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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,437
645,034
Did a set of walking reps under the watchful eye of Harry the Hairy, and have about a quarter of a bowl left of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Lunch follows this smoke.
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gord

Part of the Furniture Now
Miserable couple of days. Another blizzard, a slip on the snow and a dislocated hip. Can sit down now on my hard computer chair so here's catching up on my piping over the last few days.

1. All my pipes are now broken in, dedicated to a particular tobacco or genre, and timed with respect to studies, music or videos. It's actually been a very good system, for me at least.

2. The final phase is my big pipes. I've developed my smoking "skills" around miniature, and small to medium size pipes because of our horrendous tobacco prices up here. I don't smoke the bigger pipes well - still in a learning phase. Two examples are shown below, my Peterson System Standerd in P-Lip and Savinelli Avoreo. They have, to me at least, huge capacities in comparison to my McQueens, Ropps et all.

Over the weekend I got over 100 minutes with each pipe and different tobaccos, but I smoked like a dorque, fiddling and farting with packing, moving tobacco around, relights . . . . it was more of an ordeal than a pleasure, but mission accomplished with respect to length, which is only one criterion. I can now get through a full one act opera ITchaikovsky's "Iolanthe") which lasts 140 minutes without a break.

Now I have to learn to smoke these beasts properly. They are NOT the same tools as the smaller pipes I usually go to. The 100 minutes were fed with TobaccoBarn's "Cimmeron" a delightful aro (Savinelli) and Smokers' Pride Vanilla Cavendish in the Pete, the coolest and longest smoking fodder I've experienced so far.


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I'll be experimenting with tobaccos, techniques and such over the next while. If I was younger and richer I'd take private lessons lol but I'll look at videos, and old forum threads to overcome this big - bore hurdle. Hmmmm . . . had to overcome the same thing with rifles when I bought a .458 magnum in my younger days lol. Cheers.
 
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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,437
645,034
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am a third of the way through this bowl of 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 mmmMocha, neat, is my drink.
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Scottmi

Lifer
Oct 15, 2022
3,921
57,188
Orcas, WA
I have one Short Army, a blasted Rhodesian. Should picked up a couple more shapes, I really like your 606
Thank you, sir. When I saw @Sobrbiker 's Short Army, I knew I had to have one, particularly as a pot. Another member helpfully found a link to a site that had the 606 (they were not everwhere) and I jumped on it. Love it! Can't believe they don't have them still being offered as a regular item. Hope they do another run--I would love to get a Rhodesian version!
 

BenMN

Lifer
Jun 21, 2023
2,179
37,305
St. Paul, MN
Miserable couple of days. Another blizzard, a slip on the snow and a dislocated hip. Can sit down now on my hard computer chair so here's catching up on my piping over the last few days.

1. All my pipes are now broken in, dedicated to a particular tobacco or genre, and timed with respect to studies, music or videos. It's actually been a very good system, for me at least.

2. The final phase is my big pipes. I've developed my smoking "skills" around miniature, and small to medium size pipes because of our horrendous tobacco prices up here. I don't smoke the bigger pipes well - still in a learning phase. Two examples are shown below, my Peterson System Standerd in P-Lip and Savinelli Avoreo. They have, to me at least, huge capacities in comparison to my McQueens, Ropps et all.

Over the weekend I got over 100 minutes with each pipe and different tobaccos, but I smoked like a dorque, fiddling and farting with packing, moving tobacco around, relights . . . . it was more of an ordeal than a pleasure, but mission accomplished with respect to length, which is only one criterion. I can now get through a full one act opera ITchaikovsky's "Iolanthe") which lasts 140 minutes without a break.

Now I have to learn to smoke these beasts properly. They are NOT the same tools as the smaller pipes I usually go to. The 100 minutes were fed with TobaccoBarn's "Cimmeron" a delightful aro (Savinelli) and Smokers' Pride Vanilla Cavendish in the Pete, the coolest and longest smoking fodder I've experienced so far.

I'll be experimenting with tobaccos, techniques and such over the next while. If I was younger and richer I'd take private lessons lol but I'll look at videos, and old forum threads to overcome this big - bore hurdle. Hmmmm . . . had to overcome the same thing with rifles when I bought a .458 magnum in my younger days lol. Cheers.
Hey friend gord,

Sorry to hear you fell and have been hurting. Not trying to be alarmist- you sure it's just dislocated? Just asking, not trying to be intrusive... we just like having you around

Pegasus in a favorite Kai Billiard

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BenMN

Lifer
Jun 21, 2023
2,179
37,305
St. Paul, MN
Thank you, sir. When I saw @Sobrbiker 's Short Army, I knew I had to have one, particularly as a pot. Another member helpfully found a link to a site that had the 606 (they were not everwhere) and I jumped on it. Love it! Can't believe they don't have them still being offered as a regular item. Hope they do another run--I would love to get a Rhodesian version!
They are so good. Love my Short 264. Would love a short Army pot or billiard
 

BlueRidge

Can't Leave
Dec 24, 2022
487
10,926
Thank you, sir. When I saw @Sobrbiker 's Short Army, I knew I had to have one, particularly as a pot. Another member helpfully found a link to a site that had the 606 (they were not everwhere) and I jumped on it. Love it! Can't believe they don't have them still being offered as a regular item. Hope they do another run--I would love to get a Rhodesian version!

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