Last thread >>2844498This is a thread for enjoying a pipe while doing outdoor activities. If you ask why this belongs on /out/, you've never spentan evening by the campfire with a pipe silently enjoying the nature around you, and you're missing out.>how to get startedPurchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shopor online. You will need a lighter or match, and something to tamp it with--a large nail works well if you don't have a pipe tool.Fill the pipe with tobacco, pack it down halfway, top it off, pack it down to 3/4, top it off again, pack gently and enjoy. Smokeslower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you stillhave trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.>smoking a pipe will give you cancerOriginally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time whenmost adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is beinglegislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.>muh weedNot the time or place. Start your own thread.All tobacco users welcome.
>>2856593>Nowadays, tobacco is being>legislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.Also, they lump commercial cigarette smokers in with cigar and pipe smokers. They used to differentiate them, but they no longer do that because it would reveal how horrible cigarettes are for you, and they're probably even worse now. Honestly, I'm curious about what vape does to the body. Vapes are still too new to know I think, but even in their newness they were attributed to causing popcorn lung. And there's all kinds of contaminants people put in the juice that are linked to other things. I wonder where the data will point 50 years from now.
in your guy's experience, which seems to smoke cooler &/or dryer?>peterson/savinelli dry system>reverse calabash cooling chamber
Anyone have an thoughts about pipe tobacco I should buy while in Europe?
Does "aged" tobacco begin to smell a bit funky, like maybe it's been fermented? I'm the anon from last thread who opened a tin of Riverboat Gambler and there was 1 very moldy, white, small piece of tobacco at the top of the tin. Something that I think I forgot to mention is that when I received the tin, it already had almost 2 years worth of age on it. I guess not many people buy it. I didn't find any other moldy pieces of tobacco, and I transferred it to a mason jar, but the tin note still has some fermented style funk to it. It tastes mostly fine, except maybe in the last ~15% of the bowl, the funk will start coming through, but it's kind of a good funk. I'm really not sure if this is normal because I only really buy bulk, and the few tins I've purchased have all been fresh, like within a couple months of being produced, and none of them have had mold. I've been smoking it, but I feel like I'm smoking it less than I want to because of the funky smell.
>>2856593>Captain Black tobaccoThis smelled so awful straight from the pouch, but after letting it dry out a bit I can see why it's the only real pipe tobacco you can still find everywhere.
>>2856674Schürch if you can get it. They have some of the finest English blends on the market. Schürch is based in Switzerland and is one old blind guy who is blending exclusively by his sense of smell and touch. Their blends score constantly high in every review and are a bit of a cult in Italy.
>>2856733this is the old fellow who does the magic. Downside, they don't have a working online shop, so you have to either visit in person or buy from a few retailers in Italy or France.
>>2856657Savinelli #1. Very easy to clean. Can be used with or without filters. Peterson has had serious QC issues in recent years relating to drilling. Savinelli is the sensible choice forI have no reverse calabash experience, so I make no comment.
SEATTLE PIPE CLUB IS BACK!!! I had heard that C&D was out of the picture as far as acquiring SPC, but I always felt that C&D would do the best job with SPC. Looks like they thought so too. I’m interested in trying the new C&D stuff, since I know that it will taste a bit different, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing, especially since I felt Plum Pudding was becoming less flavorful than it had been 4+ years ago.
>>2856691Yes. Same with aging cigars, the fermentation process releases some ammonia. When you first open your tin/jar/humidor, the smell is going to be pretty pungent because of all the ammonia. Let it air out a bit and you’ll begin to smell the actual tobacco.
>>2856593>Originally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time when most adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Fake news. The "time" you reference was when Big Tobacco pulled the strings on nearly everything in society, including studies that "proved" their products weren't harmful. That proved to be wrong as time progressed and more studies were conducted. Smoking causes cancer; denial of that fact is cope.
>>2856797Pic related.
