***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

[gord]

Later than usual to my coffee, burley, cob. I’m close to seeing the bottom of this old school SWR. Getting pretty stingy with it

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Completely get your post. I've heard other comments on the "change for the worse" of SWR. And I'm sure there are others. I'm getting very stingy with Mad Fiddler and a few others for the same reasons, and benefitting from becoming very fond of other tobaccos. Spreading the Wealth, so to speak. Thanks for a very valuable and precient post.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Jirsa 210.

 

[keith929]

Keeping it smokey with Lane 1Q in a MM cob.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Makhuwa in a Mark Tinsky Stack and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[gord]

As I sit in front of the "bubble machine" and chomp on my favourite cigar to this point, a Principes Caribbean, I show to you my latest aquisition, a small Missouri Meershcham Cob, shown in the photo with it's virgin char light, the current usual Captain Black Cherry Cavendish, the morning fruit-juice smoke to go with the morning coffee

The picture shown is indeed my morning smoke. Not bad; new pipe and still recovering taste buds from whatever it is, adding to the party. The pipe arrived from Amazoon just before I sat down this morning at 9:30 AM and got on-line, going back and forth from News Reports, e-mails, and the forum. It's now 1:22 PM so you also know what my afternoon smoke is, and how much time I've wasted. And, yup, the Principes was my afternoon smokes.

Won't be back until tomorrow. Full teaching day, some tune-ups to my indoor range, and responding in positive to a request to teach an elementary Music Theory and History course from a large group of advancing and interested people and students, and the resultant tracking down of my preparation and notes of this course I've taught maybe a dozen times at various institutions, adding to my workload of this apparent retirement.

So no drivel today. You've already had enough.

 

[Eireprof]

Merry Monk in a Peterson Smooth Sherlock Holmes Heritage Professor.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.

 

[troutface]

KBV Mycroft in the old reliable Wiley with some Darjeeling tea on the side.

 

[The Clay King]

Well, starting to think that Orientals don't like me. Depending on the level of Oriental leaf in a blend, I get a tingly, irritating sensation. Then I broke my clay. Time for a cigar. AJ Fernandez New World Oscuro.View attachment 389672

@rsshreck32 Shame about the broken clay:-(

 

[The Clay King]

8 year old Elizabethan Mixture in a lattice globe meer.

@renfield It's a good smoke in the King's Clay!

 

[Sandblast]

Thought it fitting for today, Cob Tue (5/06), that honor should be paid to Grannie Hawkins, Outlaw Josey Wales.
She told Josey that when the Union soldiers found him, they would "heel & hog him to a barn door".
Thinking that doesn't sound pleasant.

 

[Phiredog]

Had a nice lunch break with some Watch City FUSTG in a Medico Crest Debonair.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a sandblasted medium bend 1950s Reuben era Charatan Deluxe 11 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Finished cleaning a few pipes.

 

[craig61a]

2018 Solani 656 Aged Burley in a 1965 Dunhill 83 F/T.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Having Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices in a Scottie Piersel Tall Stack Dublin with oval shank, Ivorite accent and green Cumberland stem.



Thanks to @bluegrassbrian for the pipe he originally commissioned.

 

[thomasw]

GLP JKP in a 1939 bruyere shape 40 lovat.

 

[Skink]

First smoke of Sutliff Duke Albert in a Riberg Gentleman Series with a cup of black tea.

 

[BlueRidge]

Brown Flake Scented

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight 1960s 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.

 

[Briar Lee]

Lane 1-Q in a Big Boy Marxman Jumbo Billiard.