I have recently been exploring McClelland Va's, I may have to add one or two of those to this article. I think McClelland Va's are very unforgiving of bad technique, and they probably put me off because of that early in my pipe smoking life. I also used to be predominantly a Lat blend smoker, and I remain mostly unenthused about their Lat blends.

If current tastes are any indication, I really like Rich Virginia Ribbon and No. 24 in a big way. I need to try a couple more.

50s or 60s most likely

It's tough dating some of these. The Corona series also appeared with a brass X inset in the stem. No idea what years that was, yet.

Also on the mouthpieces, later Orlik molded stems are very easy to pick out as being molded, but the earlier molded stems are very close to the handcut stems. I think they hand finished their molded stems up to a certain point. I have a De Luxe like this, and it's a great stem. As near as I can tell the molded stems received some hand smoothing at least into the early 60s.

I don't know if it's still valid, but first time customers can use the code "newbie"

If you don't mind a recommendation, I am very, very fond of 3 vendors who I think offer spectacular juice at a good price with great service. http://www.freedomsmokeusa.com http://backwoodsbrew.net http://vsvapor.net

My current favorites are Wyatt Earp from FreedomSmokeUSA, which is a wonderful, rich tobacco flavor; PureCig from FreedomSmokeUSA, which is as close to being like a cigarette as you'll find in the vaping world; RY4 from Backwoods, which is a great, fresh tasting tobacco with a subtle caramel sweet finish; Frisco from Vapor Station, which is a dry, medium tobacco with a strong hazelnut on exhale.

Great juices and great service from really nice people. Good luck JG, enjoy how much better this is than smoking.

Then it sounds like you will be ok with 12mg juice. You might order one bottle in 18mg and one in 12mg. Try the 18 first thing in the morning when your body is going to want a stouter hit, then taper off to the 12mg after breakfast. Maybe you wouldn't need the 18 at all and the 12 would do you fine. Good luck.

I think you can go two routes with vaping if you are prone to heavy vaping:
One, get stout juice (24mg) and make a conscious effort to vape how you smoked. Don't keep your device near at hand, and make a conscious effort to curtail you tendency to pick it up every few minutes.
or
Two, buy a lower strength juice you can live with and don't worry about it. I find that I vape more frequently, but I am taking far fewer drags in a sitting than I would smoke. More frequent, but less of them.
Good luck!

I am saving a lot of money, just not yet because I am always finding some juice I want to try or a vendor I like is having a killer coupon code.

After reading your comment I ran over to coldsteel.com real quick and glanced at their machetes. Just a hair over one pound. I take your points and stand corrected.

Busy man. One coming.