New baccyflap

PappyJoe

found a shop on Etsy that makes these to order. Price varies with type of wood, etc. Mine is spalted maple. 

WookieeJake

What's the shop's name?

PappyJoe

@WookieeJake Here's the link.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/266774488/baccyflap?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=baccyflap&ref=sr_gallery_1

motie2

@PappyJoe -- How's the lid fit? Tight? One early BaccyFlap I saw had an almost screw on lid. Yours looks precision crafted. Also, How is yours finished?

WookieeJake

Awesome.  Thanks @PappyJoe

Winton

Very nice, but I think it is curley maple. Spalted would have lots of random black lines in it. 

PappyJoe

@Winton - Sorry. Meant Figured Maple. 

Oh Great and Wonderful @motie2 - It's finished with Tung Oil and waxed. It's a friction fit and it is tight. I have to twist it to get it off but there are no grooves.

You can also have the made with magnets.

motie2

@PappyJoe -- Again, great find! Use it for many years, in health.

PappyJoe

Forgot to mention how much it holds. The etsy site says up to 25 grams. The photo above is 20 grams. 

ghostsofpompeii

My wife keep looking for Christmas presents for me so I'm telling her about this. Looks like something I'd love to find under my tree.

PappyJoe

@ghostsofpompeii - Fraser Nuttall is the man who does them and you can contact him through his website. When I told him that the physical dimension (1.75" high, 3.75" in diameter) were bigger than I was expecting from his photos, he said he can make them thinner.

That being said, It does fit into the pockets on my cargo pants or into the back pocket of my jeans. I just wouldn't want to try and sit on it for very long.

The more I've looked at it and held it, the more I feel using this while wearing jeans or cargo shorts makes about as much sense as wearing sandals with a tuxedo. I think my baccyflap would be more fittingly slipped into the pocket of a tweed sports coat or dinner jacket.

Winton

I typically put tobacco into a mason jar, as soon as I open the tin. If I am taking a blend to my pipe club, I transfer a bowl or three to a smaller tin, used for loose leaf tea. It certainly does not have the cool factor that your baccyflap has, but it is functional. 

Yes, the cool factor is very important. Of course I have a pipe nail. But I prefer a tamper made by a friend. It has a crocodile tooth in a cumberland base.

PappyJoe

@Winton - I have taking ziploc sandwich bags of tobacco, tins, jars, etc. to my pipe club meetings. I have a couple of lined tobacco pouches which I use occasionally when I make short trips someplace. What I don't like about the tobacco pouches is that I find them hard to clean out after I use them and I don't always take the same tobacco with me. 

And you're right. This is a cool baccyflap. I tried to buy one of the "real" baccyflap on ebay, but I found this for less than the old bakelite ones were going for.

jfreedy

@PappyJoe -- the best part of the pic is the red Solo cup!

The baccyflap IS really cool, and like all other pipe gadgets... I now must have one. 

PappyJoe

@jfreedy - that is actually a hard plastic cup made to look like a red solo cup. I think the wife found them at Wally World.

xDutchx

Nuttall? I am interested in the spalting process, as it shows a lot in promise with future projects.

Woodsman

Very Nice.

Londy3

I just want to know why it's a "flap" to begin with.

PappyJoe

@Londy3 because that's what the old Bakelite ones were called.