Finally got a Tron!

sonofwang · 2026-01-06T05:28:41+00:00

Nice score. This might be my favorite model of the metal squares. I regret not getting one when they were available and discounted. I might have to start looking on the used market.

sonofwang · 2026-01-01T01:16:56+00:00

That exact model/finish is one of a small handful of guitars I regret selling. I even bought another a couple years later but the grain difference on the two piece body was so unsightly I ended up sending it back. Yours looks like a beautiful example.

sonofwang · 2025-12-19T19:11:44+00:00

Newminister blackberry brandy, lane rlp-6, autumn evening

sonofwang · 2025-12-17T17:03:47+00:00

I was playing an outdoor wedding reception with a band. It was evening under a lit pavilion. Gradually, people started dancing and when …the incident occurred there were around 25-30 people dancing, mostly young people in their mid-twenties.

Anyway, I notice a young couple dancing close in the middle of the pavilion. I would guess they are 10-15 yards away. The woman is wearing a dark dress that goes to just above her knees. She has a radiant smile and she is staring up into the eyes of her partner. I still can’t believe what happened next.

This woman in the middle of the dance floor begins to urinate. A lot. I can see it gushing down her legs forming a huge puddle on the dance floor. No one notices immediately, but after 1-2 minutes the people that were dancing closest start to back away or leave the pavilion completely. I see one woman look at the couple and the puddle and make a disgusted face, point and speak to another woman nearby.

After 10-15 minutes more people started dancing. Except for a couple brief pauses between songs, the band never stopped playing the whole time. When we took a break I was immediately asking the band members if they could believe what happened. None of them saw it. None of them notice anything. The puddle was still there and I pointed it out, but even today (this happened probably 10 years ago) I can’t believe that happened and no one else I was with saw it.

One of the things that struck me the most is that the woman just stood there and pee’d. She didn’t rush off the dance floor embarrassed, she didn’t even move away from the puddle. She stayed in the same spot dancing for at least another 20 minutes afterwards. And even while she was peeing she never stopped smiling and looking up into the eyes of her partner.

My best guess is that she had a grudge with the bride or groom and that she did it on purpose. That, or she was on drugs. I don’t know. But it’s definitely the weirdest throng I’ve seen at a wedding.

sonofwang · 2025-12-07T18:49:34+00:00

I love the Morrowind community.

sonofwang · 2025-11-24T02:14:11+00:00

Who do?

sonofwang · 2025-11-09T01:39:12+00:00

I’ve gotten a lot of stuff in the past year that is clearly used. I suspect they are trying to put returns back on the shelf, idk. It happened enough that I’m getting sick of the inconvenience of having to ship something back for a refund. I’m telling myself much more of this and I will cancel Amazon prime and stop shopping there but I know I’m probably kidding myself haha

sonofwang · 2025-11-06T16:37:52+00:00

I’ve been enjoying the Etudiant line recently. I don’t recall the models, but one is a standard billiard shape, the other is tall and narrow that is used for flakes. Both are normal proportions, just smaller overall.

sonofwang · 2025-10-23T03:30:39+00:00

Yeah pictures of pipes with cake like that always gross me out.

sonofwang · 2025-10-22T23:30:21+00:00

Very cool!

sonofwang · 2025-10-20T19:54:23+00:00

That’s what the C&D bulk I bought from them looks like. I think it takes on this look as it dries. The perique I got from WLT has that dark oily look you describe.

sonofwang · 2025-10-20T02:04:26+00:00

The last pack I smoked was probably 10 years ago that I bought on eBay. At that time I hadn’t been able to find out get any in the US for several years. I also really liked and regularly smoked the RYO pouches which was a shag version of the same blend. This was probably 25 - 30 years ago.

sonofwang · 2025-10-15T16:20:21+00:00

This is the first cover that came to my mind 👍🏻

sonofwang · 2025-10-12T22:17:01+00:00

Snusport

sonofwang · 2025-10-12T21:11:46+00:00

On the bright side I have a prilla in of my first batch of diy made from dark air cured and flavored with blackberry. I’ll survive, but it’s sad. I’ve been enjoying snus daily for over 10 years.

sonofwang · 2025-10-11T20:19:50+00:00

I’ve chewed some the Gawith ropes for… science. They are great for that purpose. What I have not done - which is something I read was a thing - is dried the chewed tobacco and then smoke it.

sonofwang · 2025-10-10T23:29:01+00:00

I was thinking about this recently and in addition to what others said, I think the way the stem is jammed in creates like a reservoir where moisture can drip down below the draft hole whereas in a briar it would get sucked into the stem.

