Just received a couple of Kaywoodie pipes and I was thinking of what blends to dedicate to each, if that. Of those who smoke Kaywoodies which signature blends do you save them for?
What Do You Smoke In Your Kaywoodies?
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I have a few dedicated to old McClelland blends, one for Black Shag, one for Arcadia. I have a few for Virginia, a few for Burley, a few for VaPer, a number for English blends. One just for blends with deertongue. Ten or so that I smoke only in December because they are old contest pipes with a Christmas tree stamp. I could go on but I won't.
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I smoke whatever I have handy in my Kaywoodie pipes. I only smoke aromatics in a couple of the newer ones. Here’s some of my Kaywoodies.
Everything other than what those giggling youngsters smoke.
The only Kaywoodie pipe I have is a white briar four panel billiard and I smoke just about anything in it.
All the GH scented varieties, Warhorse and such. 
I smoke just about anything in my Kaywoodies I enjoy -- burley, English, English with burley, Virginia with burley, burley or Virginia with Oriental or Cavendish, or combinations thereof. The Kaywoodie are light weight, have generous chambers, despite thin bowl walls mostly they insulate well, and are versatile and durable. In the 1950's they were the top premium factory pipe while Dunhill played second fiddle, and neither was pricey beyond what the average wage earner could handle on payday. I think Kaywoodie still makes a commendable pipe; the reports of their death has been highly exaggerated.
I mostly smoke sir Walter Raleigh and Pegasus in my two Kaywoodies.. but then again I smoke those two blends probably about 75% of the time anyway.
Are they new pipes or estates? If the latter, and they have distinct ghosts, I'd just consider following suit. Unless the previous owners smoked intolerable crap.
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- just substitute Granger for SWR. I actually have a Kaywoodie Poker that I haven’t smoked yet. I’ll have to fix that this morning.On edit: the poker is an old 4 hole ball. I do enjoy the stingers. It’s a Supergrain 5102
As much of a disciple of Lee as I profess to be, Kaywoodie is the king of American factory pipes. Pre war high grade Kaywoodies are the best factory pipes ever made. The post war Kaywoodies are the exact same pipe, but they didn’t have access to the same grade of briar as before the war.
I smoke every kind of tobacco in my Kaywoodies, but they when they were sold new, they were likely loaded with Edgeworth and Prince Albert, Velvet and Granger, and all the other classic American over the counter blends.
The patented Kaywoodie four hole ball stinger worked the way Babe Ruth claimed it did.
Lee’s greatest improvement was making a screw stem pipe where you can remove the stinger without butchering the pipe.
I smoke every kind of tobacco in my Kaywoodies, but they when they were sold new, they were likely loaded with Edgeworth and Prince Albert, Velvet and Granger, and all the other classic American over the counter blends.
The patented Kaywoodie four hole ball stinger worked the way Babe Ruth claimed it did.
Lee’s greatest improvement was making a screw stem pipe where you can remove the stinger without butchering the pipe.
What i smoke in my Kaywoodie's, is the same as all my briar pipes.
If it’s got a stinger in it I wouldn’t smoke anything overly wet, otherwise I don’t treat my KWs any differently than I do my other pipes. But then again I don’t smoke anything overly wet in any of my pipes.