Recent content by vasco

I did that to a cheap Vauen pipe. It was all black and glossy, and it goggled a LOT, and I mean A LOT. I didn't sand it I used the dremel with a felt disk (dremel code 429) it came out easily. Now that pipe is not beautiful (never was) but it smokes quite well.

It depends. If you smoke only 1 bowl every afternoon you don't have to worry about it (unless you live in the Amazonas), just use a pipe cleaner after each smoke and you'll be ok. If you smoke 4 or 5 bowls then you should get at least another pipe. Any hardcore smoker will tell you that you...

I've been smoking cigs since I was 15, so it makes about 28 years. For the last 10 years I smoked Marlboro red, before that only local blends, SG Filtro, SG Ventil, SG Gigante (almost the same taste, different sizes). The only time I was a 3 packs a day smoker was when I tried the Light version...

Puffing hard a high aromatic lend is to ask for tongue bite, and in a new pipe that's even worst. If you have to live (as I have) with drugstore blends try to find Amphora Red, so far it's the safest I found. I only tryed 2 MacBaren blends, one of them, Virginia #1 is very good, but it's not a...

1 czech tool in the pocket and other on the desk. Bic minilighters

try https://s562.photobucket.com/albums/ss69/pipemaker_02/

My personal record is paying 26€ for a tin of Davidoff English Mixture that can be bought on-line by 8,50 USD. As far as I know there's only 1 good B&M in Lisbon and it's so out of my everyday route that I haven't been able to pay them a visit. I'm planning to order tobacco on-line from Synjeco...

Just stay away from "Medusa" pipe cleaners, worst thing in the world. I almost ruined a pipe removing bits of cotton from the inside of the bore hole. And at 2.30€ a pack of 100 is not that cheap.

That we are... :-) Even if the main reason was only to piss of Spain... :-))) Thank you all for the welcome.

Hello my friends, I'm new here and I'm new to pipe smoking. I'm from Portugal which is NOT a good place to be a pipe smoker, unless you have lots of $$$ and travel a lot. I just dropped the cigarettes two months ago and never looked back (so far), I'm in love with pipe smoking, and want to...