>>2856802not reading all that
>>2856805If you're not willing to read, how are you going to go through the data?Pipe smoking is risky, it increases your odds for head, neck, and other cancers. It's less harmful than cigarettes, but obviously there's still nonzero harm.Alcohol also drastically increases your cancer risk, especially in combination with tobacco products as it disrupts your mucous membranes.Sunbathing increases your cancer risk, too. So does living near a highway, or being exposed to VOCs or dust chronically in a workplace, spending too much time in a radon-filled basement, or commuting daily in heavy traffic. Eating processed meat a few times a week is in roughly the same carcinogenic risk category as occasionally smoking a pipe.Sitting on your ass and shitposting too late into the night for too many years is about as hazardous for your health long-term.The cancers you usually see from pipe smoking are generally very visible at early stages, as head, neck, tongue, larynx, and throat are regulary and easily inspected at your physical or dentist checkup. There's provable risks to just about every vice a human being can enjoy, but it's up to every adult to figure out for themselves whether what they gain is worth the potential cost.If you're otherwise a reasonably healthy person without other vices, getting out and about with a pipe every now and again really isn't the worst thing you can do.
>>2856810This. There are so many things that cause cancer now, and I don’t think pipe smoking or cigar smoking are among the most dangerous of them. Like I always say, there’s a reason pipe smoking is associated with old, gray, wrinkly men.
>>2856816I have microplastics in my balls and didn't even get to enjoy putting them there.
>>2856785C&D enjoyers are like pedophiles. How could you possibly enjoy smoking undercased and underaged leaf? It's like preferring little girls to grown women. C&D tobacco is always harsh.
>>2856782>Savinellido they use 6mm filters or 9mm filters in their system, because 6mm is a bitch to get.
>>2856593Does anyone have links to a pipe/tobacco website that used to be posted ITT all the time?Sorry I can't be specific memory is hazy. Used to have it bookmarked but lost my laptop a while back
>>28568526mm, but they're not hard to get and you don't need them. I used to always use a filter, and now, I never do. Savinelli makes my favorite, which is just a balsa wood triangle. Medico, White Elephant, Vauen, and Dr. Grabo all make 6mm filters. You can even buy them on Amazon. They are not hard to find.
>>28568634noggins? Smokingpipes?
>>2856845They’re the most readily available of all the tobacco manufacturers. None of my favorite tobaccos are C&D, but they do have some good tobaccos that I know will always be there when I want them. My guess is they’ll use their aged stock for the SPC releases, as indicated on the Hogshead tin (10 year aged). It also explains why they’re keeping the prices high like the old SPC tins.
>>2856875Captain Black and his crewmates are arguably more readily available than C&D, you can get it same-day in a brick and mortar store almost anywhere.If you're ordering from a retailer, you can just as easily buy something else.
>>28568684noggins is 4 noggers. The owner has TDS and has repeatedly acted super unprofessional. >>2856875What about Peterson? It's also a Laudisi brand but made by a competent manufacturer.It's been a few years since I've bought pipe tobacco. Damn, prices have gone up like crazy. I remember when 50g tins were $10 and then $12. Is this a Trump thing? Nasal snuff shot up in price due to tariffs.
>>2856821You still can.>>>/jp/ona
>>2856893Already have enough pipes to clean, but thanks anon
>>2856797Freemasons own your scientific “studies”. Go ahead and believe everything they publish. I bet you took your shots, too.
>>2856901And you believe smoking doesn't give you cancer, based on "research"?
>>2856946I believe it can be carcinogenic when done to excess. But so can plenty of otherwise harmless things--things essentially harmless in moderation.There is an agenda against smoking, which was a good pastime in Christian Civilization for hundreds of years. It is a simple pleasure that stimulates good society among men and helps them to slow down and enter a more contemplative state. Everything good must be attacked; therefore smoking is attacked. With science both captured ideologically and bought and paid for, it's stupid to believe everything coming out of it.Actually most smoking deaths are false attributions (that is, deaths attributed to smoking simply because the deceased was a smoker, not because smoking caused his death). And among those smokers who die of lung cancer, most of them are blue-collar workers working in unhealthy conditions and living in polluted cities. No wonder they get cancer.For the most part, these conclusions aren't even from new research. They come from scientists merely reviewing the data from anti-tobacco studies, and poking holes in their findings. Anti-smoking statistics are just air.
