Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a black rusticated full bend 1984 Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Sleepy Suzy is by my side.
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Medium Flake (2014) in a Peterson Meerschaum.
HU Director’s Cut in a Kai and Diet Coke on the side watching the Mets/Dodgers. 
Current smoke: chomping on a Phillies Blunt Strawberry as I type this post. Yeah, cheap but tasty.
All done except for the final interview just before the operation on Monday at !:00 PM or thereabouts, so I'll be posting and reviewing a bit of backlog before then. Celebrated a return to the land of the living by pushing the button on my first promised "UGLY". Have a stock photo but won't show it until I take my own shot when it arrives from Poland. Yeah, it's a Mr. Brog, but a real mutt. Stay tuned. Should be here in a week, about the time I'll stop whining about post operative pain. (yeah, feeling a bit more upbeat after all the previous tests were a go.) Always remembering, though, that every silver lining has a cloud.
As previously mentioned, I've been working mostly with Savinelli 140, breaking in a set of dedicated pipes for home and travel for this most august tobacco. Here are the winners: (explanation in Skippable Drivel below the shot.)
Skippable Drivel: These are the pipes I've had the very best smokes with (tried 4 or 5 others, good but not great), stoked with Savinelli 140, which deserves a dedicated pipe for travel. After a cleanout and a couple of bowls of Smoker's Pride Whiskey, the McQueen Russet in cherrywood decided to absolutely love Sav 140, and thus was born a relationship. I'll take the longstem on longer full day trips when I want a 45-50 minutes of reverie with this tobacco. It'll also be smoked at home with the same.
I'll replace the pipsqueek cob with a new medium sized cob when I want a half hour or so with Sav 140, picnic or shorter jaunts for a few rainbow or photos. All tobaccos seem to smoke wonderfully in cobs. Love 'em! And the new one will be bought locally (they're about $17 bucks here, plus tax) and will have only Sav 140 put into it, so I'm expecting excellence. I'll pick it up tomorrow.
The home rollie is stuffed with the same, and takes about the same amount of tobacco as the pipsqueek. If I stuff the filter into a Colt tip, it gives me a much more controlled draw, and I get about 15 - 20 minutes with it. Taste is almost the same as in a pipe, and it's much better to smoke en route than a pipe or cigar.
Thus ends (actually, begins . . . ) the Saga of Sav 140. Got twice as much of this as Mad Fiddler, so I'm set for a good long time in rotation. Will return later to catch up on a few comments, but right now it's time for a few chores in my diminishing squalor, and going to surf the net for more uglies.
Cheers.
All done except for the final interview just before the operation on Monday at !:00 PM or thereabouts, so I'll be posting and reviewing a bit of backlog before then. Celebrated a return to the land of the living by pushing the button on my first promised "UGLY". Have a stock photo but won't show it until I take my own shot when it arrives from Poland. Yeah, it's a Mr. Brog, but a real mutt. Stay tuned. Should be here in a week, about the time I'll stop whining about post operative pain. (yeah, feeling a bit more upbeat after all the previous tests were a go.) Always remembering, though, that every silver lining has a cloud.
As previously mentioned, I've been working mostly with Savinelli 140, breaking in a set of dedicated pipes for home and travel for this most august tobacco. Here are the winners: (explanation in Skippable Drivel below the shot.)
Skippable Drivel: These are the pipes I've had the very best smokes with (tried 4 or 5 others, good but not great), stoked with Savinelli 140, which deserves a dedicated pipe for travel. After a cleanout and a couple of bowls of Smoker's Pride Whiskey, the McQueen Russet in cherrywood decided to absolutely love Sav 140, and thus was born a relationship. I'll take the longstem on longer full day trips when I want a 45-50 minutes of reverie with this tobacco. It'll also be smoked at home with the same.
I'll replace the pipsqueek cob with a new medium sized cob when I want a half hour or so with Sav 140, picnic or shorter jaunts for a few rainbow or photos. All tobaccos seem to smoke wonderfully in cobs. Love 'em! And the new one will be bought locally (they're about $17 bucks here, plus tax) and will have only Sav 140 put into it, so I'm expecting excellence. I'll pick it up tomorrow.
The home rollie is stuffed with the same, and takes about the same amount of tobacco as the pipsqueek. If I stuff the filter into a Colt tip, it gives me a much more controlled draw, and I get about 15 - 20 minutes with it. Taste is almost the same as in a pipe, and it's much better to smoke en route than a pipe or cigar.
Thus ends (actually, begins . . . ) the Saga of Sav 140. Got twice as much of this as Mad Fiddler, so I'm set for a good long time in rotation. Will return later to catch up on a few comments, but right now it's time for a few chores in my diminishing squalor, and going to surf the net for more uglies.
Cheers.
C&D Yorktown in an MM Wizard cob.
Cannon Plug in a GBD Virgin grade bulldog.
At my youngest's orientation at University of Georgia
Sneaking a quick smoke in the Parking deck on this smoke free campus.
