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  1. alfredo_buscatti

    SENIOR PIPE-REAMER

    I don't think reaming a bowl with Senior, reaming all sides at once with its circularly deployed blades, making that circle larger or smaller as needed for different chamber widths, is particularly safe. I'm sure some can do this but I can't. Cake as you know forms irregularly, deeper at one...
  2. alfredo_buscatti

    Cello Tip

    The general opinion is to keep it in place to protect the wrapper but due to humidity concerns, cut off the cello foot.
  3. alfredo_buscatti

    A Pipe Opportunist

    When I resumed tobacco I wondered how I was possibly going to buy all those pipes. I had had 70. I've become an opportunist. Sav Autograph - $69.00 Barontelli smooth - $60.00 Caminetto Madur - $50.00 Edwards smooth - $25.00 Kirsten -           -  $25.00 Cavicchi           -   $25.00 Jobey    ...
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    How often do you go to the doctor?

    Though I'd like to thumb my nose at the entire profession, doctors, when used cautiously, aren't such a bad lot. No, I don't go very often because of the expense. I have to watch every cent. How else can I afford pipes, pipe tobacco and fine cigars?
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    Ready to Roll, Cautiously!

    I just lit a Pepin Blue Churchill from my new humidor, which I humidify by a bead cylinder, which is working great, and my new calibrated hygrometer is registering 62 degrees; cut with my new Palio guillotine. At one point I had two Savoy 300s and a 75, full of $10 cigars. This broke me. Since...
  6. alfredo_buscatti

    Boswell's has a new blend

    The guy who makes the SmokingHolsters products spares no expense on anything and passes all that cost to you. Hi-end leathers, overall. Name is Neil Flancbaum, I believe.
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    Howdy

    Welcome!
  8. alfredo_buscatti

    Gaslight impressions and a recommendation

    I'm new to lat blends, basically, so I really have no experience with aging them. I just have the dictum "Thar must be VA to produce aging." But heh! the thought occurs that if the lat is 40-50%, that leaves room for plenty of VA to age and make a difference. See what I learned by exposing my...
  9. alfredo_buscatti

    New on Board

    Welcome!
  10. alfredo_buscatti

    Hello Everyone

    Welcome!
  11. alfredo_buscatti

    New Family Member

    If I had a cat that didn't do exactly what it wanted to do when I wasn't around, I would suspect illness. I got a second cat on Sat. which I saw for 3 seconds when I opened the door to the cat carrier, which then disappeared under the couch. Stayed there since until last night I order plaintive...
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    Retiring

    GH Black Irish X. Good for what ails you:).
  13. alfredo_buscatti

    Gaslight

    hedgehog on Tobacco Reviews says: Now I've been to two church socials and a county fair, but I have never encountered a tobacco like Gaslight. When I lit up my first bowl, I wondered whether someone hadn't been storing potpourri in my meerschaum earlier in the week. That's how intensely...
  14. alfredo_buscatti

    Cuban Counterfeits

    The more I learn about this the more discouraged I become. Buying from a trusted retailer is better than not doing so but even vendors get fooled by counterfeits, and of those fooled I wonder how many are complicit. Leaving the judgment up to others is a good way to be duped, IMHO. On Cuban...
  15. alfredo_buscatti

    P&C Doubles Prices of Esoterica Bags

    Whatever the strategy behind the price hike, it's clear that it failed, if for no other reason than the reaction in this thread, and more than probably on other forums as well. Maybe they've made an extra $200.00 by now but have done so at the expense of losing much much more in negative...
  16. alfredo_buscatti

    "The Evil Dead" and "Evil Dead"

    Just wanted to let you know that the second title is being sold as the first. I bought the DVD expecting to get the first given the title, and a picture of the woman being attacked by vines immediately clicked as from the first. The graphics are exactly? the same. But it is in fact a sequel with...
  17. alfredo_buscatti

    P&C Doubles Prices of Esoterica Bags

    Of course P&C does some things right. But we aren't addressing that. Instead we have been analyzing what to the group wisdom feels is gouging. If there was any legitimate business need for them to double the price on a line that includes two highly-prized tobaccos, the other online retailers...
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    I hate cancer

    The only control we have is choosing which thoughts we will entertain. Actually, that is quite a bit of control because everything proceeds from the mental plane. Attitude is all. In this situation I think my work would reduce to letting go of any anger and fear that I felt; they are both...
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    herbindave

    Trade. Great service and promptness from Dave! Mike
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