My generic, "Hello, I'm the new guy" post...

Subject: My generic, "Hello, I'm the new guy" post... Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:52 pm

Hello! I'm the new guy...

My name is Josh. I've been an ocassional cigar smoker for a few years. I've always been intrigued by both pipes and smoking them. I think I'm ready to begin my journey into pipe smoking. I've read many websites. I've seen lots of "how to's" and such. To everyone out there providing so much useful information - Thank you! I am excited to start my search for the right pipe. I know it will take time, research and of course some money.

One of my other hobbies is drying fruit. I enjoy dried fruit and am consistently experimenting with new ideas and drying many pounds of old favorites. My first question concerning dried fruit is this : Is there ever dried fruit blended with tobacco? There must be. Is that how they get the aromas that they get? I am very excited to do some blending and experimenting with dried fruit...

I will be around. I'm sure I will have many questions soon enough.

Glad to be here! Thanks!

Josh

A warm welcome Josh.

Perhaps one of the blenders can answer your question about dried fruit.

Very Happy

Paul
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If I'm not totally off my rocker I believe they sometimes smoke fruits in a hookah.

Welcome to the BoB! You will find a lot of good information here and I am sure that an expert will weigh in on your first question.
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Hey Josh.

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Welcome aboard, Josh. Enjoy and hope to see your posts.

Alan

Hello and welcome to the board!

Jim
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Welcome Josh. Good group here!

Wow! Thanks for all the warm welcome everyone. I really appreciate that. Let's me know it's a friendly group of people I've come across. I think I'll direct my "dried fruit" question to a more appropriate area of the forums for answers. Thanks again!

Welcome Josh Very Happy

Hookah tobacco can indeed include dried fruit and molasses.
Not that hookah pipes are included in this forum but I would be interested if you could blend some burly, dried fruit, and molasses and make your own hookah tobak.
Now that I think about it, im gonna have to try to figure a way to try pipe tobak in my hookah. Idea

Well. I figure if I take some basic tobacco and just experiment with adding small pieces of very dried fruit, It should be nice. I have to imagine that the fruit will burn similar to tobacco and smell pleasant. It's worth trying. Might be kinda spendy though...

Welcome to the board Josh. Not sure about the fruit in tobacco thing. I mostly eat my fruit and smoke the tobacco.
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Welcome to the forum

I tried the fruit bit years ago
I couldnt get it to burn right it may have worked if it had been shredded
I tried it with strawberrys got terrible tongue bite

it would have to be dry and probably shredded for it to burn good

I've been looking through the assortment of pipes out there...
Although I can tell that a wooden higher quality pipe would be
the way to go, I think I'm going to try a glass one. Now I do
realize that this is sorta weed smokerish of me, but I've never
done illegal drugs of any kind, and I never plan to. I just think
that the glass pipes are neat. I want a unique, one of a kind
glass pipe to smoke tobacco in. I think it would be a great
topic of conversation, and definately arrouse comments from
all my friends that know I would never do drugs. I don't just
plan to smoke in my den all the time. I want to take it with me
and smoke it whenever and wherever I feel like. So, the
thought also crossed my mind that at some point it may be
improperly assumed to be a weed pipe. I would have an
absolute ball if someone tried to stop me with it on the street,
like a police officer or something. I bought a cheap pouch of
captian black from the fuel station a block from my house.
I'm going to get a pipe, and I'm gonna smoke it.....
In time I'm sure I'll learn more, and perhapps get a different
pipe or better tobacco. For the time being, I'm planning on
going out and finding a cool $30-40 glass pipe.... Very Happy