Pipe of the Day

**Sailor** · 12-06-2012, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by donv

So, I pose a question to you'all. What is your go to favorite Virginia blend? I realise that it is a matter of personal taste, but I'd like to get a few names to check out. If, you had to run away from a Zombie hoard, and could only grab one tin of Virginia blend tobacco, what would it be?

Thank you in advance, donv

Donv,

My favorites for pure VA tobaccos are Capstan Blue (#1 for me), SG's Full Virginia and Best Brown Flakes, Synjeco's Bad Nun.
There are several other excellent tobaccos out there but usually most blends are more or less mixtures (not that it would be a bad thing, it's up to your tastes)

SG makes several great not so pure VA blends, as does Rattray and JF Germain & son as well.

**Sasquatch** · 12-06-2012, 08:46 PM

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

Well it was well worth the three day wait from the government... My Dirty Bear showed up in the mail...

Very light weight for the size... And I already made one small modification to it... Replaced the stem with a freehand style...

Awesome pipe for the money...

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That pipe is mental in a good way, I'm loving that! What wood is it? Is that spalting at the front of the bowl? Have you fired it up yet? So many questions!

**NoseWarmer** · 12-06-2012, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Sailor

My favorites for pure VA tobaccos are Capstan Blue

Don,

The only problem with this blend is it's not available in the USA... And everything I had on hand has gone up in smoke!

**NoseWarmer** · 12-06-2012, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Sasquatch

That pipe is mental in a good way, I'm loving that! What wood is it? Is that spalting at the front of the bowl? Have you fired it up yet? So many questions!

No I haven't smoked it yet... It goes under the Christmas Tree

Kurt, the maker said it is Beech from Northern Wisconsin... He also makes them from Maple and Cherry Wood...

As for the marks on the front, it's his trademark... Bear Claw Marks...

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**Sailor** · 12-07-2012, 12:28 PM

Friday eve 'after sauna' pipe & beer.
Capstan from hand made Danish Karl Erik.

**nessmuck** · 12-07-2012, 01:05 PM

My Virginia smokes are, Louisiana Red by H&H, Best Brown#2 by G&H , Mc Crainnies Red Ribbon ....I never let these baccys run out !,

**eTom** · 12-07-2012, 01:18 PM

Tomi,
you can keep your fu... scandinavian weather. It's cold enough here in Germany!!!

**Sailor** · 12-07-2012, 01:25 PM

Originally Posted by eTom

Tomi,
you can keep your fu... scandinavian weather. It's cold enough here in Germany!!!

For few days we had about -23 C (-10 F) here, but now it's only -6 C (21 F). Almost warm, nice weather. Snow about 40 cm.
Do not want to think how it'll be after a month or two.

**EMC45** · 12-07-2012, 02:07 PM

Yesterday's smoke was some 1Q in a basket briar after lunch and Don's blend in a MM cob after dinner. I need to fight the obsessive urge to maniacally tamp the contents of the bowl while smoking. I want it to look neat and orderly in there and it is creating too tight a bowl, hence relights and hard puffing. If I leave well enough alone it smokes smooth, slow and sweet. The more tamping, the more gurgle and goop. The less tamping the nicer the smoke and a nice dry ash leftover.

**NoseWarmer** · 12-07-2012, 02:27 PM

Originally Posted by EMC45

I need to fight the obsessive urge to maniacally tamp the contents of the bowl while smoking. I want it to look neat and orderly in there and it is creating too tight a bowl, hence relights and hard puffing. If I leave well enough alone it smokes smooth, slow and sweet. The more tamping, the more gurgle and goop. The less tamping the nicer the smoke and a nice dry ash leftover.

Can we say OCD...

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