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

[ukbob]

St Bernard’s Flake in a Ben Wade Lovat to start off with this morning.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of year 2020 D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Cleaned the pipes I smoked earlier. Tomato the Brave came in to eat, and he did a lot of that. The other two were already inside and ate again.

 

[MisterBadger]

Headed out to check on the Breeding Ram and the ewes.
Smoking some '17 Yorktown in the Ali.
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I dont keep a ram all year. Only have him here a month to breed my ewes.
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He's a handsome fella. Looks like he's been sheared only very recently - and why not the chest? Is he a Texel cross of some kind?

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is year 2021 Watch City Queequeg’s Moby Dick Series in a slight bend smooth brown post WWII 1940s Sasieni Ivory 101 Westminster diplomat with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

I LOVE the photo of the little guy! Made my day!

Sir, it's a girl.

 

[CPT]

Sir, it's a girl.

Sorry. Love the photo of the little girl!

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Check it out.... Paul is now typing in Russian!!!
Not only does he have a gorgeous pipe collection.... He's a multi-linguist as well!!
He's probably a retired secret agent, ha.

Like in the Bond movies.....
"What is your name?"
"RVA...... Paul....RVA!"

Владимир Гречухин - Russia's premier pipe maker (an unofficial title, but long undisputed and uncontested). Vladimir Grechukhin has been heard of more often recently in connection with the St. Petersburg Pipe Club, of which he is an honorary member. Whenever the conversation turned to his pipes, it was always said: Grechukhin is a living legend, the best pipe maker of the 1970s-1990s. Vladimir Grechukhin began making pipes in 1969. At the age of 19, he apprenticed in the workshop of Alexey Borisovich Fedorov, a legendary Soviet-era pipe maker whose pipes were iconic in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the founder of the Russian, St. Petersburg school of pipe making. Fedorov considered Grechukhin the most talented of his students and highly valued his professional artistic education – Vladimir Grechukhin combined work on pipes with studies at the Mukhin School in the Department of Industrial Aesthetics (Design).

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop in a BC.

 

[Choatecav]

Владимир Гречухин - View attachment 438667Russia's premier pipe maker (an unofficial title, but long undisputed and uncontested). Vladimir Grechukhin has been heard of more often recently in connection with the St. Petersburg Pipe Club, of which he is an honorary member. Whenever the conversation turned to his pipes, it was always said: Grechukhin is a living legend, the best pipe maker of the 1970s-1990s. Vladimir Grechukhin began making pipes in 1969. At the age of 19, he apprenticed in the workshop of Alexey Borisovich Fedorov, a legendary Soviet-era pipe maker whose pipes were iconic in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the founder of the Russian, St. Petersburg school of pipe making. Fedorov considered Grechukhin the most talented of his students and highly valued his professional artistic education – Vladimir Grechukhin combined work on pipes with studies at the Mukhin School in the Department of Industrial Aesthetics (Design).

Wow............the depth of information found on this forum is bottomless. Thanks for the info, Benedict.....

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill 4109 and Coffee ️ on the side

 

[type B]

Derringer, a Cristiano and iced coffee

 

[judcole]

Low Country Natural Virginia/Burley in an MM Boone.

 

[spearheadbill]

Full Virginia flake burnt ends from 2023 in a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Hansom. Lavazza coffee

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Wow............the depth of information found on this forum is bottomless. Thanks for the info, Benedict.....

You're welcome, I'm glad it was useful.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Easing into another work day with a bowl of Brown Clunee in a Brebbia with coffee ️.

 

[JeffNYC]

Derringer, a Cristiano and iced coffeeView attachment 438683

Where did you get this ashtray?

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

RMC Barking Road + Mario Pascucci -P Rust-2127 (silver ring)

Watching an interview with Mario Pascucci (with English subtitles). He's a master of his craft, quite modest and not vain. It's clear he loves his work. And I simply enjoy his creation.

 

[Infantry23]

Boswell's Christmas Cookie in one of my Three Wise Men meers.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill Cumberland 4109 and the last of the Coffee ️

 

[Peterson314]

Fusilier's Ration in my 2022 Christmas Sav 673