***What Are You Smoking, April 2021?***

[turbomunkey]

New to me 1987 Peterson Rocky something something. I bought a sibling of this pipe as well from the same guy. Presbyterian in the bowl. I read some tobacco experts on the forums recommend letting the stuff stew in the bowl an hour before smoking, so I packed it then ran some errands and gave it a go when I took the parents dogo out into the marsh. Really cleaned up nicely.

 

[virkia]

Men who look into the void are men who live lives of quiet desperation. Men who enter the void and the successfully cross it to the other side, these are explorers.

"If in the forest you see two paths diverge, make your own."

Douglas Sexton

Your quote from Black Elk reminds me of the time his grandson visited our house in 1985 when he gave me a copy of his grandfather's book THE SACRED PIPE: BLACK ELK'S ACCOUNT OF THE SEVEN RITES OF THE OGLALA SIOUX signed and dedicated with the information that his name as hereditary chief means Chanupa Sapa ("A Sacred Black Pipe Born of Thunder, Lightning and Rain")

Finally he can meet his good buddy Jeffrey Epstein , may god protect them ??

... and the prize for the most tasteless and inaccurate comment of the year goes to ...

 

[renfield]

HH Burley Flake in a Briarworks Rhodesian.

 

[weezell]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co.: Brown Bogie in a Meer...​

 

[whitebar]

After dinner I'm enjoying some Warped: The Red Hunt in a Castello Epoca shape 15 billiard.

 

[MattRVA]

GH&Co. Brown Flake Unscented in a Kaywoodie super grain 76B.

 

[rushx9]

HU Indaba in a Viking Classic Billiard. Hard to believe this doesn't have Perique in it? Unbelievable quality. Seems like a close cousin to the Rattray's VaPerKy trio.

 

[F4RM3R]

Whole leaf blend, trying something a little different. Kentucky base with just a touch of everything else.

Kentucky 50%
Stoved red virginia 15%
Stoved bright virginia 10%
Latakia 10%
Perique 5%
Oriental mix(basma and prelip) 5%

Pressed to a crumble cake then stoved for a few hours. The stoving really darkened it, almost too much, as it lost any of the bright notes it had, but smokes cool with a little oily quality to it like black xx. Mildly sweet and a little fruity from the perique and virginias which are almost cavendish at this point with the double stoving. Don't think I'll stove it as much next time but it's a nice change of pace.

Through a cob.

 

[das3353]

5100 in an Il Ceppo

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Edward G Robinson blend in a rocky Peterson

 

[mikefu]

Trafalgar in a Mike Jones custom Rock Lovat with turquoise Cumberland bit

 

[yohanan]

Wilke Lizzie Blood Red English in a MM Diplomat.

 

[J.Henry845]

Haunted Bookshop in a Rusticated Peterson System Bent Billiard 312. Watching Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions.

 

[cshubhra]

Rattray’s Black Mallory in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, wild caught flounder and sugar snap peas dinner with a couple of freshly baked blueberry muffins for dessert. I've about a quarter of a bowl left of year 2013 Capstan Gold in a post-WWII Bertram 60 straight smooth dark brown squat bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[jyrreb]

spent the day at the lake, feeling a little sun-worn but enjoying a bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a Sav 320KS Roma.

 

[tfdickson]

2009 Wessex Campaign in my Larrysson saddle dublin.

 

[Sonorisis]

Warped The Red Hunt in a Radice Liverpool.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Hearth & Home LJ Heart Virginia from a sample the ole' @BROBS sent me. The BROBS is a pretty stand up guy, I don't care what Craig says

 

[JimInks]

Did a little snacking, and am a third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with burgundy undertone sandblasted 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem.