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Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
Here's a blend you don't hear much about and I don't know why.
Sutliff 245-ZBC in a reworked Tinderbox billiard.
This blend is steamed dark fired Kentucky and topped with caramel, creme and vanilla.
It's actually quite good IMHO...
Sutliff 245-ZBC in a reworked Tinderbox billiard.
This blend is steamed dark fired Kentucky and topped with caramel, creme and vanilla.
It's actually quite good IMHO...
KA9FFJ
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Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
Our February pipe club meeting. We had 4 new pipe smokers attend. 
PappyJoe
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Re: Strait grain or Birds eye
@mfresa I agree totally with you concerning the love of the grain. But I do sometimes find myself having to rusticate an old pipe when too many flaws/fills are found. I can then take a pipe that you can't see beyond the flaws and turn it into a pipe that shape and function take over. Again, if there is any way to get around fills and flaws, I always do my best to keep the grain to the forefront. But then again, that's just me...
KA9FFJ
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Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
Since it was going to be snowy and cold as…well…not hell, I took a few “snow days”. I’m enjoying a nice warm house while smoking the first bowl in an old WDC I refurbished years ago. My tobacco of choice, you guessed it, C&D “Espresso”.
BTW, There was enough room in the stem to use a Savinelli 6mm balsa “soaker-upper”, cut down by 1/8”. I’m not sure the pipe needed it since it is drilled with a well in the mortise, but I thought I would experiment. It’s smoking beautifully👍🏻.
BTW, There was enough room in the stem to use a Savinelli 6mm balsa “soaker-upper”, cut down by 1/8”. I’m not sure the pipe needed it since it is drilled with a well in the mortise, but I thought I would experiment. It’s smoking beautifully👍🏻.
Re: Pipe refinishing
I decided to smoke the first bowl after refurbishing this old WDC Wellington today. It’s been sitting in a rack ready to go for many years. I had to make a cork mortise seal when I refinished it. The stem sat way too deep when I got it. It was well smoked, and pretty well cared for. It has the original (fake P-Lip) Bakelite stem. I believe the pipe to be fashioned out of domestic Manzanita/Mission briar by the grain pattern…..or lack thereof. Which means it was probably made during the WWII years when Mediterranean briar was not available.
Re: Pipe refinishing
Now for the novelty. This is the 4th stummel in the group:
It's HUGE! 😬
It's HUGE! 😬
KA9FFJ
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