My hot take is that I think the prescription medications prescribed for all the new mental illnesses that everyone has are all significantly more harmful to you than smoking a pipe.
>>2856959It's not really much of a dispute that inhaling smoke causes cancer. Group 1 carcinogens are fairly well-understood and your lungs were only made for air.Nobody is arguing that plutonium won't give you cancer, but that's essentially what you're doing when you completely dismiss the risks.The risks are lessened with a pipe and without inhaling, but if you're ignoring decades of empirical research and international consensus to convince yourself there's no harm at all, you're deluding yourself.Workplace lifetime exposures to Group 1A substances are vastly understated, but that doesn't make the rest of the science bullshit.
Welp I'm about to go on a long-term trip that is probably likely to become a permanent move overseas soon. I am still an amateur pipe smoker having started smoking it from cigs just last year prompted by this very thread and since then I religiously follow the "how to fill the pipe" bit and enjoying every singe session. I don't even know exactly why I'm making this blog post other than to thank you guys for the pointers and I am abviously taking my pipe with me on my adventures in which I aim to smoke and chill on nice landscapes, possibly overlooking a cool mountain or a nice lake. I'm taking a couple of ounces of Mac Baren's Scottish Blend plus another one of Vanilla Cream from the only pipe tobacco shop in town. I hope I can find and discover awesome new blends in new horizons too.
I'm really enjoying the taste of this SG Navy Flake but trying to keep it lit is driving me insane. A few relights is normal, but I just lit it and it went out again within 60 seconds. I wasted another match and I could SEE the flame dipping down to meet the leaf, and it wouldn't burn! I dried it for hours, I can easily draw air through the pipe so I don't think I packed it too tight, no clue what I'm doing wrong here.Forget this, I'm going to just be happy being a pleb and stick with EMP and Cap'n Black.>>2857012Happy travels, friend. I hope the country you're moving to is pipe-friendly! I moved to a place that has a pretty annoying tariff on importing pipe tobacco, even though there's no local industry for it.
>>2857043how fine is it cut?i used a weed grinder to grind the a batch of flake i had, since it was a pain to do by handit actually ended up burning too well, so i gotta be careful with it; so maybe that could fix your issue
>>2857060congrats, you've made shag cut.
>>2857060Huh, I never knew weed grinders were a thing. I just rubbed the flake out by hand but next time I might try dicing it with a kitchen knife and see if that helps.
>>2857066yup, lol; even used it for a couple rolled cigarettes with one of the dryer aro's>>2857071dicing with a knife is pretty common for flakes, so thats a great way to go too (it basically makes cube cut)if you ever do get lazy & get a weed grinder, don't get a plastic one, as even potheads don't like those
What's your favorite shape for a cob?
>>2857043SG blends are notorious for burning poorly. Some say it’s because the tobacco comes super wet, but it still burns bad even when I dry it. SG Full Virginia Flake is simultaneously the best tasting Virginia I’ve ever had AND the worst burning tobacco I’ve ever smoked.
>>2857060>weed grinder to break flakesThat’s fucking genius. Never even thought of doing that. Guess I’m taking a trip to my local head shop soon.
>>2857238the stubby is okayish, but i'd wish they made some quality pipes, bent egg or bulldog would be nice.
>>2857261If you're falling for this meme at least buy something high quality that's machined out of stainless or aluminum, not the cheapest zinc alloy garbage the head shop has to offer.
is this french tobacco any good?
>>2856786I thought I did air it out when I transitioned it into the mason jar, but apparently not enough. So I poured it into a plastic bin and took it outside with me while I smoked, and since doing that it has lost of a lot of the questionable smell and is tasting a lot better. I was worried about it getting too dried out, but luckily that didn't happen. Anyway, thanks, that really helped.
