Nice clay, I've been smoking St. Bruno Ready Rubbed in mine.Balkan Supreme in a Clay. View attachment 38718
. Thanks. Although the experience was less than ideal. Relights and not regular flavors I get from Balkan Supreme. I wonder if some tobaccos don’t do as well in a clay pipe? Or perhaps technique and packing? I have had only a few really good smokes in clay. Navy Flake was one.Nice clay, I've been smoking St. Bruno Ready Rubbed in mine.
I've only once smoked a 'normal' (non-clay) pipe and that was when a fellow pipe smoker let me have a few puffs of Clan out of his wooden pipe last year before the COVID19 outbreak. I didn't have a pipe with me then.... Thanks. Although the experience was less than ideal. Relights and not regular flavors I get from Balkan Supreme. I wonder if some tobaccos don’t do as well in a clay pipe? Or perhaps technique and packing? I have had only a few really good smokes in clay. Navy Flake was one.
So, yes most likely technique ?. Is there a different technique with clays for packing? Tighter looser etc....I've only once smoked a 'normal' (non-clay) pipe and that was when a fellow pipe smoker let me have a few puffs of Clan out of his wooden pipe last year before the COVID19 outbreak. I didn't have a pipe with me then...
Amsterdam is a greatly under-rated smoke!PS Amsterdam in a Kaywoodie straight taper-stemmed blast billiard, a successful pairing of blend and pipe.
Sutliff 515RC-1 from my Raffaello Radica Vergine (AKA the Radical Virgin) oval shanked apple.
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