tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31289043512502004772024-03-18T20:32:23.059-07:00PipeWifeThe adventure of taking up a pipe (and putting down the cigs)dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-80414927447704364292013-03-30T06:03:00.003-07:002013-03-30T06:03:55.263-07:00Two wordsSinus crud.<br />
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Not much pipe enjoyment going on.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-31039472579332729802013-03-18T07:47:00.002-07:002013-03-18T07:47:33.427-07:00Smoking outdoorsSince moving down here to Florida, we have been strictly outdoor smokers. It was hubby's only request of me (and applies to him as well) that we not smoke in our new house because despite its age, it smells like it has never been smoked inside of. (Yeah, bad grammar ... whatever.) Most days, that results in pleasant pipefuls in the sunshine:<br />
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However, we have had two hard frosts (in different weeks) and a couple days of constant rain in the five weeks we've been here, and the first real rainy day made us realize our old carport roof leaks. That means I have been stuck with quick cigarettes on the tiny porch while wearing the wide-brimmed straw "Florida tourist" hat in case the wind kicks up.<br />
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Last night, it was only a light drizzle with a light breeze, so we were able to sit under the old carport after a <a href="http://sandghomesteade.blogspot.com/2013/03/tree-clean-up-and-homemade-charcoal.html">weekend of yardwork</a> to enjoy a pipeful:<br />
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Yes, I enjoy playing with yarn. I can only smoke my corncob pipes when I have my hands busy, because those and <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/11/odd-cobs.html">the small fruitwood pipes from rekamepip</a> are the only ones I can clench. Last night's little victory smoke was GLP Sextant, just because I hadn't had some in a while and boy did it sound just perfect.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-79231286042987617532013-03-11T07:57:00.002-07:002013-03-11T07:57:13.126-07:00Outdoor picsJust a few pics before I go back outside to bask in the sunshine like one of my cats. Smoking the <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/11/odd-cobs.html">fruitwood "cob" from rekamepip</a>, with the rose swirl Forever Stem on it.<br />
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<br />dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-71725820807812858482012-11-25T15:17:00.001-08:002012-11-25T15:17:21.266-08:00Inaugural smoke for the Buescher cobwardenI finally selected the tobaccos (plural) for the inaugural bowl in <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/11/odd-cobs.html">the Buescher cobwarden</a>. I chose to parfait three Virginia blends: H&H AJ's VaPer on the bottom, then a generous middle layer of McClelland 5100 Red Cake, topped off with a few pinches of McClelland Virginia Woods. This corncob pipe is smoking like a champ!<br />
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<br />dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-65436573996189315852012-11-22T09:43:00.001-08:002012-11-22T09:43:12.821-08:00Odd cobsThe corncob mania continues here (hubby is still participating as well) and has expanded to include a few odd cobs. First up is an unsmoked cobwarden I won with a minimum bid on the evilBay. I'm not sure just how old it is, but it sure didn't roll off the factory floor in the past couple decades since it was made by Buescher. A bit of Google-fu has yielded up the information nugget that Buescher shut their factory down in the early 1990s, although there is quite a bit of speculation the company was a subsidiary of Missouri Meerschaum the whole time. It has ridonculous proportions, which is exactly what attracted my attention.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My Buescher corncob churchwarden</td></tr>
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For the record, I do intend to smoke this unsmoked Buescher cobwarden ... a totally unsmoked cob is an unloved corncob pipe! I'm just trying to decide which blend would be the awesome inaugural bowl. After this long of a wait, it deserves a gangbusters-great tobacco for the occasion.<br />
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Now, my next two cobs are NOT made of corncob ... although they are made in the style to mimic a corncob pipe. I got a message over at PipeSmokersForum from a fellow who goes by the handle of rekamepip offering to send me a couple pipes to smoke, in exchange for honest and thorough reviews of them, as he is still somewhat new to this style of pipe-making. It's an ideal trade for us both: I get pipes, and I have a blog and am quite the chatterbox over at that forum (along with being on two other forums). Here is his favorite style, a red pipestone carved into a cob shape:<br />
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It's a nice pipe, and very interesting and downright neato ... but it's too heavy for me to be able to "clench" due to my whacked teeth. I did smoke it once, but had to set it down to cool after it got below midbowl. Hubby is wanting to give it a go this long holiday weekend, as he thinks it looks really cool.<br />
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Now, for the one rekamepip sent me that I absolutely LOVE: the fruitwood "cob". It's carved from the wood of a cherry tree, but there is a shape in pipes called "cherrywood" which causes confusion when you have a pipe carved from cherry-wood but in a different shape. So, this is my hardwood/fruitwood cob:<br />
