What else did you expect?
Winter mix:
1Part Fowler’s Fancy (Rough Cut)
1 Part VARGET
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Winter mix:
1Part Fowler’s Fancy (Rough Cut)
1 Part VARGET
K
Any pipe smokers on here?
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Heym SR20
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Do they still make Three Nuns Pipe tobacco. It’s what my grandfather smoked.
I have some of his fishing flies that he tied in a tobacco tin. It still has faint aroma of the tobacco and brings back instant memories of him with a fishing rod and his lurcher. At he died in the mid 1980’s.
As for smell nothing like a tobacco grading shed where individuals leaves are graded and packed after they have been dried. They use steam to moisten the dried leaves so the can be handled - it’s like a sauna filled with tobacco smell.
And the auction floors are also fantastic from a smell perspective.
As for smells, Capstick wrote an article on the aroma’s of different cartridges and powders. I have a good number of old Dickson branded paper cased cartridges loaded by Eley. I shoot a few every now and then and the smell is so evocative.
I have some of his fishing flies that he tied in a tobacco tin. It still has faint aroma of the tobacco and brings back instant memories of him with a fishing rod and his lurcher. At he died in the mid 1980’s.
As for smell nothing like a tobacco grading shed where individuals leaves are graded and packed after they have been dried. They use steam to moisten the dried leaves so the can be handled - it’s like a sauna filled with tobacco smell.
And the auction floors are also fantastic from a smell perspective.
As for smells, Capstick wrote an article on the aroma’s of different cartridges and powders. I have a good number of old Dickson branded paper cased cartridges loaded by Eley. I shoot a few every now and then and the smell is so evocative.
Savinelli Pipes
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Try these. They're at Otley near Leeds. Massive range and good prices and the owner is a good bloke. Knows his products and will do a good deal. But beware, it's also a whisky shop. You may never leave..
Those Forestas look very similar to my Rattray's Samhain Which I only smoke the GH Exclusiv black cherry in.
Bought this from Smoke Kings a few weeks ago. Lovely little pipe. Use it for the coffee and caramel.
You can still get Three Nuns. But it's made by one of the big corporate tobacco barons who don't support small tobacconists so you're most likely to find it in supermarkets next to the St Bruno and the Condor.
I like to buy Gawith Hoggarth because it's a local producer in Kendal and does support small shops. Excellent tobacco too, still producing old-fashioned Kendal flake, plug and twist.
An old boy who lived over the road when I was a nipper used to smoke Three Nuns. Back then it came in round tins with a ruffled paper liner. rarely saw him without a pipe in his mouth and you could usually smell him before you saw him. He liked to light a bonfire on Thursdays and sit watching it on an old chimney pot with a roofing slate on it for a seat while puffing his pipe.
Our headmaster at primary school was an ex-WW2 Spitfire pilot and he smokes Gold Block (sometimes in class..) And the cupboard in the woodwork hut was packed with Gold Block tins containing screws and tacks.
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Morkai
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Ive had a few pipes from Smoke King.Savinelli Pipes
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Try these. They're at Otley near Leeds. Massive range and good prices and the owner is a good bloke. Knows his products and will do a good deal. But beware, it's also a whisky shop. You may never leave..
Those Forestas look very similar to my Rattray's Samhain Which I only smoke the GH Exclusiv black cherry in.
Bought this from Smoke Kings a few weeks ago. Lovely little pipe. Use it for the coffee and caramel.
Few bits from Black Swan too.
I'll check out the Rats, the Foresta I like it the 106 with the lighter wood.
Morkai
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Ive ordered tobaccos from GH, always been pleased with them.
I know what you mean. They do look very classy. My green Rattray is my coffee table pipe.
Morkai
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Rake Aboot
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I now need a green pipe lol
I second Gawith & Hoggarth for all the above reasons. Bobs Ch Flake is my favourite when loitering with intent for a Roe to come along.
Very nice. I notice they're 6 mm. All my pipes are 9 mm. haven't tried a 6. Don't know how much difference it makes to the smoke.
I did buy a Paterson church warden with no filter at all but I can't get on with it. Too harsh a smoke.
Morkai
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I dont really put filters in which would further reduce the draw on 6mm, putting one in a 9mm may be ok.
I like the pull on a 6mm, 9mm is a bit too loose of a pull for me. 6mm for me draws like a cigarette.
Like Morkai says, pipes are addictive collectibles.
I use filters in mine. Takes a lot of bite out without losing the taste. I'll have to try a 6mm. Hmmm. More collecting..
Very. And tactile. You see a pipe and you want to pick it up.
Morkai
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Have you noticed there's no stigma with a pipe, spark one up anywhere and people who despise cigarettes even love the smell.
They all have a personal story linked to a family member having one.
