For Sale NC USA - Deeply discounted fresh snuff + unopened MrSnuff order

[tobaccohand]

Hello,

I’m selling most of a MrSnuff order (see screenshot in my reply to this post) as well as 1.15oz tins of G.W. Gail & Ax Superior Scotch Dry Snuff and Tuberose Classic Scotch dry snuff (all shown in photos). Prices listed below photos - I’d love to sell everything to one person, but am willing to sell the opened stuff separately first as well (pictured on right side of photo).

I decided I simply don’t care for most commercial blends so I started making my own. I look forward to sharing some effective methods soon in a separate thread.

All of the opened tins are 85-99% full and I’ll sell them at approximately a 50% discount compared to what I paid. These were delivered January 7 and are still fresh, stored fully sealed in a climate-controlled home.

The unopened tins are full price. I can still return these within the next few weeks (but not the opened tins) if no one buys them.

Also willing to sell everything pictured for $55, with free US shipping. I am not interested in selling individual tins. If you buy everything, I’ll also include 5-7g of a home blend of the buyer’s choice (fine-ground dry with a combination of rustica with fronto, fire-cured, burley, perique, or virginia flue-cured and alkalized with potassium carbonate).

I’m in North Carolina. We can also meet face-to-face if you’re in the northwest part of the state.

Unopened ($18):

• FUBAR Fido spicy dog treat 30g x 1 ($5)
• taxi red 15g x 4 ($13)

Opened ($39)

• NTSU Black 15g x 1 ($1.75)
• 6 photo LA natural 35g x 1 ($1.75)
• 6 photo cheeta chap gul 35g x ($1.75)
• taxi red 15g x 1 ($1.75)
• viking dark 100g x 1 ($7)
• FUBAR toasted 50g x 1 ($5)
• SNUV rigor mortis 10g x 1 $(6)
• Tuberose scotch dry 1.15 oz x 1 ($7) [bought locally]
• GW Gail scotch dry 1.15 oz x 1 ($7) [bought locally]

I’ve also got an additional opened Fido tin somewhere which I’ll throw in for free if I find it in time.

I’m new in the forum but happy to provide some personal details you can verify or do a quick video call so you can get a feel for who I am, as trust is important.

-Corey

[tobaccohand]

[tobaccohand]

Price drop, $50 for everything shipped in the US.

[mecompco]

I’ll take the lot, PM sent.

[tobaccohand]

Everything is sold pending funds.

[Graeme1]

Hi. Welcome.

Would love to hear of your experience of making your own snuff. I’ve made 9 snuffs recently from different tobaccos, including a cigar one.

Cheers,

Graeme

[volunge]

While I’m still quite fond of some factory-made snuffs and by no means am looking down upon them, I have made a full switch to homemade, too, which I find at least on a par to the commercial stuff (if not superior).

Start adding salts to your tobacco flour, @Graeme1. Aqueous solution of sodium carbonate and salt. Or of potassium carbonate and salt. Sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate. Complement those with just a dash of ammonium chloride or ammonium carbonate. Make fine dry snuff with pure wood ash or calcium hydroxide. Procure a set of sieves with 100, 200 and 400 micron aperture. And get your hands on 0.01 g digital weighing scale. Then, go through Snuffmaking 101 and Old Snuff Recipes threads once or thrice again and give a whirl to every single recipe there. They are all legit.

Have fun!

[Graeme1]

Thanks for the interesting information. So far my snuffs have been pure tobacco that I have purchased in leaf sheaves, with the exception of two, which I added coffee oil to. Very nice. The tobaccos are Virginia air cured, Burley dark fire cured, Kasturi sun dried, Latakia from Cyprus, Soppeng 4 years fermented.

What are the benefits of adding sodium carbonate and ammonium?

These snuffs seem to have a good nicotine hit and a little nose burn which I enjoy.

I use a four blade coffee grinder, and although it takes a long time, up to 30 mins, i get a smooth fluffy flour eventually, just like commercial snuffs.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Graeme

[volunge]

You are so lucky to have an access to all those beautiful tobaccos, @Graeme1. Frankly speaking, I friendly envy… I’ve been following your endeavours and visualy devouring the results (all the photos, that is) of your labour since your first posts here.

