***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

[telescopes]

I enjoyed smoking the cob very much, but, vain person that I am, will smoke it only in the confines of the home

I don't have an overwhelming amount of wisdom to share, but I do know this: The man makes the pipe, not the other way around.

I have many "outfits" from western to Inner urban Zoot. I am comfortable wearing them where ever I choose because "I" make them look good - not the other way around. I learned this lesson A long time ago. I never get stares. But I do get a lot of admiration and comments from others that they wish they could wear something similar.

I was in San Diego with my wife. I was wearing an electric blue six piece suit with a blue velvet derby and Stacey Adams electric blue lizard skin shoes. An African American meter cop walks up to us and she says to me, "Honey, mmm, mmm, you make that look goooood!"

It's attitude. It's confidence, and it's knowing you are comfortable in your own skin. It's contagious. Now smoke that cob outside.

 

[Steddy]

C&D Poplar Camp in a Peterson 606 Harp.

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of year 2016 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Whale Song in a new (to me) 1960 Dunhill group 2 Bruyere. Gave it the spa treatment last night. The original ruby-hued finish was lost to a buffing wheel long ago.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Another bowl of Hogshead from my new Morgason sandblast. As always, what a fantastic smoker.
The rain has lifted and spring is in the air (for now). Perfect for an outside smoke for a change.

 

[jttnk]

Skipped the Sunday bike ride, rainy and cold. Enjoying Balkan Supreme in a Nording Churchwarden with coffee and Izzy!

 

[LotusEater]

Smoking McB Navy Flake with at least 10years of age on it in a Bjarn

What a great smoke.

 

[LotusEater]

Whale Song in a new (to me) 1960 Dunhill group 2 Bruyere. Gave it the spa treatment last night. The original ruby-hued finish was lost to a buffing wheel long ago.

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That’s some pretty awesome Birdseye!

 

[das3353]

WC Waltham in a Castello Sea Rock

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Passing time in the garage before heading out for a snowshoe adventure with the wife and youngest dog, brilliant sunny day and above freezing! Peterson Short 999 and Warped Saint Espresso.

 

[Carol]

Snow globe conditions outside again. Not conducive to keeping a pipe lit. Will have a bit of Country Squire Old Toby in my Brigham smooth Rhodesian. Good weekend all.

 

[JackOrion]

Bengal Slices in this straight Ser Jacopo bulldog. This pipe likes the BS.

 

[Brewfan]

2022 CRF in a Peterson Dublin spigot.

 

[mikefu]

Aged MacBaren VA #1 in a Savinelli Capri Root 505

 

[onestrangeone]

GH&Co Brown Flake in a Ryan Alden Cutty

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Pre-Repulic Pete 9BC with some HGL.

@AroEnglish it smokes like a champ, dry as can be.

 

[tnfan]

Stokkebye 4th Generation Small Batch Aged Virginia (2019) in a Baki Panel.

 

[MCJ]

Repeat of a satisfying smoke from yesterday: Virginia/Fired Kentucky home blend in a Missouri Meerschaum cob. Trusty Rodgers of Sheffield pipe tool and vintage 1950's Nimrod Commander pipe lighter accompanying.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Samuel Gawith Firedance Flake in a Eugène-Léon Ropp Cherrywood with a White Natural Horn Stem with an orific bit. This pipe is stamped “BUSSANG,” so, it’s very likely it was made at Ropp’s original workshop in Bussang between 1870–1893. It also bears a “B.S.G.D.G” stamp (breveté sans garantie du gouvernement—patented without government guarantee—Ropp’s patent on Cherrywood pipes was awarded in 1869). This pipe is particularly interesting because it has a horn ferrule (with a black metal band to secure it in place) that plugs into the bowl like a military mount. Most Ropp cherry stems I’ve come across are threaded, and screw into the bowl.

 

[Servant King]

First smoke in about a week...Sutliff Balkan Sobranie Orig. Mix Match in my MM Country Gent, while I excavate myself from my alabaster trap: