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Hello everyone, my name's Andy, been smoking pipes on and off since 1969. I love my Falcon and tend to use smaller bowls, usually the Dublin shape. I've enjoyed many different tobaccos over the years, too many to list here. Today I'm smoking Gawith & Hoggarth's Best Brown unscented flake, cube-cut. In general, I prefer my tobacco in plug or flake form.
 
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Andy-man said:
Hello everyone, my name's Andy, been smoking pipes on and off since 1969. I love my Falcon and tend to use smaller bowls, usually the Dublin shape. I've enjoyed many different tobaccos over the years, too many to list here. Today I'm smoking Gawith & Hoggarth's Best Brown unscented flake, cube-cut. In general, I prefer my tobacco in plug or flake form.
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Good afternoon Andy. I am writing from the Cotswolds (for all those around the world, it is West England). Started off with pipe-smoking in 1973, on and off as you say. Had my own Private Mixture No 36149 at Dunhill's and often enjoyed it after dinner at the Reform Club. Those were the days! I like traditional shapes of pipe, straight or half-bent, and the English Mixture, although currently my favourite is the Rattrays 7 Reserve.
 
Andy - I have to ad a post here re the highly regarded Falcon. Note below my pair. Took me a while to find the various pieces…during the time we did a BOB Pipe of the Year that was an engraved Falcon. One of our own did the engraving. Here I have a bent black briar bowl mated to a straight white and meerschaum. Initially I called the pair “Ebony and Ivory”…homage to Stevie Wonder. Then, with time, I grew to think of them as “Darth Vader” and “Princess Leia”.

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