New Bums Introduction Thread

[Herf N Turf]

Until we get everything built, I'm just going to start threads in the Main forum and migrate them to the appropriate sub-forums as we progress.

Here goes,

My name's Don and I'm a huge cigar and pipe enthusiast. I've been imbibing in the leaf since high school in the late 1970's. I dabbled in both throughout college and took a rather long hiatus in the 90's to focus on bicycle racing. I'd still smoke the occasional celebratory cigar, but nothing serious. In the late 90's I got pretty serious about storage and honing my palate. I joined Club Stogie in late 2008, just before it was merged into Puff. About a year after that and I was invited to become a moderator for Puff. It was a great job, which I enjoyed very much; the ability to give back to a community, which had given so much to me.

I put a tremendous amount of work into Puff, but enjoyed the incredible camaraderie and friendship we all fostered there. Losing it broke my heart, but since I had no say over the financial aspects and ownership, was powerless to do anything to prevent it's demise.

But, today is a new day and we have a brand new opportunity to recreate ourselves. We can take what we learned from Puff, the good, the bad and the ugly; embrace the good and kill the bad and ugly.

I'm just happy to have a new place where we can carry on the great tradition we all put our hearts and souls into, without fear of some uncommitted third party spoiling it.

Thanks for reading this and I'm damn glad to see ya!

Don

[piperdown]

Looking forward to a new era post Puff.

I'm Eric and have dabbled in cigars since the early 90's. A cigar or two here and there and occationally a pipe for the next 15 years or so. Always had them on hand but it wasn't until I hit up a cigar store with a great owner and friendly staff that I became hooked. The Kristoff maduro (fantastic!) the owner gave me sealed the deal. Wasn't too long after that when I started searching the web and came across Puff early 2009. Lurked for 6 months before joining and then the journey took off.
Met some incredibly knowledgable and friendly people on Puff and it became a home away from home. Lots of trades, bombs, and passes gave me a deep appreciation of cigars from different regions.

Fast forward to 2013 and I was asked to be a mod. Surprising isn't it! Thoroughly enjoyed all of my time there and am looking forward to making cigarbum my new cigar forum home.

PS. Been a member of other cigar forums for a while too. On any of them my username, piperdown, is the same.

Looking forward to hearing from all of you fellow cigar enthusiasts!

[bluenoser]

Hey all, I'm Blake... and I'm a cigaraholic.
I'm from the province of Nova Scotia but currently live in Saskatchewan up here in the great white north. Pretty new to cigars but really enjoying my, both feet first, jump into the hobby. I've always had an interest but for one reason or another (mostly lack of disposable income) I've never really gotten into the hobby other than the odd captain black or old port gas station cheapies (term used loosely here in Canada). Summer of 2014 I stumbled upon the 2 threads on puff about Companies that deliver to Canada and became hooked on the idea, lurked around for a while then finally joined the forum and pulled the trigger on my first order and have been hooked ever since.

Recently my grandfather has been diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer and being this far away as his condition deteriorates I've spent alot of time remembering him as a child. He was a pipe smoker for years and the smell of someone burning a bowl always throws me back to spending summers visiting him. So because of all this, along with my journey into cigars, I'm taking the first steps into pipe smoking as well. Awaiting my first order as we speak and can't wait to jump into that side of the hobby too.

With both of these similar hobbies I'm sure, with time, I'll find the same amazing comradery and advice on here as the was on the previous site. And just maybe, in time, I'll be qualified enough to add to it and help another noob get off the ground in this amazing hobby.

[Scott W.]

I'm Scott. Can't seem to get away from you guys. When I have some more time, I'll post a more lengthily intro

[Demuths1770]

hey hey hey!! first off thanks for getting this up and going Don!! Puff was the driving force behind bettering my cigar experience and i learned a lot in the over the year i was in the community. Now than, I am Kyle, I have been into cigars full on for 2 or so years but have enjoyed them for 7 years. i had just made the cross into the pipe world just as puff went down. im looking forward to the former puffers becoming bums and all the n00b bums that will come and helping them out

[piperdown]

hey hey hey!! first off thanks for getting this up and going Don!! Puff was the driving force behind bettering my cigar experience and i learned a lot in the over the year i was in the community. Now than, I am Kyle, I have been into cigars full on for 2 or so years but have enjoyed them for 7 years. i had just made the cross into the pipe world just as puff went down. im looking forward to the former puffers becoming bums and all the n00b bums that will come and helping them out

Awesome you jumped over here!
It's going to be a great ride!

[piperdown]

I'm Scott. Can't seem to get away from you guys. When I have some more time, I'll post a more lengthily intro

Scott, really glad you came over!

[Herf N Turf]

Wow! This is awesome! I just looked at the "who's online" and for being up just a few hours, having 7 recognizable names on is pretty damned amazin'!

Guys, we're here to build this. Build it the way WE want it. The guys who show up in the next few weeks will be the guys who have the most say in where we end up. The great thing is, the people who've shown interest are ALL guys I know and respect and know how to roll on a gentlemen's hobby forum. It's like there are suddenly 7 mods online, HA!

[wabashcr]

I'm Chris from Indianapolis. Was only a member of Puff for about 3 months, but happy to be here. I've smoked cigars for as long as I can remember, but only within the last year have I really taken it up as a hobby. I quit drinking and smoking cigarettes 3+ years ago, so this is my only vice now. For me, the online community, and this group in particular, have been invaluable for me as far as learning to enjoy the hobby correctly. The people on Puff have made the hobby so much more enjoyable, both with their willingness to share their immense wealth of knowledge, and as just genuinely good, friendly BOTL/SOTLs.

Just glad this community will continue to stay together.

[Demuths1770]

Awesome you jumped over here!
It's going to be a great ride!

omg i wouldnt miss it for the world. need to get shemp, sean, husker, ivcrooker, and all the other great puffers over here and get them to become bums now