So Joshua sent me this guy, Thanks man, I was having the worst couple of weeks when this all went down too, totally made more then my day with it....
Although i have been sitting on it (not literally Mr Mallen), I finally got around to having a smoke with it tonight, not only its maiden voyage at least for me, but my first smoke in more then a month i think, first thing i noticed with the shape i had to get a bit used to holding in my hand with the stack pointed outward, but after a few puffs this went away and it felt natural, also the olivewood is more then a bit heavier then my Briars,... this guy wont be for hanging out of the mouth,... but is great for sitting out front with a cup of Joe in my Fav B&B mug
And wow does this thing have some capacity, i only wanted to put about a 1/4 bowl in it, but i think even that took about as much as 3/4 of my lil lorenzetti pipe does
I was so excited I knew there was only one Baccy i could go with and i crammed er' with 3 oak Syrian latakia, It lit up okay, and i smoked all the way down to ash without relighting just some basic stuff, ashing a bit a little repack once or twice (it was twice), I had some gurggle along the way but nothing major, and my smoke tasted and smelled as it should and i remembered, which is almost a bitter chocolate in a mild way along with some stuff thats exotic to me,
I was a successful first pipe out,... and i look forward to breaking this guy in to get to its full potential
Thanks so much Joshua,... yer one heck of a feller for sure
and sorry i took so long to get to this guy, hope it was worth the wait !
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Although i have been sitting on it (not literally Mr Mallen), I finally got around to having a smoke with it tonight, not only its maiden voyage at least for me, but my first smoke in more then a month i think, first thing i noticed with the shape i had to get a bit used to holding in my hand with the stack pointed outward, but after a few puffs this went away and it felt natural, also the olivewood is more then a bit heavier then my Briars,... this guy wont be for hanging out of the mouth,... but is great for sitting out front with a cup of Joe in my Fav B&B mug
And wow does this thing have some capacity, i only wanted to put about a 1/4 bowl in it, but i think even that took about as much as 3/4 of my lil lorenzetti pipe does
I was so excited I knew there was only one Baccy i could go with and i crammed er' with 3 oak Syrian latakia, It lit up okay, and i smoked all the way down to ash without relighting just some basic stuff, ashing a bit a little repack once or twice (it was twice), I had some gurggle along the way but nothing major, and my smoke tasted and smelled as it should and i remembered, which is almost a bitter chocolate in a mild way along with some stuff thats exotic to me,
I was a successful first pipe out,... and i look forward to breaking this guy in to get to its full potential
Thanks so much Joshua,... yer one heck of a feller for sure
and sorry i took so long to get to this guy, hope it was worth the wait !
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