Pipe for Lakelands

For Lakeland’s I use either a MM Country Gentleman Custom Cob nosewarmer or a MM Dagner Design Cob Poker Pipe, both designated to Lakeland blends. A sitter works well with Lakeland blends.......for a minute or two rest between puffs.

Paddy, plus a MM Mark Twain is a sitter.....works for me👍

I use my Chacom Jurassic bent billiard. It was a new pipe when my first Lakeland blends showed up. I had heard about ghosting, so it got nominated to the position. I've yet to smoke a Lakeland in something other than that or a cob.

I mainly smoke Lakelands in a bent MM General cob.

A natural finish straight legend from mm for the aromatics, anything else for the more natural flavored of the family. Fvf makes a good counterpoint to odf in an mm general.

Can't wait to see it.

You got it, Baboo...I, too, like my Lakelands...alot.  Not worried about ghosts cause I love the flavors of all of them...particularly, Irish Condor.

Ghosts don't bother me. I smoke whatever I'm smoking in whatever pipe I happen to grab. If you just smoke one bowl through it it doesn't ghost too much.

I used to have a little group 3 Dunhill shell semi bent pot for Condor and St. Bruno.

Currently I have a couple GBDs for Coniston Cut Plug. A big virgin apple and a large French sandblast billiard both of which my dog chewed up the stems. Luckily a softy bit covers up some of the damage.

Coniston Cut Plug comes pretty moist but burns nicely in the larger pipes when dried out.

I would say if you are going to smoke a Lakeland in a briar make sure you like that blend first before comitting it to a pipe. But there aren't any rules if you want to try different lakelands in one pipe you just might get some funny combinations.

Personally, I usually smoke whatever in whatever. BUT, I got an eBay pipe that was ghosted to death with Lakeland. I still smoke whatever in it, but I still taste the Lakeland. I haven't treated it, because I'm lazy. So, what goes in, is what comes out slightly Lakeland style.

Or, did you mean, "what would those old guys think about the sheer amount of blends available today, that someone would even think to dedicate a pipe to a certain genre of tobacco"?

I have a cob just for deer tongue blends. I guess having a deer tongue ghost with something else isn't bad. But, since I have the option, why not dedicate a pipe to it?

To reply to your original wondering-ness, I think one look at SmokingPipes.com would blow their minds. Instant PAD and TAD.

I think my dad would say that it was unfortunate that the person was unable to locate their favorite tobacco blend. Back in the day, most men settled on one blend and stuck to it.

The only pipe ghost I really cannot abide is The Captain.

Shiver me timbers, smoking The Captain's ghoulish remnant out of used pipes makes me crazy.

Pretty much the way I roll...I do have certain pipes that seem to go better with Virginia's, others that go better with English, in them cases, it is about the quality of the smoke delivered. After smoking a Lakeland, I can definitely get a few whiff's of taste into a bowl of say Virginia.....Smoking a heavy lat blend is like unleashing a ghosting hit squad in the bowl though.

Although I don't have very sensative buds either.