What is in your pipe?
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Taking a break with Ken Byron Anne Cap, which is cavendish with some lime and ginger notes. Sounded like a good hot-weather blend. I almost lit up the Ken Byron Vizmir which is matured gold VA with notes of cream, strawberry, and rose. That's a bit too much for me, good think it was a small sample and it's almost gone.
On the way out to enjoy this tobacco in my Chacom Club, I spilled my water. Luckily I didn't kill this laptop, but my mouse scroll wheel is acting up. (a little more time in the sun seems to have resolved that problem) I also played the three scratchers my MIL gave me a while ago for my birthday. All losers.
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wonderful blend when smoked very slowly, ditto PS Navy Flake.
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Wessex Curly Block in the Thile from Edward.
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The Country Squire Delta Honeydew in my Norm Triptow small, but mighty, half-saddle, quarter-flake pipe. This is a ribbon cut tobacco and I normally reserve the Norm pipe for plug or flake cut because it takes longer to burn so a smaller pipe sort of equalizes things, but this time I wanted the Delta Honeydew instead.
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@Yakster said:
The Country Squire Delta Honeydew in my Norm Triptow small, but mighty, half-saddle, quarter-flake pipe. This is a ribbon cut tobacco and I normally reserve the Norm pipe for plug or flake cut because it takes longer to burn so a smaller pipe sort of equalizes things, but this time I wanted the Delta Honeydew instead.OK, Yak, I gotta ask. I get that Norm Triptow is probably the maker, small? Makes sense, it's small. But, half-saddle? Quarter flake? It only holds a quarter of a flake? If that's it, then I'm just left to wonder about the half-saddle. What the heck is half-saddle? Stem shape?
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It's a bit of a bit, but it's a small pipe so I call it a quarter flake pipe. There's a bit of a joke about what a good flake pipe is or that there is even such a thing as a flake pipe. This one is small so I have to be careful to not overestimate the amount of tobacco that'll fit.
The half saddle is a thing, sometimes called a combination saddle. Normally pipes will be tapered on both sides of the stem in a saddle bit. Double-comfort bits have another taper down the stem to make the part you clench even smaller.
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Five Brothers shagcut burley Smoking Mixture in the cob Stubble sent me.
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Finishing the sample from yesterday. It's a beautiful day, low 70s, light breeze so I'm working out back while waiting on my crock pot roast to finish.
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Dorchester in a commission by Michael Addis. Tamper by Derrick Price.
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4th Gen. Morning Blend in a MRM billiard.
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I'm smoking KBV Burley Morning Pipe in my Neal Monier rusticated Bin with some morning coffee gone cold. On deck is a sample of Ratray's Exotic Orange (now called Exotic Passion) that @Stubble sent for me to try in my MM Morgan cob sporting a forever stem.
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Now smoking the Ratray's Exotic Orange (Passion) in my MM Morgan Cob. I can definitely taste the orange, but it's not as over the top as I feared given some of the comments I'd seen. TYVM @Stubble Steve, I think I go crack a blood orange IPA to see how it pairs.
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Had some Capt. Earle's Ten Russians this morning in my trusty Stanwell Elephant Foot. I have to thank @Captain_Call , he kept mentioning the Ten Russians and I bought some. It's got a couple years age on it, last year I just went ahead and rubbed out the whole block. It's great Latakia!
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