Last night I smoked a couple of bowls of Walnut in a Sunrise Dublin. I have today off from work!
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Last night I smoked a couple of bowls of Walnut in a Sunrise Dublin. I have today off from work!
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First fill of the day — Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco) in my Tinsky straight brandy. I’ve heard that many pipe smokers like to start the day with a milder tobacco and work up. I’m the opposite; I like a hearty tobacco to start with, and Patriot Flake fills that bill.
Had some Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulleye Flake from 2015 in a Savinelli I picked up at the Richmond pipe show.
Keep yer baccy dry down there fella!Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Trying!Quote:
Originally Posted by AlanS
Smoked a bowl of Five Brothers in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard this morning before going to work. I'm off work now and just finished a little bowl of some bright Virginia that I stoved in the oven overnight.
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Please post pics of your new Savinelli. How was the Richmond Pipe Show? Did you do the Sutliff factory tour? I really wanted to make that one, but just couldn't swing it.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Now wait... you 'stove' it in an oven... but then what is tobacco that you fry on the stove? Ovened tobacco???Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
:rofl: It turned out pretty good - sweet and mellow. It will be good for blending but don't think I'll smoke it straight.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Probably could use a pinch of latakia or perique to give it a little complexity.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
First I'd try adding some red va though... just because I usually like red va in things :pipe:
Speaking of Virginias, I had a bowl of Sam Gawith, Navy Flake last night in a Canadian
Last night I smoked a couple of bowls of Walnut in various pipes. This morning I have already had a bowl of some homemade English Crumble Cake in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard and a couple of bowls of Five Brothers in a Dunhill billiard.
On the balcony studying Constitutional Law, smoking C&D Autumn Evening in a Molina (not sure what the shape is) and drinking coffee.
Beautiful fall morning in Arkansas. About 55 degrees and drizzling rain.
I'd be happier in the woods (modern gun antlerless hunt started today) but I guess I'll live.
Puffing F&T Blackjack in my Kirsten Mariner. No topping, but a zesty flavor from the tobacco itself.
My B&M is Liberty Tobacco, here in San Diego. It’s a unique place – lots of guys sitting around smoking, mostly cigars. Talking, and watching sports on the TV screens. Drinking coffee from the store coffee pot (supported by contributions). A table for card players. Literature supporting conservative candidates, and advice about California ballot propositions.
Not too long ago, I was there when a big black guy, one of the regulars, entered. “Where are the white women?”, he demanded. That got a big laugh. Not only were no white women present, no women of any sort were present. As I said, it’s a unique place, especially nowadays.
I'm cutting firewood and stacking it in the wood shed today. Beautiful, sunny day so of course I've got my Missouri Meerschaum, General loaded up with Virginia flake for a few puffs every now and again when I could use a break. Peter Stokkebye provided the flake.
Now, time to relax a bit with Sweet Rum Twist in a gourd calabash and a glass of milkshake stout.
Law School? I'd say it's a good topic, but a little of the path most traveled.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
Tambolaka in a new Morgan Bones Stubby 20
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Yep. Nearly midway through my 2nd year.Quote:
Originally Posted by GWBowman
I go part time, so it'll take 4.
My wake-up bowl is Five Brothers in a Dunhill Shell apple (bottom one in the picture).
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Puffing my second fill of Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco) in my Kirsten. So glad that this delicious Virginia is back in my cellar, after a long absence.
Autumn Evening in an old banded Dr Grabow.
It even tastes good on an Autumn morning. Imagine that.
That's a really cool looking pipe!Quote:
Originally Posted by GWBowman
Do you find it a different smoke in the stubby vs a "traditional" size pipe?
Just smoked a bowl of Five Brothers in a Dunhill apple.
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C&D Big 'n Burley :)
Now having some McClelland No. 27 matured Virginia in my unfinshed Savinelli Series III.
Smoked some Sutliff Crumble Kake English #1 in a Savinelli Trevi 320KS.
I really like it. It has a lot of tangy, sour oriental notes.
It will be on market in November. I might need to pick some up.
