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  1. bluegrassbrian

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

    As a lifelong denizen of Kentucky, and an early admirer of bourbon, I cringe at the contemporary bourbon fancier world of the past decade+. I’ve long admitted to myself that it’s all marketing and subjectivity. Taste.. Rating a bourbon.. or vodka/cigar/pipe tobacco, it’s all subjective for the...
  2. bluegrassbrian

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

    Never had it before but as far as vodkas go, it’s NICE
  3. bluegrassbrian

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

    10:30am.. we’re drinking Beluga vodka with brown bread and pickles.. This is what happens when you let a Russian in to your pipe club! Otherwise, I’ve got a bowl of 5100 in the Scarlatta full bent. Poor picture but..
  4. bluegrassbrian

    RIP Mark Volman (Flo & Eddie)

    Ahhh their work with The Mothers was fantastic. *Sigh*
  5. bluegrassbrian

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

    On break, sneaking a bowl of HU Soraya in the Kyriazanos Greek Dublin.
  6. bluegrassbrian

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

    Steamworks in a Le Nuvole “Orientale” S3 w/ red brindle. Proven to be a phenomenal smoker!
  7. bluegrassbrian

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

    Steamworks in the Musico Floodlight w/ silver.
  8. bluegrassbrian

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

    McClelland 2010 in the Peterson Walnut Spigot 65.
  9. bluegrassbrian

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    Ok. Since I first began seriously seeking and collecting knives, there was always one brand that seemed to exist in rarified air. Knives so unique and beautiful, their appearance seemed to bely their insane cutting properties. I’ve come close to picking one up several times, but always ended up...
  10. bluegrassbrian

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

    Steamworks in the Iafisco, bent and blasted, with silver band.
  11. bluegrassbrian

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

    5100 in the full bent chimney by Todd Bannard. *BST*.
  12. bluegrassbrian

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

    Final day of August, and Summer ‘25 is quickly winding down. Weather here in the Ohio Valley has been stunning. Took my morning Steamworks in the Radice Clear E, long shank Canadien.
  13. bluegrassbrian

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

    I’d love to present multiple shots of every pipe I post, to show it off 360°. Feels like that can get presumptuous though. On to some Tudor Flake in a Radice Clear billiard.
  14. bluegrassbrian

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

    It IS tall, but like most stacks and chimneys, it’s rather narrow too.
  15. bluegrassbrian

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

    Variables considered, between 50 and 70 minutes.
  16. bluegrassbrian

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

    5100 in the Sven Knudsen “Pipe Dan” Spike.
  17. bluegrassbrian

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

    My morning Steamworks in the Ashton PG XX (which is more of an “X” than any single X Ashton I’ve ever owned). Got a new book in the mail yesterday and got about 100 pages deep. It’s a collection of writings about one of my favorite bands (Silkworm) and their songs. In the photo section...
  18. bluegrassbrian

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    Definitely an odd duck for me- I was never drawn to daggers, but here we are.. Stephane Espi framelock dagger. Full Ti (of course), zircuti clip, and fully hand crafted blade of Takefu Super Gold 2 (SG2).
  19. bluegrassbrian

    $800 De Minimis Import Tax Exemption Set To End Friday

    Getting my french knives is going to become a lot more difficult.
  20. bluegrassbrian

    $800 De Minimis Import Tax Exemption Set To End Friday

    Who’s responsible for this? Snuffing out a large part of TWO of my main hobbies.