Recent content by gilgawulf

I'm sure something will turn up soon. I'm putting myself out there a lot more diligently than in past days. Thanks for the well wishes, guys. :)

Yesterday afternoon I returned home with my lab/possiblybordercollie from a saunter on the moors to discover an anonymously mailed box on my doorstep. Immediately, Mischa (my trusty bomb disposal lab/possiblybordercollie) and I sprung into action. Employing her preternatural talents of scent...

lol! +1 to that.

Thanks guys, this is all incredibly helpful. Honestly, I don't remember exactly which ones were pre-carb and which weren't, though I want to say most of them were. And that would explain a lot of the problems I've been having. So yeah, it looks like it's back to square one with a lot of the...

Being as I've been smoking a pipe for several years now I feel like I shouldn't need help with this, but.... well, I do. :P Lately the cake on my pipes has been flaking off in chunks. It seems to be a recent development, although it happened on a pipe that I hadn't touched for three years and...

@ Yak: I've been trying, and enjoying, a lot of the various blends that either claim to be a close replica of or have been written up as tasting like one of the three Balkan Sobranie blends. From what I gather, Balkan Sobranie stopped being Balkan Sobranie just a year or two before I was born...

Have you tried Virginia Memory # 10? I just got some in the mail and have been enjoying it thoroughly. I'd be interested to hear the opinion of someone who smoked the BSV#10 as to how well this incarnation stacks up.

Wow!!! Thanks, guys. There's so much helpful information here I don't even know where to begin. So I've got a pipe I've decided to make my virginia pipe. It's a sort of bulldog basket pipe with a slightly narrower chamber than most of my other ones. It's the closest I have to a small pipe...

I've been smoking a pipe for nigh on seven years now, and have been smoking (with varying degrees of success) flakes and virginias for about three years, so I feel kinda dumb asking this question, but.... What the f@#! is the deal with virginias? Particularly virginia flakes. I try everything...

This is all very helpful. I just looked up some of the GH blends. Erindale (or was it Ennerdale?) looks like it might fill that Grousemoor shaped hole. (Grousemoor is the only Lakeland blend I've ever tried, but from what I'm reading, I think that it might be a Lakeland shaped hole I'm trying...

I'm a huge fan of G.L. Pease blends. I tend to smoke Chelsea Morning more than anything else, and am planning to explore more of the Old London series. Have yet to try McClelland. Think is, there's just something about the Gawith blends. Even down to the tactile feel of the tobacco: there's...

I LOVE Samuel Gawith tobacco. Love it. And I can't look at a can of Gawith tobacco without getting angry, because I know that as much as I enjoy that wonderful tobacco,to the exact same degree will be my frustration when the can runs out and I enter into the grim wasteland of waiting for Iwan...

Thank you so much, guys! Having read your comments and looked at the picture of flake with sugar crystals on it I am safely assured that what I'm seeing on my Irish Flake is a good sign. Now I'm going to go enjoy a pipeful (or five) of sugar crystally Irish Flake. :)

I was away from the internet for most of the last year, and when I came back I discovered that Snoffbox.org and NicoteneRush had disappeared. And it seems like acquiring snuff is night impossible these days. What happened? And what can I do now? I feel like I've been cut down in the prime of...

I've sometimes heard of flake tobaccos (and the sugars therein?) developing "crystals" when left in the tin for a long long time. I have a tin of Irish Flake that I opened once a good year ago and then closed (tightly) and left closed until a couple weeks ago. The tobacco now has... well, it...