Pipe Spotting

Alfred Hitchcock Presents  s4e21 Relative Value 1959

THEY WHO DARE 1953

Tobacco's i have smoked so far

Hoots black Flake mid to strong nicotine Good taste ****

A small sample from Italy HH gave me mid nicotine Great taste ***

Peterson's Sunset breeze. mild nicotine Good taste ***

Borkum Riff Cherry Urinal cake. low nicotine No stars

Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey tongue bite low nicotine No Stars

Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish smokable if desprate Low nicotine No Stars

Mac Baren Plumcake never again tongue bite bad flavor No Stars

Erinmore Flake mid to strong nicotine ok taste ***

Gallagher's irish cake hard plug very strong nicotine strong flavor ***

Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake mid to strong nicotine great flavor *****

Peterson's 3P plug mid nicotine ok flavor ***

Wessex Gold Brick plug mid to strong nicotine pure tobacco taste ***

Rattray's Black Mallory mid nicotine nice flavor ****

Blakeney"s Best Latakia Flake strong nicotine strong flavor ****

MacBaren Honey & Chocolate mid to strong nicotine good flavor ****

CAO Eileen's Dream  2008 Mild Mild Mild **

MacBaren 7 Seas 2010 good taste good nicotine ****

McClelland No 22 2008 Vintage Ok taste good nicotine ***

New Tobacco

It is a huge tin biggest i have seen 100g.
Smells great i haven't smoked it yet but fingers crossed.
Either way it has to be better than Borekum Ruff

Update i have smoked it i loaded my Stanwell Freehand.

I figure that its Danish tobacco so i will smoke it in my Danish freehands 

I can taste chocolate and the honey its slight but its there.

Nice and easy to light and it burns well

Amazingly it has a fairly high nicotine hit which suits me fine.

I hate smoking a bowl and feeling like a smoke when its finished.

I am happy now but i find that the truth comes out after you have smoked a few bowls.

Either way it was a bargain 2 weeks worth of smoking has good nicotine and a new tin for my expanding collection. 

    

Carnauba Wax

Well...this arrived today, 10.2kg of T1 carnauba wax in flake form, only supposed to be 9.4kg - go figure. Perched atop the booty is a Bayard billiard I received yesterday from Germany. It's there for scale, that's a big bag of wax...

Pipe Spotting

Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon 1943

Peterson

Look for the second pipe.

Restored Barling

All of the polishing was completely done by hand.
Wanted to see if i could do it.
I used the Dunhill pipe bowl polish on the bowl.
Polished it about 10 times so far.
Sanded the bit with 1200 grit wet and dry and hand polished it
with Dunhill stem polish.
The stem took most of the work and a fair bit of polish
but who cares when you are as polish rich as i am.
I have spent about 4 hours on the pipe so far and i will continue polishing it
every time i smoke it.

It will get better over time.
I have just packed it for the first time and it is smoking well.
As with all of my pipe pictures any specs are dam dust and not on the pipe.
Well worth the effort. 

Carnuaba Wax Flakes (T1 Grade)

Well, I needed a supply of carnauba wax...and then this came along. 9.4kg of T1 (highest grade) pure carnauba wax. I'll melt it in the oven in some muffin trays to make pucks for use with the polishing mop. I know even a little bit of this stuff goes a very long way, so this should be the only time - for MANY years- that I'll need to purchase carnauba.

Barling London made

This pipe has amazing grain and is pure class and when cleaned up will look fantastic.
A gift from Hoot to add to my collection.
Will post when its fully cleaned and polished.

Lovely grain.

The bit is a great shape no tooth marks.
And will clean up a treat.

  I would like to thank Hoot for his continuing generosity.

Dunhill polish

A gift from Hobo Hoot

That's the mother load.

Thanks Hoot.

Old Movie "Pipe Spotting"

I like to watch old movies so when i see a pipe i take a  screenshot.
The movie is Rene Clair's - And Then There Were None (1945)
and Sherlock Holmes  Dressed To Kill downloaded from http://archive.org.
Not a great movies but it's all about "Pipe Spotting"
All of the movies i take screenshots from are in the Public Domain.

Looks like a Bulldog.
I so need a Monocle.
This guy sure has the head for one.

Dr Watson with a Bulldog.

Three Peterson Perfect Plug Flakes 3P

Smoked it in my Rock Pete.

My Flake Cutter works so well.
Its a pleasure to use.

50 blocks of briar...

Well, I bit the bullet and bought 50 blocks of briar from Alexander of Greece. I have seven of his pipes from the early 80s-90s and all of them are great smokers. These blocks come from his stocks and are of the ebauchon grade (not plateau). Most of them have been aged (dried and cured) for about 27 years in his sheds. I'm aiming at carving freehands, and that means complete freehands - drilling and all. We'll see what happens! There are some interesting shapes and sizes in there, not one the same, just how I intend the pipes to be...