I've been lurking around here for a while and decided that I should be a little more social.
My pipe smoking career started roughly 20 years ago. It was cut short by the traumatic loss of my pipe collection during a move. I didn't have that many, but there were several Petes including a Sherlock Holmes Squire in the lost box. That one still hurts.
I didn't smoke a pipe for a long time. I was also smoking cigars daily back then and felt that maybe one smoking habit was enough, especially considering the cigar price increases of the 90s.
Then, one day this past spring a friend brought me back a souvenir from a trip he had taken: a little corn cob pipe with "Rabbit Hash Kentucky" stamped on the side. (Later I found out that it was a Missouri Meerschaum Eaton.) I was curious to see if it smoked like a "real" pipe, so I went down the street to Walgreens and bought a pouch of Captain Black. I was amazed at how well that little pipe smoked. I went straight to a tobacco shop and picked up some Nightcap, which was a favorite of mine in the past, and that was all she wrote.
When I first started smoking a pipe, some of the tobaccos I remember enjoying were Nightcap, Early Morning Pipe, Escudo, Red Rapparee (or was it Black Mallory? It's been a while) and McClelland St. James Woods. It was a real bummer when McClelland shut down just as I returned to pipe smoking. With Dunhill's future looking shaky as well, I ventured out into uncharted tobacco territory. I'm glad I did because I've found some amazing tobaccos that I might not have tried if it wasn't for all my old favorites disappearing. I just tried Jack Knife plug for the first time...what an amazing tobacco that is! Bayou Night, GH&C Dark Flake Scented, and SG Chocolate Flake are some other interesting tobaccos I've smoked recently, and I've enjoyed them all.
A bit about me: I'm 50, I'm retired, and I moved to New Orleans from the Washington D.C area in 2011. One's pension dollar goes a lot further down here. :wink:
My pipe smoking career started roughly 20 years ago. It was cut short by the traumatic loss of my pipe collection during a move. I didn't have that many, but there were several Petes including a Sherlock Holmes Squire in the lost box. That one still hurts.
I didn't smoke a pipe for a long time. I was also smoking cigars daily back then and felt that maybe one smoking habit was enough, especially considering the cigar price increases of the 90s.
Then, one day this past spring a friend brought me back a souvenir from a trip he had taken: a little corn cob pipe with "Rabbit Hash Kentucky" stamped on the side. (Later I found out that it was a Missouri Meerschaum Eaton.) I was curious to see if it smoked like a "real" pipe, so I went down the street to Walgreens and bought a pouch of Captain Black. I was amazed at how well that little pipe smoked. I went straight to a tobacco shop and picked up some Nightcap, which was a favorite of mine in the past, and that was all she wrote.
When I first started smoking a pipe, some of the tobaccos I remember enjoying were Nightcap, Early Morning Pipe, Escudo, Red Rapparee (or was it Black Mallory? It's been a while) and McClelland St. James Woods. It was a real bummer when McClelland shut down just as I returned to pipe smoking. With Dunhill's future looking shaky as well, I ventured out into uncharted tobacco territory. I'm glad I did because I've found some amazing tobaccos that I might not have tried if it wasn't for all my old favorites disappearing. I just tried Jack Knife plug for the first time...what an amazing tobacco that is! Bayou Night, GH&C Dark Flake Scented, and SG Chocolate Flake are some other interesting tobaccos I've smoked recently, and I've enjoyed them all.
A bit about me: I'm 50, I'm retired, and I moved to New Orleans from the Washington D.C area in 2011. One's pension dollar goes a lot further down here. :wink: