Recent content by kwont

Thanks! I smoked some brigham Mark Twain in the one on the right after it got a couple applications of wax (and sat a day). It smoked as well as the Lorenzetti. But I'm still not so good at getting a consistently packed bowl, so I may have packed it well or I may not have packed the...

Attacked them with carnauba wax (solid, not paste) three times now. Also included one shot with my lorenzetti Augustus for size comparison. If I were to do it all over, I don't know that I'd really change anything significantly. I might be tempted to take off more of the briar, and I'd be...

I think I did better at the gouging and sanding than I did at staining. Still to do, waxing. I expect that I'll be happier once they're waxed and buffed.

Anejo 46 and some macallan 12 yr after first day of school. I haven't been that relaxed in ages.

The stain arrived in the mail yesterday. As it happens, law school started this week as well. My inner OCD I think will require that I go over them again starting at 60 grit, to remove sanding/gouging imperfections. But completing them (and posting the results) is still on my things-to-do in...

It may be a few weeks before there's any more progress. The stain and wax is on order from pimopipecraft, but delivery may take a while. The briar is moderately hard, but I think the generic 60 grit was just old and shitty sandpaper. Generic 80-1000 all worked fine. The norton heavy removal...

I attacked the second pipe kit for an hour or so yesterday, and again for an unknown time today. I still have some sanding to do on it. There are a few marks that I think should be removable without a great deal of difficulty.

Attacked it again with some 150, 320 and 1000 grit. There are some imperfections in the briar, and a few small imperfections from gouging too much. The 320 and 1000 really showed where I needed to get at it a little more with the 120 and 150. The wait for the stain and wax folks to reply...

He's a dalmatian with a longish nose. He was jumping up on my lap at the time, so his nose looks elongated because of the fisheye effect on cheap cameras at close range.

Also on the todo list, order some stain and wax from pimopipecraft (also no affiliation, they just happen to be mentioned elsewhere in this forum.)

I got a couple DIY pipe kits from EA Carey Smoke Shop (no affiliation, just bought these from them) in my mailbox this morning. I had ordered them in January, and they've been on backorder. I moved the last week of July, and miraculously Canada Post managed to get the box forwarded properly to...

I've been into cigars for less than a year. The first box(es) for me were a box of Padron 3000 maduro, and a box of CAO MX2 robusto. I had them shipped to a relative in Michigan that I was going to visit, and had to smoke one before I came home to sneak under the 50 cigar limit to avoid duty...

After getting a casa magna in a newbie sampler from siriusstogie, managed to find a box of casa magna colorado gran toro at a store in Toronto. Good cigar at a reasonable price.

Currently smoking a casa magna colorado, from a newbie sampler from siriusstogie. Didn't measure, but I think it's a robusto. What a fantastic tasty, even burning smoke!