A pipe related question ...

[@paulineprice9534]

What a wonderful sight.... reminds me so much if my lovely dad smoking his pipe in front of our fire. As a kid I loved the smell of it. I have his little pen knife complete with tobacco dibber and bowl scraper on display in our little cottage. I treasure it.

[@_leyrd_.]

@@paulineprice9534 I know what you mean, there are ancient Polaroid pictures of my sister and i as toddlers in our element posing with our Dad's meerschaum pipes in our gobs. Watching Dad open a new pouch of Gold Block we were transfixed as if it was some kind of literal gold treasure! 40 years later i'm continuing the mantle and thoroughly enjoy my pipes just like my Dad did.

[@torreyself]

So glad I came across your channel. I have watched all the 'pipe smoking' videos and realize this is the type of content I have been searching for. Thank you for taking the time to make them and I hope you keep them going.

[@Musrusticus-]

I love this kind of film, they’re distracting from all that’s going on which is lovely.

[@soma4u289]

Richard your a real card .I do wish we could go back in time and there you would be on the cafe sidewalk with your pipe espousing the theories of life. A theatrical genius with a caring and inquisitive nature, your what our world needs .Little did I realise when you packed up your old man's house where you were heading. It's pleasure to smell and hear your analogue smoke.

[@chriscon8463]

I love the fact that Zippo lighters are available to people around the world! I live about 1 1/2 hrs from the Zippo/Case factory in Bradford, Pa, and finally visited it a couple years ago. I love C&D’s “Jolly Old St. Nick” at Christmastime. I wish we could get “Condor” over here!

[@cmasailor]

Some tobaccos are for doing something else, wood working, reading, etc... some tobaccos are for sitting, and thinking about tobacco.

[@anonet78]

Highland heather if you can find it.

[@UplandPiper]

Great vibes all around!! Thanks for the videos

[@iovmerot]

Not that i have ever tried it, but just by looking at your relaxing setting by the fire with many books behind you and the name of this tobacco, id say haunted bookshop sounds interesting.

[@angelakenyon7490]

Ps love these pipe videos, interesting facts about pipes and tobacco 😊 A bit of calmness, after watching the Quiz night video 😊 ( of 5 years ago )

[@G6URD]

Gawith and Hoggarth Exclusive Black Cherry is a nice twist on the black cavendish, lower level of lighter tobaccos... If you have any black cavendish that's a little heavy/wet, mix it with a bit of Gold Block, doesn't offset the taste any, and helps it burn without going out...

[@Muppet.master]

I have a collection from my grandad who came over from Ireland in 1950 ... Amazing how they crafted the strength into it ❤️🙏🃏

[@kyuss89]

I have a decent cellar of jars but yeah what I have been doing because there is just so much to try is smoking a tin and then on to a different blend. It really lets you nail down the taste and nuances of a blend and let's you form an honest opinion.

[@michaelcase8574]

Some men used these small pipes as Intermission pipes. Perfect for a short smoke between the acts of a play or the opera or symphony.

[@barbwonderwander8559]

Adorable little pipe!!!😎Light weight is the way to pipe comfort. Nice video, nice warm background. Please keep them coming. USA loves the UK!

[@daz.r1994]

I am learning about pipe smoking, i started just after you Richard. I really like meerschaum pipes.

[@CentralCalPiper]

I really enjoy your videos, my friend! Great content and awesome impersonation!

[@Which-Way-Out]

Coffee with cream is a perfect match with a pipe. It's hard to get any decent pipe tobacco in Australia, and the cost is outrageous. Enjoy while you still can brother, cheers.

[@user-yb9hi3us4p]

and aromatics are getting banned from Jan 1 in Aussie as they fall under "flavoured tobacco products". its absolutely ridiculous what this country has come to. Like a 14yo is going to be drawn to smoking via a pipe and some Cult Blood Red Moon? I've just started up the pipe again after years as cigars are just so expensive. but now half the pipe baccy options are going. fortunately I'm not much for aromatics but there are a few nice ones

[@Which-Way-Out]

@@user-yb9hi3us4p I wasn't aware of that. Flavored tobacco', well all tobacco is flavored with something. There's an obvious agenda playing out. The big pHarma synthetics takeover, and anything natural, for that matter, is under attack. That tells me nicotine in it's natural form has beneficial properties.

