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Not in my experience. Just fill it with a light hand. I have several large pipes and they do not gurgle as long as i  do not fill them tight. I smoke rather dry tobacco and mainly straight pipes.  Are your pipes bent and you feed them with rather wet tobacco?.

Sigmund (Segimon Baulenas) with acadian english (Russ Oulette).

oftenly that happens because there is a crack on the shank. sometimes a repair with a band solve the problem. Check the price for the repair and the price of your used pipe to see if it is worth to take the chance. Not always it is worth unless it is a special pipe for you.  good luck.

i bought my last pipe on a wf  catalogue in the 80's.  i think that by early 90's they sold the business to finck cigars.

yes , the first one with paper label is from orlik. the one at the bottom was from petersen and older than the first one. both of them made in denmark.  however , none of them are from cope's who where made in england.  i recall and quote someone who said : "denmark , the place where englisn...

if you like orientals , then tashkent may be a WOW blend.

it depends what you are looking for. you can get a low cost good blend in the american english category by mixing one pouch of 5 brothers and 1 pouch of super value english. this is afterblending. the problem with afterblending is that you may find different top notes from different...

yes , it has happen to me. i also live in a very humid place. however , when i clean the bowl with paper towel , the cake is not removed. just a humid gunk is removed wich helps the cake to remain at the thickness i prefer (wich is very thin).

i agree with kevin.  in my experience , some kinds of tobacco mixtures may loose the bouquet over time but not the flavor. i would mix , not a pinch , but a whole new tin of fresh royal yatch with the old one and chances are you are going to end up recovering the bouquet and improving the taste...

i suggest that you read the leffingwell analysis wich you may find in the internet. the main component in the taste is from a variety of pistacia.

probably the reason why i smoke a pipe is latakia. if it ever happens to me that i do not like it anymore...then i will smoke cigars only. it never happened in over 40 years of smoking so it is very unlikely that it happens. i only smoke one or two pipes a day.

peterson pipes are now part of smokingpipes (laudisi). they will continue the business in ireland. i hope that their quality improve.

the first time i heard about that was in the ephemeris where rick esserman mentioned that suggestion several times. that was long before the internet.  he said that he got the idea from his friend piazza. i understand the idea is much more older , from the time of drucquers and old dunhills, as...

no similarity. in fact they are very different . if you want to try something cigarish like semois...try scaferlatti caporal.

today we have a wide choice of tobacco to choose from.  different styles , taste and octane.  why would you force yourself to like something that you really do not feel comfortable with?.  my suggestion , forget the ropes and continue with 3play or whatever you enjoy.