Having some Stanwell Melange in my 50s Dr Grabow Supreme
Pipe Of The Day (POTD)
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This morning it's BCA in the OG Grabow Starfire while I debate with myself whether 50° calls for using the radiant heater.
AimlessWanderer
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Grousemoor
Home a little early. After an epic quest for and purchase of a new microwave, I thought I'd earned a pipe.
This morning I'd loaded some Amphora Full Aroma into the Peterson 440 straight small billiard, using the Frank method. It seems to me as I do it I'm packing the pipe too firmly. But after the charring light, the leaf allowed me to smoke steadily and gently for some twenty straight minutes. A break for a snack was followed by a couple of relights for almost another ten or twelve minutes. When I tapped the pipe out, I got mostly ash and an actual bit of dottle -- which I see only rarely.
This method is promising, methinks.
This morning I'd loaded some Amphora Full Aroma into the Peterson 440 straight small billiard, using the Frank method. It seems to me as I do it I'm packing the pipe too firmly. But after the charring light, the leaf allowed me to smoke steadily and gently for some twenty straight minutes. A break for a snack was followed by a couple of relights for almost another ten or twelve minutes. When I tapped the pipe out, I got mostly ash and an actual bit of dottle -- which I see only rarely.
This method is promising, methinks.
2022 Rouxgaroux this evening...
Dissatisfying but quick smoke this morning over coffee: nicely-dried Sherlock Holmes in the Peterson 80-S bent bulldog. Either I did it wrong, or the Frank packing method does not work well in a small- and shallow-bowled pipe like this one. I had to relight three times in the first ten minutes.
After five more I gave up and tapped the pipe out. Life is too short to struggle with your tobacco.
After five more I gave up and tapped the pipe out. Life is too short to struggle with your tobacco.
SJF this evening...
Morning, all,
I tried something new today! Post-breakfast pipe: Capstan Blue in the Linkman's Dr. Grabow bent apple, mixed with . . . cigar! Actually it was about a fifth of one of the Romeo y Julieta cigarillos, chopped up and mixed with the CB at about 25%/75%, loaded using the Frank method. I was aware of a little pepperiness in my nose and some brightness in my mind. (Regarding the latter, some might say it's about time.) Rather interesting.
I tried something new today! Post-breakfast pipe: Capstan Blue in the Linkman's Dr. Grabow bent apple, mixed with . . . cigar! Actually it was about a fifth of one of the Romeo y Julieta cigarillos, chopped up and mixed with the CB at about 25%/75%, loaded using the Frank method. I was aware of a little pepperiness in my nose and some brightness in my mind. (Regarding the latter, some might say it's about time.) Rather interesting.
Savinelli Punto Oro 101.
AimlessWanderer
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Gawith Hoggarth Gold Perique in the small billiard bantam Falcon bowl
A pipe for the end of Meerschaum March: the Cavalier-carved meer PIF'd to me my Luvmysuper, loaded with an eclectic mix of Capstan Blue, some cigarillo bits from yesterday, and My Mixture 965. A little early to tell if I'm going to like this combo.
I did! Like it, I mean. Not strong, hints of a "gritty" roasted sort of aroma, and the smoke with several relights ran a good twenty-five minutes.
Threw down some grass seed earlier in the week in my backyard. It’s a nice day here in Oklahoma as well. So I’m out on the back patio enjoying some well aged LBF and a wide bowl briar and watching the grass grow 
A Sunday morning post-breakfast pipe: St. Bruno, packed via the Frank method, in my venerable Mastercraft straight billiard. After the charring light, I got about thirty minutes' smoke -- and have just set the pipe aside. There may be some more leaf to burn later.
My cobbit loaded with The Country Squire’s “Second Breakfast”
Savinelli Giubileo D’Oro 206.
Wake-up time: some Stirling Flake mixed with Edgeworth Match, loaded into the Jeantet horn-stemmed straight billiard and left overnight. Plus coffee, of course.
AimlessWanderer
Remember to forget me!
After an early morning jaunt across town to run an errand, I decided to take advantage of the dry still weather. So when I got back home, I packed a bowl of my Outdoor Reject blend (heavily diluted Latakia), and go off in search of a bench, to smoke it in its proper setting.
It's worked out very nicely. Just enough to add a little flavour against the ambient outdoor air, but didn't ghost my mouth to the same extent as many mild Lat blends can. I could have still done with a nice cup of tea with it though. I think I need to get myself a flask.
Despite the stumpy little bantam bowl being loaded with a ribbon cut, and smoked in a gentle but persistent breeze, I still got a good 35 minutes in the late morning sun. Plemty of time to do the mental arithmetic to determine if I have enough bland mixer blends, to tone down the rest of my half kilo (or so) of other Latakia blends down to the same level. And no, I probably haven't, unless a few other (currently unopened) blends along the next few years, find themselves dumped in the reject jar.
It's worked out very nicely. Just enough to add a little flavour against the ambient outdoor air, but didn't ghost my mouth to the same extent as many mild Lat blends can. I could have still done with a nice cup of tea with it though. I think I need to get myself a flask.
Despite the stumpy little bantam bowl being loaded with a ribbon cut, and smoked in a gentle but persistent breeze, I still got a good 35 minutes in the late morning sun. Plemty of time to do the mental arithmetic to determine if I have enough bland mixer blends, to tone down the rest of my half kilo (or so) of other Latakia blends down to the same level. And no, I probably haven't, unless a few other (currently unopened) blends along the next few years, find themselves dumped in the reject jar.
Savinelli Punto Oro 802.