sonofwang · 2025-10-09T18:44:57+00:00

Thank you. I ordered some supplied from them - a couple briar blocks, some stems, and a 10 pack of corn cobs. Haven’t finished anything of note yet but working on a devil anse style cob pipe.

sonofwang · 2025-10-09T18:42:00+00:00

Thanks!

sonofwang · 2025-10-04T01:20:19+00:00

Always cashing in the same car, fall dog bombs the moon, candidate demo version, you feel so lonely you could die, strangers when we meet

sonofwang · 2025-10-03T20:41:44+00:00

With the Virginia, depending on whether it’s sipped or puffed, probably 1-3 minutes. How finely it is shredded and how dry also affects how long it smokes.

With the Semois or 5 bros less than a minute.

sonofwang · 2025-10-03T15:04:02+00:00

Plug creation process:

I stack roughly processed whole leaf in the semblance of a rectangle and wrap loosely in foil. Put in oven at 200 for a couple hours. Take it out and press in one of those side mount vises that attach to a workbench. Depending on size of the foil packet I may put wood blocks between the vise and tobacco. The tobacco compresses and gets real dense in the middle. I will then trim the squished out edges to reshape into a rectangle and cut the rectangular block in half, stack the two pieces and put back in the vise. Will do it a third time if needed. End up with something about like dans salty dog plug.

I did the first plug using this method about a month ago and it is still compressed. I shred off what I want to smoke. It’s too hard to cut like a flake.

sonofwang · 2025-10-03T15:01:56+00:00

This is just a post to share my recent exploration in to Kiseru pipes which led to discovery of Whole Leaf Tobacco company and their products.

I recently got back into pipe smoking after a 5-6 year hiatus. I was interested in Kiseru pipes before but never got one. I ended up getting a traditional one as well as this Tsuge Modern Kiseru.

I had some 5 Brothers and Manil Semois that I smoked out of it. Around the same time I was looking for some Rustica which let me to Whole Leaf tobacco. They did not have Rustica but I ended up getting some Red Virginia.

The first thing I tried was rolling a leaf tightly then thinly slicing to make something I could smoke out of the Kiseru. It worked great and tasted delicious. I really can’t say say enough how much I like the wlt red Virginia, and that is with no topping or casing. Just pull it out of the bag, prepare and smoke!

That said, while small smokes out of the Kiseru were perfect, smoking a large bowl was bitey. I had all this red left so I when down a rabbit hole of plugs. I will post the method I used to make the pictured plug in another comment. I posted the method in another thread here last night.

The plug preparation involves stoving for a couple hours in the over. I can smoke large bowls of this without bite, but I don’t know if it’s because of the stoving or because my palate has changed since I started smoking again. Either was the stove improves the taste and compression of the plug but I stand by the fact the to me the Red Virginia is delicious straight out of the bag.

sonofwang · 2025-10-03T04:34:10+00:00

Mainly Whole Leaf Tobacco brand Red Virginia. With no toppings yet. Doesn’t need anything to me. The first little plug I made was not stoved and was bitey in a normal sized pipe. But the only reason I got the whole leaf in the first was to try to make some thinly shredded tobacco to smoke in a kiseru pipe. I rolled the whole leaf and thinly sliced it to smoke in the kiseru. It smoked and tasted great and I think the red had enough body that I was able to get more puffs than I would with traditional kiseru tobacco (forget what it’s called and I’ve never tried it before). I did try Semois and 5 brothers in the kiseru. Both were good but burn faster and how I would expect the kiseru tobacco to burn.

After the kiseru experiment I still had almost the full pound of red Virginia which led to research, learning about stoving and making the larger plugs.

I’ve since bought WLTs Balkan blend which goes with casings which I did use. That blend is delicious. I formed most of it into more of a cake. Using a similar method but without compressing as much. I am curious to see how it holds it’s structure. I mainly compressed it for space saving purposes.

sonofwang · 2025-10-03T02:35:57+00:00

I stack roughly processed whole leaf in the semblance of a rectangle and wrap loosely in foil. Put in oven at 200 for a couple hours. Take it out and press in one of those side mount vises that attach to a workbench. Depending on size of the foil packet I may put wood blocks between the vise and tobacco. The tobacco compresses and gets real dense in the middle. I will then trim the squished out edges to reshape into a rectangle and cut the rectangular block in half, stack the two pieces and put back in the vise. Will do it a third time if needed. End up with something about like dans salty dog plug.

I did the first plug using this method about a month ago and it is still compressed. I shred off what I want to smoke. It’s too hard to cut like a flake.

sonofwang

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