Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by apipeguy

About to light a bowl of Exclusive in a Castello Castello. Last morning visiting my dad in Florida. Have to pack and leave about 11:00am. Have a 6-hour layover and won't get home until just before midnight.

That's gonna be a long day. Smoke well my friend.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

That's gonna be a long day. Smoke well my friend.

It will be but I have tomorrow to look forward to, sitting in my recliner,in my bathrobe, drinking coffee and smoking my pipe. Waiting for UPS to bring my 8-pound tobacco order that will come tomorrow.

Originally Posted by apipeguy

It will be but I have tomorrow to look forward to, sitting in my recliner,in my bathrobe, drinking coffee and smoking my pipe. Waiting for UPS to bring my 8-pound tobacco order that will come tomorrow.

I got one word for that....Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.

I need a recliner and a bathrobe for that matter,I'm missing out.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

I have 3/8 of a quart size jar of Boswell's Northwoods...

If you ever get tired of NW, I'll be more than happy to take that off your hands...

Originally Posted by lz6

I tried a few more tobaccos like Dunhill Standard and 965. Davidoff blue, Royal Yacht, and Larsen standard. I assume these are class "aromatic" tobacco mixtures? I have a 10 to 15 year old tin of penzance on the way from pipestud.

I do not want to bore you gentlemen but I would greatly appreciate a recommendation for some pipe tobaccos that would not be aromatic. Just straightforward ribbon cut tobaccos without any smokiness, added liquor or other favors, Perique and so on.

I wouldn't call 965 or Dunhill Standard Mixture 'aromatic'. Royal Yacht is aromatic IIRC. I smoke mostly G.L. Pease Robusto, Gawith & Hoggarth Rum Flake, and Dunhill Early Morning Pipe. This last order I also picked up an 8 oz tin of GL Pease Blackpoint. I buy the Dunhill and the G&H Rum Flack in bulk because I can. I buy the Robusto, and any other GL Pease in tins, because they don't sell it in bulk.

Some say that the tins taste better than the bulk, and maybe they do, but there is more bang for the buck in bulk, and I smoke a couple of pounds of tobacco or more per month. For a cigar afficianado I highly recommend Robusto. Good nicotine hit too.

Any Lake District tobacco by Gawith & Hoggarth, or Samuel Gawith will normally have strong amounts of nicotine. It was through Lake District tobaccos that I was enabled to give up a 36 year Camel non filter cigarette habit in 2000. With those read descriptions carefully, and maybe tobacco reviews.com. Some are aromatic, others are not, and some, like the twists and ropes, will knock you out they have so much nicotine.

Originally Posted by lz6

A last question. I do not like the idea of filters or screens but if you are smoking a tobacco format like flake or pressed or the ones that need to be broken up how does that work to keep the tiny pieces of tobacco that draw right into your mouth and throat?

In a good pipe, with a correctly drilled draught hole, it will rarely happen IME. Maybe the powdery stuff in the bottom of an 8oz tin, or the very bottom of the bowl if you've gotten ash and stuff at the end of a smoke, but I rarely experience drawing tobacco through the draught. If I am at the bottom of the 8oz tin of Robusto, I open a new one, and pour the powder into the new one after I get it down a couple of inches.

I take pressed flakes, like G&H Rum Flake, and break it up. Years ago I used to spread out some paper and rub the whole 500 grams out in between the palms of my hands. Store it in an old Dunhill pottery tobacco jar. I still store it in the jar, but now I am too lazy to break it up ahead of time and do it as I smoke it.

Another tip for if you smoke a lot. I save the 8oz GL Pease tins for tobaccos I buy in bulk that come in plastic bags. I also buy B.J. Long's Standard pipe cleaners by the case. A necessity for successful pipe smoking AFAIC.

Its funny now I know why I can never find G&H Rum flake. Jimmy bought it all.

lz6.......tried sending you a PM but your mailbox is full man ! The Eagle has landed and the Village is safe and grateful ! Clean up your mailbox so a proper message can be sent. Cheers and Huzzah !

Sitting in the recliner, in my bathrobe, cup of coffee and on my second bowl of Bayou Morning in a Castello Old Antiquari. Except for the pipes that I took on vacation all of the other daily smokers are still safely locked away in the gun safe. Nice to be home.

Almost all of my tobacco is bought in bulk and I use wide mouth Mason jars to store the tobacco. They seal very well and it is pretty much as good as being in a vacuum packed tin. I get about a half pound of tobacco compressed into one jar. Label and date the jar top so you can rotate your stock as needed and don't get a surprise when you open a jar.

As I have a large order coming in today, I'll need to get some more jars and tops.

Once you know what tobacco's you really like, buying in bulk is really the way to go.

I wish i could be happy with a couple of blends that I could just smoke forever. To make a parallel to the razor hobby, I am still at a phase where I am trying to experience the rainbow of options in the hobby. When I first started with razors i had to have every grind and hone to try only to settle on what I like and further exploration on the razor scene has been rather slow of late. I imagine that will happen with pipes and tobacco as well but i have a feeling it will take a lot longer. Tobacco seems like an endless void of pleasures that need to be tried or maybe it isn't but I haven't got to that point. Chasing the ultimate smoke and pipe may take some time and its been very enjoyable time spent. The collective knowledge of this forum has given me a fast forward to shaving nirvana. I think the guys that got into this when it was still a lost art had a much harder time of it and I am grateful they did the hard work of making sense of it all.