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holy ass baskets, how did i miss that thing, its freaking gorgeous. what table was THAT on and how early did you pick it up?

Is there a trick to this stuff? dry, wet, rubbed loose or cut into chunks i'm not getting the "lakeland cigar" i was lead to believe it would be... just kinda tastes a bit like shampoo and bleach. ???

i dont know why but every time i use the drier/finer snuffs i bought they wind up in my throat instead of my nose. this was not a problem when i first started. is this jsut something i need to get used to or is it something i'm doing wrong?

well rug, i can make, sharpen, hone and strop my own razors, which is a plus, i know soap makers who give me soap in trade for tooling, and the fiance is just getting started, and i already wetshave so i've got two brushes and bowls. you gotta remember i like practical stuff handmade by people i...

with all that scrubbing, how well did you clean the stem? i couldn't get the stench of latakia out of one of my estates until i got the stem repeatedly with pipe cleaners and jameson, after i did, no lat taste. until i started smoking lat in it again that is.

so i'm working on a straight razor for myself. i'm mainly switching to straight razors on the assumption they're cheaper. so far i have the blade forged and rough ground, i'm going back in to put the sorta bump at the top of the tang in because i've seen it on all other razors this shape. i'm...

i can get RLP-6 in bulk (not that its hard to or anything) if you ever feel like skipping a trip to the B&M and sending stuff ya don't like my way :)

i think i need to buy a lot more tobacco. i figured i'd just bump my way along buying a pound when i'm running low but i think maybe i'd rather have 40 year aged tobac when i'm 60...

how long have you been hoarding? i could probably fit all my tins in a shoebox and my bulk is about 2# right now... and i thought i was doing GOOD

i prefer PA because it was the first thing i smoked that wasn't captain black. its kinda a special thing, it saved my pipe smoking even if i left it pretty early on.

glad to hear you're enjoying the englishes so much, there was one i used to smoke that i loved, i went back to VA's for a long time and couldn't find another i liked. i've recently managed to find two i like again, they're not the most heavily smoked englishes i know, but all the attention given...

looks like someone hollowed out a shillelaigh.

yeah about the only thing my pops ever taught me was if you're going to drive after a bottle of jameson, remember where the bends in the road are and wear a seatbelt. oh, and that you should always wear safety glasses when using power tools for things they weren't designed for. puros has...

so my soap was williams, though i have VDH and a locally made one (beer flavored) that i don't have much information on. the brush is also VDH (van der hausen i think). i'll check out that video though, and thanks for the input

i typically use diamond strike on box because they're cheap and available, but i have been buying vestas when i go to the tobacconist. i know you supposedly can't import vestas anymore but they don't seem to have any problem importing them and they go through quite a bit... as for the strike...

for something that costs five times as much as my car did new its sure pretty tasteless. dang thing looks like someone tried to stash a piece of pot paraphenalia in a tree stump...

college student and i'm an apprentice in a shop that basically does blacksmithing, bladesmithing, specialty machining, and specialty tool and die. its... interesting.

those are gorgeous!

sort of related question, i can't get a decent lather going, could it be that i have an insanely cheap POS boar bristle or is it more likely my soap or technique? total noob to shaving, at this point it is actually easier for me to make a straight razor than to use one...

thanks gar :) i think i'm gonna take it down to the antique shop (which despite me never seeing pipe smokers around me does an unbelievable trade in tobacciana) and try to sell it on consignment... people pay more in stores...