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You mean re: my last post? I'm just keeping my wants list updated (I've made a few trades and have been able to try several blends on my original list, and I've also added a few new blends wanted). I wish I could just edit the original post but it seems like the edit feature disappears after a...

Update on this, now looking for: Bengal Slices C&D From Beyond C&D Opening Night C&D Palmetto Balkan C&D Yorktown GLP Fillmore GLP Kensington GLP Pennyfarthing GLP Stonehenge GLP Temple Bar GLP Regent's Flake GLP Union Square GLP Windjammer G&H Best Brown No. 2 Sam Gawith 1792 Sam Gawith Best...

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I'm trying to collect a matching set of Peterson St. Patrick's Day and Christmas releases from my kids' birth years (2014, 2017, 2020, 2023). The only three pipes common to both of those releases and all four years are shapes 03, 69, and 106, so those are what I'm in the market for! Here's a...

I'm looking to complete a set of my kids' birth-year SPDs, preferably all shape 03, although I'd definitely consider other shapes. I'm also always in the market for the 1998 SPD, though my expectations are very low on that front!

If you've never had FVF then I think you owe it to yourself to try it! That said, it's notoriously a bit finicky to work with, which may be somewhat at odds with smoking while walking a dog.

Update: I've made a couple trades but am still looking for most of the things on my list. I've added a couple new wants, removed Plum Pudding from my haves list (I ended up smoking the last of my open jar 😅), and added McC’s Royal Cajun Dark. Still looking for: C&D Opening Night C&D Yorktown...

"Buy more mason jars" has always been my solution for this particular piping problem. 😅 But if you're gonna toss them, or worse mix them all into one big frankenstein monster blend, then I suggest sending it all to me instead! 😇

I've been smoking mostly the same blends for about 10 years now, and I had the bad luck to settle on several favorites that eventually went OOP. Now that my stockpiles are finally running low, I'm starting to look around for new (in-production) blends to try out, but I don't really want to go...

Thanks for the input! I'm pretty much convinced to go for it after some research and asking a few people who are knowledgable about Peterson's in person, but I need one last little push off the ledge, as it were. :D The Rosslare Classic and Rosslare Royal Irish lines have a yellowish (orange?)...

So I'm looking at buying a Peterson Royal Irish on the ol' ebay, but apparently it's a 9mm filter with an "amber" acrylic stem. I've never heard of a Royal Irish with a filter (or any stem other than black acrylic/ebonite) and I want to make sure this isn't a knockoff or some such nonsense...

That was my first thought, but I'm finding it hard to believe that this tin sat on a shelf in the smokingpipes warehouse for six years without being sold. I guess it's possible though!

Yeah, I'm familiar with McClelland's standard six-digit blend/batch/year system. I'm just confused about these two since they deviate from that. Like, 133 9: is that blend 1 or blend 13, from batch 3 or 33? And does 9 mean tinned in 2009? And if so, why doesn't it say 09 like normal? Or is this...

I just received an order including a tin of Syrian Star and Ringlow Syrian Reserve, and they both have odd tin codes that deviate from the standard six numbers. Anyone know how to read these codes and date the tins? SS: 133 9 RSR: 140 13 (Both have a ~two-digit space between the first set...

Trying Gawith & Hogarth Louisiana Perique Flake for the first time!

Not sure where to put this; please move it somewhere appropriate if need be! Anyway, I'm sure most of you have read the NYTimes article about Vincent Manil's Semois by now. A few guys over at PMF successfully organized a group buy a while back, and I am now thoroughly enjoying the stuff. :D...

I was lucky enough to acquire an 8oz bag of Esoterica Stonehaven (finally!), and now I'm opening it up to transfer it to a mason jar. However, these flakes are rather enormous and don't stack horizontally in the jar like most flake tobaccos—do you guys do anything about that or just stuff them...

Does anyone know if there's a clear indicator of the original seal date for a tin/bag of Esoterica Tobacco? I know G.L. Pease, McClelland, and others stamp or sticker a date on the bottom of their tins, but I can't find anything on my bag of Penzance.

And here I'd almost given up on Haddo's, after fighting my way through a solid 2oz or so. I can tell that it's really good, deep down somewhere, but it's just so harsh. Snaps like an angry Rottweiler. I'll have to try leaving it in a jar for a few years and come back to it then.

I used to do the same thing with pipe tobacco, and I still have the materials lying around for when I have people over who don't smoke a pipe but want to join me out on the patio. I've personally never been able to detect the taste of burning Zig-Zag paper, but I'm sure if you could back in the...