Switching it up with Match Victorian out of an AGovem meerschaum***What Are You Smoking, April 2024?***
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Switching it up with Match Victorian out of an AGovem meerschaum
Off to work with a bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
I started my day with Orlik Golden Sliced in the Morgan Bones, and now I'm having a nice leisurely evening smoke of some Cornell & Diehl Pegasus in a Country Gentleman cob. I've always smoked Pegasus in very small pipes since I found it a little harsh, but trying it now in a larger pipe it's smoking completely smooth and with zero sinus sting on the retrohale. I guess this blend just performs better in a bigger pipe!
Smoking what may be my favorite as of late. GL Pease Sextant in a nice old meer.
Thank you!
Picked it up at a Holiday market this past fall. I'm especially fond of the glaze
As long as we're playing w macro, Five Brothers in my trusty DM
Near the first third of this bowl of Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.
Finally got around to the MacBaren HH Latakia Flake. Rubbed out two flakes and packed the Falcon.
Perfect moisture level right out of the tin. It lit and burned perfectly all the way through.
Oh My, this stuff is good!
I was surprised by the sweetness of this. It is an earthy smoke in which I detected cream and honey notes in the bottom half of the bowl, and the sweetness stays with it becoming darker and somewhat caramelized tasting as one goes along. It is a complex yet surprisingly subtle blend, and I will have to take some more time with this to sus it all out.
Fantastic!
Perfect moisture level right out of the tin. It lit and burned perfectly all the way through.
Oh My, this stuff is good!
I was surprised by the sweetness of this. It is an earthy smoke in which I detected cream and honey notes in the bottom half of the bowl, and the sweetness stays with it becoming darker and somewhat caramelized tasting as one goes along. It is a complex yet surprisingly subtle blend, and I will have to take some more time with this to sus it all out.
Fantastic!
Capstan Blue Flake in an Altinay. Around 25 bowls in this Meer, it is coloring nicely.
Ending the night with some Squire chocolate in a Nording with tea and honey. 
Smoking some Dunhill Ready Rubbed in a Northern Briars quarter bent billiard. 
Did a little low calorie snacking, and am smoking C&D Virginia Gentleman in a straight smooth dark brown pre-1940s Comoy’s Jost’s Olde English Supreme J299 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Working and listening to The Green Hornet from my radio collection.
Near the half way mark of this bowl of Wilke Back Bay w/o perique in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Dublin Sterling Canadian 264 with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. I got John Brandt to make this for me. It’s not on the menu, but he’ll make you a batch if you ask. Downloading photos and videos of the scampers.
Whew!
I just finished catching up with all the posts I missed while at the Chicago Show - more than 75 pages! And, yes, I read them all; it took me three evenings.
The show was great. It was wonderful to reconnect with all those I’ve met and known over the years since that first show back in the 1990s. And it was fun meeting some of the denizens of this Forum face-to-face.
Although I spent most of the weekend at my Registration table post, and helping where needed, I enjoyed a few pipes in the smoking tent.
Two memorable smokes included sharing a bowl with a few of my CPCC buddies on Friday, particularly my old friend and fellow “original member” Jim York (there are only about a half dozen of us left). I smoked some Drama Reserve in a GBD Fantasy Dublin 864 that J. T. Cooke meticulously restored for me, back in the day.
The second smoke was on Saturday afternoon with my good friend Alex Florov, his friend Ping Zhan and some of Ping’s colleagues. I enjoyed a bowl of my “Dino’s Mixture” in my Peterson POTY 2002 bulldog with a silver spigot that my wife bought me at the Dublin Grafton store during our trip to Ireland in 2002.
It was a weekend of great conversations, pipe and tobacco talk, camaraderie and just plain fun.
Thank you to all who came to our show!
I hope to see y’all next year.
I just finished catching up with all the posts I missed while at the Chicago Show - more than 75 pages! And, yes, I read them all; it took me three evenings.
The show was great. It was wonderful to reconnect with all those I’ve met and known over the years since that first show back in the 1990s. And it was fun meeting some of the denizens of this Forum face-to-face.
Although I spent most of the weekend at my Registration table post, and helping where needed, I enjoyed a few pipes in the smoking tent.
Two memorable smokes included sharing a bowl with a few of my CPCC buddies on Friday, particularly my old friend and fellow “original member” Jim York (there are only about a half dozen of us left). I smoked some Drama Reserve in a GBD Fantasy Dublin 864 that J. T. Cooke meticulously restored for me, back in the day.
The second smoke was on Saturday afternoon with my good friend Alex Florov, his friend Ping Zhan and some of Ping’s colleagues. I enjoyed a bowl of my “Dino’s Mixture” in my Peterson POTY 2002 bulldog with a silver spigot that my wife bought me at the Dublin Grafton store during our trip to Ireland in 2002.
It was a weekend of great conversations, pipe and tobacco talk, camaraderie and just plain fun.
Thank you to all who came to our show!
I hope to see y’all next year.
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I've passed the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1984 medium bend black grain etched Savinelli Non Pareil 9310 poker with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite flared stem. Still have things to do.
No other news today except to note that this orange baby and his multi-colored brother think my fingers taste like chicken.
No other news today except to note that this orange baby and his multi-colored brother think my fingers taste like chicken.
1. and 2. Paddington in Eltang Basics
A third of a bowl left of 2016 G&H Rum Flake in a 2014 straight MM Missouri Pride Legend with a black plastic stem. I'll end the day with this smoke.
Well, I was wrong about going to bed, so I'm smoking first release Watch City Rhythm & Blues in a straight smooth brown 1920s-30s Sasieni patent 8 dot Marborough lovat with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This has gotta end the day for me. 
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