I have 20 tins of Holiday Spirit plus a few Mason jars full. I'll probably smoke everything I have jarred before I crack another tin of any McClelland.
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Trying out the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club "New Century" this morning. I picked up 2 tins of this, along with some Frogs the other day while trying to get some of the last of the McClelland made. I'd never seen this before. Boy, do I wish I'd seen this before! Very nice Balkan. Similar in some ways to On the Town & 5110. I mention this because I wonder if it may fly a little under the radar at B&M's and still be available for those of you who may be interested.
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Its been so crazy for me the past few weeks I finally was able to get to a weekly poker game im a part of enjoyed a bowl of Dunhill Nightcap on the ride there and heading home.
Team O'Donnell FTW!
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
I have several unstained/unpolished pipes and enjoy how they have colored over time. Smoking one now, a Tsuge stacked billiard with some SG Lakeland Dark broken flake.
Do they color from the oils in your skin or the tobacco? Or both? I have some cobs that have darkened with use but some of it must be my grubby mitts leaving marks because it can be wiped off
Do they color from the oils in your skin or the tobacco? Or both? I have some cobs that have darkened with use but some of it must be my grubby mitts leaving marks because it can be wiped off
It's both, @Captain_Call, especially on the rusticated ones. All the high nubs get dark pretty fast from handling while the wood darkens gradually in the pits.
Pipe shapes can be awfully confusing. Where do you draw the line between a pot, billiard, and a stack? I understand one is short, one is normal and one is tall, but is there a quantitative measurement where the next category begins?
pots tend to be wide as well as short, Dunhill has a standard for bowl size, a search engine can probably come up with it. It's as much about ratios width vs. height....
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
"I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke ever last one of 'em." - Ron White
My favorite cigar list here
My favorite cigar list here