Zach
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Posts: 4,364
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Oct 19, 2021 11:24:21 GMT -5
Smoked some GH & Co. Best Brown Flake #2 earlier this morning in a 1970 Dr Grabow Grand Duke lovat, but taste is a little bit off. Daughter out sick from school already about the 4th time this year. Negative covid test, again. Next will be some 2016 Haunted Bookshop in an MM Let Freedom Ring 5th Ave and hopefully will taste a bit clearer. Food and drinks taste just fine but the smoke was getting that "only warm flavorless smoke" profile to it.
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Post by darktater on Oct 19, 2021 11:29:32 GMT -5
Watch City Slices in the Tuesday Morgan
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Post by william on Oct 19, 2021 11:50:56 GMT -5
Pushed the lawnmower with a mulching blade over a ton of leaves this morning until I ran out of gas (not the kind you store in a can). Smoking Presbyterian in a Willmer AAA straight grain. Thinking about a shower, lunch, and a nap (in that order).   |
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 12:11:15 GMT -5
Grass is cut. Up next, empty some flower pots and store them in shed. But first, it's time for Oak Alley in the Tuesday cob and a mug of cold water, while sitting on the sunny back porch. The dogs are sunning themselves too.
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 14:06:48 GMT -5
Having Some GH&Co's Bob's Square Cut in a sandblasted basket Dublin/Yacht. Picking up a little Lakeland, but not too bad.
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 14:55:45 GMT -5
Haunted Bookshop in the Tuesday cob on the front porch.
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Post by darktater on Oct 19, 2021 15:00:43 GMT -5
Storm Front in the Tuesday Morgan
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Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,364
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Oct 19, 2021 15:05:20 GMT -5
Smoking that 2016 Haunted Bookshop in the 5th ave now. Have some C&D From Beyond out drying the past couple hours to go into a large bent no name London made billiard next, when I get to it.
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 19, 2021 15:39:51 GMT -5
My Hobbit's Weed Black in my grandpa's Custom-Bilt
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 19, 2021 15:59:51 GMT -5
Shortcut to Mushrooms in a small blasted apple.
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thewingedsloth
Junior Member
working on it
Posts: 243 
First Name: maybelater
Favorite Pipe: Todays pipe......
Favorite Tobacco: Semois mixes.
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Post by thewingedsloth on Oct 19, 2021 17:00:45 GMT -5
Octoner 19th.
Temperatures are in the 70s here and quite dry so perfect weather for a delightful bowl of glp sparkplug in the vauen Enzian.
The blend has been decanted for a month and is still very dense and tarry but what ambrosia omce lit. The cold draw had me pulling draws for a while but I finally laid a match to it.
I know there was some batch with "mold" and I think I actually had one tin with the very bottom leaf layer with a white "water spot". that or it was 'bloom" which is nicotine coming out of the leaf after long term storage.. nonetheless, that tin was awesone. the current opened tin is clear of issues and is a bit on the pepper side rather than nutty as the prior tin was.
I suppose I shoud decant the rest of my tins to be sure of no "clunkers" but so far I really enjoy this blend in most of my pipes
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thewingedsloth
Junior Member
working on it
Posts: 243
First Name: maybelater
Favorite Pipe: Todays pipe......
Favorite Tobacco: Semois mixes.
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Post by thewingedsloth on Oct 19, 2021 17:41:33 GMT -5
October 19th.
Well I was mistaken... you can tell the bad batch of sparkplug by how loose the plug is. I have two examples. one dense and two loose. the dense one is free of white spots and the other two have spots and small areas of white dust.
the luck is over 3.5 oz are clear and proper and safely tucked in the vault.
I just loaded a work bowl with the "imposter" sparkplug blend.seems fine.
I got paranoid after touting the clean tin of sparkplug in my post so decided to do a long term decant into jars and opened my remaining three tins of the blend.
one was a perfectly colored dense cube of dark tobacco interlaced with light with a nice sheen on the surface.
the other two were duds. loose brick, odd color with far more light tobaccos on top and of course white areas on the brick. One brick seemed to have both a dense side and a loose side with the last brick very loose entirely throught.
