I really enjoy blending snuffs and for me it is completely unavoidable. LOL. I guess the creative side of my personality is an inconsolable blessing. My most recent blend stems from my lack of enthusiasm for many SP’s. I find the citrus aspects of most SP’s to be abit one dimensional at the outset and the base to be not rich enough on the finish. My most recent blend that has satisfied my taste for now; it’s a rich, barnyardy tobacco like SG1HM (2parts) mixed with a citrus menthol like SM500 (1 part or to taste) and sometimes a bit of Mild Lemon. I get that nice SM500/citrus punch on the up take and finishes with a creamy, nutty, manure scent tobacco that lasts quite a long time. I know many will say O&G, but this blend is much different. Please share some of your creations if you suffer from the same unavoidable condition as I. =O
I do have to say I have one SP exception…Grand Cairo. Really enjoy!
I don’t blend for the sake of it, I blend for three specific reasons. 1) Toning down potent snuffs. Snuffs such as Firedance and Celtic Talisman are wonderful. I have them both in bulk. They are however too much of an assault on the senses for me to use frequently. I have plain snuff in bulk to tone them down so I can fill a snuffbox and use them for over the course of a day or two. 2) Snuffs I don’t like. I have just “recycled” many many tins of snuff which were cluttering up my collection and were never going to get used, or certainly not with any frequency. I have segregated them and thrown them into three mixes, with a view to getting use from snuff which otherwise would have gone to waste. The three mixes are coffee and mints (all unloved snuffs of this ilk have gone in here), fruit salad (for all unloved fruity snuffs), and granny’s stew (contains all other unloved English snuffs except menthols) 3) The Dregs Box. I have a Sharrow Mills heatwood slide box which sits on my desk in the back bedroom. The dregs from my other snuff boxes get tipped into this, and this “living blend” is pinched from regularly when doing work on the laptop