>>2857238their chesapeake for reed stems, and their mark twain for any otherthey're both very solidly built, have hardwood plugs, and great wall thicknessi especially like how thick and sturdy the walls feel on the mark twain, and how wide and clean the inside of the bowl is on the chesapeakethe mark twain one can't accept full filters, but cutting the filters in half makes them fit fine, along with basically doubling your supplyi also drilled out mine to accept a stinger insert, which makes it an insanely good smoker
luv pipe smokin' brehs
>>2857260That'll be the poly propylene glycol, the stuff literally rips moisture from the air and binds it to the tobacco and SG uses it a bit excessively. Pure flue cured Virginia's are highly flammable and difficult to stop burning hot. C+D Opening night is a good example.
It's pretty good.
>>2857378are you the anon who didn't wanna buy an entire tub?if so, condolences for the effort; i honestly don't know where to put mine
>>2857391NTA but 4nogs has it bulk. Probably just scooped from the tub.You can always give it away with the Uncle Sam method.
Can't get this shit to stay lit.
I really like this one.
>>2857238I've got an "dwarf cobbit" from MM that I'm very fond of. In terms of regular cobs I really like a straight unfinished/natural type>>2857508That's a good looking pipe right there. I mostly smoke cobs and a have a couple of halfway decent briars, but I do want one big ostentatious pipe for when I need to intimidate a french farmer
>>2857622Well, it's not that big and actually folds nicely into a true pocket pipe. Also it's a local farmer pipe shape form the French speaking Swiss canton of Vaud.
>>2857622>unfinished/natural typeI don't fully trust the varnish, even if it's just plaster and lacquer.
I know it might sound like a silly question but how much of the bowl do you fill and how would you even relight this thing?
scored a NOS noname Canadian last week, payed a tenner. I don't even need a new pipe, just bought it because it was cheap and I didn't have that shape yet. autism i guess.
>>2857731The whole thing, it's basically a vertical cigar. Use long matches.
>>2856593hehrbrhehrh
Burned through my first cob today. RIP gas station Fujima, you served your purpose well.
>>2857784fujima is shit, but if its only through the bottom, just plug it with a wooden plug & elmer's glueyou can seal any void with pipe mud too, so if its on the side or you wanna bolster the plug, it'll workno reason to let a good pipe die
>>2857785Would rather spend the $6 on a new pipe than smoke Elmer's glue or cigar ash.Good thing you can't burn through clay.
So I bought a new Peterson from smokingpipes a while back. The hole that goes into the bowl is completely off-center in the mortis and doesn't line up with the hole in the tenon at all (if I'm using these terms correctly), to the point it's impossible to run a pipe cleaner through it without removing the stem. None of my other pipes are like that and I'm starting to wonder if it's a manufacturing error or something. Worth bitching to smokingpipes about? It actually smokes really well, it's just a bit annoying not being able to get a pipe cleaner through it when it starts to gurgle.
>>2857910Peterson might be the most popular brand but according to AI it has the highest percentage of bad reviews. The quality isn't what it once was, they probably hire immigrants.
>>2857910the air passage should always be centered to the bowl (unless its an oddball pipe, which is very rare)its probably a manufacturing defect, a common one with pipesare you able to post a picture?
>>2857910wait, i just realized you said >it's impossible to run a pipe cleaner through it without removing the stemdo you not understand what a peterson dry system is?its perfectly fine to remove the stem at any time as long as it has an army tenonyou're not talking about a manufacturing defect, are you?
This one might be the endgame.
>>2856593Clay pipes are based.
>>2858088do you just like chip it off, crumple it?
>>2858342Fold and stuff is the "correct" method, but it's also good rubbed out or cut into cubes. Don't fear the flake.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=733OzTBYYwA
>>2858304Do they break easily?
>>2858367ntasorta?just treat them with a little caution, and its effectively "indestructible"you're never going to over-smoke it in any way, but if you try knocking it around like a cob, you're gonna break it in an instanti started out smoking them, but have mostly moved to meerschaum on account of clenchable stems
>>2858372>clenchable stemsJust get some rubber pipe bits or a silicone straw and don't clench too hard.
