Howdy from Eastern shore, Nova Scotia
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Welcome from Montreal! You can pm me if you like and I can give you a few tips I've picked up from a few in a Quebec pipe smoking group - to help you a bit - or at least explain the ball field in terms of buying tobacco online in Canada.I pray that any fellows on here have not been greatly affected by the wildfires in Nova Scotia and everyone's homes are still intact. I have not been affected directly, but please reach out if you have. I just made an account but would be happy to help if I can.
How does it go? I've been a pipe smoker my whole life, but just started smoking a pipe a year ago. I inherited my great grandad's old Italian briar, was just something I always fiddled with and enjoyed holding. The first time I smoked a pipe was at sea, my friend had an extra cob and some sort of vanilla Norwegian blend as well as a bourbon blend both were enjoyable and became part of the small creature comforts you hold dear when you dont have much else on the go in the middle of the Atlantic.
I used to 'hack darts' and smoke weed, both of which lost their allure when I started a young family and fairly rapidly lost any enjoyment. The pipe was a perfect more deliberate replacement to what I would call problematic habits speaking for myself. I find 1-3 bowls of pipe tobacco throughout the day has me feeling way better than half a pack or full pack of Camels.
Anyways as far as pipes go I haven't strayed too far from the beaten path.
Savinelli Arcobaleno 606 Blue Tobacco Pipe - Smooth
Savinelli Dry System 613 Smooth Tobacco Pipe
Missouri Meerschaum Cobbit Shire Corncob Pipe
The Diamondback Corncob Tobacco Pipe
Missouri Meerschaum Let Freedom Ring Corn Cob Tobacco Pipe Bent
Country Gentleman Corn Cob Pipe - Bent
Peterson St. Patrick's Day 2023 Rusticated 06 Fishtail Tobacco Pipe
Savinelli Roma 677 KS Lucite Stem Tobacco Pipe
There's definitely more that I want to add to the collection, but I enjoy clenching and a small-medium bowl.
I really enjoy corncobs as the everyman's pipe and a piece of Old America. Something beautiful about a $30 well made cob that can hold a bowl to higher-end pipes. Right now I'm smoking Tabac Manil, a very enjoyable burley. I have no dedicated blends, types or specific tastes quite yet as I havent been able to try as many different tobaccos as I would like. Very slim pickins' here in NS with no dedicated pipe shop. I've been doing the scattershot method online and ordering whatever tin looks cool or description reads the best (one of the few times I'll let advertising do the work). So I'm open to any and all sorts of recommendations and/or tips to buying online in Canada, got hit with $235 customs tax on my last order.
As far as other interests. I enjoy reading, boxing, gardening, animal husbandry, painting, old music and whiskey. I just finished reading Cormac Mcarthy's, Blood Meridian and started reading a biography on Scipio Africanus. Recently went on a book buying spree as the fact old books are being twisted, changed and edited to stray from the author's original intentions and made fit for a sterile modern world is a crime beyond politics. Between pipes, playing in the dirt and old books I'm trying my best to keep a piece of the past alive for my family.
Hey thanks I will definitely dm you about this at some point as I just got hit with a $135 customs tax on my latest order. My wife is Quebecois de souche, originally from south shore region, I love the province as much as rest of Canada has complained has at least attempted to preserve and protect some of its culture and heritage. I ordered from Cuban Cigar Shop in BC with no issues, though they just didn't have the variety of some of our southern brethren and the online stores there. Do you have any Brigham pipes? Would you recommend?
Welcome from RI. I spend a lot of time in NB Canada and have a number of friends in NS. I am familar with the lack of a pipe shop after Sieverts closed. I'll DM you.
