***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2022?***

[Chaukisch]

Is that the Virginia you'll be using in the "Clay King"?

That's still the random VA batch I got before I started thinking about blending my own pipe tobacco.
I'm going to order the VA Gold Lemon and others over the weekend. Good luck during Stoptober!

OT:
I made some more VA twists because I was so happy with how the last ones turned out.
This time I took different VA phenotypes.


I removed the green chlorophyl ridden parts and ripped the leftovers into unequally sized strips.



There wasn't much left so I decided to just mix them all up. And so I spent a good two hours sitting here and twisting. Some were twisted tightly and some more loosely, some are thick and some are thin, either long or short. A regular Zippo for size reference. TWO HOURS. Sometimes taking a few minutes for a single string.



A closeup.



This time I didn't heat up anything, I just packed it in a jar and put it away to let it settle.



I'll leave it for a while and hope it turns out as interesting as the last batch.
If I can recreate this Oriental like flavor I'll be very happy.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

As far as I am familiar with those Britain‘s I don’t think so. Didn’t none of them have those rounded edges you can see on this one?

You may be right—with the soft focus from the depth of field, I thought they might be the beveled edge you see on something like the 4/5.

 

[coys]

Can you guess?

 

[cigrmaster]

2013 Capstan Blue Flake in a Jack Howell Billiard.

 

[UB 40]

You may be right—with the soft focus from the depth of field, I thought they might be the beveled edge you see on something like the 4/5.

I can imagine what you’re thinking of. some years ago I built the legendary BBC speakers LS 3/5a myself with a matched pair of KEF chassis. Later I bought another pair from the only one in Great Britain who is still licensed to produce this BBC loudspeakers a guy named Stirling. Both are sounding like they should, very naturally and detailed in a small room, with not that deep bass, anyway.

But I took a look at the modern Spendor 4/5 just right now. Maybe you’re right, they do much more sophisticated edges in recent times.

 

[Streeper541]

A cup of Iron Bean Coffee and a bowl of Standard Mixture in a Peterson 107 Dublin Filter.

 

[MacMarty89]

After some marvellous spareribs with chili and fries in half an hour or so, some Golden Glow in a MM Legend Rob Roy cob to look forward to.

 

[The Clay King]

But you just have one more September day to smoke another clay.

@UB 40 @Chaukisch Smoked all my pipe baccy now!

 

[Tabacco]

 

[bullet08]

Balkan Supreme in Peterson SH Watson. 62° out here waiting for the tropical storm.

 

[ThermionicScott]

@UB 40 @Chaukisch Smoked all my pipe baccy now!

Hope you took your time to enjoy that last bowl! Maybe two, or even three minutes...

 

[The Clay King]

Hope you took your time to enjoy that last bowl! Maybe two, or even three minutes...

@ThermionicScott Didn't speed smoke the pouch at all; I had it with a pint in a covered smoking shelter outside a pub.

 

[The Clay King]

That's still the random VA batch I got before I started thinking about blending my own pipe tobacco.
I'm going to order the VA Gold Lemon and others over the weekend. Good luck during Stoptober!

OT:
I made some more VA twists because I was so happy with how the last ones turned out.
This time I took different VA phenotypes.
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I removed the green chlorophyl ridden parts and ripped the leftovers into unequally sized strips.

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There wasn't much left so I decided to just mix them all up. And so I spent a good two hours sitting here and twisting. Some were twisted tightly and some more loosely, some are thick and some are thin, either long or short. A regular Zippo for size reference. TWO HOURS. Sometimes taking a few minutes for a single string.

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A closeup.

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This time I didn't heat up anything, I just packed it in a jar and put it away to let it settle.

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I'll leave it for a while and hope it turns out as interesting as the last batch.
If I can recreate this Oriental like flavor I'll be very happy.

@Chaukisch Sounds good ; is the Gold Lemon Virginia for the "Clay King "???

 

[The Clay King]

Nothing next month!

 

[Steddy]

Can you guess?

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Ok I’ll play. Something by Sutliff.

 

[UB 40]

@UB 40 @Chaukisch Smoked all my pipe baccy now!

That was quick.

 

[UB 40]

Can you guess?

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Sort of Virginia Perique crumble cake.

 

[JimInks]

Just passing the half way mark on this bowl of year 2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

 

[craig61a]

2017 C&D Kajun Kake in a Neerup Structure.

 

[UB 40]

Filling a big bowl Torus blend ( sweetened kentucky/ Latakia/ Virginias and Orients) in my No name Meer-pot.