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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Jamaican Estate Reserve, neat, is my drink. Abner the Eager was waiting for me when I finished my walking. I scooped him up, fed him, and he's snoozin' now.
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Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
4,605
61,254
Casa Grande, AZ
Started out the day with some Ryback+P in the Ropp J11. Loaded Gracie up and hauled her off to a week or so of romance.
Some Match Victorian was smoked as well.
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After we got home and I got the mail, a packaged had arrived and after a little perfunctory cleanup I’m trying out a new to me WDC Milano 1549 Hesson (Pat’d December 12, 1925). Dark BirdsEye is nicely converting to ash in this old smoking machine.
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gord

Part of the Furniture Now
This one is for BurleyVonPuffington, again with many thanks. I'm going to repeat the post he put up on tobacco ph et al, and suggest that if you skipped it, have a look at it again . . . . explanation under link.

How a tobacco can be differant with each smoke :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/how-a-tobacco-can-be-differant-with-each-smoke.51825/post-35566367

Being of a suicidal experimental bent, I read and pdf'd the article, and immediately began to test it. I'm "redoing" all of my pipes, smoking my brains out, and was doing a bit of suffering, until (and as all of you have heard my whining before about tongue bite, I'll give you the whine with some cheese.)

The ph suggestions in this article WORK!! They are science based and effective!

I took some apple cider vinegar, 1 tablespoon, and put it in a cup of filtered water, added a pinhead of stevia to it, and alternated this as a beverage with my usual cold coffee. After SEVEN consecutive pipes, (I almost never smoke consecutive pipes), resetting them with Smokers' Pride Whiskey Tobacco, my usual and effective fodder for breaking in pipes, drinking the tart and tasty apple cider vinegar beverage, sleeping soundly and having 4 more pipes this morning, I had no trace of tongue bite, my lips felt great, and I felt that I should pass this on, as I know many of you suffer from the same recreational hazard.

I will pass on also that hypochlorus spray instantly relieves the pain of tongue bite, and biotin helps as well. Going back to finishing up my pipe cleanse. Interesting stuff to report here as well, probably tomorrow.
 

Skippy Piper

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 19, 2023
756
9,154
St. Paul, MN
That's quite handsome, for a Falcon. I could be converted :)

Thank ye kindly badger friend! I'll be the first to admit that Falcons aren't the most aesthetically spectacular pipes in the world, but I do really like how clean and dry they smoke, never gurgle or need pipe-cleanering mid smoke, how you can smoke the same pipe all day long with different blend types just by switching bowls, and how the Falcon system plus a Dr. Grabow filter can smooth out the rough edges of even the harshest blends.

Speaking of which, I'm currently breaking in an aromatics dedicated Hunter Billiard bowl on my Falcon International stem with some Cornell & Diehl Autumn Evening. puffy

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JoeW

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 1, 2024
883
6,855
Upper Peninsula, Michigan, USA
La Brumeuse in a Falcon

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After yesterday's IPSD zoom chat and the 2 bowls of Reserve du Patron, I wanted to compare La Brumeuse: I recalled it being less flavorful. I'm using the same Falcon, same bowl, and La Brumeuse definitely doesn't have the same flavor strength as Reserve du Patron. It's there, but much more subtle.

Despite tight packing, the bowl only lasted around 12 minutes: far too short for a Friday afternoon. Fortunately I had an Undercrown Maduro coronet in my pocket.

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