Nothing beats the flavour of pure, unadulterated tobaccos, especially the fermented leaves. Those naturally more alkaline ones (like those in most cigars) can be quite satisfying even without additional alkalization. However, with a very few exceptions, one cannot buy such pure goodness nowadays - vast majority of modern snuffs, including all those produced in Sheffield by Wilsons of Sharrow which are favoured by you, come processed with salts.

There are quite a few good reasons for such a treatment, all being of equal importance. Alkalizing deprotonates (“freebases”) nicotine, making it bioavailable / rendering higher and way more rapid absorption through nasal/buccal membranes. That’s where the most part of the burn and drip come from (this is not to say that pure tobacco powder does not “sting” at all or is entirely dripless). Then, many alkalized tobaccos release volatile ammonia which (being alkaline as well) adds to the kick, further enhancing nicotine delivery (tobaccos with low ammonia content benefit from small addition of ammonium carbonate, ammonium chloride or ammonium bicarbonate). Even if one doesn’t care about nicotine, there’s still a good reason for adding salts - alkalized snuff is more invigorating. Besides, properly salted snuff turns mouldproof. Finally, let me quote some English snuff manufacturer:

“Tobacco without salts is like… a potato without a salt.”

(Gawith and Hoggarth Tobbaco Twist and Snuff Makers Film - YouTube)

Nicely put, isn’t it? A bit cunningly, too (they used to save a fortune, adding excessive amounts of salts back in the day; no lightshedding on more addictive properties of “salted” snuff for absolutely understandable reasons, too). And yes, for most palates, snuff does “taste” better with salts.

Alkalized snuff has its downsides, though. Due to higher nicotine absorption it is more addictive than pure tobacco powder. It’s also way more drippy than natural tobacco. Besides, depending on tobaccos used, it might release a helluva ammonia - too much for the liking of some (alkalized cigar flour releases astoundingly high ammounts of it - at least in my humble experience; such snuff easily beats NTSU and obviously doesn’t need the addition of any ammonium salts). That said, all the aforementioned downsides might be perceived as benefits by some.

Sieves are crucial for nice snuff texture and are big time savers. Working with dry tobacco, it takes less than a minute to mill a load with 150 W blade coffee grinder - two with naturally moist tobacco (takes 2-3 passes with naturally moist, though: mill, sift, re-mill coarse grains left on the mesh after sieving, sift) which don’t pass through the mesh (after the second or third pass, when working with naturally moist tobacco) should be accumulated and - once the amount is reasonably large - dried in an oven, re-milled and turned to high dried type snuff, like Irish (with small addition of fire cured ant treated with sodium carbonate, slaked lime and ammonium carbonate), or incorporated in Scotch (with larger amount of fire cured than that in Irish, if dry snuff of American type is prefered); can be made with or without salts, moist or dry).

[Graeme1]

Wow, thanks for your very knowledgeable and detailed response. I’ve learned a lot from reading about. The cigar snuff I made is the most successful and I guess, from what you’ve said, that’s because of the alkanised leaf. I think the tobacco in those cigars was air cured. There’s a very stimulating nose burn. And I get a lovely mucus flow of snot. I love that. It turn me on in a weird way. Sniffing it repeatedly for a few minutes I got a flow of mucus about 12 inches long. My son is a big snuff taker and his was even longer. It really held together in a stream . Quite beautiful if you’re into that.

I understand now that the additives bring out the nicotine. Some of my snuffs don’t provide much of a hit, but the cigar one does. I don’t worry about addiction as we are well and truly addicted by now, and as long as we can get tobacco products it’s not an issue.

I started smoking at 13, cigarettes then pipes, now just pipes and snuff, so tobacco and nicotine has long been part of my life and Im still here.

I’ll look back at your detailed message and learn a lot more from it. Thanks so much.

I enjoy snuff so much. It’s an aphrodisiac to me, as well as the lovely aromas and the stimulation.

Best wishes,

Graeme

[snotrag]

Hey there, Im in the piedmont of NC, interested in trying your house blends, and picking your brain on how to make them myself, if that may be possible.

[Graeme1]

Homemade are awesome!