This weeks tobacco

MacBaren Gold of Denmark 2007 vintage 100 grams

Last weeks tobacco this week.

Frog Morton on the Bayou. 2012 100 grams.

Pipe Spotting

This is a capture from an Australia tv show Spicks and Specks.

This weeks tobacco

Macbaren HH Highland Blend 100 gram tin vintage 2011.

I read some bad reviews about Macbaren tobacco's
But so far i have smoked 6 types and the only
one i disliked was Plumcake.
It has a good taste and strong nicotine.

This is tenth tin so far every week i order a new tin and
every week like clockwork a new tin appears on my letterbox.
My tin collection  will be enormous.
After a couple of years i will need a room for them. 

First pipe tampers

Tobacco mixing bowl

I turned this out of Silky Oak Grevillea robusta a native to Queensland.

Amazing grain.

This weeks tobacco

MacBaren Stockton Roll Cake
Aged 2006

100 grams

They look like little scabs.
Straight Virginia flavor and a dash of Cavendish.
Mid nicotine.
A good smoke. 

Hobo Hoot's Lathe

With out a doubt the coolest lathe ever.

Tobacco tin colection

At a can a week soon i will run out of room.

This weeks Tobacco

Mac Baren Roll cake spun cut 2007.

Nicely aged 5/07

Nice coins

Full bottle 100g

A great smoke full of tobacco flavor and strong nicotine.
As all ways take that "The Man"

Pottering around

Pottered around in the shed today, got a few things up and running. Got the bench grinder hooked up and installed an arbor. Wow, the carnauba now goes on so easily it's crazy. All those pipe I thought I had shiny ..nope, they were still matte compared to the glass-like surface left by carnauba. Check out the Lorenzo Spitfire, Olroth's Import and pre-WWII GBD!

I also got the scroll saw up and running and trimmed some excess from the HD pipe. That little blade doesn't run right away, takes few seconds for it to swing around... almost scarred the bowl on the first cut! But after that all went well, all a learning curve. I've seen lots of people say that scroll saws are not powerful enough/ are too fragile for briar. Rubbish, hot knife through butter (and it's good briar as well).

I also did the initial shaping on a tobacco chamber drill bit. It goes from 20mm to 14mm over about 23mm. A pretty nice looking cone shape, although I'm still looking at what kind of edge to put on it. Regardless of how I go it will need a substantial pilot hole to allow for the large chisel point on the bit, such is life.

Pipe spotting

Running with scissors.

I was watching Storage wars.

I wanted to see more but this was it.