Looks like one of ember’s pipes! ?
He could fit a lot more than four Rustica flakes in that one! Holy head rush, Batman!
If You Haven't Tried Chatham Manor, Are You Even A Piper?
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He could fit a lot more than four Rustica flakes in that one! Holy head rush, Batman!
I purchased a chanter years ago. Just couldn't get into it though. Soooo, not a piper. I do enjoy listening to them.
I had a sample of Chatham Manor and really enjoyed it so I ordered four tubs. I pulled the trigger way too early.
I figured I was stuck with it, oddly enough until today. My uncle stopped by to shoot the shit, and being the freeloader he is, he asked if I had any blends I was looking to get rid of.
I gave him the four tubs and a tub of Edgeworth Match. He feigned an offer to pay, I told him it’s all good.
I have other blends I need to dump as well, luckily he’ll smoke almost anything. Lol.
I figured I was stuck with it, oddly enough until today. My uncle stopped by to shoot the shit, and being the freeloader he is, he asked if I had any blends I was looking to get rid of.
I gave him the four tubs and a tub of Edgeworth Match. He feigned an offer to pay, I told him it’s all good.
I have other blends I need to dump as well, luckily he’ll smoke almost anything. Lol.
A lot of crazy history went down at Chatham Manor in Fredericksberg, Virginia. First as the site of a famous slave rebellion where slaves overtook, chained, and whipped their slavemaster. Then as a Union Army hospital during the Civil War where surgeons operated on thousands of wounded soldiers following a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Fredericksberg. Poet Walt Whitman once described seeing a large heap of amputated legs, arms, hands, feet, etc. under a tree in front of the house when he went there looking for his wounded brother. I'm sure there must have been plenty of positive history there as well. I wonder what exactly it was that inspired the name of the blend?
Didn’t know it was a real place. I assume carter hall is as well? Yeah I just googled it. Apparently so. Must have fallen asleep in history class.
Well it’s official, I’m not a piper. I’ve never tried it nor have I ever even remotely had the urge to try it. Too many blends to try em all.
Sutliff produces Chatham Manor for P&C, and they are based in Richmond, Va. Sutliff's blender at the time, Carl McAllister (who worked with Russ Ouellette on the Mid-Town blends), may have come up with the name himself, given his love of Virginia history. As all the names of the Mid-Town blends play off the names of the blends they copied, it seems like a reasonable chance that is what happened.
You do know that Dunhill isn't in the top range of my large pipes, right?
What's really sad is that Brad's pipes dwarf mine.
I hear Brad has a forty foot concrete pipe, a smoking pipe not a drainage pipe, that he is waiting to spring on us. It burns whole tobacco crops and requires a tractor to tamp it.
I hadn't tried a lot of these since they were available only as tubs when they first came out. Now that they are available in pouches, I should explore some of them.
I tried Carter Hall and found it to be the best of the codger blends IMHO. I'll have to give CM a try.
tried CM at at first I hated it but after a few tries I tried it again and it was ok. I smoke mostly OTC codger blends. CH is my morning go to with a cup of coffee.
Chatham Manor is one of the Hearth and Home Midtown series of matches to old standard blends, this one somewhat matching Carter Hall. My favorite is Chestnut, matching the discontinued Walnut blend. Chestnut is one of a select category of blends that comprises about six tobaccos successfully, without tasting either muddy or harsh. It's available both in plastic baggies for around $6 and tubs at a modest $30. At those prices, and available in the sample size baggie, any of the series is well worth a try.
Never tried it. Availability of pipe tobacco is pretty limited here locally in WA, ordering from out of state is illegal, and whatever’s locally available is taxed at 95% of wholesale. I have to special order anything that’s not Tinderbox potpourri or SPC tire-fire-in-your-mouth blends through a local retailer, from a fairly limited selection, and pay eye-watering prices for it.
You need a friend.. simple as that.
Sounds like you need to either move to a free state or start saving up for the occasional out of state tobacco run.
They say Funkenhouser likes to make friends..
Yup. Moved up here for work 5 years ago, and there’s only really like 3 parts of the country with decent opportunities for people with my particular skill set. Of those 3, 2 are on the West Coast in nanny states, and the third is in Texas. We’re moving back to Texas eventually, but that’s not happening for at least another year.
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