What Are You Smoking April 2019

Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:12 pm

Peacock wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:05 pm Fold n' stuff LNF in a cob. Or as Fr_Tom would say FNSLNFMMC... I think?

Either way, I'm back baby!!

Welcome back - good form BTW...

Mr Beardsley · Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:20 pm

Another round of the home press VaBur. This time in the newest old england #73 small pot with some Arrowhead fizzy water for sipping

9 Iron · Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:27 pm

Well the short answer is that yes, brylon smokes like a pipe. I suffered no ill effects. Perhaps a derogatory look from the cat. Didn’t get hot, tobacco tasted like tobacco, smokes just fine. I think if they went the one step further and put a decent acrylic stem on them they’d be a whole lot more popular, but that may be a little too much gilding the lily. Fact is, smokes no worse than a cob, which I have no qualms about smoking. In fact, I’m about to stuff a flake of Mixture in there and have another go.

I wonder about the purists viewpoint though. Stinger? No stinger? I fiddled with it and ended up shoving a Sav balsa filter in there, worked perfect.

There’s a whole different aura around these. I felt I should go in and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and sandals with high socks pulled up to my knees, maybe fix a baloney on wonderbread and a can of Schmidt. Put a baseball game on the transistor radio.

Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:36 pm

Pegasus in a straight bored-out MM MT

Houtenziel · Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:43 pm

SPRT Plug in the SP Bulldog.

Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:55 pm

9 Iron wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:27 pm
There’s a whole different aura around these. I felt I should go in and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and sandals with high socks pulled up to my knees, maybe fix a baloney on wonderbread and a can of Schmidt. Put a baseball game on the transistor radio.

pretty much...
I keep the stinger in mine but I'm still entertaining the idea of a filter.

Houtenziel · Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:05 pm

9 Iron wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:27 pm Well the short answer is that yes, brylon smokes like a pipe. I suffered no ill effects. Perhaps a derogatory look from the cat. Didn’t get hot, tobacco tasted like tobacco, smokes just fine. I think if they went the one step further and put a decent acrylic stem on them they’d be a whole lot more popular, but that may be a little too much gilding the lily. Fact is, smokes no worse than a cob, which I have no qualms about smoking. In fact, I’m about to stuff a flake of Mixture in there and have another go.

I wonder about the purists viewpoint though. Stinger? No stinger? I fiddled with it and ended up shoving a Sav balsa filter in there, worked perfect.

There’s a whole different aura around these. I felt I should go in and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and sandals with high socks pulled up to my knees, maybe fix a baloney on wonderbread and a can of Schmidt. Put a baseball game on the transistor radio.

I took the stinger out of mine. I found that it really encouraged a flood in the shank, and it smokes way better without it.

Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:20 pm

houtenziel wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:05 pm
9 Iron wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:27 pm Well the short answer is that yes, brylon smokes like a pipe. I suffered no ill effects. Perhaps a derogatory look from the cat. Didn’t get hot, tobacco tasted like tobacco, smokes just fine. I think if they went the one step further and put a decent acrylic stem on them they’d be a whole lot more popular, but that may be a little too much gilding the lily. Fact is, smokes no worse than a cob, which I have no qualms about smoking. In fact, I’m about to stuff a flake of Mixture in there and have another go.

I wonder about the purists viewpoint though. Stinger? No stinger? I fiddled with it and ended up shoving a Sav balsa filter in there, worked perfect.

There’s a whole different aura around these. I felt I should go in and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and sandals with high socks pulled up to my knees, maybe fix a baloney on wonderbread and a can of Schmidt. Put a baseball game on the transistor radio.
I took the stinger out of mine. I found that it really encouraged a flood in the shank, and it smokes way better without it.

Yours has a different blade type stinger.

racinghoss · Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:37 pm

EMP in this older and very nice Parker bent bulldog.

Mon Apr 08, 2019 3:41 pm

9 Iron wrote: ↑Mon Apr 08, 2019 2:27 pm
I wonder about the purists viewpoint though. Stinger? No stinger? I fiddled with it and ended up shoving a Sav balsa filter in there, worked perfect.

There’s a whole different aura around these. I felt I should go in and put on a pair of Bermuda shorts and sandals with high socks pulled up to my knees, maybe fix a baloney on wonderbread and a can of Schmidt. Put a baseball game on the transistor radio.

I take the stinger out of my YB brylon.

Your description of the brylon vibe is right on. Real 1960s Americana Space Age stuff.