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Let me say again: I LOVE THIS PIPE! It is extremely lightweight and balanced, which means I can actually clench it and do other things with my hands ... like typing this post. It's easily the equal to <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/10/old-hirschl-bendheim-irvin-s-cobb.html">my old Hirschl & Bendheim Cobb</a> when it comes to efficiently turning tobacco into ash - but it does stop just short of the "smokes itself" stage (which I feel is good). Now, for the best endorsement I can think of ... I really want another one (and will be commissioning one after the holidays probably) and I won't even haggle over the price.<br />
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For those of y'all wanting to browse his wares for yourself, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/rekamepip">here is rekamepip's Etsy store</a>.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-69933961121692355622012-11-13T10:00:00.003-08:002012-11-13T10:00:38.270-08:00Feeling CobbishCorncob pipes ... people either despise them or fall madly in love with them. First I tried <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/10/old-hirschl-bendheim-irvin-s-cobb.html">the cob from the estate box</a> (which I had originally set aside for hubby, who never smoked it). When I realized how much I was enjoying the old H&B Cobb, I decided to grab a small Missouri Meerschaum Pony cob from the B&M down in Florida when I bought hubby <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/09/hubbys-randy-wiley-pipe.html">his Randy Wiley briar</a>. Then, I got that proverbial "wild hair" you-know-where and ordered P&C's Corn in the USA sampler pack ... and when it arrived, I was shocked to hear hubby ask which cob was his. Not only did he want one of the cobs, but he wanted it filled with my Classic Burley Kake to boot.<br />
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What has followed over the past few weeks can only be described as "corncob mania" here in the house, with a generous dose of growing devotion to the CBK. Along with adopting the Pony cob I bought in Florida, hubby ended up with his own Corn in the USA sampler pack ... not only to keep my cobs safe but to prevent him from smoking up all my CBK stash. Then, we looked in our local B&M up here and discovered MM Generals in stock.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hubby smoking his MM General cob</td></tr>
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As y'all can see for yourselves, "That's all she wrote!" Which means, more pictures.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 cobs small to large</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MM Legends, not Diplomats - GAH!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old MM, in between a new Legend and CG</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The old H&B, between a new MM Legend and the short General</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Missouri Meerschaum company stickers, then and now (how old is "then"?)</td></tr>
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<br />dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-48023354042560717142012-11-10T12:25:00.005-08:002012-11-10T12:25:44.589-08:00Estate meerschaum pipeI popped into the local B&M today to pick up some humidity discs and browse the corncob and meerschaum pipes. Surprisingly, hubby let me go without supervision and with a request for another MM General if there was still one to be had. I discovered a second drawer of Missouri Meerschaum pipes, but this post is dedicated to the Turkish meerschaum I found.<br />
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Light as a feather and quite efficient at burning tobacco, this beauty has wonderful and lovely intricate carving, with tiny spirals in between the teardrop latticework and also around the rim.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">D. Ural lattice meerschaum pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">estate meerschaum lattice billiard, full bent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tiny spiral carved around the rim</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">tiny spirals carved in between the teardrop lattice windows</td></tr>
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Someone really enjoyed this pipe before it found me, and I have fully intention of continuing that. I probably should not admit how little I paid for it!dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-40024404798409540412012-11-09T13:20:00.000-08:002012-11-09T13:20:09.599-08:00Brand new Storient Meerschaum billiardI've been openly coveting a new meerschaum pipe for a while now ... and my first arrived from Turkey the other morning. It's a plain smooth classic straight billiard from Storient Meerschaum, with a pretty saddle-bit vanilla swirl stem, and it burns tobacco in a most efficient and enjoyable manner! Enough of this blather and on to the pictures:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">brand new Storient meerschaum pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only pic of its white bowl</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First bowl smoked in the new meerschaum billiard!</td></tr>
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The inaugural bowl was McClelland bulk #5100 Red Cake, and as I type this I have C&D Blockade Runner burning. Straight Virginia blends taste different in this pipe ... better.<br />
