Just got some tobacco out of the press.

It looks pretty tasty!

I like the imprint on the tobacco. You can still buy sheets with Days-O-work and Brown's Mule tobacco that were used back in the the to press their logo onto their plugs.

Your plug looks very wet/gooey. Did you add anything to the tobacco before pressing?

So here is the puck of tobacco I got out of the press after 4 weeks in a jar.  The goopy-ness dried out nicely and it has a very nice what I guess I would a fruity smell to it.  So I tried some sliced off, then twisted and stuffed it into a pipe.  Then I rubbed it out and tried it in a different pipe.  Now this was 1 oz virginia, 1oz black cavindesh and 1 oz perique.  The aroma was very nice out of both pipes.  I had some good perique flavor from start to finish on both pipes.  The down side was the flavor in both pipes was pretty flat/one dimensional/non-complex other then the perique.  I think that the black cavindesh mellowed out the virginia too much, leaving just the perique.  I am thinking that I will up the virginia, reduce the black cavindesh, but leave the perqiue alone for my next attempt.