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one of my favorite 'smoke it anytime' tobaccos is butera's cavendish. but it's got near zero nicotine. i've been looking for a cavendish with a little more kick and a bit more virginia flavor. so hence, i ordered mcclelland's version. it's described on the tin as "traditional navy cavendish...

piet sent me a care package which contained this beautiful Butz Choquin as a gift. he'd refurbed it personally, did some airhole adjustments also (might have been one of muddlers). it's just fantastic. smokes virginias like it was built for the blend. i quickly ran some FVF, escudo, and...

strangely acquired SG FVF in a sasieni 4 dot. whew, had to sit down after that! :D

i'm trying to get a taste for each of the individual tobaccos that make up a blend. i've heard muddler state that red virginias are sweeter than yellow virginias. i wondered if some of you could recommend a 'red' blend and a 'yellow' blend so i can taste this difference. thank you all for...

holy crap, in one night (er...day) piet stayed up and resurrected every post he's missed since the beginning of the exhibition. what you'd get, another 100 posts added to your total? your head must be spinning. good to have you back!!

today was a beautiful fall day. bluer than blue skies, mid 60's. i'd been piddling around outside just to be outside. a car came up my drive (unusual out where i live). it was the mail lady with a box too big for my mailbox. i figured it was from falconer, he'd said he'd sent me a "little"...

Rb-5 sent me a care package containing a healthy dose of the following blends: briar fox maltese falcon embarcadero opening night a big thank you! i'm very excited to try these. your generosity is much appreciated! :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

what is navy flake? i've seen lots of manufactures offer a navy flake. what makes it a navy flake vs some other kind of flake? thanks for helping out the newbies.

wanted to try a burley and what my tobacco store had was a can of Cornell and Diehl burley flake #4. this is the second burley i've tried and both burn the back of my throat. nothing else i've smoked does this. my body just must not like burley. anyway, i have whole can minus one bowl. if i...

on a whim, i bought some Butera Tin - Sweet Cavendish because i'd never had a straight cavendish. turns out i love it. wondered if there were any BoB's who are also straight cavendish fans and could recommend some 'must have' blends i should also try. thanks!

i enjoy old expressions. i heard a good one the other day and i realized, who would have more old expressions than a bunch of gnarly pipe smokers! so if you have any good ones, please share. here's the one i heard yesterday from a southern woman: "when your trying to protect your ass from...

i was looking for Butera Kingfisher (out of stock), but read the description for Butera Tin - Sweet Cavendish and thought it sounded mighty fine, so i ordered a tin. i know cavendish is a process, not a specific tobacco and that it's used in a lot of aro-type smokes. what can i expect? did i...

so you're stranded on an island...what 5 tobaccos would you want? (i'm going to learn about my tastebuds based on these groupings)

recently, i've had two different 'roll cake' tobaccos, a mac baren blend, and Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake. they both seem to have a good combo of hard hitting virginia and then a nice sweetness that smooths it out. anyway, this type of tobacco is completely new to me and i really...

friday i was invited out to pipe maker wayne teipen's, just to smoke and talk pipes. (through the BoB i found out he lived 10 minutes from me.) what a great time. when we got there, he was making the rhodesian he just posted on the towne crier forum 'Teipen Handmade Pipes.' at the time i saw...

perhaps a pipe forum is not the place where anyone wants to discuss pipe smoking and health, but i had something happen to me last week that might be of interest to some. so i found this lump, bump, tumor thing on my gum in the back of my mouth. i pretty much freaked out. (it doesn't help that...

so i'm really digging this Savinelli Horoscope Pipe - Rustic - 645 Tomato on Pipesandcigars.com. any opinions on this brand? it's about $60.

i mostly smoke gl pease products (westminster, union square), but have enjoyed tinderbox reserve 1928, so i thought i might like aromatics and ordered a few milan samples: sunset rum, buddy's blend, buttered rum, and a couple others. i smoked sunset rum and buddy's blend over the weekend...

hello all. i've been pipe smoking a year (a newbie). i smoke a pretty little La Silvana Pipe but i'm in the market for an obnoxious big calabash (yeah, i'll admit i fell hard for it from the opening scene of inglourious bastards). still looking for the perfect tabacco. i smoke a lot of frog...

am thinking about getting a calabash meerschaum from meerschaumstore.com. hope to spend less than $150. are there different grades of meerschaum like there are of briars? the gourd calabashes i've seen are a bit out of my $ range. will i regret getting a mahogany one?