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Now the real fun begins - burning enough tobacco in it to color it.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-86363053166213611322012-11-08T16:19:00.002-08:002012-11-08T16:19:49.611-08:00One diamond in the roughPromised a while back ago, here is one out of two "diamonds in the rough" from the estate box - a BBB Own Make. I not only had to ream it down to bare briar in the chamber but then I had to get a small pipe knife and carefully remove cake <i>from the rim</i>! Like <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-new-favorite-estate-wally-frank-half.html">the Wally Frank</a>, this one cleaned up to reveal some lovely grain:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">BBB Own Make bent pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">stamped VIRGIN 995 on this side</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">one of two big scratches in the finish</td></tr>
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I don't have a real "before" picture, but I do have an intermediate pic after the initial film of grime was removed:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">caked rim and green-grey stem, but cleaner than I received it!</td></tr>
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<br />dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-58810105181893212152012-10-25T13:32:00.001-07:002012-10-25T13:32:51.259-07:00Old estate Kaywoodie straight potMostly a picture post here of a cute little Kaywoodie straight pot. It's got a couple scratches and scuffs, but for the most part it cleaned up nicely compared to how it looked when we first pulled it out of the estate box!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">old Kaywoodie straight pot, just under 6 inches long</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some scratches on the rim of the Kaywoodie</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Kaywoodie stinger is intact and even de-grimed!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">scuffs on the bowl, with 42 stamped on the right side of the shank</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">main stamp on left of shank Kaywoodie "600" Imported briar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">chamber reamed and salt-alcohol soaked, centered draft hole</td></tr>
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This cute little pipe is just not for me, alas. I find myself reaching for the bent pipes much more than straights, and when I cradle this little Kaywoodie it just doesn't quite feel right to me. I'm working on finding it a good loving home.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-57984031509062344852012-10-21T10:32:00.001-07:002012-10-21T10:32:51.235-07:00Hearth & Home Obsidian in the estate Wally FrankI have been slowly and incrementally cleaning <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-new-favorite-estate-wally-frank-half.html">the estate Wally Frank</a> more ... in between almost-daily smokes in it, of course. I pretty much smoked an entire two ounce tin of C&D Red Odessa in it, and now that the Red Odessa has run out, I've tried C&D Odessa (original version) and Hearth & Home's Obsidian. Since I tried a bowl of the H&H Obsidian, that is what has been loaded in it lately, and today is no exception:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">estate Wally Frank pipe, with the stem closer to black</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">discoloration cleaned off the rim of the estate Wally Frank</td></tr>
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The Wally Frank pipe is getting prettier as I get it cleaner, and I do love shining it up with the scrap denim and a bit of olive oil. Oh yeah, that is my new pipe lighter - a Xikar Resource with built-in pipe tools. Hubby wants one now too, I believe.<br />
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A couple notes about H&H Obsidian ... first of all, if you have not tried it, get some. This is the polar opposite of my codger-style burley blends. It's a complex blend of four black tobaccos: stoved Virginia, black cavendish, latakia, and perique cut chunky (rough) ... which makes it a bit of a botch to get lit and keep lit but that may be the point. I get the most intense bursts of flavor the moment it goes out, so I am really not minding the many MANY relights involved in each bowlful. While I don't have the experience to describe the tastes without looking things up, it has been educational to try to figure out what my senses are picking up. I've smoked some straight black cavendish, so I do recognize that wonderful smoothness. The description of stoved Virginia matches the wonderful bursts of sweetness. Now I need to distinguish between latakia and perique as I don't seem to get the "peppery" flavor others do. All four tobaccos work together harmoniously like my favorite Oak Ridge Boys tunes.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">smoking the last bowl of Boswell No-Bite Delight in the caramel apple</td></tr>
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Now, for the sort-of sad news: the bag of Boswell No-Bite Delight is gone. Hubby snapped a pic of me smoking the last full bowl in the caramel apple pipe - not so much to commemorate the event but because I didn't have a picture of this pipe yet.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-42422642910630995122012-10-19T19:17:00.003-07:002012-10-19T19:17:55.970-07:00The chocolate egg pipe and a new eggSo I have a pipe that I call "the chocolate egg". Not surprisingly, it is a bent egg shape that I smoke my chocolate flavored tobaccos in - plus it just sounds cute. The nickname was not planned ... I had the new pipe a little over three weeks ago and I had chocolate tobacco (MacBaren's Honey & Chocolate at the time). I had picked this one out because it was a nice light-colored pipe, listed as a natural finish. It does not look light-colored any more!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Smoking Boswell Chocolate Cream in my chocolate egg</td></tr>
