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

[Waning Embers]

2012 Crooner at work.

 

[Tate]

SG Brown No. 4 in a clay!

 

[Waning Embers]

I get what you are saying but I think it’s tragic to leave pipes unsmoked.

Many of us have unsmoked pieces we've bought just as examples of a type or just interesting show pieces. I've got a few myself including one of Holme's last pieces that appears on his Pipedia page, a floral beret meerschaum from Emin Brothers, and a just recently purchased L'Anatra Nirvana Gigante.

 

[rsshreck32]

This may be my last smoke pf 2023! Peretti BPC in a Pete Emerald 05. Two pork shoulders smoking for the New Years feast! Midnight menu:
1. Pork-n-Sauerkraut (PA Tradition)
AND/Or
2. Pittsburgh Pulled Pork--a stacked sandwich of pulled pork topped with fries and slaw (Pittsburgh Original)

 

[Carol]

Shepherd's Pie in my rusticated Brigham. Staying home tonight, off the roads, in the peace and quiet.
Happy New Year everyone!! Please God may it be a better year.

 

[Carol]

Ending the year the way I started it. Esoterica And so to Bed in the Altinay.

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Cool flame art!

 

[Ben.R.C]

ODF in an Asteriou

 

[Briar Lee]

Speaking of collectible American pipes, here’s my Pre War Large Four Hole Stinger Drinkless Stinger Stamped No Imported Briar Stamp Extra Large Dublin #13 Kaywoodie Flame Grain full of 1792.

I smoke this all the time, in rotation. My kids can find better ways to earn money than by peddling my pipes on eBay.



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[LeafErikson]

Burley flake #1 for bowl 69 in the Tekin. Only a couple more bowls left in the tin.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

After dinner smoke, probably the last one for the year. 2022 Esoterica And so to Bed in a Rossi Notte Author

 

[Tate]

Shepherd's Pie in my rusticated Brigham. Staying home tonight, off the roads, in the peace and quiet.
Happy New Year everyone!! Please God may it be a better year.

Happy New Year to you! And I pray you ĥave a great year!

 

[condorlover1]

Many of us have unsmoked pieces we've bought just as examples of a type or just interesting show pieces. I've got a few myself including one of Holme's last pieces that appears on his Pipedia page, a floral beret meerschaum from Emin Brothers, and a just recently purchased L'Anatra Nirvana Gigante.

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You know that I am not a briar man but that is just nice on so many different levels!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in a Howell.

 

[Singed]

Good health, good fortune, and happiness to you all for the coming year.

 

[Servant King]

Last smoke of the year (unless I invent a time machine in the next couple of hours) was Drew Estate Meat Pie in a Savinelli Bacco 321 bent author. Going to put up my complimentary P&C 2024 calendar now, and ogle all the pipe/tobacco pictures all year long. Joy.

Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, Spotted towhee, Common raven, California towhee, Red-tailed hawk, and Western bluebird.

I wish you all a long and preposterous life, in 2024 and beyond! And no, that is not a typo.



Okay, it's a typo...

 

[BlueRidge]

Bob's Square Cut in an ebony 12.5

 

[PaulRVA]

Last bowl for 2023. Capt. Earle’s Ten Russians in a Blatter Canadian.

 

[ravkesef]

Wilkes BestMake in a Stanwell Straightgrain Freehand

 

[alwayslit]

Epic

Thank you.

 

[LeafErikson]

You know that I am not a briar man but that is just nice on so many different levels!

Do you actually never smoke briars? Or a once in a blue moon kinda thing? Love your cutty collection.