>blogpost: Got an estate meerschaum about a year and a half ago, my first meerschaum. No idea how old it is, but I'd bet money that it was barely smoked when I got it. It became my favorite pipe to smoke because it just smokes so nicely, and I've smoked probably 700 or more bowls in this thing, but it just wasn't coloring at all. Barely anything. I know it's almost definitely low quality meerschaum, but it made me sad how much I like smoking this thing and how much it wasn't coloring. So I looked around how to color meerschaums and it was all crazy things like smoke aromatics upside down, when I don't even like smoking aromatics much and definitely not out of a meerschaum. Then I came across a forum post where a guy described buying an old "grey" meerschaum and waxing it with beeswax and then having the colors come out without him even needing to smoke it, so I ordered some beeswax, waxed it, and my god the difference is enormous. This is just a before and after of wax being applied to the pipe, not additional smokes between. All of the designs on the pipe really pop now. The meerschaum itself is still not as dark as I would have hoped, but it's nice that the part that seems to have taken the most are the grooves of the carved designs. There is a bundle of grapes on this pipe that looked pale as bone and now it's completely brown. And man, I had no idea beeswax smelled so good. It's intoxicating. I can't remember the last time I smelled something that I got "addicted" to and needed to keep smelling, but beeswax smells incredible. Like a warm bouquet of honey and flowers. And I just smoked a bowl from this, and there is a pleasant aftertaste of that smell in here. I hope it eventually goes away, and I do think that it will because it's still freshly waxed, but I am even enjoying the beeswax aftertaste for right now.
>>2858397Beeswax is amazing stuff. Just don't start eating sticks of Burt's Bees. Still wonder if that kid turned out alright.If you have any regular clay pipes, you can also coat the tips with beeswax so they don't get sticky. Makes a great candle or wax melt, too.
>>2858397keep waxing bro
>>2858397nice, i think i got the same type as you doit doesn't color either, but it still smokes nicely
>>2858409I have way more than I will probably ever be able to use for pipes, so I'll have to look into making a few candles. It smells way too good.>>2858410I dream of one day owning a meer that is this colored. >>2858411Yeah, it's one of those with the leaves and the grapes. It might be worth trying to wax it with beeswax if you've smoked it a decent amount. I think it looks better irl than in pictures, but the grapes and the designs really pop now.
>>2858088Irish Flake is my favorite of all Peterson/Dunhill blends. If you like that strong, smoky tobacco flavor, Bold Kentucky comes in 1lb bricks and has the best combination of flavor and price that I've found.
>>2858462Pretty sure C&D Dark Fired is the only Kentucky you can reliably get in bulk now. G&H Dark Flake looks good too but nobody has it in stock.Bold Kentucky might not ever come back to burgerland. Fuck STG.
>>2856891>I remember when 50g tins were $10 and then $12.Most of this is just plain old aging, $10-15 in 2015 dollars is $14-20 in 2026 from inflation alone. Add a few years of industry consolidation, global supply chain disruptions, and some light Tolkien memeing and suddenly Capstan is $25 a tin.
I was watching a YouTube review of some tobacco, I forget what, and he said that he got his tin on sale for $7. It was only like from 2018 or something I think. Tins go on sale for ~$12 now. It still blows my mind how much inflation happened in just a few short years.
>>2858691Nothing will ever be cheap again.
>>2856891>Petersonyeah good shit, I just got my shipment with University and Killarney. both really nice. Some of you keep recommending haunted bookshop too, so I got that and it smells nice, maybe you fags are alright after all heh
tried some peterson my mixture 965 todaynormally i hate english blends, but this wasn't bad at all; i'd mistake it for a pure virginia if i didn't know betteri don't see myself smoking it again, but it was nice to try it out
>>2858761965 is my first Latakia blend and it's making me question the sanity of all britbongs.
>>2858761>>2858769If I may weigh in here, I'm a lifelong english mixture smoker and British/Irish made english mixtures are nearly always what i'd call latakia bombs. Im talking Dunhill night cap and the Peterson mixtures. They are intentionally heavy and full bodied and best enjoyed after a nice meal with a glass of cognac or whatever and are by no means all day smokes.For that reason I ended up with the Schürch mixtures, because Hans makes about 15 different english mixtures alone and he makes them in different weight classes, some meant to be all day smokes. mix 128 is just high end virginias touched up with only a dash of perique and latakia, 406 and 407 have burley and cavendish in the mix, smoke light and creamy, and you get those "oh but this smells so nice" comments from non smokers all the time, 129 is a heavyweight with java leaf in and it still is more round than nightcap.
