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

[OSOBUCO]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 MacBaren Three Nuns in the first pipe Trever Talbot made when he went to France many years ago. It's a smooth straight Algerian briar Lumberman with a long shank and a black vulcanite saddle stem, unbranded.
View attachment 217221

Love the grain on that - an unbranded gem indeed

 

[das3353]

GH Broken Scotch Cake in a Stanwell Hand Cut

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Folklore in the KB&B Rocky Briar mini-Hungarian.

 

[BCF]

Granger all week in various pipes. It's been awesome all week too. Enjoy the evening everyone!

 

[TN Jed]

2013 Christmas Cheer in a Musico

 

[Scottmi]

And now to sit back and tend, with Pegasus in a cob and a tasty imperial IPA

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of KBV River of Deceit 2023 in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a pearl brown acrylic saddle stem. Working on a review of this blend. This will get me to dinner time.

 

[Scottmi]

Folklore in the KB&B Rocky Briar mini-Hungarian.

View attachment 217224

I find that folklore tends to disappear on me about halfway through a larger bowls. How did it work for you in this?

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Wilke Gramercy Park in a cob, beautiful day

 

[Laurent]

Country Squire Cowboy Coffee in my Paul’s pipe with some old forester

 

[starrynight]

Red Flake 22 in meer.

 

[mso489]

C&D Mountain Camp in a Tinder Box St. Ives bent pot with a unique vertical saddle stem, my first pipe ever from about 1978, still looking good and smoking strong. Errands and a good nap after a frantic tax day yesterday with my tax preparer and the post office.

At the P.O. was a frantic guy who was at the stamp machine and dropped his tax return behind the machine. I'm not sure how, or whether he retrieved his return. Luckily I got there when there were about 14 people in line in front of me; after that, the line grew to 30 or 40. I sent my returns off certified mail.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I find that folklore tends to disappear on me about halfway through a larger bowls. How did it work for you in this?

I don't have many (any?) "larger" bowls, really. This one for instance is about group 2/3.
But so far I've enjoyed Folklore and it doesn't seem to fade as the bowl progresses. Overall, Folklore has been a pleasant surprise for me.
The only time I had a bad experience was when I packed a bowl way too tight and it was nothin but trouble.

 

[Sidehatch]

Made it through the grind of today. Relishing with KBV Sakura in a Jim Gilliam Tadpole. Kicking around idea of scotch or bourbon for post dinner hockey watching

 

[WildTurkeySurprise]

LBF in a Peterson Aran 05

 

[tnfan]

McClelland Christmas Cheer 2012 in a BST Billiard.

 

[Ben.R.C]

1995 McClelland Beacon in a Caminetto

 

[TN Jed]

McClelland #2015 Va/per in a Jacono.

 

[StayPufft]

Samuel Gawith St James Flake in a Ser Jacopo Picta Picasso.

 

[jakesmokes]

Géométrie in a psb sandblasted squire. Really enjoying this blend