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I tried repeatedly to enjoy fresh Haddos and never succeeded; the tin note was heavenly but the taste was. . .Aged it is a profoundly good smoke.

Thousands of dollars for a freakin' cigar box? I saved three boxes from when I was smoking cigars. I'd appraise them as having the values $5K, $10K and $50K. If anyone wants to buy one, please let me know. 8) :suspect: 8) 

The wood in the olive wood pipes I've seen is nowhere nearly as wonderfully grained as these. Thanks for posting!

Could be that the splintered wood was always present but not yet occlusive. Nothing special happened when it got in the way.

I got the airway open. I had to use 3 successively larger drill bits before I finally got one that would grab the obstructive material and remove it. It turned out to be mostly wood with a bit of tobacco. It's as if part of the inner shank splintered off, hung down and obstructed the airway...

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Annoyed with myself, not you all; I thought I had communicated clearly and apparently I haven't. My apologies. I'm rather humor oblique. It's not that I'm humorless but that I almost never come from such a space. Plus, nobody gets my jokes. So, again, whatever it is in the shank. Are you saying...

I didn't say that it was a filter but instead that this is what I thought it could be. But I had thought that in cobs, if a filter is used, it's home is the stem, not the shank. Whatever it is, it is in the shank. There's no room in this stem for a filter. No, I don't use filters. No, it's not...

If you strongly believe you have the funds in place to retire now, do so. If you have income such that you can pay for your car and medical costs and otherwise live a frugal lifestyle, bail. I have enough interests to last me many lifetimes. I am really happy that I no longer support someone...

For me any tobacco that is 5 y/o or older is ready to smoke. I would caution holding on to the SJF so as to make it 20 y/o. After 5 years, or so it's been said, the majority of aging is over; after that one can only expect incremental aging; not to mention the fact that you may no longer be...

I certainly bitched about the STG topping of Escudo, but to tell you the truth, after smoking more of it, it tastes a lot more like the untopped version than it tastes differently. Though it's not hard to identify the topping in the tin note or the smoke, it's also not hard to stop thinking...

I've been smoking this Patriot since 11/2012 without problem, but now the draw is occluded. The impediment begins just where the end of the tenon reaches. It seems to be made of a paper base, and I'm wondering if it is a filter. Whatever it is lives inside the shank. Whatever it is I'd like to...

Hi guys, thanks to all of you I've dried the tobacco down and transferred it to a pint jar. Drying took 3 hours spread out on a cookie sheet. The only funny thing is that beforehand it didn't seem that it would need more than an hour, but in fact it took the three. Also, the smell changed. There...

I just opened a year old tin of Cumberland, and to me the flavors seem both more substantial but paradoxically subdued. This would seem a prime candidate for the opening up by "breathing" that Kapsinologist and others recommend. Am I to leave the top of the lid ajar? If so, if left that way for...

I've been fascinated by the small craters in blasted pipes, and lately I might just have understood from whence they come. They're the tops of birdseye? The birdseye is more porous than the non-grained briar so the blasting hollows out their tops? Grain is harder and is put into relief by the...

I too am disillusioned with cigars-just too damn expensive. I love them but typically only like the $8+: Don Pepin Blue Don Pepin My Father Padron Anni '26 The cigar that was the exception was the Tatuaje Havana VI. Even if I pay for a tin of, say, Irish Flake, that tin is going to give me 10...

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Welcome back! What is a "piperorsh?"

IMHO a sore mouth can only mean one thing: problematic smoking technique. One's subjective judgment in the final analysis can be inconclusive but the verdict of the tissues in your mouth is final. Hot smoke can be managed within the window of slow smoking; but once you move outside of that...

Both blasting and rusticating indicate that the carver felt that the wood as is will look better. To this end blasting tries to highlight the patterns/grain in the wood. Pits, to me, are natural craters, and in this setting provide a different highlight, both concave and alluring.