***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad and chicken primavera dinner. M'lady just took the apple cinnamon raisin pie out of the oven, so once it cools and settles, I'll be eating a lot of it. It's been years since she's made one, and I'm glad that I asked her to do it. I'm near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight smooth brown Algerian briar post-WW2-early 50s family era Barling’s Make Ye Olde Wood T.V.F. Made in England EL billiard with a tapered black ebonite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Braves-Dodgers game with Sleepy Suzy by my side. She doesn't eat pie, but she'll watch me do that. Suzy likes to watch me eat.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Michele Pascolini, known as "Bisonte," did this new pipe supposed to evoke the idea of a Bison, as are all his pipes. SPC Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged lasted 2 hours in this much bigger than it looks bowl. Hard to tell, it’s so dark, but thestem is Cumberland.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[Chieftiabo]

2021 Watch City Flake #558 in a Boswell

 

[Scottmi]

Sweet Dark Cherry Twist in the no name "Imported Briar" wormy-carved billiard, with Topcutter on deck.

 

[tfdickson]

2021 Cringle Flake in my Ashton billiard.

 

[renfield]

6 year old HU Edward G in a smooth Sav Qandale.

 

[Scottmi]

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C&D Exclusive in a Morgan Bones Billiard and Diet Coke on the side.
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Interesting tamp! Is there a story with it?

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

G.L.Pease Horizons again. My first pipe of this was folded and stuffed in a Nording Signature Freehand earlier this evening, and it was a great smoke. This time I've rubbed it out in a Savinelli Noce 320. I usually prefer to fold and stuff flakes, but I've never smoked Balkan/English flakes before so I'm now trying my preferred method of smoking non-flake Balkan/English blends, being in a 320.

 

[98now]

Smoking some of my B&M’s bulk Wife’s Blend in a Singleton I restored recently.

 

[Bbailey324]

Another bowl of Telegraph Hill in the Derry.

 

[Ted Vig]

2023 Folklore in an American Smoking Co. bent Dublin by Mark Tinsky. Who else is looking forward to Chicago? I think I've been thinking about it daily!

 

[Servant King]

More snow + more ranch cleanup = more Mac Baren Plumcake in a MM Dagner Poker. I never got better than a C in any math class I ever took, but this is simple enough math even for me. Dried it perfectly too. 9/10

Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, California towhee, Dark-eyed junco, House finch, Mountain chickadee, American crow, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, Hairy woodpecker, White-breasted nuthatch, American robin, and Spotted towhee.

 

[Scottmi]

OJK in a 1920s General Deluxe by Premier with a Genuine Rock Bakelite stem.

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Love it! Is the bowl made from something different? and is it removable?

 

[TN Jed]

Amphora Kentucky Blend in a Ryan Alden

 

[ben229]

Passing the first third of this bowl of 2017 Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 Peretti's M.T. Natural made in Holland straight smooth brown Algerian briar billiard with a tapered black acrylic stem. This should get me to dinner time. After I posed my last smoke, I went outside and saw Abner the Eager in the street a house up from mine. I called to him, and he came running to me. I scratched his head, and he laid down on his side for a rub. I picked him up to bring him inside, and he had an audiable motor running. He hasn't done that in a few weeks. He ate a bunch, drank a bunch, and laid on the floor near me for about twenty minutes. Then he wanted out. This is the happiest I've seen the li'l fella in a while.
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He’s a handsome fellow.

 

[briarandplaid]

Right now as we speak I'm enjoying a bowl of 2024 Cringle Flake in my 2024 Shellcraft! Thanks, Nathan over at Kaywoodie!

 

[JimInks]

Ate three quarters of a deep dish nine inch apple cinnamon raisin pie with a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream for dessert, and am near the first third of this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a straight smooth brown 1920s-30s (Comoy’s) Corinthian Sutliff San Francisco London Made 36 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Haven't smoked this pipe lately. I brought Molly Danger to the den, and after a little time on m'lady's lap, she's prowling around looking for something to play with. There's several toys on the floor, but she just stares at them, the silly li'l girl.