***What Are You Smoking, April 2023?***

[jakesmokes]

Squire, escudo, dunkin and goodmorning

 

[haebar]

Good morning all! I am smoking the last of my sample of The Beast in a Ron Smith handmade pipe.

 

[judcole]

Milan's KCM Match in an MM Boone.

 

[john19]

Ashton Artisan's in Savinelli 320KS.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Been switching between these two blends and pipes since late last night. McClelland Beacon and GLP Jackknife in an old Barling and a Castello.

 

[craig61a]

Granger in a 2021 Don Warren Medium Walnut Dublin.

 

[Naits]

Were you born there? It reminds me, for the short time I lived in Alaska, similar outdoors and lifestyle.

Born in Trondheim, that's a bit south, but I live now near the arctic circle.
Yes, it's in many ways quite similar to Alaska

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Saturday morning all. I'm up way too early to watch Premier League footie. Just enjoyed a nice smoke of Peterson Flake in my Rossi 8114.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Haunted Bookshop in an Altinay.
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Welcome back!

 

[milk]

Stanwell patent 60 S. Ivarsson design - smoking Dan’s Timm London Blend 1000 which I find very relaxing.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Granger in a Phifen Huber stamped Peterson Cara X105.

 

[rmbittner]

Smoking 2022 Sun Bear in a pipe made by forum member @Puffaluffaguss. Both were generous gifts!

 

[dcicero]

Stanwell Melange in a Gigi Classica. Not that impressed. With the Melange.

 

[john19]

Smoking 2022 Sun Bear in a pipe made by forum member @Puffaluffaguss. Both were generous gifts!

Nice stem.

 

[Ben.R.C]

More Beacon in a Ferndown

 

[The Clay King]

Happy Easter everyone.

At the suggestion of @halfdan I'm having a bowl of Sam Gawith's Black Forest

In the FrankenClay
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I have only had 3-4 smokes in this and the chamber is not yet fully carbonised.
Compared to the bowl I had last week in a well-seasoned briar, there is a district earthy, clayey taste to this smoke.

@OzPiper A good tobacco choice for a clay pipe! I think the bowl looks like a Pollock pipe; I've got more than one of the Irish harp clays.

 

[The Clay King]

I see. This is one of the things keeping me from making a video tutorial on how to use a rope lighter with pipe.

I’ve told my folks that I smoke a pipe, but it feels disrespectful to let them see it, or any evidence of it. Strange?


Rope lighter!

@aspiring_sage Yes a rope lighter would be perfect for the English Civil War period as they used match cord for lighting the muskets - and their clays!
Video of the Sealed Knot Parade at the Battle of Nantwich:

One of the re-enactors can be seen lighting his pipe with a length of match cord at about 5:30.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Playing golf with my son and granddaughter. Cupido Toro.

 

[bobpnm]

 

[The Clay King]

Thank you, it’s a tavern clay got from SP, it’s all clay, I’ve seen the ones with acrylic stems and want to get one.

@Backwoods Briar I've got one with an acrylic stem:

Billiard with Black Stem - Old German Clay Pipes

Buy this Old German Clay Billiard with Black Stem tobacco pipe from Smokingpipes, hand-crafted from quality German clay by Markus Fohr.

www.smokingpipes.com

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