Help pick. What are your top three tins and bulk. Read below for more details

And the winners are.....
Bulk
Haunted Bookshop
Byzantium
Engine #611
Nutty Irishman

Tins....
Edward G ROBINSON (Big tin so almost bulk)
Quiet Nights
Silver Medallion
Pirate Kake (also big tin)

I went over on each one by one.

Don't fret if your suggestion isn't here. I'm a newbie.
But I have already have over 150 Mason jars of tobacco. I bought 20 ounces of samples and bought bulk of what I liked. I also have a tobacco buy buddy and we split an order every month or so.
I probably already had some of your suggestions or it's already on my list. There are some I'm going to try to see if they go on a future order.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

I really have to design a rack for them so I can display and store them better. I also need a rack for the gym bag full of pipes I now own.

MLBbreton said:

And the winners are.....
Bulk
Haunted Bookshop
Byzantium
Engine #611
Nutty Irishman

Tins....
Edward G ROBINSON (Big tin so almost bulk)
Quiet Nights
Silver Medallion
Pirate Kake (also big tin)

I went over on each one by one.

Don't fret if your suggestion isn't here. I'm a newbie.
But I have already have over 150 Mason jars of tobacco. I bought 20 ounces of samples and bought bulk of what I liked. I also have a tobacco buy buddy and we split an order every month or so.
I probably already had some of your suggestions or it's already on my list. There are some I'm going to try to see if they go on a future order.

Thank you all for the suggestions.

I really have to design a rack for them so I can display and store them better. I also need a rack for the gym bag full of pipes I now own.

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You are in good company with those problems lol. I decided I need to narrow down my collection to pipes I actually enjoy smoking before I build a nice wall mounted rack for them. To help in that department I built a very rudimentary 7-day pipe rack, only smoking pipes from the rack I cycle out the pipes I don't agree with and leave the ones I like until I have 7 pipes I know I enjoy, put them aside, and then I start over.

In the mason jar department, I built another simple rack out of some 1x2 lumber that took about 2 hours of work from start to finish. I just laid out how many jars I wanted on the floor, placed the wood around them and marked it all up before finishing it and screwing it together, mine holds 24 1/2-pint and 6 full-pint jars. I use it in such a similar way to the 7-day pipe rack that I ended up attaching them to each other, cycling through my blends and keeping the ones I like in the rack to help me know what blends I should cellar.

I'm proud to say that in the 2 years since designing and flawlessly implementing this brilliant plan to reduce the number of pipes and tobacco in my collection, I not only have many more pipes than I started with, I also have substantially more blends I don't know what to do with!

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration, and good luck!

mosin1932 said:

You are in good company with those problems lol. I decided I need to narrow down my collection to pipes I actually enjoy smoking before I build a nice wall mounted rack for them. To help in that department I built a very rudimentary 7-day pipe rack, only smoking pipes from the rack I cycle out the pipes I don't agree with and leave the ones I like until I have 7 pipes I know I enjoy, put them aside, and then I start over.

In the mason jar department, I built another simple rack out of some 1x2 lumber that took about 2 hours of work from start to finish. I just laid out how many jars I wanted on the floor, placed the wood around them and marked it all up before finishing it and screwing it together, mine holds 24 1/2-pint and 6 full-pint jars. I use it in such a similar way to the 7-day pipe rack that I ended up attaching them to each other, cycling through my blends and keeping the ones I like in the rack to help me know what blends I should cellar.

I'm proud to say that in the 2 years since designing and flawlessly implementing this brilliant plan to reduce the number of pipes and tobacco in my collection, I not only have many more pipes than I started with, I also have substantially more blends I don't know what to do with!

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration, and good luck!

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That's a really awesome rack

mosin1932 said:

You are in good company with those problems lol. I decided I need to narrow down my collection to pipes I actually enjoy smoking before I build a nice wall mounted rack for them. To help in that department I built a very rudimentary 7-day pipe rack, only smoking pipes from the rack I cycle out the pipes I don't agree with and leave the ones I like until I have 7 pipes I know I enjoy, put them aside, and then I start over.

In the mason jar department, I built another simple rack out of some 1x2 lumber that took about 2 hours of work from start to finish. I just laid out how many jars I wanted on the floor, placed the wood around them and marked it all up before finishing it and screwing it together, mine holds 24 1/2-pint and 6 full-pint jars. I use it in such a similar way to the 7-day pipe rack that I ended up attaching them to each other, cycling through my blends and keeping the ones I like in the rack to help me know what blends I should cellar.

I'm proud to say that in the 2 years since designing and flawlessly implementing this brilliant plan to reduce the number of pipes and tobacco in my collection, I not only have many more pipes than I started with, I also have substantially more blends I don't know what to do with!

Hopefully this gives you some inspiration, and good luck!

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I like that you can see the tops. I bought round printable stickers for regular and wide mouth jar lids. I grab the tobacco tin art or logo and put the date on it then onto the stickers. Makes it easier to identify them. My handwriting is for code breakers. That's a great solution to my jars
I'm ashamed to say I have no idea how many pipes I have. Literally a big red gym bag filled with felt bags.
And I just bought a couple for Christmas gifts. Couldn't help myself.
I want something like this, maybe two

Swede said:

I've read on likely this forum that English blends don't age that well, so possibly consider the type of blend. I do believe Virginia Perique blends age well, and would expect the same from burley. Another factor might be that some tinned blends have developed mold even while as new sealed. Unless you were going to pop tins and jar, this might influence towards bulk. If you like pressed tobacco like cakes and plugs, bulk can be pressed using homemade presses. Here's a real simple and cheap example. You might get interested in blending your own, as I did with this Virginia and Perique.
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I bought some 2.75" steel discs to do this exact thing with. Thanks for posting this pic.

Tins:
Peterson Hyde Park
GLP Telegraph Hill, Union Square, Haddos
CD Innsmouth, Bourbon Blue
MB Navy Flake
Bulk:
lb of MB Plumcake & Vanilla Cream loose
lb Stokkebye Lux Navy and Twist flake for aging

Tins:
Elizabethan
Irish whiskey
Royal yatch
OJK
Haunted Bookshop
OldDominion
Mississippi river
Nightcap
Bulk:
PS bullseye flake
Faulkner flake
Epiphany