Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name!

[Guanxi88]

All kidding aside, please welcome back a former pipe smoker who switched over, in a moment of madness, from his Peterson and Balkan Sobranie (the death of which affected me deeply) to Winstons. Lost my old Peterson (a Dublin, three hundred series - the perfect pipe to tuck into a coat pocket) and still mourn it.

Well, I'm back in the fold, and hoping my straying from the paths of pipe-smoking righteousness may, in time, be forgiven.

Very interested in the old OTC burleys, thinking that the durability and longevity of these tobaccos must be indicative of their meeting a fundamental need.

 

[Stefanos]

Welcome! Pipes are a lot saner.

 

[Anonymous]

Welcome back brother!
We'll keep you on the straight & narrow. :twisted:

 

[jhuggett]

Welcome!

 

[Guanxi88]

Welcome! Pipes are a lot saner.

Sane is the word for it. Still can't believe I ever got started on the sticks. "They're just easier to carry around," I told myself. Yeah, so's arsenic.

I'll say this, too: Even the lowliest OTC pipe tobacco, smoked out of the cheapest cob pipe, beats the finest, most costly cigarette six days a week and twice on Sunday.

Now, if I can just find something that meets my craving for what you folks call "vitamin N', this cig junky can stay clean.

 

[SailorJack]

The 'Prodigal Son' returns to his senses and to the love of briar. Toss away the coffin nails, sit back and have a nice relaxing pipe and contemplate the meaning of life or just nothing at all. It's all good!

 

[Doc Manhattan]

Welcome back to the fold! It's like riding a bike--you never forget.

 

[Tennessee Dave]

Welcome to B&B!

 

[Justpipes]

Welcome aboard Guanxi! And yes there is a reason that the old OTC blends are still around. Might I suggest that you try the oldest and grandest of them all, John Middleton Walnut that has been around since the mid to late 19th Century, blended from 7 of the world's finsest tobaccos!

 

[Guanxi88]

Welcome aboard Guanxi! And yes there is a reason that the old OTC blends are still around. Might I suggest that you try the oldest and grandest of them all, John Middleton Walnut that has been around since the mid to late 19th Century, blended from 7 of the world's finsest tobaccos!

Yes, I've heard some interesting things about Walnut; it's on my 'to burn' list. Just mow, I'm experimenting with a plug tobacco I'd read something about. I've cut it, 50%, with some dried-out old CH, to improve handling qualities.

I'm on the end of day one of the plug drying (takes forever, even sliced paper thin); as soon as I'm more or less satisfied with it, I'll blend it with the PA, let it sit for a bit, and see what I've got.

Love the look of the plug slices, and hope this will be a cheapo intro to the esoteric joys of plug tobacco in a pipe.

 

[raevans]

Welcome!

 

[Ol'Dawg]

Hello and welcome!

Jim

 

[kilted1]

Welcome back, I too made a years long shortcut to cigarettes, while never completely giving up the pipe, I seldom smoked it. I've been completely cigarette free for over three years now, and fell much better for it. :cheers: ipe:

 

[LtMac]

Hello and welcome!

LtMac

 

[TallSmoke]

Greetings and welcome to the BoB!

 

[SmokeyTweed]

Welcome aboard!

 

[Slow Puffs]

A warm welcome Guanxi.

 

[Aaron]

(I really must start posting in these threads more...) hello and welcome to the brothers of briar! Sit, stay, and have a smoke.