***What Are You Smoking, July 2022?***

[VDL_Piper]

Suns up and a second bowl of Royal Yacht with coffee now, just chillin’ and taking in the scene

 

[FurCoat]

First smoke in a Savinelli Bacco 904
Watch City Slices

 

[das3353]

Capstan Blue Flake in a Dunhill Cumberland

 

[pip01]

2012 Marlin Flake in a Cavacchi Tomato.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Watch City Beta Test Blend #1 in a medium bend 2001 Ural lattice Rhodesian with a yellow with white swirls acrylic saddle stem. Getting ready to watch the Braves-D-Backs game as I write beta notes on this blend.

 

[dunnyboy]

Stonehenge Flake in a 1982 Castello great line fiammata.

 

[dunnyboy]

Wessex Burley Flake in a Castello 75th Anniversary pot.

 

[dunnyboy]

Solani Silver Flake in a Castello great line fiammata.

 

[onestrangeone]

GL Pease Six Pence in a Ryan Alden Four Square panel

 

[warren99]

Balkan Supreme in an early (1987) J.T. Cooke lightly sandblasted, plateau top cherrywood (with replacement stem), which I recently purchased on ebay.

 

[OSOBUCO]

Spc plum pudding bourbon barrel aged

 

[dunnyboy]

Morning all, I’m away from the farm this weekend and down in Hobart which is the finish line for the famed Sydney to Hobart yacht race. I’m out for my morning stroll and some Royal Yacht in this Castello Old Antiquari #33 seems appropriate whilst I wait for sunrise.
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Looks like you snagged a 75th Anniversary fumed old antiquari! I'm envious. It's beautiful.

 

[jewman22]

Starting a week of vacation today. Easing into my week with a nice bowl of Sutliff Virginia Slices in my P.Jeppesen Ida Easy Cut Grade 4.

 

[cshubhra]

Ken Byron Ventures Notorious in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[Skink]

Davidoff Danish Mixture in the Bastard Billard Meer......... Has anyone tried soaking a meer in a hot cup of tobacco tea? Asking for a friend.

 

[renfield]

3 year old Watch City Old Dominion in a Briarworks Rhodesian.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking D&R Picayune in a MM cob. Diet Mountain Dew is my drink, as I head off to Zaxbys for some chicken tenders.

 

[dunnyboy]

Ken Byron Ventures Notorious in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Have you posted a picture of this pipe anywhere? I'm really curious to see what translucent meerschaum looks like.

 

[sardonicus87]

Loaded up just half a bowl of Mac Baren Navy Flake. Didn't want to waste a full bowl of tobacco if it would taste horrible. Sour taste is gone, but I could taste wood at the start, I'm assuming fine dust left that stuck and didn't come out from cleaning. It's starting to go away half way through this half bowl.

This is going to be a nightmare break-in, but she smokes so well otherwise. I think the problem is the mortise. Included that in spoiler tag with thumbnails.

Spoiler: Mortise Work

So the first bowl or two in this pipe were great, everything was nasty after. I noticed the mortise had some tear-out where they drilled it. I'm thinking stuff got trapped in there from the first smokes.

Cleaned the mortise really well with alcohol yesterday. Then earlier today I took a dowel rod and carefully cut a slit in it into which I put fine grain sand paper, then wrapped around just right to barely fit in the mortise part and carefully sanded it down just enough to smooth the tear-out from where they drilled it, taking as little as possible.

Cleaned it out after sanding as best I could. Pics are after addressing the mortise (I should've taken a shot before I sanded it) as well as a shot of the bowl before loading, showing where whatever bowl coating they used just wiped out after one gentle run of a paper towel in the bowl post smoking. She's definitely getting another alcohol treatment in the depths of the mortise after this.

The rest of the Navy Flake I pulled will be going in the other pipe once it rests another two hours.

 

[weezell]

Glorious CONDOR Plug in a Meer...