What is in your pipe?

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  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,694 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dang, respect: "Means The Wolf in Arabic, and that's what this blend is. It's an angry hot blend that will grab your throat, and then slay you with an amazing buzz. Not for beginners!"
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Interesting marketing approach. I wonder how many sales they make on bravado alone
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Newminster  403 Slices, supplied by @Captain_Call.  
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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,886 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited December 2017
    Yakster said:
    Dang, respect: "Means The Wolf in Arabic, and that's what this blend is. It's an angry hot blend that will grab your throat, and then slay you with an amazing buzz. Not for beginners!"

    I looked at the various tobaccos, dokhas?, and see them rated Hot, Cold, Warm.  Makes you wonder.  I remember seeing men in markets and coffee houses in Morocco smoking pipes like that and thinking it was all Kif, but one of the locals had told me it was (mostly) tobacco. 

     Funny, didn't look like tobacco.  

    I liked those pipes, though.  The minimalist approach.

    I have to add, that is a fascinating site, @silvermouse , The "Horde of the Rings" collection interests me.  As well as "your grandfathers medwakh".  I'm going to have to think about that.
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    GLP Embarkadero in a Tinsky
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We Three Kings
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Dunhill my mixture 965 
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  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First bowl of the New Year
    Peterson Irish Oak. Once again courtesy of @Captain_Call

    Very light smoke in a cob
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Working through the baccy pouch of 1q and I have to say it's growing on me. I can't say whether i am smoking it better or it is smoking better as it dries some in the unsealed pouch, or maybe some of both. The flavor is opening some and I'm getting a little vanilla playing off chocolate. But it still lacks the body I like. It's more like an appetizer smoke...it gets me grumbling for a big main course. 
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Captain_Call said:
    Working through the baccy pouch of 1q and I have to say it's growing on me. I can't say whether i am smoking it better or it is smoking better as it dries some in the unsealed pouch, or maybe some of both. The flavor is opening some and I'm getting a little vanilla playing off chocolate. But it still lacks the body I like. It's more like an appetizer smoke...it gets me grumbling for a big main course. 
    That's my feeling exactly!
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    First pipe: a generic burley from my local BnM in my Savenelli.
    Second Pipe : Top Black Cherry in my cob.

    You'll see a lot of this since I have two pipes (but a third is on the way, and I'm deciding on my fourth) and just a few jars of tobacco (but more of that on the way too!)
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Echambers said:
    ...have just a few jars of tobacco (but more of that on the way too!)

  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Had a bowl of Peterson Irish flake and one of JFH shortcut to shroom
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @avengethis how did you do the flake?
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Fold in half with grain, then in half against. Didnt burn very well.  I'll probably rub it down next time. 
    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
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,629 ✭✭✭✭✭
    C&D Night Train
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    avengethis said:
    Fold in half with grain, then in half against. Didnt burn very well.  I'll probably rub it down next time. 
    I haven't had much luck with the fold and stuff but a method that worked decent for me was to let it dry some as an intact flake, then push it down the bowl while I twist it. If I sent enough to do that and a rub, it might be worth trying. But breaking it down to ribbon is sure to work as long as it's dry enough. My biggest hurdle on the flakes is the moisture
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah looking back I think I should have let it sit out a bit to dry as it was a struggle to get it to burn.  I have read that can be a common thing with the folding method for flake.
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  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stubble said:
    Never tried that tobacco, but sure like the looks of that pipe.
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  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lane 1Q in my corncob pipe.
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Diver43 said:
    Stubble said:
    Never tried that tobacco, but sure like the looks of that pipe.
    It's easily in my top three English...if I can find it. It's been a little scarce in my normal haunts lately.

    Are you going to tell us what the pipe is @Stubble
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,217 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018

    The pipe is a sandblasted Stanwell Barok.  The only information I have about it is this, from the website I purchased it from.  "The Barok series is one we never saw until several turned up amongst the dozens of briars acquired as a result of the cleaning out of the old Stanwell factory.  The defining characteristic of the series is the shank treatment, wherein it features a sterling silver band sandwiched between two slender brass rings."

     

    @captain_call

    @diver43; I will send you some...no point in arguing. 


    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stubble said:

    The pipe is a sandblasted Stanwell Barok.  The only information I have about it is this, from the website I purchased it from.  "The Barok series is one we never saw until several turned up amongst the dozens of briars acquired as a result of the cleaning out of the old Stanwell factory.  The defining characteristic of the series is the shank treatment, wherein it features a sterling silver band sandwiched between two slender brass rings."

     

    @captain_call

    @diver43; I will send you some...no point in arguing. 


    Awesome. I like the saddle stem on it. I'm all set on squadron leader for now. I got a line on some recently after some deeper searching.
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Captain_Call said:
    Echambers said:
    ...have just a few jars of tobacco (but more of that on the way too!)

    Just saw this and...nope. I don't participate in bombs.
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Echambers said:
    Captain_Call said:
    Echambers said:
    ...have just a few jars of tobacco (but more of that on the way too!)

    Just saw this and...nope. I don't participate in bombs.
    Well you see...you don't have a say, that's what makes it a bomb
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Captain_Call said:
    Echambers said:
    Captain_Call said:
    Echambers said:
    ...have just a few jars of tobacco (but more of that on the way too!)

    Just saw this and...nope. I don't participate in bombs.
    Well you see...you don't have a say, that's what makes it a bomb
    And to think I thought I actually liked you...
    -- "There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go poke it with a stick."
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,218 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Stubble said:

    The pipe is a sandblasted Stanwell Barok.  The only information I have about it is this, from the website I purchased it from.  "The Barok series is one we never saw until several turned up amongst the dozens of briars acquired as a result of the cleaning out of the old Stanwell factory.  The defining characteristic of the series is the shank treatment, wherein it features a sterling silver band sandwiched between two slender brass rings."

     

    @captain_call

    @diver43; I will send you some...no point in arguing. 


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