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09-18-2018, 07:58 PM
#17681
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Having a lovely cob of
@Haebar
Navy Flake which I jarred in Feb, 2017 so it must be close to 2 years old. Great stuff!
You oughta know not to stand by the window, somebody see you up there.
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09-19-2018, 04:54 AM
#17682
Lakeland Bum
Originally Posted by
Bruck
Having a lovely cob of
@
Haebar
Navy Flake which I jarred in Feb, 2017 so it must be close to 2 years old. Great stuff!
I'm glad that it has improved with age. I haven't tried any recently. Need to get busy making some more. Thanks.
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09-19-2018, 08:52 AM
#17683
True Derelict
Originally Posted by
Haebar
I'm glad that it has improved with age. I haven't tried any recently. Need to get busy making some more. Thanks.
Thanks for the reminder! I saw it in my cellar the other day, told myself to pull it out, but didn't. Now I have to root around and find it.
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On the way to work, smoking some 2015 Sixpence, in a mid-30s Kaywoodie Thorn Oom Paul, nestled in a slightly unkempt beard.
Last edited by BryGuySC; 09-20-2018 at 11:45 AM.
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09-19-2018, 03:04 PM
#17684
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake in my Luciano squat bulldog. This is a singular tobacco — I know of no other that’s remotely like it. I don’t smoke a lot of ABF, but sometimes I just crave it, so nearly always have some in a jar, ready to go.
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09-20-2018, 04:40 PM
#17685
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Puffing Solani 131, Red Label in my old Kirsten Mariner. Here’s what SmokingPipes says of it.
“For Solani's Red Label, a touch of Single malt Scotch has been added to selected bright and red Virginias from the "Old Belt", ripe Burleys and mellow, sweet black Cavendish for a "Tropical Aroma--delicious. Wild Cut.”
131 is the third of the five Solani aromatics that I ordered some time ago. I liked the second, 127, Green Label, but I like this one even better. The topping of 127 was fruity whereas the topping of 131 is savory — and I like savory.
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09-20-2018, 11:00 PM
#17686
Royal Bum
Got bored and cracked open a tin of McClelland No. 27 Matured Virginia.
I've been hoarding my McClelland stuff, but thought I'd enjoy one.
Life is short.
Check out my Youtube channel, Razorback Piper Guy if you like that sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDM...i44pRZ4AP-_1OA
If heaven has no cigars, I shall not go there. - Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
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09-21-2018, 04:58 PM
#17687
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
A while back I bought this Mark Tinsky brandy from the American Estates section of SmokingPipes:
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/n...duct_id=262439
Its condition was “5/5, Unsmoked”. The light band with thin dark stripes is palm wood. This pipe suits me better than any Tinsky pipe I’ve seen: straight; standard pipe shape; right size. It’s a sitter, too. I was lucky to find it for a good price as an estate pipe. The link is for the original offering — not the one I purchased it from. I used that link because it it has the third (top) view.
I first smoked the Tinsky several weeks ago and found it had an issue: the draw was a bit tight, and if I drew in a crumb of tobacco it became REALLY tight, and was hard to clear with a pipe cleaner. I figured that I was going to have to widen the draft with a 1.5 mm round needle file. But I had other things to do, so didn’t start that project until last week. When I did, I discovered that some detritus was firmly lodged in the draft, near the end of the bit. I was able to push it out with a straightened paper clip, after which the draw was free and easy. Very glad about that!
Now puffing some Escudo in the Tinsky, and it’s going down very well. I like this pipe!
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09-22-2018, 03:12 PM
#17688
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake, is an unusual tobacco. There may be other aromatic flakes, but I don’t know of them. It’s too intensely aromatic for me to enjoy straight, but a little bit mixed with a straight Virginia or Vaper can be tasty — and a nice change up for me. Doing that now: 75% Escudo, 25% TMF, in my old Kirsten Mariner.
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09-22-2018, 05:17 PM
#17689
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Enjoying a bowl of Stokkeby's 4th Generation 1931 in a cheap briar.
You oughta know not to stand by the window, somebody see you up there.
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09-23-2018, 08:10 AM
#17690
Don't listen to this guy!
C&D Bijou in a small Dr. Grabow with a cup (or 3) of Folgers. Taste like sanity.
Happy as if I had good sense.
“Life is filled with glorious opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” Jerry Falwell
formerly gtechva
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