|
|
03-17-2014, 02:44 PM | #1 |
Have My Own Room
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Flake tobaccos are whole leaves stacked on top of eachother and pressed then cut into thin slices, these slices can either be folded and stuffed into your pipe or rubbed out and broken apart and then packed into your pipe. When you rub out a flake/coin you can leave it fairly rough in what would be called a broken flake(ie large chunks still in a flake) with a light rubbing out or you can give them a full rubbing out which will leave it as almost a ribbon cut.
|
03-17-2014, 03:02 PM | #2 | |
Ain't Never Gonna Leave
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Todd
Location: Northcentral woods of Wisconsin
Posts: 6,819
Trading: (51)
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
He give more detail on the making of the "plugs" which can be cut into plug sizes to sell or slice into flakes.
__________________
Todd__ "Smoke what you like, and enjoy it!" |
|
05-28-2014, 12:47 PM | #3 | |
I barely grok the obvious
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
Nice to see a reliable pipe smoking resource in a barn full of cigar smokers.
__________________
"I hope you had the time of your life." |
|
03-17-2014, 02:50 PM | #4 | |
Ain't Never Gonna Leave
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Todd
Location: Northcentral woods of Wisconsin
Posts: 6,819
Trading: (51)
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
While you can buy some tobacco even in plug or rope form, what you will more often find is either flakes, disks, or coins. To smoke these forms, there are many method to get them into the pipe - I referred to that as "how much I rub them out." Some will take a flake/disk and fold it and stuff it into their pipe. Some will rub it out completely to basically a ribbon form. And of course, there are varying degrees in between. Peace of the Lord be with you.
__________________
Todd__ "Smoke what you like, and enjoy it!" |
|
09-05-2014, 04:04 PM | #5 |
huh
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
what should i do when the baccy tastes kinda watered down? for instance, the first tin of Mississippi river i had was great, but the second tasted watered down so to speak. I tried setting it out for about 10 minutes before smoking it but still got the same results. did i get a bad batch?
__________________
Support the Troop Support Contest 2014!!! |
09-05-2014, 09:46 PM | #6 | |
Ain't Never Gonna Leave
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Todd
Location: Northcentral woods of Wisconsin
Posts: 6,819
Trading: (51)
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
You might have tried it the first time with a clean palate, and so the flavors were more intense the first time. What I mean by a 'clean palate' is just that, a palate that has not had a smoke in it for a few days, time to be 'clean'. It might mean that you have tongue bite, where your tongue is sore, and therefore flavors are muted. Or, the moisture content was different. Peace of The Lord be with you.
__________________
Todd__ "Smoke what you like, and enjoy it!" |
|
09-05-2014, 10:38 PM | #7 | |
Still Washing My Back
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
Everything tastes better on vacation or during a long relaxed weekend. Edit: Per the thread - been smoking pipes since 2002. |
|
09-07-2014, 08:13 PM | #8 | |
huh
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
Thanks
__________________
Support the Troop Support Contest 2014!!! |
|
09-07-2014, 08:30 PM | #9 | |
Ain't Never Gonna Leave
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Todd
Location: Northcentral woods of Wisconsin
Posts: 6,819
Trading: (51)
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
I ask for it brings up something I thought about later. If I smoke a cigar and then smoke my pipe, the pipe always tastes flat. Cigar smoke is much stronger (even from mild cigars) and while you may not notice it, leaves a finish that lasts a long time in the mouth.
__________________
Todd__ "Smoke what you like, and enjoy it!" |
|
09-07-2014, 09:31 PM | #10 |
huh
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
that may be it. so far it's only happened with Mississippi river and a couple aromatics
Thanks
__________________
Support the Troop Support Contest 2014!!! |
09-22-2014, 10:22 PM | #11 |
Bilge Rat
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
I have a question...I'm fairly new to pipes as I smoke them only occasionally but want to get more into it. I saw these pipes on the 'bay that are carved from pear tree root by a craftsman in Poland. Question: Does anyone know how pear tree root compares to briar?
__________________
"Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." -John Galt |
09-22-2014, 11:56 PM | #12 |
Still Watching My Back
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
I bought a pear root pipe and sadly was very unhappy with it. For the price of most the ones I seen back then I could have picked up a nice smoking Briar same price and less in some cases. I don't know what kind of Tobacco you plan to smoke out of it, What I seen is that the pipe didn't like to build a cake and it smoked hot. Also was a little bit of wood burning. A friend of mine liked the look of the pipe and wanted it so I was more then happy to let him have it.
James |
09-23-2014, 02:11 AM | #13 | |
Bilge Rat
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
__________________
"Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." -John Galt |
|
09-23-2014, 12:46 PM | #14 | |
Ain't Never Gonna Leave
Join Date: Oct 2008
First Name: Todd
Location: Northcentral woods of Wisconsin
Posts: 6,819
Trading: (51)
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
After the past couple hundred years of pipe smoking, briar, meeshaum, corn cob, (and to some extent, clay) pipe are now presently widely accepted and available. I know that there are many other things that have been tried. As those 3 (4) are the ones that are "readily" available, I doubt that pear root is a good choice. But, that was only to be my Peace of the Lord be with you.
__________________
Todd__ "Smoke what you like, and enjoy it!" |
|
09-27-2014, 08:46 PM | #15 |
Wandering aimlessly
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
So I have had 2 tins of GLP Virginia blends, each with about 3 years of age on them, according to the sticker on the bottom. Laurel Heights and Stratford.
I haven't had a lot of experience with virginia blends before now, and the sweetness really just blows me away each time. The Laurel Heights seems especially sweet, since it's lacking the perique the other blend incorporates. It kind of reminds me of sweet black tea. Anyways, I was reading a piece written by Mr. Pease where he stated that pretty much all tobacco has some type of casing or topping added to enhance the flavor. My question is, how much of the sweetness is attributed to natural sweetness, and how much to topping? How do I find out what was added? |
09-28-2014, 09:39 AM | #16 |
Critiquing Perique
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
I dare not attempt to speak for GLP but it's my understanding that he uses the smallest amount of "juice" to hit the target flavor for his blends. As you try more VA's , you will notice many do have a great natural sweetness due to the higher sugar content that is the norm for those leaves. If I'm off base, please chime in.
|
10-03-2014, 10:33 AM | #17 |
Bilge Rat
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
This has probably been asked before, but how does one properly "break-in" a new pipe? The wife has been pretty supportive of this new-ish aspect of the hobby/sickness so I've pulled the trigger on a couple of new Chacom pipes. As I've only ever bought estate pipes and Dr. Grabows, I don't want to screw it up.
__________________
"Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not." -John Galt |
10-03-2014, 01:20 PM | #18 | |
Formerly MarkinOR
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Quote:
http://www.chicagopipeshow.com/educa...rickDennis.pdf And, another from PipesandCigars: http://www.pipesandcigars.com/faq/ar...-pipe-break-in I tend to agree with Mr. Dennis myself...
__________________
"Don't worry, God will work out His plan for your life..." Psalm 138 8 |
|
10-03-2014, 03:13 PM | #19 |
Still Watching My Back
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
For me I am different then most people that smoke pipe. In some cases I do the Dennis method and I use Prince Albert to start my break in. However seeing that I am not like most I rarely have a pipe with cake in it. I make sure that I clean my pipe after every use and that I keep the stem and bowl as clean as I can daily. I do use alot of Cleaners and from what I have seen in Estate pipes that I have bought I can't understand really how some people could let the pipe fill with such cake. I mean I have had some pipes that you couldn't even put a Pipe tool into let alone a Dr. Grabow filter How in the world did they even smoke the pipe. Then when I take the stem out and it is filled with SO MUCH junk I am like OMG that is nasty. This one pipe I just got from a person that said they didn't want to smoke pipe anymore and didn't like it, Buying the pipe at 1/4 the cost of new because he thought there was something wrong with it. I get it, The pipe wasn't really deep with cake but the drawhole was filled with unsmoked tobacco and the buildup in the shank was deep tar and i was like no wonder they didn't like it. Honestly it looked like they never ran a pipe cleaner in the stem or shank at all. Again the bowl wasn't that bad, ran a Czech took around the bowl maybe 15 times before it was a good clean thin cake. The shank took my shank brush, 40 Q-tips before it came out looking almost clean and the stem took 15 Q-tips and 5 bristle pipe cleaners, and 4 soft pipe cleaners before I could pass it with Alcohol on the tip and pull all the way through clean.
my first thought when I seen this was It had to have been HORRID to smoke this pipe. James |
10-03-2014, 04:10 PM | #20 |
Formerly MarkinOR
|
Re: New Pipe Smoker With A Question? Ask an Old Fart
Here's a thread regarding breaking-in your pipe from Pipesmokersforum for your review Darren:
http://www.pipesandcigars.com/faq/ar...-pipe-break-in As you will see, there are various thoughts as to how to break a new pipe in...
__________________
"Don't worry, God will work out His plan for your life..." Psalm 138 8 |