Just a thank you

[piping_presbyter]

I want to say thank you to everyone on this forum. Over the past month, I have read innumerable threads and took copious notes. I am standing on your shoulders and I’m very grateful for the time you have all taken to share your experience. Consequently, I went from almost no knowledge to a pretty good handle in a short time. And I already have half a dozen blends that I am very pleased with. I can only suppose they will improve with time.

This week, I will embark on my first time making Cavendish using all the information gleaned here.

Here is one thing that I have not read but which I’m sure you all are aware of. The commercial tobacco I was used to always left a certain amount of moist dottle at the bottom of the bowl. My homemade blends, however ate uncased and very low case. As a consequence, I am regularly coming to a very fine ash at the bottom of the bowl. If I’m not careful, the bowl can get pretty hot at the end. I am having to learn to just stop smoking towards the end of the bowl.

Anyway, I sincerely appreciate you all.

 

[deluxestogie]

Your brain has been trained by the Dark Side to work hard at getting the soggy bottom of a bowl to smoke. Now that you are smoking real tobacco, it will just take a bit of adjustment to not burn the bottom of the bowl.

Bob

 

[Redleaf]

If I may Piping, I would join in on your thank you and praise for the wealth of knowledge here.
Also I have observed the same fine ash as al. That remains after smoking a bowl of my own blends. Pretty hard not to smoke all the way to the bottom when that is usually the very best part !

 

[burge]

Most of the stuff you get now is heavily cased. Dons lemon I gave a guy in Banff to smoke I rolled some of his up in a tube his description was crisp. Not sure what that means in pipe smoking.