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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details: https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is$300$250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Pipes and Traditional knives (cigars welcome)
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This old Peterson was "loved not wisely, but too well".
Not my doing. Next to it is the first and only Richards pipe knife I've found.
Not my doing. Next to it is the first and only Richards pipe knife I've found.
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Yello Bole with a Camillus Yello Jaket Pony Jack
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After attempting to smoke a mild cigar yesterday (and finding it isn't for me), I figured I'd give a pipe a go. Decided on a Missouri Meershaum- can't beat the price. Truth be told, I can't much tell the difference between cigar tobacco and pipe tobacco: neither one is to my liking. At least I didn't shell out much money to find out that smoking just isn't for me. I do like the feel of the pipe in my hand and my mouth - just not the smoke part. Perhaps, like when I was a kid, I'll pretend smoke a pipe. More money for knives this way.
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I'm not that impressionable. Figured before I die I should try a pipe and a cigar. That being done, I may move on to skydiving. But I think I'll pass on the skydiving and traditional knife thread.
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Ah, my friend - but tobaccos are no different than whiskeys, wine or (insert other decadent indulgence here). There are cheap, dry, tasteless tobaccos and then there artfully-blended premium tobaccos that I can only equate to a 5-star desert. Writing off all pipe tobaccos based on one such experience is like writing off bourbon based on not enjying a sip of Jim Beam. But in the end, you're probably making a smart choice - it's no good for you anyway.
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Ah, my friend - but tobaccos are no different than whiskeys, wine or (insert other decadent indulgence here). There are cheap, dry, tasteless tobaccos and then there artfully-blended premium tobaccos that I can only equate to a 5-star desert. Writing off all pipe tobaccos based on one such experience is like writing off bourbon based on not enjying a sip of Jim Beam. But in the end, you're probably making a smart choice - it's no good for you anyway.
Quite true.
Rule of thumb for pipe tobacco. The ones which smell sweet and wonderful to bystanders tend to be harsh in the mouth of the smoker.
Rule of thumb for folks who want to try a pipe: Find an established tobacconist and get his recommendation for a mild smoking tobacco to try.
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About fifteen years ago I enthusiastically tucked into my first ever bowl. My grandfather always smoked a clay pipe and he was my hero. Problem was I bought what he smoked, royal yacht.
I now love that wonderful Dunhill smoke but that first one really put me on my arse. Beware!
(One of) My old addiction(s).
Smoked a box a week. I would get a good cigar or three every week when I got my supply. Royal Jamaica was best as I remember.
Clint couldn't be wrong, right?
He supposedly hated tobacco of any kind and found Marsh Wheelings and cut them in half for his movies. He hated the taste so much it would give him that "look".
I smoked cigars at work and a pipe at home. I favored English blends or Virginians. Aromatics are foul. I used to say, "The worse it smells, the better it tastes.", so Knarfeng is correct.
I live just north of, and work in Kentucky. Years ago (and still, to a much lesser extent) a lot of my co-workers grew Burley tobacco. I've grown more than a few plants they gave me. The stuff will turn you green if you just dry it and smoke it. Through the wonders of the internet I found (eventually) how they cure it. You can ferment at 100-130 degrees and high humidity for 6 weeks, or just keep it in case (moist enough to be pliable) and age it. A couple years in the basement and it's good. Better to mix half and half with a Virginia.
Smoked a box a week. I would get a good cigar or three every week when I got my supply. Royal Jamaica was best as I remember.
Clint couldn't be wrong, right?
He supposedly hated tobacco of any kind and found Marsh Wheelings and cut them in half for his movies. He hated the taste so much it would give him that "look".
I smoked cigars at work and a pipe at home. I favored English blends or Virginians. Aromatics are foul. I used to say, "The worse it smells, the better it tastes.", so Knarfeng is correct.
I live just north of, and work in Kentucky. Years ago (and still, to a much lesser extent) a lot of my co-workers grew Burley tobacco. I've grown more than a few plants they gave me. The stuff will turn you green if you just dry it and smoke it. Through the wonders of the internet I found (eventually) how they cure it. You can ferment at 100-130 degrees and high humidity for 6 weeks, or just keep it in case (moist enough to be pliable) and age it. A couple years in the basement and it's good. Better to mix half and half with a Virginia.
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