>>2858796They mix really well with the dark stouts that are popular over there.
>>2858796The hand-mixed Swiss wizard stuff is unobtainium outside of Europe.
just got this today, never owned a calabash before though; to those who've had a calabash pipe, does this seem right?>always let fully cool before any disassembly>gently twist bowl off when disassembling>do not knock or hit the bowl>use anhydrous lanolin grease on the cork seal around every 3-6 months or when it is dry>keep the outside of the gourd protected with soft wax>air dry pipe with bowl & stem separated after every smoking session for at least 1 day>after every smoking session, gently wipe down the insides with a paper towel & pipe cleaners to remove condensation>do not allow tar/carbon buildup in the gourd's cavity>treat the inside of the gourd's walls gently
>>2858825synjeco.ch has a few schürch tobaccos and ships to the US.
>>2858831>only accepts phone/email orders>no listed prices>15% import taxOkay, not quite unobtainium, but still pretty annoying
>>2858835I remember paying 10 Swiss francs per 50g tin some years ago if that helps. I guess it really is hard to get when you're not in my neck of the woods.>>2858827What a lovely pipe. Seeing that gourd made me think of my mate calabash, so tonight I'm gonna find out if yerba mate pairs well with a pipe.
>>2858367They aren't quite as fragile as people make them out to be, but they can break if dropped on a hard surface.I've broken a couple (at the stems) and was able to fix them with glue. I used regular CA for one and a special ceramic glue for the other. Both have stayed in one piece after several months without any issues. If it shatters into several pieces it's probably best just to replace it, but I am sentimental about my pipes so I'd probably try to fix it anyway.
>>2858827My only complaint with my Austrian-made gourd galabash is that I have a hard time lighting such a wide but shallow bowl. It takes me 3x as long to get a good cherry, but after that it's a pleasure to smoke.
>>2858598Dark Flake is my #1 blend and I have 3/4lb cellared. I'd say put a reminder on SP or P&C and grab up a good amount when they briefly come back in stock
>>2858840>if yerba mate pairs well with a pipe.It does, matter of fact it works really well, better than regular tea.
It's too cold to smoke outside.
how has the cold treated you guys?everything where i'm at is frozen solid, can't even open the doors to the truckplenty of snow of course, but a lot of it is just packed ice rain, as opposed to actual snowkeeps the pipe ultra cool though, which is nice (especially with a stinger insert)
>>2859191Choosing smaller 20-minute bowls and kind of rushing through the last 1/3 when my fingers start to go numb.Anything under 15F doesn't really feel relaxing to sit still in for that long, especially when the wind picks up. This shit has me pricing out electric vests and propane heaters.Can't beat that late night snowfall peace and quiet, though.
>>2859191I think it got to like 15 degrees here. Smoking in ~25-30 degree weather is fine, because it almost never happens, so I don't mind the few days that it does. But that 15 degree day was kinda rough.
>>2859191Below 0°F, still been smoking, even enjoying a cold beer while I do. Layer up and stay out of the wind.
>>2859262keeping hands warm while staying nimble enough to use a czech tool is a struggle.
I know it's probably not ideal, but how are acrylic army stems? Is that bad news or is it alright?
>>2859486my peterson works perfectly fine (at least i think its acrylic, that is)honestly, i prefer acrylic stems as a whole, they're just easier to upkeep
>>2859492Yours is just the acrylic inserting into the army stem, without there being metal-on-metal contact?
>>2859532full acrylic stem, no insert, very solidit collects moisture well enough tooi am looking to get an army 9mm filter variant though, i wanna stuff a kulu cool into it
>>2859492>>2859486same here, got a pepe army and no problems so far.
>>2859534>>2859539Neat, thanks bros
>>2858462How do you feel about St. Bruno?
Started smoking cigars when i would go fishing just sitting there for hours. 10/10 on a calm summer night.
