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What I have is a sample tin of H&H Obsidian that I got as a random "non-aromatic" sample with an order that I had placed. I can't figure out how to pack it! I have been having great success with the three-step method with various ribbon cut tobaccos but the Obsidian looks like dry, black brownie...

Any one who thinks OTC aero magics are too sweet needs to get to a hookah bar. OMG the tobacco there is so sickly sweet that it's gross. You will happily simile the heck out of a whole pouch of captain black afterwards!

OK. I just had a thought. I hate, detest, loath the sight, smell and even sound of cigarette smoking! However, as a fledgling Pipe smoker not only am i (we) lumped in with them Statistically: Do you Smoke? a) yes b) no c) Occasionally I take smoke into my mouth to taste it but don't inhale and...

Hello! I got my hands on a quite old pipe. It's pretty clean overall but is going to need some polishing and probably another bowl of salt before it's ready to be put into use. Is an old William Demuth Milano, Hessian Guard. I think that it is quite old, forty years or more! There is only one...

OK, I managed to un-load..... um... I mean gift my pouch of Borkum Riff to a buddy who is also just starting pipe smoking too BUT I have three or four other pouches going now too. On the other hand, I have collect a fair amount of little baggies (than God the cops didn't pull me over the other...

I was watching a video about Boswell's Tobacco and having a discussion with a forum member about one of their blends and it got me thinking. How can you tell which of these tobacconists actually come up with their own blends and which just re-package bulk blends form larger companies. The two...

So, here are my there pipes. The little one is the one that cam in my mail-order "starter pack". It's a Dr. Grabow Duke. Having not so much as laid eyes on a real pipe in decades all I was left with after I got it was the odd sensation that pipes were smaller than I had remembered them being! It...

Hello. For some random reason, at the ripe old age of 45 I decided to tai up pipe smoking. Perhaps I will post more about this choice and some of my concerns later but for now, I am just trying to get a handle on the whole ritual and process. I ordered a beginner pipe se online. It came with...