MB Dark Fired in Volkan Bulldog
Long ass day!!!!
Sneaking a quick smoke in the Parking deck on this smoke free campus.
MB Dark Fired in Volkan Bulldog
Long ass day!!!!
Beautiful pipe! Straightforward elegance. But those snakes . . . . gotta confess I never liked those things or anything else that looks like them. Must be the Garden of Eden thing.
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Erik Nording - Compass - Light Brown - Rustic (Handmade) + Stanislaw - Scottish Autumn Flake
The smaller they are, the more they stink. My dogs scatter once the musk is released. Which is the purpose of the stank, predators hate it.
For a long time Italian pipes haven’t been my thing. I won’t go into great detail explaining why I don’t like them, but hey, it’s why Baskin Robbin’s makes 31 flavors.
Enter this misguided Forum. I saw a pipe two weeks ago that stopped me in my tracks. It was a Radice Rind. I decided I had to have one. So went to site sponsor Al Pascia and well, thanks to the miracle of FedEx, although their tracking system had the pipe being deliver 5 months ago, weird.
Here is it. My lone Italian pipe, but hey, I break pasta before I cook it.
Enter this misguided Forum. I saw a pipe two weeks ago that stopped me in my tracks. It was a Radice Rind. I decided I had to have one. So went to site sponsor Al Pascia and well, thanks to the miracle of FedEx, although their tracking system had the pipe being deliver 5 months ago, weird.
Here is it. My lone Italian pipe, but hey, I break pasta before I cook it.
Second bowl of Inns of Court in a Peterson Irish Harp X105
KBV Jim’s Special Flake in a Stanwell Hand Cut
Smoking some Savinelli Jupiter in a long stem Adam Davidson apple that arrived today. I saw this pipe on Adam’s table at the Chicago Pipe Show and when I got home regretted not having purchased it. Luckily, it was still available.
As I've said before, I'm on a journey to try some aromatic tobaccos.
After 30 years of smoking non aromatics and light aromatics...which to be honest most blends are.....MacBaren Va#1, PS LNF....I'm diving in deep.
I'm loving Cult BRM and PS Peaches & Cream. I really liked MacBaren Black Ambrosia...but mine is now gone, and gone for good.
Today I recieved WAY too much C&D Autumn Evening and Nutty Irishman. The AE is tasty, but I'm spoiled on the BRM and Black Ambrosia....which both actually taste like SOMETHING.
I just ordered 2 more tins of BRM to go with the 2 I have....it sells out a lot. I ordered a tin of Sutliff Great Outdoors, it was clearanced for $10. And a few of the Sutliff Galleria budget 1.5 ounce pouches.
I'm currently smoking Nutty Irishman in my Morgan Bones Brandy?.....I think.
I think one of you Irishmen needs to go smack C&D upside the head!!
Unless you Irish like hot air and....um....possibly dog slobber flavor, this ain't Irish!!
I expected Irish Whiskey and Frangelico...an ITALIAN hazelnut liquor. I get hot air and dog spit!
I hope I have enough Latakia to at least make this palletable. Sorry to lovers of Nutty Irishman. Stop by, my dogs will lick your tongue for free.
After 30 years of smoking non aromatics and light aromatics...which to be honest most blends are.....MacBaren Va#1, PS LNF....I'm diving in deep.
I'm loving Cult BRM and PS Peaches & Cream. I really liked MacBaren Black Ambrosia...but mine is now gone, and gone for good.
Today I recieved WAY too much C&D Autumn Evening and Nutty Irishman. The AE is tasty, but I'm spoiled on the BRM and Black Ambrosia....which both actually taste like SOMETHING.
I just ordered 2 more tins of BRM to go with the 2 I have....it sells out a lot. I ordered a tin of Sutliff Great Outdoors, it was clearanced for $10. And a few of the Sutliff Galleria budget 1.5 ounce pouches.
I'm currently smoking Nutty Irishman in my Morgan Bones Brandy?.....I think.
I think one of you Irishmen needs to go smack C&D upside the head!!
Unless you Irish like hot air and....um....possibly dog slobber flavor, this ain't Irish!!
I expected Irish Whiskey and Frangelico...an ITALIAN hazelnut liquor. I get hot air and dog spit!
I hope I have enough Latakia to at least make this palletable. Sorry to lovers of Nutty Irishman. Stop by, my dogs will lick your tongue for free.
Pegasus in my Astas bent billiard Meer.
Good morning everyone, smoking some PS Navy Flake in a Castello Pi wax drip #33 today. Fire is lit and coffee is made as I settle in to watch the rain tumble down.
This "misguided forum" has ruined many a good man. At least it coerced you into buying a beautiful pipe.
Good thing you went ahead with the purchase after negotiating. These Italians like to send in their Sicilian enforcers when someone tries to crawfish out of a deal........ You might have woke up with a horses head in your bed.
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