Reeducation

[trouttimes]

Just got an estate Dunhill Tanshell 1962. Cleaned it and sat down with a bowl of aro for my first smoke...yucch! Did the cat crap in this pipe? Dumped and started over with the same blend areo in another Tanshell that looked like the identical pipe but a 1952...wonderful. So not the blend. Back to the 1962 with an English blend...delightful. I can't say why but it reminded me that there is a butt for every saddle and a saddle for every butt. I knew that some blends do better in some pipes than others but this really hammered it home.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Interesting. Never really noticed that much of a difference from pipe to pipe beyond having to pack slightly differently. What was the aro?

 

[trouttimes]

The aro was Molto Dolce and the English was the old standard 965.

 

[alaskanpiper]

The aro was Molto Dolce and the English was the old standard 965.

Yummy and yummy! Well, I guess now you know which goes in which!

 

[workman]

That's strange. I couldn't get 965 to taste good in any of my pipes ?

 

[didimauw]

Yeah I guess the pipes are telling you how it's going to be huh? Hahaha

 

[Chasing Embers]

Never noticed a taste difference from one pipe or another. Sounds like the airway is oxidized. Less noticable with a latakia blend.

 

[americaman]

I bought a 1964 Tanshell and it had a weird ghost in it. Couldn’t get it out for a while. It tasted musty, but not necessarily bad, just strange. Whenever I would run a pipe cleaner with solution on it through it would come out brown, no matter how many times I did it.

One day it started to smoke flakes well, and I just realized, “Hey, that ghost is gone.” But I feel like it still has a little bit of that ghost. Every time I run a pipe cleaner with solution through, it still comes out brown. Maybe that’s just how all Tanshells are. I have another Tanshell on the way, so we’ll see.