting my pipe. Any recommendations for a solid & dependable lighter?

Oh boy. Here we go...a lighter fight.

My vote is a Corona ( no pun intended) Old Boy.

 

[hauntedmyst]

Oh boy. Here we go...a lighter fight.

My vote is a Corona ( no pun intended) Old Boy.

Yeah, they are a lot like co... sword fights but a little bigger.

 

[crwfshkid]

Not a fight picker, promise! (Actually, probably everyone who knows me would disagree.)

 

[alaskanpiper]

Welcome to the forum from Chicago! Now that you have some tobacco blends, you can go to the tobacco subforum and tell us what you think. Since you are from Alaska, as a word of caution, use terms we understand. Whenever alaskan_piper posts a review, he always references moose. He'll say it "tastes like raw moose", "tastes like sauteed moose", "tastes like broiled moose" or "tastes like bbq moose." Most us have never tasted moose so the reference is just lost. (He also says things like "Haunted, knock it off or one day you'll be in the cross hairs of my moose gun! He's a kidder!)

Hey it’s not my fault you are so uncultured!

 

[crwfshkid]

Hey it’s not my fault you are so uncultured!

If there was something close in the world to canned moose, my wife would be in heaven....

 

[alaskanpiper]

If there was something close in the world to canned moose, my wife would be in heaven....

Well, you could always can it.....just sayin

 

[crwfshkid]

Well, you could always can it.....just sayin

We've been more of a caribou, bear, sheep family (along with the salmon and halibut). I haven't got to go moose hunting yet....

 

[alaskanpiper]

We've been more of a caribou, bear, sheep family (along with the salmon and halibut). I haven't got to go moose hunting yet....

Sheep is some incredible stuff. Gotta get you a moose though, way better than caribou or bear.