Favorite Billiard For English Blends?

[durham270]

Which is your favorite billiard for smoking Latakia English blends. Out of all the pipes I use for English blends this 1977 Mastro de Paja Fatta a Mano always provides the sweetest smoke. It's seen a lot of bowl of McClellands British Woods lately.

 

[irish]

Mine has to be my 1968 Dunhill. I haven't had it very long, I bought it from Samcoffeeman a few months back and I have smoked McClellands almost exclusively in it. It has become one of my favorite pipes all together.

 

[dmcmtk]

Durham, that Mastro de Paja looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL!
Dave

 

[petes03]

Here's my "English blend" billiards, top to bottom;
1)Stanwell "40" Zebrano (really more of a short shanked lumberman, due to the oval shank and saddle bit)
2)Caminetto "107KS" Business
3)Peterson "106" Zippo
4)Aldo Velani "58" Suprema
5)Prince Of Whales (no number) Hand Made
6)Old England "27N" Virgin Briar
All of these are excellent smokers, though the Aldo Velani is still in the break-in period.

 

[durham270]

irish, that's a true classic!! Shell Briar, right? Congratulations!

 

[durham270]

pete, thanks for posting those treasures. They all look excellent! The Stanwell stands out though because I like collecting Danish pipes.

 

[sallow]

I don't smoke english blends much but this old ehrlich handles them well. It is more of a pot than a billiard though.

Durham that Mastro de Paja is a handsome pipe. What are the dimensions? I can't tell from the picture if it is small or large.

 

[durham270]

Saloow that's a very handsome pipe you have there too! Looks like a true classic.
My Mastro is on the large size. Length: 6", Bowl height: 2", Rim width: 1 1/2", Chamber width: 7/8"

 

[piperl12]

Geeze guys every time I am on here its all eye candy!

 

[kashmir]

Well, I mostly smoke English and Balkan blends - anything Lat forward really. Here are a set of my Dunnie billiards that do the job quite well.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I've grown fond of this little Linkmans Dr. Grabow in spite of the stinger. I find myself using it for English blends exclusively. I also use my V.V. billiard for those blends mostly too. They both have smaller bowls that I prefer for those tobaccos.

 

[petes03]

Thanks Durham!
Nice pipes everybody! Kash, that Dunhill collection is amazing!

 

[cigrmaster]

When I did smoke English blends my favorite pipes were Castello, Radice and Upshall. Never got one that was a cool dry smoker, that smoke my English bends very nicely. I normally went for bigger pipes like large group 5's, 6's and ODA's. I always felt the multitude of different tobacco's that made up my favorite blends needed a larger pipe to allow the flavors to open up.

 

[phred]

I picked up this Jobey partially-rusticated billiard for my English blends - so far I've tried Lancer Slices and Frog Morton in it. Still need to try out the H&H Englishes that I've got on hand...

 

[petes03]

Fresh rom the B&M, my new Nording "Silver Series" 925 sandblast!

 

[mso489]

What a great variety of billiards, one of my favorite shapes. I like English blends in my Iwan Ries Exclusives

(house pipes) billiard and Canadian, and a green-stain Chacom straight billiard, and a hand-carved Jerry

Perry rusticated billiard, among others. Also a Luciano straight blast billiard. And, and, and....

 

[allan]

I know this thread is regarding best 'billiards', but I have to include these bents: (please forgive me)

From top to bottom: Rad Davis Bent Dublin; James Upshall Sitter; James Upshall Dublin

 

[goldsm]

For a english blend I using BBB OWNMAKE VIRGIN squat bulldog.

Effortless cool dry smoke always give a mouthful taste with very Light weight.

 

[starcat]

God Horrifying straight pipes.........
SC

 

[misterlowercase]

Wayne Teipen

Comoy's 186

Dunhill Shell 252

Savory's 286

BBB Thorneycroft 636
...and for English codger baccy,

...it's this:

1949 patent Parker 3/F

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