What is in your pipe?

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  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Some McClelland Holiday Spirit to break in this Neerup beauty. 

  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you rationing that stuff yet?
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Are you rationing that stuff yet?
    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. 
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wow. I tip my hat to you fellow stockpiler
  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Shouldn't we have a green emoji for envy?
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  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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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  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All the pipe shops around me are wiped out. Guys even bought up all the stuff McClelland made for others like Nording
  • avengethis
    avengethis Posts: 5,697 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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!

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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    War Horse in a Ser Jacopo Picta Picasso #04 sandblast/ 1/8th bent stem; there's one on smokingpipes but the stem is straight on theirs. 
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Peterson's Holiday 2015 in my Cherepanov Gnom

  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Scotty's Trout Stream in a new Morgan Bones pipe.  Smokes great.  Looking forward to seeing how it colors as it ages.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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. 
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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
  • Echambers
    Echambers Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Haunted Bookshop on a walk 'cause I'm a looser and didn't buy any Peterson St Patrick's Day tobacco. 
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Just get some Irish flake and you'll be better off
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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.
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That makes me more excited to get one of those bones pipes. I've been eyeing them for a while anyway
  • jsnake
    jsnake Posts: 5,979 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Smoking some C&D King Cake in a Caminetto today. Stepping up the pipe game. 
  • rsherman24
    rsherman24 Posts: 7,760 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That makes me more excited to get one of those bones pipes. I've been eyeing them for a while anyway
    Some cool designs too.  I got a short pot style and love it.  Smokes great.
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,186 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Winslow pipe from @Captain_Call ; Rattray's Exotic Orange from @rsherman24 .  THANK YOU BOTH!

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That made it move a little. You sure do take some fancy pictures @Stubble
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2018
    Having his own pipe shrine helps, or is that an altar?
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  • cigarbreath
    cigarbreath Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭
    Well cellared C&D Exhausted Rooster in an Mastro de Paja Umpaul.
  • cigarbreath
    cigarbreath Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭✭
    Yakster said:
    Having his own pipe shrine helps, or is that an altar?
    Nice pipe holder.
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,360 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Now that I see it on the large screen of my computer, I have to say that is a beautiful pipe you got from @Captain_Call!
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Windal Grove Semois in a stack billiard
  • Diver43
    Diver43 Posts: 2,212 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Windal Grove Semois in a stack billiard
    Stack Billiard?
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  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ^ stack billiard--like one of these but mine is a Tsuge, tall narrow bowl, great for flakes and Virginias:
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  • Captain_Call
    Captain_Call Posts: 1,553 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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?
  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 23,476 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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....