What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

P&W #515 in a 2003 IMP horn Meer.

[AndyCAYP]

I'm back at the Kendal Kentucky well this morning. Happily.

I'm not sure that it will supplant Condor as my #2 favorite soapy blend, but the cost of importing Condor has to be weighed when making that claim. Seriously, Kendal Kentucky is great and I should have realized it sooner. Yet another tip of the hat to Jim aka @freestoke who has much better taste than I do.

Happy to share my "technique." Here's a thread with some photojournalism from my latest batch, just to give you an idea of what I do. A lot of people use the simpler method you describe to make "kake" (basically loose flake).

Happy to share more details - PM me with questions! PM me your addy and I'll send you some.

Awesome! I'll get a PM together for you this weekend - if I get out of the garage workshop long enough to do it - with some questions. I appreciate your expertise!

[NeverBend]

2015 (new) Blood Meridian in a 1940s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL saddle billiard. End of a cup of New Orleans chicory coffee light. Taste's evolving.

[Emperor Zurg]

+1 on chewing rope tobacco. It's not like conventional chaw, e.g., Red Man, but it can be very smooth and satisfying. Actually I can't do OTC chaw - way too sweet!

Navy flakes can be pretty good chaw, but yes, I can see straight VA being a little too bitter. Ya gotta have some flavor. Once I tried some of my heavy latakia flake as chaw while mowing. By the time I realized I had to get that awful shite out of my mouth I was gagging audibly. I hope the neighbor didn't hear!

Hahaha!!

Yeah, it wasn't good and to make matters worse it started breaking apart and floating around in my mouth. I gagged a couple times while trying to spit it all out <:/ Looking back, I probably should have ripped some shreds off the side of the flake instead of cutting a piece off the end.

I've chewed a piece of HH Old Dark Fired before. It wasn't very good either but it wasn't as bad as this. It got real slimy though which was kinda gross.

Looking forward to a bowl of @NeverBend 's Einstein later in the day
I pity you folks who haven't had the opportunity to try it

[AndyCAYP]

2015 (new) Blood Meridian in a 1940s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL saddle billiard. End of a cup of New Orleans chicory coffee light. Taste's evolving.

Was going to ask what Blood Meridian (aside from a CM novel) was until I thought the better of myself and used the forum's search function.

Note to newbies: the search function is there, and it works. It saved me from the humiliation of asking a question that was answered very thoroughly in its own thread, and instead gave me the opportunity to humiliate myself with this inane post.

Also: red rooibos + more Kendal Kentucky.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in an old medium bend grain etched undated Preben Holm Ben Wade Prominence B freehand.

[JimInks]

Troost Slices in an egg shaped medium bend smooth Burgundy colored 1985 Caminetto.

[JimInks]

Marlin Flake in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend tomato military mount with an aluminum accent, horn ferrule, and cumberland p-lip stem.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking MacBaren Symphony in a very ugly reddish color 1980 medium bend Lorenzo Leganza Sigma 8635 etched rough top.

[JimInks]

Newminster Superior Navy Flake in a 1980s Peterson 314 Full Bend black Sandblast system pipe.