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Seconded. And welcome @nick24601 !
Cool fact about your daughter's birth year too.
I'll promote Cornell & Diehl tobacco any chance I'll get. Have you tried them? Many here like/ love their Bayou Morning, Exclusive, Chenet’s Cake, and Kajun Kake (all Virginia-Periques)
Next month I'm adding dunhill and gl peases telegraph hill to my tobacco order. I tried Bayou from them with the Arcadia perique and it didn't work for me, too much perique. Chelsea morning has the most perique I'd want in a blend. I found gawiths cabbie mixture too perique forward. Loved germains royal jersey.
I'm looking for something a bit more than golden slices, thats already in the rotation, which one of those blends do you think would work best for me given all that?
Thanks for the recommendation and any attempt at trying to help me out in advance
Ah maybe C&D is not the house for you then- they tend to be pretty Perique punchy. 20% on up to 50% in that Exclusive one.
I do really like Pease's Fog City line, which you probably know is made by C&D. Telegraph Hill is great, so is Fillmore but it has a pinch of Lat in there.
Sorry I can't comment much on others. I'm sure you'll find something nice to dedicate that Castello to eventually
Actually, ever tried Rattray's? They have a sort of Triumvirate of Va-Per plus dark fired (Gowri, Hal, Clunee)
Do you guys know if these Old Antiquari pipes are left natural or stained in a light tan? My uneducated assumption was that Natural Vergin pipes were always rusticated and unstained but both of these are labelled Old Antiquari.
Also, found the pipe that fits my specs but it's just not very pretty 
www.rizzi1962.com
PIPA CASTELLO OLD ANTIQUARI KKKK BILLIARD | Tabaccheria Rizzi 1962
Il marchio Pipa Castello è indissolubilmente legato al nome del suo fondatore Carlo Scotti, tabaccaio del Canton Ticino che nei primi anni del Novecento nutrì una grande passione per il tabacco e per gli strumenti da fumo. Dopo aver reso celebre la sua piccola tabaccheria, Carlo Scotti, grande...
www.rizzi1962.com
Castello 'Old Antiquari' Shape # 11 (KKKK) # 508
This deep sandblast natural rare shape # 11 Brandy Brucianaso Castello. It shows its roots through the bowl with its definitive full bent origins. Ever so slight truncation of the bowl and its shorted shank evolve it to be a neo-classic "shape # 11". Only Castello could have so wonderfully...
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This one is antiquari and labeled natural but not vergin but yeah most vergin pipes I’ve seen are sea rocks fwiw
Thanks! If the two I posted started natural then I'm impressed by how evenly they colored.Castello 'Old Antiquari' Shape # 11 (KKKK) # 508
This deep sandblast natural rare shape # 11 Brandy Brucianaso Castello. It shows its roots through the bowl with its definitive full bent origins. Ever so slight truncation of the bowl and its shorted shank evolve it to be a neo-classic "shape # 11". Only Castello could have so wonderfully...pipes2smoke.com
This one is antiquari and labeled natural but not vergin but yeah most vergin pipes I’ve seen are sea rocks fwiw
Yeah it seems like you'd be losing something in the bowl department there with that one to satisfy your weight requirements...Also, found the pipe that fits my specs but it's just not very pretty
PIPA CASTELLO OLD ANTIQUARI KKKK BILLIARD | Tabaccheria Rizzi 1962
Il marchio Pipa Castello è indissolubilmente legato al nome del suo fondatore Carlo Scotti, tabaccaio del Canton Ticino che nei primi anni del Novecento nutrì una grande passione per il tabacco e per gli strumenti da fumo. Dopo aver reso celebre la sua piccola tabaccheria, Carlo Scotti, grande...
Also, my man, why? Why you gotta show me a Castello site I didn't know about before??? And tempt me...
PIPA CASTELLO CASTELLO KK POT | Tabaccheria Rizzi 1962
Il marchio Pipa Castello è indissolubilmente legato al nome del suo fondatore Carlo Scotti, tabaccaio del Canton Ticino che nei primi anni del Novecento nutrì una grande passione per il tabacco e per gli strumenti da fumo. Dopo aver reso celebre la sua piccola tabaccheria, Carlo Scotti, grande...
www.rizzi1962.com
Tough for me to say.
What I can say is yes, Natural Vergins are rusticated and unstained. However, there is variability between blocks. Most are yellow or even pinkish sometimes. But sometimes they can tend towards brown-tan
Unsmoked darker example:
Castello Natural Virgin GG Lovat - The Country Squire Tobacconist
www.thecountrysquireonline.com
Another factor that can affect appearance and color is wax, or lack thereof. In your examples, the top one seems waxed. The bottom seems unwaxed, excepting the "ring" of un-blasted briar where the shank meets the stem...
And of course as @BlueRidge has pointed out, sometimes Antiquari are left natural. If you look closely at the example he linked you will notice that the logo area was waxed, with some wax even making its way outside the oval. That area is gonna color up different from the rest of the pipe. Minutiae for sure, but then again perhaps of interest to some
Thanks for pointing out those details! I can see them now after your response.Tough for me to say.
What I can say is yes, Natural Vergins are rusticated and unstained. However, there is variability between blocks. Most are yellow or even pinkish sometimes. But sometimes they can tend towards brown-tan
Unsmoked darker example:
Castello Natural Virgin GG Lovat - The Country Squire Tobacconist
Another factor that can affect appearance and color is wax, or lack thereof. In your examples, the top one seems waxed. The bottom seems unwaxed, excepting the "ring" of un-blasted briar where the shank meets the stem...
And of course as @BlueRidge has pointed out, sometimes Antiquari are left natural. If you look closely at the example he linked you will notice that the logo area was waxed, with some wax even making its way outside the oval. That area is gonna color up different from the rest of the pipe. Minutiae for sure, but then again perhaps of interest to some
Second pipe arrived, the 4k natural 11 I linked above. Been craving OJK and had a jar from 2016 or 17 so I filled it on up. Smoking great!
Real nice acquisition.
It looks so much richer in your photos.
Great choice on the Old Joe, too
Hi all, just got my first Castellos in about a month ago. Slightly obsessed with the shape 11.
I had a gorgeous brown smooth as well but the drilling was no good and it wouldn't pass a pipe cleaner so I sent it back to Italy
I had a gorgeous brown smooth as well but the drilling was no good and it wouldn't pass a pipe cleaner so I sent it back to Italy
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The dang Italians got me again
Shape 11 in a reverse fumed le dune finish
Shape 11 in a reverse fumed le dune finish
The dang Italians got me again
Shape 11 in a reverse fumed le dune finish
outstanding!
It wasn't the Italians, it was the Devil. See his picture in the bottom of the bowl.
Very, very nice. I especially like how the lighter section retains some dark tonesThe dang Italians got me again
Shape 11 in a reverse fumed le dune finish