Even though your clay clearly has thicker walls and stem if you keep at it it'll hopefully colour more evenly like the one in front and you'll loose that two-tone look of the one in backMorning bowl of Kendal dark into a clay pipe it’s so cold this morning gotta find courage and brew more coffee .
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I should smoke it more often it look beautiful. Its a very nice collection you have , lots of antique clay ?Even though your clay clearly has thicker walls and stem if you keep at it it'll hopefully colour more evenly like the one in front and you'll loose that two-tone look of the one in back
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Very good blend in my opinion, doesn't get a whole lot of recognition.Broken Flake # 7 into a Meer .View attachment 114606
I totally agree , one of my favorite with brown flake scented .Very good blend in my opinion, doesn't get a whole lot of recognition.
It may be that the Virginias have mellowed more than the Kentucky over time. I've encountered that before.Rattray's Old Gowrie from 2010 in a Dunhill Shell billiard. This has more Kentucky than I remember. Maybe I'm just more sensitive to it now.