*** What Are You Smoking?*** (April 2018)

[flakyjakey]

First smoke of the day is Robert Lewis Orcilla Mixture in a 50's Sasieni Royal Stewart, which has a very large bowl. If a tin of Orcilla is to hand, it tends to be my go-to first smoke. I smoke it in a large bowl because it is shag-cut and burns fairly quickly and the large bowl seems to bring out the Turkish elements in the blend (and perhaps render any Latakia undetectable! :lol

 

[workman]

Astley's no. 44 in a Stanwell DM 1999 oval shanked, blasted billiard with saddle stem. First smoke of this blend.

 

[Civil War]

Moonshine Sandblasted Belge w/ Dunhill: Flake

 

[cortezattic]

Rattray's Brown Clunee in a no-name meer, with coffee and the morning paper.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Daughters & Ryan Rimboche in a P grade Upshall straight acorn.

 

[workman]

Bell's Three Nuns by MacBaren in an Orlik de Luxe bulldog. First smoke of this blend.

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem. Simply Orange is my drink.

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Rotary Navy Cut in a Rad Davis Dublin.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 2011 Villiger Virginia No. 444 in a three quarter bend smooth 1985 Dunhill Chestnut 5202 billiard with a cumberland stem.

 

[flakyjakey]

Germain's Rich Dark Flake (poor man's Stonehaven) in an RDF-dedicated Peterson Centenary Lovat.

 

[workman]

Rattray's Hal o' the Wynd in a Stanwell 51 billiard.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Plum Pudding in a brown Pete billiard spigot.

 

[JimInks]

Wilke 47th Street in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a pearl brown acrylic stem.

 

[mso489]

Packed for next, the first pipe I ever bought or owned, a Tinderbox house pipe, most likely a Chacom, a smooth bent pot with a vertical saddle stem, kind of unique design, still in great shape, packed with Russ O.'s match to the classic Walnut blend, Chestnut, in the PC Hearth and Home Midtown series, always a good smoke, and worthy of my premier pipe from the 1970's.

 

[spartan99]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Flake Unscented in a straight Missouri Meerschaum Legend.

 

[Civil War]

Astley's Balmoral Smooth Lovat w/ Bengal Slices

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Astleys no 44 Dark Flake in a Bruce Weaver Volcano.

 

[snowyowl]

HU Nyala in a Barling “The Albert” estate (9mm).

 

[JimInks]

My after lunch smoke is Art’s Virginia in a 1984 three quarter bend medium brown Ascorti KS Business Dublin with a black acrylic stem. A bottle of Dad's Root Beer is my drink.

 

[flakyjakey]

Sipping an after dinner bowl of GH&Co Dark Flake in a 50's Stanwell "Old Briar" #877 that is dedicated to DF/DP.