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

[PaulRVA]

That's pretty cool.

I found an arrowhead while developing my property in WA 12 yrs ago, too. We were digging the line for the septic system out through the trees in front and it popped up on top of the trench pile. A nice piece of tactile history there. Nice find!

If we were trying to find one we’d have never come close

 

[B.Lew]

2016 Ennerdale in a 2012 RAD. 16-12 =4. 4x4 =16. It’s going to be a good day tater.

 

[Hillcrest]

My usual 507-C. As I was lighting my pipe I noticed the wrens had a problem. The pagoda birdhouse got rotated in the night and the opening was against the garage wall. They were trying to squeeze into the back with difficulty and were chattering away. I walked over and told them to calm down and they flew, one to the nearby hedge and one to a branch, and I slowly rotated it back around so the opening was in the front. They then flew off to get more bugs. All is right with their world again. Glad I could help.

 

[Chieftiabo]

Black Frigate in a Peterson Army pipe.

 

[Lemuel Pitkin]

Balkan Sasieni in a 1966 Dunhill Shell #593 saddle billiard/Dublin hybred.

 

[gord]

Just finished smoking year 2018 D&R Raccoon’s Accent in a pre-WWII straight smooth brown The Lumberman Special (Comoy’s) with a tapered black vulcanite saddle stem. Couldn't sleep.
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Sympathies for your insomnia. Mine struck two nights ago. Slept like a log last night - hope you do the same tonight.

 

[gord]

New Musico- Floodlight bent with silver. So far so good- Steamworks of course.

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Ooooh Boy. Steamworks. I'd ration that one in small pipe territory and treat it as a rare treat. Unless you got tons of it. I've 1 1/2 tins left and I treat it like a rare visit to a great Sushi Restaurant. One of my "Magnificent Seven" that gets the kid glove treatment . . . . just a GREAT tobacco!

 

[telescopes]

Six weeks in Europe- and this is what it comes down too.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Ooooh Boy. Steamworks. I'd ration that one in small pipe territory and treat it as a rare treat. Unless you got tons of it. I've 1 1/2 tins left and I treat it like a rare visit to a great Sushi Restaurant. One of my "Magnificent Seven" that gets the kid glove treatment . . . . just a GREAT tobacco!

I agree.. it’s my daily morning smoke. I have a pretty decent collection of it.
It will be back next year, 2026!

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Going to feed my cats, and then the ferals.

 

[andysc83]

Ellipsis Flake in a Ian Fisher

 

[gord]

Last Night's Smoke - The pic says it all. Test pipe, my pipesqueak McQueen Miniature Fable, biased for Orientals. Details of smoke in "Skippable Drivel" underneath pic. ****

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Skippable Drivel - have about 2 jars of this mix in progress. Last night's smoke was a test run of a sample, my good buddy Mike participating.

Verdict? A resounding YES. The most chocolate flavoured pipe blend either of us had ever experienced. Mike said "it's like a chocolate mousse.

The reasoning behind the blend was to take the overbearing wretched excess, but loveable Chocolate Phillies Blunt, grind up a coffee grinder full of them, mix them with Smoker's Pride Black Cavendish, which has a very strong chocolate undertone (try a pinch of it as a chew - you'll get that fast!!), and sweeten it up with the Izmir Oriental leaf, (sorry, you'll have to grow it, or substitute some other sweet Oriental leaf commercially available, if one exists. I don't know.)

I'd rate it as at the top of my home mixes. Would I buy it if it were available? You betcha.

I can usually pull off a 15-30 minute smoke in the little Fable, depending on the burning rate of the tobacco. I was expecting 15, as both cigar tobacco and Izmir burn fast. I got 25. The Smoker's Pride Black is the key here. it's a slow burner, and tamed the excesses of the other two components for an excellent duration.

One day I'll get to try Bob's Chocolate Flake, but as it is not available up here, this home mix will do just fine.

Cheers!

 

[gord]

I agree.. it’s my daily morning smoke. I have a pretty decent collection of it.
It will be back next year, 2026!

You're still in fetal territory, young fella. I might not last that long!

 

[B.Lew]

McClelland 40th in a Rad Davis. This pipe has been working 3-4 bowls per day. Smoking beautifully. I’m enjoying the larger bowl diameter me thinks.

 

[gord]

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McClelland 40th in a Rad Davis. This pipe has been working 3-4 bowls per day. Smoking beautifully. I’m enjoying the larger bowl diameter me thinks.

Man, you must have chops of steel. I could never smoke 4 big bowls of ANYTHING in a day, let alone from the same pipe! But hey, whatever turns your crank, eh? Love the pipe, btw. looks like a fine smoker!

 

[Skink]

Sutliff Duke Albert in a Vauen Royal Lovat #169 with a mug of black coffee.

 

[Skink]

This is just OUTSTANDING! Love that morta blast!

Thank you. I get mesmerized looking at the grain on this pipe and it feels great in the hand.

 

[dottlejockey]

Had a nice bowl of Semois in an Armellini after breakfast. Thinking about heading outside to do some bird watching or thumb twiddling or rock kicking or something with a cigar in a bit...

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this hot and very humid day, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. All the cats are fed. I will be as well before too long.

 

[Choatecav]

Last Night's Smoke - The pic says it all. Test pipe, my pipesqueak McQueen Miniature Fable, biased for Orientals. Details of smoke in "Skippable Drivel" underneath pic. ****

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Skippable Drivel - have about 2 jars of this mix in progress. Last night's smoke was a test run of a sample, my good buddy Mike participating.

Verdict? A resounding YES. The most chocolate flavoured pipe blend either of us had ever experienced. Mike said "it's like a chocolate mousse.

The reasoning behind the blend was to take the overbearing wretched excess, but loveable Chocolate Phillies Blunt, grind up a coffee grinder full of them, mix them with Smoker's Pride Black Cavendish, which has a very strong chocolate undertone (try a pinch of it as a chew - you'll get that fast!!), and sweeten it up with the Izmir Oriental leaf, (sorry, you'll have to grow it, or substitute some other sweet Oriental leaf commercially available, if one exists. I don't know.)

I'd rate it as at the top of my home mixes. Would I buy it if it were available? You betcha.

I can usually pull off a 15-30 minute smoke in the little Fable, depending on the burning rate of the tobacco. I was expecting 15, as both cigar tobacco and Izmir burn fast. I got 25. The Smoker's Pride Black is the key here. it's a slow burner, and tamed the excesses of the other two components for an excellent duration.

One day I'll get to try Bob's Chocolate Flake, but as it is not available up here, this home mix will do just fine.

Cheers!

Gord, as I read your recipe for the mix, I thought to myself, "I'll bet Gord makes a mean chocolate chip cookie, too."

Am I right????