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

[warren99]

GLP Charing Cross in a Kai Nielsen VV chimney.

 

[JazzInAZ]

First time trying a Toscano -- this is the Antico. I can see why some folks put these in a holder of some sort -- they're just so narrow to hold. I'm enjoying it -- they really are "no fuss."

Iced tea -- Marks & Spencer Extra Strong.

Hey @infectedpsyche I noticed you often smoke the Classico. I was hoping to compare Classico vs Antico, but my "guy" didn't have Classico in stock. You prefer the Classico? BTW, I enjoyed your "primer" on the easygars, thanks for posting that, although I may "try" fabricating my own, before acquiring. FYI, I also went ammezzato style, for my maiden voyage.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2021 Watch City Queequeg’s Moby Dick Series in a medium bend black sandblasted IPSD 2016 Mark Tinsky book keeper 5 with a square shank and a black acrylic saddle stem with a cream colored accent. The shape was designed by my great friend, the late Art Arterburn, and gifted to me by him. Watching the unaired pilot to Dobie Gillis.

 

[JazzInAZ]

Having the second half of the Toscano Antico. This time in a makeshift, seat-of-the-pants, quick-fab holder. It's working well. Will be experimenting more ...

Still iced tea, M&S Xtra Strong.

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2020 D&R Penhooker in an undated slight bent rusticated brown with a darker fumed top unbranded Micoli billiard with a white accented perpex ferrule, off center square shank and black vulcanite stem in the military mount style.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2018 D&R Windsail in a smooth straight family era 1950s Barling 313 T.V.F. EXEXEL pot with a black ebonite saddle stem. The ferals are back in and eating. I hope to end the day with this smoke.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop in a medium sized Stanwell Freehand.

 

[judcole]

Amphora Original in a Mark Twain.

 

[LiveAsALyon]

Pipe: Tsuge Sandblasted Billiard
Blend: C&D Star Of The East Flake (‘23)
Pairing: Wawa Holiday Blend
Creepypasta: My Friend Has Been Living In An Alternate Reality

 

[MisterBadger]

Gawith Hoggarth Dark "A" Blend Flake.
Missouri Meerschaum Diplomat.
Ritual whiskey alternative in an Old Fashioned.

Wow.

I feel like I smoked this tobacco in a past lifetime.

This is so interesting and... familiar.

I dig this.

@RavenBlack You're not the only one... Dark Plug and Black Irish XXX do that for me. Especially when smoked in a clay. Tastes and smells can be so reconnective to the personal past: black powder smoke, woodsmoke, oiled steel, canvas, young grass and the smell of stables all have simlar effects on me. This could be worth a separate thread.

 

[ziv]

Starting new day with Constellation in a cob and black coffee on the side. The sun is rising, birds are very loud.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Ashton XXX Pebble Grain Stack and Coffee ️ on the side

 

[Choatecav]

A quarter of a bowl left of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match In a black sandblasted full bend 2025 Rinaldo YY Lithos dublin with a tapered amber tortoise shell acrylic stem. Daisy the Feral Princess has been in and out three times in the last twenty minutes. Like Dobie Gillis' father would have said, "I gotta kill that girl! I just gotta!" Just watched a couple of episode of that show. Batman is next.
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Wow, Jim, I have not heard a reference to an episode of "Dobie Gillis" in many years...... Many don't recall that before he was "Gilligan", Bob Denver was "Maynard G. Krebs" in the Gillis series. Ha.

 

[Steddy]

Giving C&D Redburn another spin in the old Burley burner, an IMP Meer.

 

[bobpnm]

Good morning!

 

[Thepipehunter]

Peterson Irish Flake in my #2 Savinelli 673KS Roma Lucite. Coffee to pair.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Mark Tinsky Stack and the last of the Coffee

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having a bowl of Uhles Blend 44 in a Brebbia ‘1960’ Nera Sabbiatta bent bulldog with a cup of hot coffee ️

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Fantastic morning for a pipe..
Steamworks in the Peterson Deluxe PSB 65.