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That natural finish apparently means no stain and no sealant to keep it light colored, and as a result of smoking it pretty much daily for over three weeks it now looks chocolate-colored! Between finishing the sample bag of bulk Honey & Chocolate we bought locally and <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/10/six-boswell-flavored-tobaccos.html">receiving the Boswell flavored aromatics</a>, it should surprise exactly no one that the Boswell chocolate has been what this pipe has burned the most so far. Alas, the end is nigh for my two ounce bag of the Boswell chocolate (as well as the No-Bite Delight). That will require either another phone call to Boswell's or opening the vacuum-sealed one pound bag of the MacB Honey & Chocolate. Difficult decision!<br />
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Another difficult decision will be what I want to smoke in my new bent egg with its natural finish. The big brown truck brought me another box, and I have a new pipe! Here the two eggs are side-by-side, with the new one not even (olive) oiled yet.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Before and after 3-4 weeks briar pipes coloring</td></tr>
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I could see the chocolate egg was darkening up with use - coloring like a meerschaum even! - but until I got the new one today I hadn't realized just how dark it is getting. As we used to say in high school, "Cool beans!"dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-45719028687766105182012-10-18T12:11:00.002-07:002012-10-18T12:11:52.486-07:00Old Hirschl & Bendheim Irvin S. Cobb corncob pipeAlong with posting <a href="http://pipewife.blogspot.com/2012/10/larger-estate-corncob-pipe.html">here yesterday about the old estate box corncob pipe</a>, I also went to a forum that has cob fans for help identifying the marked-up sticker on my pipe (PipeSmokersForum). It didn't take long to get the proper spelling of the first name and what the second name is, which then made Googling up info a WHOLE LOT easier! The manufacturer's name was Hirschl & Bendheim, and they went out of business during the 1980s, although the Irvin S. Cobb line of corncob pipes is apparently still made by Missouri Meerschaum now, and can even be bought to this day at Rite-Aids and CVS stores in some places.<br />
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As I loaded up another bowl of Russ O's Angler's Dream, a codger-style tribute burley blend with just enough cinnamon in it to totally WOW me, I decided to snap a few more pics of this old H&B Cobb.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">H&B cob with bag of tobacco</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the marked-up H&B Irvin S. Cobb sticker</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Excellent smoke: Angler's Dream tobacco in the old H&B cob</td></tr>
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I am really loving this Angler's Dream burley blend! I suspect that bag that was sent as an "extra" in a tobacco trade will not last long. The dash of cinnamon isn't enough to overwhelm the burley, just enough to accent and give it a nice room note. This smokes just as easy as any codger blend I currently have in briar as well as corncob ... but the cob just brings out an extra little shine to it. I'm on my fourth bowl of it in about 24 hours, and I even took time out to sleep!dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-59244691159326732362012-10-16T10:47:00.003-07:002012-10-16T10:47:53.234-07:00Larger estate corncob pipeFor one reason or another, I cannot salt-and-alcohol the ghost out of some of thee estate pipes from the first large box. One has a meer-lined bowl, two are obviously glued, one is taped, and a couple I can't get the stems off ... and two are corncob pipes. The smaller-bowled corncob is a Missouri Meerschaum one, but the larger is not and I am having trouble reading the sticker on the bottom of it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sticker on bottom of estate cob pipe</td></tr>
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The Washington, Missouri USA part is easy to read, but the maker's name isn't. I thought the first name was Hirschil, but Google yielded no results. I am hoping someone recognizes the sticker and/or logo as I am curious.<br />
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For the record, this cob pipe smokes a bowl of Carter Hall so easy! The previous owner must not have been too fond of this one, since the ghost in all his pipes only was noticeable for the initial bowl.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-40468498476713897242012-10-15T18:47:00.000-07:002012-10-15T18:47:26.315-07:00Pics at some pointI keep meaning to snap pics of my pipes, especially the estates as I work on cleaning and shinying them up ... but I keep loading them with tobaccos and smoking them instead.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-2655306023706935522012-10-06T12:36:00.002-07:002012-10-06T12:36:43.296-07:00Six Boswell flavored tobaccosI received these flavored aromatic tobaccos from the little shop in Pennsylvania with a huge reputation online: <a href="http://www.boswellpipes.com/tobaccoblends.html" target="_blank">J.M Boswell and Son</a>. They arrived late Thursday afternoon, so I have had them on my desk for almost nine days and here is what is left.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six Boswell flavored aromatic tobaccos</td></tr>
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Starting at top left and going around clockwise:<br />