Did Savinelli stop making bings favorites? How come Smoking pipes and a bunch of sites hardly have any in stock.
I've been enjoying an aromatic called Gowith Pensioner's Mixture lately, have any of you tried it? Strong smell of prunes in the topping. The interesting thing about it is that it's known to vary slightly batch to batch, but only within certain narrow parameters. The topping is always identical. So over the months/years it's been a blend that I not only got a good taste for but also one that keeps offering new flavours.
>>2858796It's always humid, damp, wet and cold here in the UK. Well, for 8 months of the year. These are the conditions that suit a Lat bomb English blend well, just like the smell of a fireplace in winter.965 was one of my first blends, to me it was a revelation because it's so similar to Drum pipe tobacco that I used to smoke. But since then I've tried a few blends in the same genre and can say that it's not "better" than some of the others, but it definitely has that Peterson level of refinement where it becomes a thing of its own compared to the rest. They really really know how to finely balance their flavour profiles.
>>2859895Drum ciggie tobacco*
Nobody looks cool with a pipe anymore.You'll always look like a douche for whom the pipe covers 90% of their identity.Many such cases.
>>2860443so do you only do things to look "cool", anon? or have you gotten out of highschool yet?
>>2860443Nobody has ever looked cool with a pipe, but that's hardly the point.
>>2859864You can buy a real new production Merchant Service, so why buy a copy? I know the guy who owns the business. They're not bad pipes.
>>2860443nobody smokes to look "cool" anymore, you smoke to relax.
>>2860443>>2860445You look cool with a pipe if you're attractive, you don't look cool if you're part of the bottom 95% of men.>b-but I go to the gymIf you're too buff you'll look like a gay leather daddy, that's also a problem.
>>2860751i've seen ugly people who looked cool with a pipei think its the look of someone in general, if you don't have a look that fits it, it ain't gonna work. same with the type of pipe you smoke tooa guy wearing an over sized printed T and skinny jeans isn't going to look cool smoking a pipe, but a guy wearing a dress suit probably willadditionally, someone with a long and thin or round and stout face will also look varyingly good, depending on the shape of the pipe they're smoking
Jealous of the warm-weather smokers and the indoor chads who don't give a fuck about rental terms or resale value.
>>2858397I bought a heat gun and waxed a different pipe. Before, I just used a space heater to melt the wax gently onto the pipe, and I got a pleasant beeswax after taste. With the heat gun on the different pipe, I didn't get a pleasant taste of the smell of beeswax as an after taste, I got something more like burnt popcorn. Yuck. I guess beeswax is pretty "fragile", I must have burnt it or something with the heat gun somehow. I thought the heat gun would make it easier, and it was easier to apply, but I think I'll be sticking with the space heater method in the future. This weird almost burnt popcorn taste is nasty.
>>2860796I smoked in my bedroom one evening and the next morning I could smell hay every time I'd enter the room. It took 2-3 days with the windows open for the smell to be gone and about a week to leave the curtains.
>>2860833Did you not have an air purifier turned on and a window open (or a fan set up to blow air outside)?
>>2860888No, it was summer so I just smoked, cleaned the pipe and went to bed with the windows open. Next day I went to work but I still let the windows open since I live in an apartment complex at the third floor, no burglar's gonna climb when there are easier targets.
>>2858761People hyped this blend up so much but it really is meh. If you want a better latakia blend by Peterson check out Balkan Mixture. Despite the name, it doesn’t have oriental leaf; it’s a heavenly blend of latakia, virginia, and perique. Absolute umami bomb.If you want a “better” version of My Mixture 965 with that Cavendish sugarwater edge, and have access to cornell & diehl blends, try out C&D’s Mississippi Mud. One of the rare instances where I would say the cheap and rough-around-the-edges c&d actually shines. Smells like real funky stuff at first opening of the tin before it breathes (and looks ugly as hell bc it’s a rough-cut ribbon), but as soon as you light it up you’ll get hit with an addictive balanced mellow mixture
>>2861085>cheap and rough-around-the-edges c&dIs this a common opinion? Fairly new but have enjoyed the C&D bulk and cakes so far. What are some better options?