[@silvafox8371]

Mcgaheys are a brilliant shop , cannot recommend them enough. I've got some loose "vanilla and also a Caramel which is my favourite from them

[@unclesloppy3982]

I'm not sure of it's availability in the UK, but if you can get it, I'd suggest a tin of "Merry Monk" by Drucquer & Sons. I first tried it December of 2023, and it is now, at least in my own mind, forever associated with the Winter Solstice/Christmas/Yule/New Year season. An absolutely wonderful mixture 😁👍

[@TheMagicianPiper]

Brilliant looking pipe. I enjoy these smallish lighter ones myself.

[@frankdutton9852]

I would recommend Gawith Hoggarth's Exclusive Black Cherry, as a blend to sip over the Christmas period.

[@visionlandmusic]

This is my favourite blend currently, also easy to get in the UK!

[@mushroomleg]

Holy abrupt ending, Batman! Christmas blends??? Get ur hands on some plum pudding Christmas spirit. And HU Makhuwa.

[@allanburns37]

St Bruno Flake is truly wonderful!

[@allanburns37]

Hi Richard. If you can pass me a note of your address, I would like to send you one of them American blends, which I hope you will like!!! Magical, in my opinion!

[@francisholt]

Try Deluxe Navy Rolls by Peterson (available in the UK) Richard. Slow burning, rich Vaper. Excellent. Enjoy the videos by the way.

[@donmorrissey1453]

I feel your pain with regards to pipe tobacco lol. Here in southern Ireland there's basically only one place that sells pipe tobacco and it's €38 for one tin and not much of a variety.

[@LukeEdwards-x8c]

@@donmorrissey1453 that’s crazy when Peterson is an Irish brand of pipe

[@donmorrissey1453]

@LukeEdwards-x8c yeah so sad how it's become so unpopular to smoke a pipe here. Everyone is smoking those awful vapes instead 🙄🙄

[@KnottsAndPipes]

Condor is my "Go to" tobacco if I'm out and about. At home, English blends are lovely in winter 965 and Nightcap are great. Petersons sweet killarney is my favourite aromatic but it can bite if smoked too quickly.

[@JamesDollan-v8c]

I just smoke condor and clan in briars and im happy

[@LukeEdwards-x8c]

Peterson De Luxe Navy Rolls are an autumn winter favourite of mine - taste of fruitcake. Orlik Golden Sliced for spring summer - zesty taste - been buying Gawith Hogarth Full Virginia Flake and their Best Brown Flake as no floral lakeland casing, but needs some drying time. All easy to get hold of online in the UK. The USA blends are widely available in mainland Europe (Germany etc.). Clan and St. Bruno are your UK supermarket blends.

[@garyholdcroft2988]

I no the videos your talking about richard I'm green with envy when I watch them showing all the wonderful different types of tobacco . Are tobacco costs an arm and a leg because off all the tax placed on it by the cretins in Westminster .please continue with the pipe videos I love watching them

[@fr.johnroutos7831]

Edward G Robinson! I believe it's a Sutliff blend, so who knows how long it will be available. Mixes well with Half & Half Two blends together were Shelby Foote's blend; he's the author of the three volume history of the American Civil War.I very much enjoyed your video.

[@roymillsjnr5172]

They had a lovely tobbacco shop old fashioned , the thing is ,they would offer a lot of chewing tobbacco for the miners , but the collection of pipes and different flavours off the scale , it closed down after 100 years or so .😭

[@craigl813]

Great video richard, i would recomend peterson deluxe navy rolls. A lovelly deep figgy raisiny aroma and a rich real tobacco flavour. St bruno flake is a fantastic blend also! Craig

[@briarrabbit63]

If you haven't smoked it one of my favourite smokes is Caribbean coconut by gawith and hogarth

[@davidmanning7755]

Hello Richard, A couple of hours after watching this video, I saw another one from my KZbin recommendations covering pipe smoking were the chap Nathan (The Vaping Piper) talked about the Peterson pipe smoker’s lighter he was reviewing after receiving it as a gift, which looked identical to your new one. Nathan also covered his other lighters including something called a Z Plus! Which is a butane filled, electric ignition unit insert for pipe smokers to fit into a Zippo lighter casing, which (on a side note) from the comments stated it’s far more wind resistant than the Peterson, Knowing that you also own a cigarette smoker’s Zippo lighter I thought I’d mention it in passing as perhaps something you might want to take a look at possibly for a back-up pipe lighter for yours, just a thought.