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<li><b>Maple Leaf</b> and <b>Christmas Cookie</b> - I've only smoked one bowl of each so far, as those initial bowls didn't grab my attention quite the way the other four did. I will note that both have terrific bag notes, with the Christmas Cookie truly smelling good enough to eat. With our first frost advisory tonight (already?!?!?) I may get into them more soon.</li>
<li><b>Boswell's Best</b> - a pleasant jumble of flavors, with the website noting only a vanilla topping. There's more going on in it than just vanilla though I am having trouble distinguishing what I am experiencing at present. The best I can describe it so far is an accumulation of smells similar to what my kitchen smells like as a holiday bake-fest is just finished.</li>
<li><b>Chocolate Cream</b> - as if I would miss ordering this one! In fact, this was the one that led me to Google to find Boswell's as "everyone" says their chocolate topping is one of the best. Quite a tasty sweet smoky-treat, with a chocolate flavor obvious enough for me to pick on first bowl. I like the flavor and hubby likes the room note.</li>
<li><b>Piper's Pleasure</b> - this one is described as having chocolate, vanilla, coffee, and caramel flavors to it, and I find it changes which one is noticeable depending on which pipe I am smoking it in. Another pleasant jumble of flavor, and the room note is good enough that hubby was looking for cooling racks upon entering the house while I was smoking it ... he said it smelled like I had baked a cake and he was trying to see which flavor and if it was frosted yet.</li>
<li><b>No-Bite Delight</b> - This one was elusive and shy, as it is supposed to be caramel and vanilla. I tried it in a few of my other sweet pipes and was missing it, only getting the nondescript sweet flavor. Yesterday I got a new pipe and decided to use NBD as its inaugural bowl ... and WOW! A burst of caramel once I had it lit, which then quieted it down and only peeked through intermittently through the rest of the bowl. Those with a more developed and discerning palette will probably be able to coax its subtleties out easier, but a fresh pipe is what revealed this one to me.</li>
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So those are my impressions of these six flavored aromatics from Boswell's, after a week of stuffing them in my pipe and smoking them. Hubby has been a little too enamored with his Balkan and English and Scottish and Navy blends to give much attention to the Rum River I got him, so I can't report anything on that one yet.</div>
dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-17352697373045262962012-10-04T07:40:00.002-07:002012-10-04T07:40:49.852-07:00My first tongue biteI have found the first (but I doubt it will be the last) pipe tobacco to give me the chemical reaction known as tongue bite - Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. It's a shame too, because up until I realized it halfway down the bowl, I had been enjoying the aroma and taste.<br />
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This wasn't a steam burn ... I did that on my very first bowlful when I puffed on it like a cigarette and basically boiled my tongue like a basket of crawdads. I think it was Balkan Sobraine, which tasted pretty good on the first puff. I ought to find the tin and try that one again, since I have no idea what it tasted like from the second puff onward.<br />
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Since I am still an unreformed cigarette smoker, I do light up a stick first thing in the morning to get the morning "kick in the chest" and calm the nicotine receptors enough to enjoy the pipe. If it's a rough morning I'll smoke two cigs before moving on to the good stuff. Since I still feel a bit clumsy with a pipe, I also smoke cigarettes when I am driving.<br />
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Back to the biter, the roguish Sir Walter ... I still have the 1.5 ounce pouch minus one regular bowlful. I know I will try it again - probably in a much smaller bowl - just because I am hard-headed like that and need confirmation. How soon I get back into the ring for another swing depends on how fast the Biotene works, and whether or not I find another one that bites. I have caught myself eyeing the pouch already this morning ...dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-22651964847960336792012-10-01T09:55:00.000-07:002012-10-01T09:55:06.315-07:00We gotta stay off evilBayNot only me, but hubby also. In fact, he said this exact phrase last week after we made an impulse bid ... and won. We even did the "pinky-swear" - with each getting one exception - to stay off the evilBay until New Year's. About an hour later ... hubby starts talking about what he wants to hunt for during the month of October! Of course, this was before PipesAndCigars.com did their site-wide sale, too ...<br />
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Back to this (rare) impulse eBay bid. Out of the seven pipes in the lot, two caught hubby's eye right away, while three caught my eye (one is on both lists).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">seller's pic of 7 pipe lot</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">7 estate pipe lot</td></tr>
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If anyone guessed the black pipe with the stag overlay and attached windcap ... yup! Hubby's other choice is the Kaywoodie bulldog, while I was intrigued by the stemless JM and the bent JM. The seller shipped FAST, so we had these pipes in hand Saturday late afternoon! While the black BBB is still unsmoked despite its age ... the other six greatly benefited from the new pipe reamer. The Kaywoodie bulldog had a mind-boggling amount of cake in it ... we had to start with the smallest reamer and work up to the biggest.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">old Kaywoodie bulldog (seller pic)</td></tr>