>>2861126I’m kind of just parroting what everyone else says. It’s a commonly-used phrase to describe C&D but I think it’s a half-truth. If you try other blends such as (spitballing here) Orlik Golden Sliced, Capstan Blue, Mac Baren HH line, you get a sense of high quality leaf where a lot of care and attention has been done with regards to processing, casing, topping, pressing, cutting.C&D uses a lot of burley in a ton of blends and comes across a bit more cowboy-ish. But they also produce finer tobaccos like the G.L. Pease line and Per G. Jensen’s new line of baccy now that he can’t make mac barren blends anymore (fuck my life). These blends are pretty much completely up-to-par with the higher quality offerings out there. For their mainline stuff though, C&D just likes taking “pretty good” leaf of good enough quality and shoving it into quick and crummy looking flakes and weak crumble cakes and selling it ASAP. I’ve heard they do have high quality offerings, such as their special-release Carolina Red Flake (i’ve never tried it) that supposedly is the highest quality virginia grade they have and people claim it stands right up there with the absolute best tobaccos
>>2861126>>2861129And sorry I got distracted and completely skirted your second question lol. Not sure what you’re tastes are, but if you want to expand out and build up the cellar and not break the bank too much, try out:Orlik golden sliced, GL Pease gaslight, peter stokkebye luxury navy flake (and peter stokkebye luxury bullseye flake if you want a more “natural” option whose taste doesn’t lean into any topping or casing flavor), peterson balkan mixture or peterson nightcap (nightcap has gotten expensive recently though sorry).If you’re further interested in more blends try peterson elizabethan, erik stokkebye evening flake (it’s like luxury navy flake but even more expressive and still cheap as a bulk), c&d bayou morning flake.I’m not a burley guy so I can’t give suggestions there. But I do love dark fired kentucky, if you want to dip your toes in that try GLPease Six Pence or Jackknife Plug
Fucked up the timing of an order and have a half pound about to sit out in the cold for a couple days on vacation. Hope tobacco doesn't mind being frozen.
>>2861244Meh that’s fine, cardboard box might help insulate it a bit - and if anything it’s better to be cold than to be left out in 80° or 90° heat where it roasts and turns too humid and hot
Very casual smoker here, I only do it at weddings and funerals as a small personal habit with a fairly cheap Savinelli zulu. At my uncle's funeral last year I was informed my grandfather's brand (Condor ready rubbed) which I always remember him smoking as a kid but never knew what it was. He died of lung cancer when I was still very young so I don't have much of a memory of him, other than the smell, so I thought I'd help honour him at the wedding with his brand. Don't worry, the lung cancer was probably from the chemicals he inhaled in North Africa during the war, not smoking. I mentioned a long time ago in one of these threads that I was looking to get a pack to smoke at my wedding, and someone kindly here pointed me in the right direction of a decent website to get from. I'll be getting married in a couple of weeks and just thought I'd pass on my thanks. Hoping you're all well.
Any fanatical Burley lovers out there? Can’t seem to fall in love with it. Haunted bookshop and old joe krantz just come off as too nasty. I got a tin c&d’s Watson wintertime reserve, which is usually their higher-grade stuff from what I understand. But still it just smells so funky and gross. Let me know if there are any higher-quality recs worth trying. I’ve been eyeing Erinmore and Wessex burley slice.
>>2861303Congratulations!>>2861476Everytime I give burley another chance, I can't help but think "this must be what cigarettes taste like". Pegasus is the only one I've liked so far, it has a taste very reminiscent of cocoa noted cigars with its 3to2 burley/virginia mix. Haunted Bookshop was alright with a cup of coffee.
>>2861483Yup burley is just too evocative of a cheap ciggy to me as well. I like the more rich profiles of Virginias and VaPers. My little confession, though, is that I do find Half & Half to be okay. I got a big tub of it for cheap from an indian reservation shop lol. But I suppose it’s apropos as Lucky Strike is just about the only cigarette I’ve ever tried that I sort of liked. And at one point they were blended with the same tobacco (not sure if that’s still the case, probably not)