[@AlbertMet6661]

when i was smoking i used to smoke Mac Baren Cube , LOVELY smoke

[@grahamluna6935]

I like that pipe your using and the tobacco seems to stay well lit. If you like aromatic tobacco, I'd recommend "signature" by W. O. Larsen. (if your passing through Spain you can buy it at a very reasonable price

[@nomo9344]

Just finished some Briary black cherry blend in a corn cob piple whilst sipping some bourbon on the back porch in rural Alabama. Not quite the same as sitting by a fire smoking the fancy looking pipe.....or is it??

[@kobathedread9649]

Great chat and observations - relaxing and entertaining! On the issue of price: in the hermit state formerly known as Australia where the Karen's of the Nanny State (male, female and whatever) run unbridled, a 50 gram tin of Peterson's 965 will set you back a cool $175.00, which on todays exchange rate is 87.79 pounds sterling.

[@LukeEdwards-x8c]

Wow that’s so crazy - shows why we need to cellar hard in the UK - people have been for several years ready for smoke free Britain in 2030 - we need to be buying heavily while it is still circa £20 per 50g

[@phillipharris007]

Geez! ive bought tobacco seeds online and will start growing next year and learn to cure and press my own. It worth a go in Oz too?

[@_leyrd_.]

You have to try one of the Rattrays ones especially Hal O' The Wynd and Old Gowrie, they are the best i've tried in quite a while. Other than that, i enjoyed Orlik Vintage Aged Golden Sliced and Fribourg & Treyer Special Brown Flake but the Rattrays being broken flake was also very well-behaved. On several occasions it was lighting up properly from just one match and going for half an hour.

[@Dose_Of_Dad]

First thing that I would recommend is a visit to a proper tobacconist. Great place to get exposure to available blends and perhaps house blends. Aston’s of Manchester is a great shop depending on where you are of course. +1 for St Bruno. I take a pass on Clan.

[@markodams5857]

Samual gawith squadron leader

[@visionlandmusic]

I suspect Jacques Tati would have smoked both cigarettes and a pipe, this was commonplace in the 30s, 40s and 50. Even Sherlock Holmes was known to smoke both.

[@jeffreybarton1297]

Personally, I'd avoid Clan. It was the first tobacco I ever tried, and it was years before I realized how much I didn't like it compared to tobaccos that I later discovered. I like Peterson's Sherlock Holmes, Edwardian, and Elizabethan mixture. Planta's Burberry.

[@anonet78]

Them seeds need light to germinate put them on top of soil then put a thin layer of vermiculite, Do not overwater,. Tobacco seeds.

[@StackingTrucker]

You need a missouri meerschaum pipe

[@bobtibbitts6147]

Mix Condor with Holland House

[@Shuckyduckyquack]

Hi Richard. Have you ever tried Condor plug? My father smokes it probably for the past 40 years. He's 80 now and wouldn't try anything else. He has to cut it with a knife and rolls it between he's hands

[@ukpipeandcigar]

Unfortunately this is only available in Ireland-perhaps it’s also been discontinued there too now, as Condor Long Cut has been everywhere.

[@johng4991]

I stopped smoking my pipe when I couldn't get the Balkan sobrani anymore. So sad I really did enjoy my pipe.

[@jonathanquinlivan6911]

Try condor in all its renditions, warning you'll need a dedicated pipe for condor 😂it's a ghost off the highest order 😉, in ireland we have condor plug, it's black as ebony, sweet and bitter and relaxing (nicotine+),but I'd definitely try over the counter tobaccos, they can be surprisingly pleasant, o and get a falcon pipe and a few bowls to play around with, or a bag of Missori meerschaum corn cob seconds frome their website

[@richardwallace4509]

Hi Richard try a bulken blend for Christmas 🎉 sorry about the spelling

[@claygreen4723]

If it's allowed I'd be happy to send you a tin for Christmas. I live in South Carolina and would be happy to gift you a tin from a former colony.

