***What Are You Smoking, May 2020?***

[puff_not_snuff]

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Smoking a sample of Verge Engine Retrodrive that this guy sent me ^^^
out of my 1974 Silver Mounted Peterson Donegal Rocky 86. It seems a bit sweeter and deeper than the regular VEO? But not a huge difference. I’ve been slacking on this thread trying to jump back in!!

I zoomed in trying to see the mileage of your car and what your gas level was but sadly couldn’t make it out.

 

[jttnk]

Dark Strong Kentucky in a MM Mark Twain Cob with “borrowed from other pipe” cobbit srem.

 

[greeneyes]

Bad pipe day today. Tried plenty of new-to-me tobaccos and they all left me frustrated and dissatisfied. I don't often smoke Penzance but I felt like reaching for a reliably good Sunday evening tobacco. Smoking it in a very solid Ben Wade 'Walnut' out in the drizzle.

 

[weezell]

That cutty is special!

Here is a pic of the original owner...
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[JMcQ]

Figured I'd give it a try...

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a long snooze, and am now smoking Watch City Rhythm & Blues in a black sandblasted straight 1998 XXX Ashton lovat with a black acrylic saddle stem.

 

[jaytex1969]

@JMcQ Sweet Lego pipe rest!

Acadian Gold in a Stanwell 185.

 

[cshubhra]

Rattray’s Exotic Passion in a Savinelli Punto Oro Mr. G

 

[JMcQ]

@JMcQ Sweet Lego pipe rest!

Acadian Gold in a Stanwell 185.


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Unfortunately I'm not very artistic, but it was an idea that I had to try.

 

[BROBS]

I zoomed in trying to see the mileage of your car and what your gas level was but sadly couldn’t make it out.
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60k... 3/4 ?

 

[kg.legat0]

Missed reading up on everyone's smoking activities the past few days! ...drinking some Starbucks Verona roast, black and finishing up a bowl of Sutliff Virginia Slices in my Dr. Grabow Riviera. Going to pack up my large Kaywoodie Sabbiata with something shortly and watch Blade Runner 2049. Cheers folks!

 

[craig61a]

Finally dried out, eh?

Well, yes. It was on the dry side when I opened the tin, although there were no holes in the tin. Bit like a bugger when I smoked it. I rehydrated it and cellared it for a several years to let it even out. I sampled it a few times in the past years. I figured I’d give it a try today. I have to say, it’s come a long way. No bite, I’m really enjoying it.

 

[Jwebb90]

 

[samuelgawith01]

Figured I'd give it a try...
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How's the Rustica?

 

[samuelgawith01]

Again smoking Old Joe Krantz in the 9mm Lorenzo.

 

[rushx9]

Ennerdale in a Medico Gold Crest Zulu.

 

[tfdickson]

Byronic Slices in my Eells 4 Square.

 

[BROBS]

I zoomed in trying to see the mileage of your car and what your gas level was but sadly couldn’t make it out.
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60k... 3/4 ?
Not sure why I can’t quote this.
@puff_not_snuff

 

[virkia]

Mac Baren: HH Rustica Flake in a Meer...

What a bobby-dazzler and with what looks like its original amber stem still in one piece after about one hundred and forty years.
Interesting they way your gorgeous pipe is coloured with its mottled patination - three quarters of the bowl pale to darker where it meets the shank . . . patination presumably resulting from a wire disc slotted into the bowl about two thirds of the way down?
Only mention this bit about the wire mesh disc because I have an early 1860s/'70s briar cutty with just such a device lodged in its bowl. Being briar the disc is clearly not used as an aid to colouring part of the bowl but to create a calabash style air chamber.

 

[JMcQ]

How's the Rustica?

It's definitely one that I'm going to have to try a few times just to get a grasp. I am not a fan of the tin note, but once I got a good light, the flavor was nice.