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Given these two close-up pics from the seller, we weren't sure we'd be able to prettify this, even when holding it in our hands. As I mentioned, this had an amazingly thick cake so we figured it had to smoke good get that much carbon build-up. Even I was surprised at just how well this pipe cleaned up!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kaywoodie bulldog pipe cleaned up</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kaywoodie bulldog cleaned, even the discoloration is gone</td></tr>
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After he put his rubber teething ring on the bit, hubby loaded it up last night and proclaimed it a nice smoking pipe! Even with the stinger still on. An impulse bid that we won (it only had 10 minutes left on it when we found it) has resulted in an unsmoked display-case pipe with its original sock and box, and so far two very nice smoking pipes ... this morning I got two more from the lot to flambe stage so we will have two more to try out this evening.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-26064961515819509622012-09-27T08:35:00.005-07:002012-09-27T08:35:50.351-07:00Hubby's Randy Wiley pipeAs I requested last night, today hubby left his Randy Wiley pipe here at home so I could give it a go. He also left me the tin of MacBaren's PlumCake ... with the lid loosened enough I can actually open it.<br />
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The Wiley pipe ... the beautiful BEAUTIFUL briar Wiley pipe:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handmade in the USA, graded "55"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A good-sized pipe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wiley pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">the Wiley pipe's best side IMO</td></tr>
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I bought this pipe for hubby when were visiting Jacksonville, Florida and popped into a local tobacco shop. The shopkeeper pointed out that he was running a sale on his Wiley pipes. After I looked through the display case and the rack over the bulk tobacco, the shopkeeper repeated that he had a sale on the Wiley pipes, and pointed to a freestanding display shelf ... so I wandered over to take a peek even though the only ones I saw were rusticated finish, which isn't our style. As I walked around the display, I saw this beauty behind the sale sign! I picked it up and realized this fit all the criteria hubby had been saying he was looking for in a pipe.<br />
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Within 15 seconds of placing this pipe into hubby's hands and mentioning that I was buying this round, he declared I had "twisted his arm". He loves smoking this pipe, and I loved cleaning it up and making it look all shiny and new. Today is the first time since I bought it a couple weeks ago that I have finally been able to smoke it myself ... mainly because I am seriously thinking of getting one for myself.<br />
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Now, a pic of hubby enjoying it down at our new house in Florida on a pretty sunny morning:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hubby enjoying a bowlful in his Randy Wiley pipe</td></tr>
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<br />dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-13086219110769151752012-09-25T07:38:00.001-07:002012-09-25T07:38:21.590-07:00My new favorite - estate Wally Frank half-bent pipeA surprise from the big estate box! When we first opened the box and pulled this one out, it was basically just one muddled tone of brown ... both the briar and the stem. The maker stamps were pretty easy to read - WALLY FRANK on one side and STRAIGHT GRAIN on the other - and while it had some cake and rim-scorches, we could tell it wasn't exactly the previous owner's favorite.<br />
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When I cleaned it up ... WOW! Under the years of blah and neglect, a beauty lay hidden:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wally Frank Straight Grain estate pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wally Frank Straight Grain estate pipe
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Yeah, I probably should have wiped the ash out of the bowl, but I snapped these pics all excited after the first bowl. This pipe smokes so easy and even, it makes a newb like me look like she knows what she's doing! I'd call it "a diamond in the rough" but that's a different pipe for a different post.<br />
;-)dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3128904351250200477.post-64614468042692110332012-09-22T12:33:00.001-07:002012-09-22T12:33:24.494-07:00Bloggin my tobaccoSo, I need a space on ye olde interwebz to put my growing obsession with using pipes to smoke my tobacco, the acquisition of more exotic tobaccos, and of course the quest for the right pipes. Hubby kicked that door open wide last month by bidding on - and winning - a box of old pipes and accessories, which also tosses me headfirst into a new joy: bringing someone's old junk back to life. We're having great good fun trying new tobacco types and blends, comparing notes, swapping tins and bags ... and the occasional good-natured squabble when one has the word "CHOCOLATE" in its name. If it says chocolate then of course it is for me. He'll just have to put up his own blog if he wants to dispute that.dfr2010http://www.blogger.com/profile/15865244243226266725noreply@blogger.com0