Do you tinker with commercial blends?

[Shlippy]

(Tapatalk folks: there's a poll for this thread.)

I've found that I rarely smoke a commercial pipe tobacco without adding something to it. Especially since I got some oz of P&C "blending tobaccos" which are just types of unblended stuff -- pure latakia, cavendish, burley, virginia, perique, a couple different orientals, etc...

Usually I'll take some commercial blend and think "That would be nice, but it could use a little more [whatever] tonight." Toss it in a plastic bag and throw in a dash of this or that and shake it around, then load up the pipe. If I'm smoking over at a girlfriends' place and I know she doesn't like English blends, I may take some aromatic blend and throw in some perique to spice it up, or a burley to make it a bit "nuttier" or whatever.

I might take Nightcap and Early Morning and do a 50/50 blend if I want something kind of in-between.

I guess that's one of the things I enjoy about pipe tobacco, you can kind of mess around with it and get a different smoking experience every time. I'm curious as to how often other smokers do this.

 

[Anthony_Joseph]

I am lucky to keep a pipe burning, I find the cheaper blends to burn easier for some reason.

 

[Anthony_Joseph]

Prime example I like 5th Ave blond and M1.

 

[CaptainRon]

I've done it once when a buddy mentioned adding perqiue or latakia to one of my favorite blends. I have a pile of latakia and perqiue to do just this, but I never do!

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[CVAC085]

I've heard of others doing this and some actually making their own blends adding some more of the well known baccy's. I keep the blends the way they are though regardless of what it is. Although, this might push me off another slope to try it out.....

 

[Big Tex]

Just received an order of quite a few different blending tobaccos to do just that. Even blended some stuff of my own to try and it turned out nice.


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[Deadman's Point]

Carter Hall and McClelland #5100 is a once in awhile change for me since the #5100 is so mild.