[@VobesShow]

How generous! Thank you - do email me richard at vobes dot com

[@BlakesPipes]

The US market will be cut down quickly in the next few months as Sutliff is getting shut down , as STG bought Mac Barren and they owned Sutliff. C&D is the last large tobaccanist here in the US. As it is unknown what they will keep making or stop making is unknown. We are hearing that it might all be taken off the market to gain more purchasing power of there own blends already. As far as Christmas blends , I make my own blend with tobacco I do not like that much and add " Frosty Mint" make by Sutliff to them and let them sit in a jar for a couple weeks and POW! It's a blend with a touch of mint that covers up what I did not like and I smoked the rest of the tobacco I did not like so much. 😂

[@jamessell4490]

Probably the easiest way to get a pipe personalized would be to take it to a shop that offers laser engraving. Otherwise you're looking at having to get a stamp made and that would be prohibitively expensive for just one pipe.

[@claygreen4723]

@@jamessell4490 I've thought about doing that with some pipes to redo logos that have been worn/buffed down.

[@jamessell4490]

@claygreen4723 I can see that presenting some unique problems. Trying to match up fonts and size of type. Also they may refuse to engrave brand names that have been buffed out on the grounds that someone might try to get a prestige name put on a basket pipe to increase resale value.

[@barrymcguinness2087]

I tried erinmore flake for the first time a couple of days ago and to be honest after a couple of pipes I wasn't that keen on it I also tried Peterson's sunset breeze and Peterson's connoisseurs choice I found these tobaccos to be very similar to each other and personally after smoking them I find I have a problem with that tongue bite that you get from some pipe tobaccos one of my personal favourite tobaccos is CONDOR it's been around for some years now ( Thankfully it hasn't been discontinued yet ) it's a nice smoke. And ST BRUNO READY RUBBED IS ok as well.

[@ericcross1225]

Try condor if you can get it Richard, lovely smell and quite strong

[@battlemorph]

Have you tried vertical vs. horizontal tasting of baccy yet?

[@lukeperigo339]

Peterson Irish Flake, very nice.

[@weareyounique4234]

You can buy 15g of tobacco to trial them

[@tonytohill7391]

have you tried the 'Pensioners blend' form uk tobacco online, it's a lovely sweet smooth smoke,

[@charlieboylinton]

I know you passed over it in a previous video, but - how do you keep them alight??? I've tried a couple of different types of baccy, but I think it's probably the pipe itself (a cheapo eBay one) that's quite small. Is there a measurement/dimension equation type thing for the bowl that'll inhibit or promote the baccy continuing to burn? I literally have to puff away constantly, otherwise it just goes out!

[@Saxonx500]

Erinmore tastes to me like cigarettes…..just hate it….try Bagpipers Blend, Erinmore and Comoy’s Cornish Mixture…all are great!

[@dbitgood1]

How to get unavailable blends? Have your American subscribers send some to you, which I'm sure many will be glad to do.

[@JourneyofaSuperScrub]

Can you not order some blends? I can order, over here in Japan, just about anything online. Taxes are high, though. A 50 gram tin costs around 2,200 to 2,600 yen. I know some blends just aren't on the online market, they're in-house blends, very local stuff. I'm from South Carolina originally and it's tobacco country out there.

[@redsed1565]

Time for a real job pops😂😂

[@David-cf2iq]

Try to find a Park.

[@battlemorph]

Clan is the worst, tongue-bite inducing, horrible blend ever made. Avoid at all costs. Don't even buy it to try how bad it is. Complete waste of money. Erinmore Flake is wonderful.

[@jasonga]

The most filthy stinking dirty house destroying habit there is I think, makes everything stink and stains houses….. yuk

[@rtk3543]

Why are you here? No one is interested in your opinion.

[@mikett7735]

Maybe you should quit then (?)

[@LukeEdwards-x8c]

@@jasonga I think you are confusing cigarette / cigar smoke with pipe tobacco smoke. Pipe tobacco does not cling to materials and overnight dissipates so there is hardly any room smell. Cigarettes are stinky things

[@jasonga]

@ my mate smokes a pipe and gets his tobacco from isle of white or man not sure, but when I got there I wear old clothes because when I come outside I smell like I’ve been in a nite club back in the 90’s when they smoked inside! Sorry I think it’s a stinking filthy anti social bad habit

[@woodnugget1301]

I’ve tried erinmore recently and it definitely not what it used to be.