It's the closest one. A Savinelli Tundra Brownblast 315.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
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The tour was great! Also got to meet and chat with JimInks, Russ O, Karl MacAlister (SP?), and a few other members of other forums.
The pipe show was also great.
Smoking some more Five Brothers in a Dr. Grabow billiard. (That's not Five Brothers in the picture though.)
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What? You mean that's not the extremely HTF, 5 Brothers flake? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Fixin to burn a few coins of Sweet Rum Twist in the gourd tonight.
My gourd is getting pretty gunked up inside. Anyone have any magic treatment to clean it out?
I was planning on bending a small bottle brush into a J and using Everclear as a solvent. Souns like a PIA tho...
No, that tobacco in the picture is from my last failed attempt to make a flake. No more trying to make a flake unless I decide to get a hydraulic press, and I don't know if I want to take it to that level.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Be careful using Everclear on that gourd - it might ruin it. I've not cleaned mine yet either, but it seems like it might damage it. I know it will ruin a Cherry wood pipe; dries it out so much it cracks and splits.
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From Carl Ehwa's The Book of Pipes and Tobacco
Well I considered just using rum too. That article mentions 'spirits' but doesn't go into any more detail.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
What's wrong with that flake? It looks just like G&H Louisana Flake. Can't be all that bad.
If I ever decided to make flake I'd weld up some bolt-together contraption so I could clamp it up and then 'stove' (lol) it in the oven while it's under pressure. It's not something I plan on doing tho. There are so many wonderful flakes out there already that I can't see the point... that and I already have decent stockpiles of all my favorites so why re-invent the wheel? I don't even have the time to try the ones that are already out there.
It just delaminates when you slice it into flakes. It was a good smoke while it lasted. You've got a point about reinventing the wheel. There are so many great blends already out there ready to smoke. Although I save a little money buying the whole leaf, when you consider all the time it takes to come up with a good blend, there's little savings. I do enjoy working with the leaves and stretching them out, and the smells are fantastic when you open up a bag of the stuff. That's what keeps me coming back to it, that and when I get compliments on something I made.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
I liked that last bowl so much that I am having another small bowl of Five Brothers in a Dr. Grabow billiard.
Probably your method of cutting is the culprit. I've considered designing and building a modern, quality tobacco slicer with a replaceable, disposable blade because there doesn't seem to be such a thing available anywhere. You look online and all you find are these ancient, cast iron things that are collectable and cost a fortune and are probably dull as mud and would take forever to sharpen. Maybe there's a market for a decent flake slicer... if not for the 'make your own flake' market, possibly for the 'I like to smoke plug tobacco' market.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Oh, and I burned a gourd calabash full of SRT last night.
Puffing Solani 763, White and Black. Dark Virginia, black cavendish and latakia. After a couple of fills that didn’t go down all that well, this one is hitting the spot.
I cut them with an ulu; maybe that was the problem. A guy in our pipe club buys those old plug cutters on Ebay and restores them. I'd buy one if I knew that it worked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Just finished a bowl of some of my stoved Virginia topped with some Five Brothers in an old Dunhill billiard with faint stampings.
We had the Knoxville Pipe Club meeting last night. The owner of the venue, Smoky's Tobacco and Cigars, Dave Watson, spent some time with us and cracked open an 8 oz. bag of Penzance to share with us. Most of us had a bowl of it when he opened it. When Dave left he divided the rest of the Penzance into baggies and gave us each one! One of our members also passed around a jar of some McClelland 3 Oaks Syrian.
That 3 Oaks Syrian is amazing!
I tried some Lane 125th Anniversary for the first time last night. It was a little harsh for me.
I finished off my bowl of 3 Oaks Syrian this morning and loaded up a bowl of Five Brothers in a knockabout Dr. Grabow to smoke on the way to work.
Smoking a bowl of MacBaren HH Pure Virginia in an old Grabow.
This really is a nice Virginia.
Dunhill Nightcap in a Stanwell
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Finished a bowl of Peter Stokkebye Danish Export in a MM Country Gentleman.
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