I know it's not right. But I bit the bullet, and I'm smoking a bowl of Capstan Gold, in a Carolina Gent. I'm still on the oral treatment, but I'm smoking less, I don't think it will affect anything. In a little while, I'll be walking around at night, and all you'll see is my gleaming teeth with an incredible nuclear white. Oh my God, women will faint in the street when they see me smile.View attachment 235706
Totally agree. I have a few that no matter how careful Ive been they still develop a little. I mean Im as careful as a surgeon and still had it happen even with 3/4 filled bowls .Plum pudding SR for lunch in my yeti. This pipe is really growing on me. I think I’m learning that rim char issues are not just about being careful with a lighter and spitting on your rims! It’s also about the finish used to protect the rim. Some of my pipes just don’t char. This is a non expert observation!
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Neerup produces some serious workhorse pipes. Ive been extremely happy with the few I have.C&D Opening Night mixed with a pinch of Burley Flake #1 in a Neerup Structure churchwarden.View attachment 235713
Everything in that picture is very nice.Phantom Privateer in a Becker Billiard 2 Clubs with Cumberland stem. Still breaking this pipe in at 1 bowl of Phantom a week.View attachment 235714
Whats you opinion been on Yeti?Plum pudding SR for lunch in my yeti. This pipe is really growing on me. I think I’m learning that rim char issues are not just about being careful with a lighter and spitting on your rims! It’s also about the finish used to protect the rim. Some of my pipes just don’t char. This is a non expert observation!
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Thanks man. Its my favorite Billiard , took me awhile to branch out into them as it make me feel like Fred McMurray but they just smoke well.Everything in that picture is very nice.
Limited experience, I love this pipe, smokes good, looks good, but the inner rim is already darkened. I’m not necessarily disappointed by this but I might ask him about it. He’s on the level. I usually don’t get tan blasts because I’m afraid of this happening. I do think it has something to do with the finish and probably different carvers have their own philosophical reasons for how they finish pipes. I know little about the subject. I don’t regret the purchase, it smokes great, looks great, feels good in hand.Whats you opinion been on Yeti?
I am lucky to have three Neerups and a Jeppesen. All are perfect right out of the gate with no break in needed, whatsoever. Just stuff and puff!Neerup produces some serious workhorse pipes. Ive been extremely happy with the few I have.
Their stem colors can be pretty neat as well. Like that pipe BTW.
What’s the shape number on that pipe?Dunhill Royal Yacht in my 2002 4th of July Peet. View attachment 235692