I know the problem relates to the lack of preservatives c&d were attempting to achieve in production. the experiment seemed to give some bad batches..
I think the "bad" batches are fine to load in a bowl but I can see how long term the tobacco would be ruined.
Again, thankfully I got quite a bit that is clean so that can sit for some time.
I think as long as one orders from today's stocks there is no risk of a bad tin.
Knowing where my tins came from instructs me in that conclusion. two different places.
anyhoo, finally got a good light on the bowl and its fine, a bit more nut undertone than the other which has more spice.
So after washing my hands between tins, I think I have segregated the two products I did pack a regular tin with the off batch, figure use it up. the other known good is going to sit for a few years while I try to find more.
amazing blend when done right and hopefully the worst is behind us..
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 17:53:00 GMT -5
Had some Oak Alley in the Tuesday cob while cleaning up a couple pipes. Now, a bowl of Night Train in the same cob.  |
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 19, 2021 18:41:12 GMT -5
B.L.W.B. in an unmarked ,black ,sandblasted pot, with a large hazelnut coffee on the side.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Oct 19, 2021 19:19:58 GMT -5
2012 MM965 in my Danish made Stanwell Flawless 54 Billiard.  |
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Post by sperrytops on Oct 19, 2021 19:24:01 GMT -5
Strauss Gaslight in a MM Cob with Forever stem. A glass of merlot on the side.
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 19:29:08 GMT -5
2012 MM965 in my Danish made Stanwell Flawless 54 Billiard. I'd say it's flawless. Beauty! |
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Post by darktater on Oct 19, 2021 19:40:50 GMT -5
GLP Blackpoint in the Tuesday Morgan. Last of the generous sample I received from Silver (thanks once more!). I have one tin waiting, but need to order several more soon! |
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 19:58:29 GMT -5
C&D Redburn in this Dr. G bent Bulldog. At least the stem is a Grabow. No nomenclature on the pipe.  |
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Rattlesnake Daddy
Full Member
Posts: 630
Favorite Pipe: Always changing
Favorite Tobacco: G&H Dark Birds Eye, Bayou Night.
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Oct 19, 2021 20:25:34 GMT -5
A bit of Wilke High Hat in the Nording Nosewarmer earlier. Some haunted bookshop in my Savinelli series III 644KS while working on wife's Jeep Cherokee XJ. Ending the cool 46 degree evening on the porch with some G&H Dark Birds Eye in the bent billiard meer.
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Post by Gandalf on Oct 19, 2021 20:42:18 GMT -5
Wilkes Peanut Butter and Chocolate in a Lorenzetti bent apple
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Post by pepesdad1 on Oct 19, 2021 20:51:38 GMT -5
Deep Hollow in a Comoy OomPaul from 1961.  |
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Post by Gypo on Oct 19, 2021 20:57:42 GMT -5
I also have 4 or 5 Comoy's enjoy smoking them very much but nothing as nice as that one.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 19, 2021 21:23:56 GMT -5
Some 2014 LBF in a pipe from Bertram's pipe shop, Washington D.C.  |
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Post by username on Oct 19, 2021 21:35:59 GMT -5
More Anne cap in a claw meer.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Oct 19, 2021 21:41:51 GMT -5
2012 MM965 in my Danish made Stanwell Flawless 54 Billiard. I'd say it's flawless. Beauty! Thanks! |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Oct 19, 2021 21:43:11 GMT -5
Father Dempsey in my Sara Eltang Bulldog.  |
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 21:56:19 GMT -5
Haunted Bookshop in the new cob. Cleaning and polishing some pipes.  |
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Post by Silver on Oct 19, 2021 22:56:26 GMT -5
Sutliff Ready Rubbed Match in the "new" cob.
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Zach
Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,364
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
Location:
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Post by Zach on Oct 19, 2021 23:16:35 GMT -5
Smoking From Beyond in an English bent billiard no name. Unable to reach smokingpipes to place my order for going on 20 minutes...
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