TAD Purchases

[fred]

ChuckW was kind enough to seen me some tins from the Richmond show.

Meridian

USS Mason

Tuskegee Airman

Montford Point Marine

Buffalo Soldier

 

[krgulick]

Nice pickups guys.

 

[bubbadreier]

Hey guys, glad to see people buying more tobacco and posting it on this thread!
Well I took a short trip (2.5 hour drive one way) to Tulsa to visit my dad, and I forgot to bring my pipe :-O Thankfully there was a smoke shop along the way and I stopped to see what they had. I was in luck because they had some MM hard woods for 4.00 and some OTC blends. I decided to go with something new to me and I got a 1.5oz pouch of Carter Hall, and a 1.5oz pouch of Velvet pipe tobacco.
To make a long story short, My father tried my pipe for the first time and ended up loving carter hall so much I left the pipe I just bought and the carter hall with him! He didn't smoke a single one of his cigars tonight, all he would smoke was the Carter Hall!
1 convert for me!

 

[unclearthur]

Super tale bubba! I like Carter Hall myself!

 

[python]

Nice pick ups everyone and nice convert with your father Bubba!

 

[ltrav3nw00d]

Just ordered

MacBaren 7 Seas Royal Blend 3.5oz Tin (3)

"Stand By Me" Bulk Pipe Tobacco Sampler (1)

 

[krgulick]

Just ordered 250 g tins of both 1792 Flake and Squadron Leader from smokingpipes.com this afternoon. Just checked their website and the SL is already sold out.

 

[krgulick]

Just checked out a couple sites. It looks like pretty much all the SG blends are selling out like mad.

 

[menckenite]

I feel lucky. I called around and found a 1 lbs box of Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake yesterday and hope to receive it this week.

 

[pstlpkr]

I acquired a half pound of Lane 1Q and a "proverbially dented" can of Rattray's Hal O' The Wynd. The latter going in my very limited cellar, for a rainy day. It's raining right now, but I already have an open can.
Why is it that every can of Hal O' the Wynd (I have ever seen) has a dent in it?

Is it some super secret technique for enhancing that excellent flavor?

 

[lordnoble]

So tonight I hit my local smoke shop, in hopes that they had some Mac Baren Vanilla Flake. No such luck. But I did get 2 oz. of the Mac Baren 7 Seas Regular and a pouch of Prince Albert (based on the recommendations of several members).
-Jason

 

[thomc80]

Just got my order in today and got me a few grams of Altadis Blue Note and a 50g tin of McBarens Vanilla Flake.

 

[lordnoble]

Hit up another local cigar shop which carries some bulk PS & Mac Baren blends and snagged a tin of Gawith's Full Virginia Flake! I'm excited to try it since many members here speak so highly of it. Anyone have any tips?
-Jason

 

[krgulick]

Great pickups guys.

 

[bubbadreier]

Bought a few ounces of altadis 1M (1Q "match").... Doesn't come close, but it is okay in its own right!

 

[collin]

This afternoon I picked up an ounce of Tinder Box's "Norse Gold", and after reading several posts by members who enjoy "English" blends I ordered a sampler of :
1. Light English

2. Medium English

3. Majestic English

4. African Queen

5. Byzantium
One of these days my wife's gonna kill me.

 

[ohin3]

@ Lordnoble: My first tip is to buy more tins and sell them to me. I miss FVF so much. Second tip, pack loose and smoke very very slow. I find that when FVF is smoked too aggressively it smokes hot and dirty, but when smoked slowly it smokes rich, deep, cool, smooth and very sweet. Reminds me of a good jet black oily maduro cigar.

 

[lordnoble]

Thanks for the tips, Phil! To clarify: by loose do you mean take a flake, rub it out and gravity fill with a slight pack or something else? On the nore of the first tip, I'll go back and see if they have any tins left... If so I'll snag you whatever they have left. Thanks!
-Jason

 

[bowhatchie]

Just received... 4oz of 1Q

8oz of Autumn Evening

8oz of Billy Budd

3 tins of Balkan Sasieni
I should be set for a while..

 

[lordnoble]

Well, TAD never seems to far off for me, so I stopped by my local smoke shop and was picking up some stuff for my Secret Santa, and saw that they had replenished their supply of Mac Baren's 7 Seas Gold. Bought 2 oz., got some tapered BJ Long's extra long cleaners and as I was just about to pay the dude, I spied they had gotten a shipment of SG tinned tobaccos. I grabbed the last tin of 1792 Flake that they had since I was extremely curious to see its effect on a nicotine lightweight like myself. Also, the fact that it contains tonquin is intriguing to me since it was a substitute for vanilla, which is a flavoring that I love in my favorite blends. So I'll let you guys know what I think of it. :wink:
-Jason