4noggins Catamount in my IMP meer
***What Are You Smoking, May 2021?***
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In a tropical frame of mind tonight. 
thnak you @tnfan it was also mine, in the end there was a tie I think, but I talked to my friend and there was another one that he liked a lot and I bought that one and I kept both of them.
ESO Dunbar in 1897 Barling billiard.
Horn stems are interesting but amber stems are something else - more interesting, beautiful, tactile and varied as I'm sure you'd agree - from clear to cloudy, to clear and cloudy on the same stem and from pale yellow to dark orange ...
When I've finished doing a few jobs in my study - hopefully by the middle of June - I'd be happy to put together a selection of different amber stems if you'd like to see them.
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Great pleasure to be of any help I can although my knowledge is very limited not having kept up with the wonderful world of pipes since the early 1990s.
Yes, a couple of my Comoy's pipes from the late 1970s/early 1980s (one has the nomenclature SELECTED STRAIGHT GRAIN and the other GOLDEN GRAIN).
Just love 'Zulu' type shapes such as yours and after the 'Rhodesian' it's probably my favourite of all the traditional pipe shapes.
Stone-cold classic, dude.
Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake in a Mark Tinsky 2 Star Walnut bulldog with some Green Tea.
Currently, 2015 LNF in an Invicta Briars Dublin. It is good.
Don‘t have an Invicta Briar? Get one. Even though these guys are Brits, which is certainly not their fault, they’re a good indie and worthy of your support. And their pipes are completely suitable for the task at hand, which is a plus. Furthermore, their wares are what Marge would have described as “reasonable”. First to get the reference wins tobacco, on me, shipped to you. PM me though, because I’m only here from time to time.
Previously, some more of the new school Wilke High Hat in another Stanwell No.11. Also good. Different, a granted given the changes in available tobaccos, but good. Very smooth, a bit less robust than the original. I’ll have to get around to updating my original review,,, tr.c @perique
The LNF is paired with Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, my fav for this style of tobacco. The Wilke, typically paired with Duality Double Malt, was this time sipped with some Jack Daniels Sinatra, an unexpected gift from the young lady that is auditioning for the role of future daughter-in-law, that has proven to be a pleasant surprise, the smoothest by far of the unsweetened line. I guess ole Frank knew something about corn whiskey.
Has there been, in retrospect, a more overrated musical artist? Ever? Perhaps Bob Dylan.
Don‘t have an Invicta Briar? Get one. Even though these guys are Brits, which is certainly not their fault, they’re a good indie and worthy of your support. And their pipes are completely suitable for the task at hand, which is a plus. Furthermore, their wares are what Marge would have described as “reasonable”. First to get the reference wins tobacco, on me, shipped to you. PM me though, because I’m only here from time to time.
Previously, some more of the new school Wilke High Hat in another Stanwell No.11. Also good. Different, a granted given the changes in available tobaccos, but good. Very smooth, a bit less robust than the original. I’ll have to get around to updating my original review,,, tr.c @perique
The LNF is paired with Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey, my fav for this style of tobacco. The Wilke, typically paired with Duality Double Malt, was this time sipped with some Jack Daniels Sinatra, an unexpected gift from the young lady that is auditioning for the role of future daughter-in-law, that has proven to be a pleasant surprise, the smoothest by far of the unsweetened line. I guess ole Frank knew something about corn whiskey.
Has there been, in retrospect, a more overrated musical artist? Ever? Perhaps Bob Dylan.
Not sure how stone-cold but it was pretty darn tasty ?!
ASTB in Stanwell 91squashed tomato. I’ve hooked some lures to my line and am dragging the bait a couple hundred feet behind my boat.
Enjoyed a necessary nap, and a bowl of year 2017 Savinelli Doblone d’Oro in a smooth straight brown early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.
Enjoying some 2018 Heinrich’s Curly Block in a Willmer Canadian shape.
MB Golden Extra in a Peterson's Irish Made Army 107. Both excellent!
A quarter of the way through this bowl of Peter Stokkebye No. 17 English Luxury in a quarter bend smooth dark brown small bowl 2016 Brigham Algonquin 226 Rhodesian with a long black vulcanite tapered stem.
HU Directors Cut from last night in this Charatan Executive. 
20th Anniversary XX Flake Dark in the Altinay translucent meer.
Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl
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