New Cavicchi

(8am) 2 American Spirits
(10am) PS Lux Navy Flake in Cavicchi 4C Slug
(2pm) PS Lux Navy Flake in Cavicchi 4C Slug
(10pm) 4 American Spirits

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Breaking 'em in

For the past few years I've broken in every pipe with Navy Flake. Though it's fairly uncomplex, I know the flake's nuances better than any other tobacco and it leaves no ghosts. With a simple and familiar tobacco like this, I feel that I can focus on getting to know the pipe's smoking characteristics and am more aware of any problems that may emerge during that critical and vulnerable period.

The new Cavicchi is a pipe I bought a while back from Skip Elliot at thebriary.com...or was it from Synjeco's? (I bought two Cavicchi pipes at around the same time and ain't sure which is which.) It's been sitting in my drawer waiting for a special occasion. Well, when a special occasion came about it really didn't seem that special, so I left the pipe in the drawer. I decided yesterday that since those moments tend to feel so routine, so anticlimactic when they fruit, that I might as well fire her up, break the briar hymen, and get on with life. Celebrate (if you'll allow an overstatement) without commemorating one damn thing.

God bless,
-Dizz