Finally, I thougth I was the only one who found heavily perfumed people socially offensive, specially in any food related situation.
Jim is very kind of you to consider the others around you, in my mid fifty's I am not in the mood of pleasing anyone but me, centanly not to offend them neither...
Congratulations for your find.
I am still looking for the pipe, I mean the pipe is that one that among all the collection everyone else look at and talk about.
This one of yours seem to fit the description
I am back to report some of my results.
After more than a week I cased a bunch of the main Burley I have been smoking, using the suggestions give us by a GeoffC previous post I made a mix of water, sugar, vinager and cloves for the sauce, the ribbons were heated, misted with the sauce and vacum...
Very enlightenment and profound reading you shared with us GeoffC thank you very much.
Beside to be called a dumpster rat :lol!: the Ernie lesson not only clarify some misconceptions about blends and tobacco process but give us some real life recepies to work with.
I will give them a try and let...
I am 100% agree with GeoffC, Mr Stravos you create a great pipe starting with a non soul one, at least to my criteria, the results of the stem works are superb.
Congratulations and I hope smoke as well as she looks
First of all thanks for the responses.
I have a workshop at home plenty of choices to press the plugs I guess hydraulic press is the way to go :lol!:
What interesting me most is the casing and topping techniques you guy use at home, in my actual circustances the access to foerings goods is...
As I said in another post I had my hands on a bunch of plain Burley ribbon cut, since I am running away from Captain Black Golden bite tounge I decided to give a try to the less sugar/more nicotine specie.
It cames pretty dry I guess are left over of cigar fabrication, I already smoke a few...
A before picture of the last of the group of abused Salvatella's I got.
This 401 was the best in the lot despite the heavily oxidized stem, dull finish, bowl lava rim and a thick cake.
A deep cleaning job, stem work and polishing, bowl reaming, rim resurfacing, completed sanding, tinted...
Good day to you all
I would like to share my last trip to the unknow, I just had this pipe a Brio, a brand of Iberica de pipas, Spain, this pipe came as a complement for a Stanwell 46 Pot shape I got.
At first sight she did not speak to me in any way, so I focus all my attention to the...
You are complete right about ¨NOT an easy thing¨ at first I thought this project could be a piece of cake, how difficult could be ruin a pipe I mean, no even surfaces or lines to keep just scratching the thing, but as soon as I started I realized it will going to be harder than I originally...