Doesn't matter it's right there in black and beige (cream, primrose I don't know).
Anyway.
Boys!
Anyway.
Boys!
How About Not Designating Pipes?
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I don't have any hard and fast rules about what I smoke in which pipe. Like a few others mentioned, there are a couple pipes I would never smoke an aromatic or a heavy English in... but those are few.
In general, I keep the following in mind when I load my pipes;
Smooth = English
Sandblast = Virginia
Rusticated = Burley
Cob = Anything goes
In general, I keep the following in mind when I load my pipes;
Smooth = English
Sandblast = Virginia
Rusticated = Burley
Cob = Anything goes
I don't "dedicate" pipes to a certain genre, however, there are pipes that I tend to use for VA VA/PER and those I tend to use for blends with latakia. Burley's go in any pipe. I don't smoke aromatics or Kendal flavored blends. I haven't detected any ghosting using these general rules, though I admit that I don't have the most discerning palate.
I don't smoke aro's or latakia, so I don't concern myself with ghosting.
I smoke whatever I want in whichever pipe I happen to choose at the moment.
I smoke whatever I want in whichever pipe I happen to choose at the moment.
Besides, one has to try something to know that one doesn't like them. That would be like saying that you hate Lakelands, without having ever tried Lakelands.yeh, I was dead then, but I got better.
That was two years ago, about my experiences from about 6 years earlier.
This is me. At one point I had an index card with a list of which pipes are for which genres. It became a PITA. Now, I smoke whatever tobacco in whatever pipe.
Not for me. I just pair them up entirely on whimsy. An oriental blend for a blowfish, King Cake for a multi colored striped volcano, etc.
I smoke aros. I smoke non-aros. Five or six years ago, I loved latakia heavy blends and I found that smoking an aromatic in a pipe I had smoked a latakia blend in was not good because I could still "taste" the latakia the next five or six times I smoked that pipe.
I can't remember any of the aromatic blends I smoke leaving a ghost since the 1970s and I think that was Middleton's Cherry or Mixture 79 Cherry.
I can't remember any of the aromatic blends I smoke leaving a ghost since the 1970s and I think that was Middleton's Cherry or Mixture 79 Cherry.
Ginkgo...
I've had to toss a few estates that came with such a cherry or fruity ghosts that even after scraping them back to briar, and cooking it in the oven with charcoal never removed it.
Eeeew...ditto here. What is there about somebody else's aromatic ghost that starts a gag reflex when first encountered? I ain't foolin'. Assuming, as I often do, that it's a dead man's pipe, I instantly think the guy died from lack of taste and the pipe is probably a disease vector.
There really isn't "set" rule as to which pipe I must use with which genre or blend. But it seems some pipe does better with some tobacco and I keep going back to that combo. It's an unconscious action that just happens.
Acrylic stems are hard as a rock and I don't enjoy smoking them any more. I now only smoke Ebonite(vulcanite)stems as they are much softer and much easier to clench. It is the reason I no longer smoke Castello's or any number of Italian pipe makers.
This change to all Ebonite stems began in 2012 when I bought my first Rad Davis pipe and I was spoiled from then on in. Rad's stem work along with high quality German Ebonite was amazing and I then began searching for other artisan pipes makers in Rad's league. I found other American artisans who did really nice stems and have not looked back.
To me yes. I prefer a ribbon in a wider bowl 22mm+ bowl, a 20-22mm bowl for a ready rubbed or finer rubbed flake, a 18-20mm bowl for a fold and stuff or coarse rubbed flake.
The only ghosting problem I've noticed is my first three pipes (I was a rookie who didn't know what he was doing) all stink of Charatan's Curzon mix, even after a salt bath. Some of the light latakia blends I've got haven't left anything noticeable in the latakia designated pipe - but to be fair, I think I only smoked about 5 or 6 bowls in it before I thought 'My god, latakia is actually awful, isn't it?'
My advice is to separate the aromatics and latakias from the proper tobaccos.
My advice is to separate the aromatics and latakias from the proper tobaccos.
The trend I notice in this thread is that when it comes to smoking aromatics they are thrown into one pile. So does anyone dedicate pipes to specific aromatics or is there no need to care and one can smoke any aromatic in any pipe dedicated for aromatics in general?
Will it ghost my briar?Ginkgo...
I've had to toss a few estates that came with such a cherry or fruity ghosts that even after scraping them back to briar, and cooking it in the oven with charcoal never removed it.
I agree. I have several cobs. They smoke very well. My briars are carefully reserved for their dedicated blend.
Roasting smurfs?!! Bwahahaha!!
