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Escudo tends to be a little tasteless for my palette...if you like a twist try three nuns

as a British pipe smoker I wouldn't say that filters are extensively used here....rather that cigarette smokers who also smoke a pipe tend to use them personally i hate em....also think those little widgets that new pipes come with in the end of the stem to stop hot gledes rising are a waste of...

in the 80's i worked for a large tobacco multinational company, and we mass produced ciggies...but the one thing we spent time & expertise on was pipe tobacco, using recipes developed over the course of a 100 years we blended, cut, pressed and cased our tobaccos, and took care from the initial...

please ignore date tags on my pix as I have no idea how to re-set the date on my camera!

This is so true also avoid smoking mixtures on their own as they can get really hot......if you use them to top a neutral flake you will get the taste and aroma with a cooler smoke try radfords no.2 or rob roy as a base I'm an old -fashioned flake man myself...BUT the thing is you've really...

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slice of potato will revive dry tobacco....i use kilner jars for storage as an english man and a former tobacco worker , i am always amazed by the difference in terminology and smoking prefences around the globe.......most englishmen have never heard of "English blend" and wouldn't understand...

got any dunhill Night Cap ?

the nicest mixture containing black cavendish is probably erinmore.....like most mixtures its best enjoyed as a top-dressing to a flake latakia.....really can't recommend anything since the late lamented Balkan Sobranie (truly the greatest tobacco ever).....although there are a few english...

second-hand eh?...thanks old bean!

personal preference I know....but I like to break in pipe with a "Heavy" flake......rather than a hot burning aromatic....my late father would always start his pipes with irish black or plug then switch to a lighter tobacco after he'd broken them in...the other trick he taught me with a new pipe...

being a British chap...i am a little confused by this term ....what do you gentlemen mean by "Estate" pipe?

ben wades are really worth sending off to be restored...i have several production ben wades and one hand thrown "danish" ben wade ....most i've had re-stemmed 4 or 5 times...all have been re-bored several times (except the hand-thrown), one full-bend i've even had the bottom plugged.........a...

crikey that sounds cheap