Preparing a Lot of Rope

[ThermionicScott]

What you all are missing is what I would call the 250 y/o historicity of the rope preparation. Approaching the task completely by hand takes me back a few centuries to England, that was replete with shops catering to the needs of the pipe smoker, each with their own recipes for rope.

If you will, extravagantly old-fashioned, but I say honoring that which well deserves it.

That’s just the thing — unwrapping, chopping, and drying up a large quantity of rope tobacco *isn’t* what they did 250 years ago. It defeats the point of offering it in a rope!

 

[rmpeeps]

What you all are missing is what I would call the 250 y/o historicity of the rope preparation. Approaching the task completely by hand takes me back a few centuries to England, that was replete with shops catering to the needs of the pipe smoker, each with their own recipes for rope.

If you will, extravagantly old-fashioned, but I say honoring that which well deserves it.

I call calf-rope !!

 

[proteus]

@kcghost I believe you describe a mezzaluna or chaveta. I use them both.

 

[Green Hill Hermit]

Please show your reference for how they did this years ago. Seems like a giant waste of time.