My First

[JoeyGunz]

[PeeJay]

Should have got a Hobbit pipe!

[JoeyGunz]

I migh be short but I'm pretty big in Hong Kong.

[PeeJay]

I migh be short but I'm pretty big in Hong Kong.

I was thinking of the beard!

[TonyN]

Nice sellection of pipe tobacco you got there joey.

[handlebarpipe]

I would be very interested to hear what you think about the St. James Flake. It is a tobacco I have always meant to try.
Best wishes, Marc

[JoeyGunz]

Hi Marc, will update you when I can although I can't promise much insight!

So I just smoked my first bowl went for the Virginia - JF Germains - Medium Flake.

No problems packing or lighting as far as I know, although I did seem to have to tamp it down quite a bit and the stem did seem did to full of quite a lot moisture so I ran the pipe cleaner down there say 2/3 times in the half hour it took me to smoke.

Flavours I'd say honey/hay quite sweet very pleasent to compare it to cigars maybe a cross between a PLPC and a RyJ SC?

[Edamski]

Very nice starter kit!

[butternutsquashpie]

very nice, joey joe joe shabadoo!

[captain duff]

That looks to me to be just about the best starter kit anyone could get for trying out pipe smoking at a reasonable cost and with a good selection of pipe tobacco styles - Glynn certainly knows his stuff.

In terms of moisture Joey that is very normal, and you normally wouldn't notice without a see-through stem. I tend to only run a cleaner down it mid-smoke if it starts gurgling like the bubble pipes you used to have as a kid! If a tobacco seems very moist though it can be useful just to leave a bowlful out for 20 or 30 minutes to dry off slightly before you pack in our pipe.

[ValeTudoGuy]

How did I miss this thread? Welcome to the pipe world!

[tommy]

Smoking a pipe while checking valve beds, make sure the petrol fumes are all gone. Kaboom.

[Budgie Smuggler]

I bought the same starter pack (briar instead of corncob) for a colleague when he was leaving and he was absolutely over the moon with it.

[JoeyGunz]

So I love the Classic Balkan, now where do I go from there, when they call that English, would Dunhill fall into the same type?

[ValeTudoGuy]

Some Dunhills. Dunhill Standard is a good introduction. Nightcap is great but has very pronounced Latakia if that's up your alley. I happen to love the Latakia.