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  1. VDL_Piper

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

    Raining here on the Apple Isle today so I've stuffed a bowl of my old favourite Telegraph Hill into a Castello #33 and made a pot of Russian Caravan tea. Should keep me occupied for an hour or so......
  2. VDL_Piper

    Cellar Noob PSA: Bulk vs. Tins vs. Jars

    Mate these a rookie numbers, move the wife out to the chicken coup and buy more tins, bulk and pipes.
  3. VDL_Piper

    First Home Grown Fig In 6 Years.

    Jeff that fig looks delicious and now suddenly I need a fig tree 🤣
  4. VDL_Piper

    Movie Music

    The sound track from The Full Monty is gold.
  5. VDL_Piper

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

    Beat me to it :col:
  6. VDL_Piper

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

    Thanks Larry, I like pipes that transport you through memory, feel, emotion. If you embody this in your pipe collection every time you smoke them is like living the moment again. No the image was taken on a journey out through Eromanga, Queensland and out over what is called "Big Red" in...
  7. VDL_Piper

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

    Complete change of pace now with Buttered Rum in a custom cob with spalted maple and Juma stem.
  8. VDL_Piper

    Cellar Label Thread

    Lovely work
  9. VDL_Piper

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

    My other Le Dune reminds me of the Australian Desert
  10. VDL_Piper

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

    Timber slab Larry. We have a small sawmill and some of our timbered country holds some lovely wood like Blackwood, Blackheart Sassafras, Tasmanian Oak, Celery Top Pine and Tasmanian Myrtle which this is a piece of. This tree actually fell over and so rather than let it rot we pulled it out with...
  11. VDL_Piper

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

    Just grabbed a bowl of McConnell Red Virginia in a Castello Le Dune Panel
  12. VDL_Piper

    Stupid Things You Notice About Yourself?

    I hold PHD's in dumb :poop: crazy:poop: stupid:poop: bad:poop: clever:poop: funny:poop: dangerous :poop: and wild:poop:. My behaviours don't surprise me very often now but they are great cause for alarm by others around me.
  13. VDL_Piper

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

    It’s 2.30am here, can’t sleep, moon is very bright tonight so I’m smoking some DNR’s in a Castello #33. Dedicating this smoke to @Choatecav and his increasing levels of PAD.
  14. VDL_Piper

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

    Yep, I’m an enabler 😁
  15. VDL_Piper

    Show Off Your Eclesias (Pavel Holub)

    Got a couple, nice smokers, light and tactile. Both these have acrylic stems which I like.
  16. VDL_Piper

    What are you waiting for?!

    Watcha drinking :ROFLMAO:
  17. VDL_Piper

    1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case

    Gorgeous oak cabinet, painted glass and solid brass pulls, you have to wonder how in todays age we pass off MDF covered in plastic wood grain as being the same as this.
  18. VDL_Piper

    Is It Really Necessary To Rotate Pipes? My Opinion!

    They’re on here, less now but my morning post was nearly always out and about. Here’s a couple for ya @Briarcutter
  19. VDL_Piper

    Is It Really Necessary To Rotate Pipes? My Opinion!

    It’s fine, I fill them and smoke them over and over, you can’t haul 5 pipes around with you when you work on a farm and you also learn how to clench your pipe and work for long periods without touching your pipe.
  20. VDL_Piper

    Cloves

    For those wanting clove flavour in pipe tobacco I get it from Bosuns Plug if you can still source that in the U.S.