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

[gord]

MB London Mixture in a Grabow with coffee. View attachment 388831

Just love that pipe. Rhodesian type bowl and quarter bend not only looks great, but would smoke great as well. I've a mind for a similar pipe during my upcoming pipe tweak.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

I want a Savinelli Punto Oro straight billiard or Canadian. Just slightly too expensive for me just yet. One day though, it's on my list

When you get there, don't think you can't afford artisan pipes, too. If you want artisan pipes, but without spending 4 figures, your job is to find people who'll be charging $1,500-2,500 for their pipes someday, but who are just getting started, yet are really, really good already. With other hobbies taking up funds, too, I can't afford artisan pipes now from several I bought from when they were starting out. It's kind of neat to see a pipe go up on SP for $1,500 to $2,500, and know you have a similar one you paid $200-500 for, from the same maker.

 

[gord]

Out of a number somewhere over 50 that I refuse to count for the sake of plausible deniability, I only have 5, 9mm pipes, but the 2 workhorses of the group are a godsend when I overdo it, as I have been lately, and tongue bite hits. I should probably also have switched and had a few cigars instead, but just didn't want to. BriarWorks Back Down South in a BriarWorks sandblasted black bent pot with saddle stem, and then Peter Heinrichs English blend in the Balandis XL Anse.
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An excellent and sobering post! Cheers!

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Just love that pipe. Rhodesian type bowl and quarter bend not only looks great, but would smoke great as well. I've a mind for a similar pipe during my upcoming pipe tweak.

Thanks Gord, I was lucky enough to be given this one and I’ve come to love bent bulldogs. Rhodesians are good too but I love the diamond shanks of a bulldog and why I picked up that Brebbia I frequently post :]

 

[Pooh-Bah]

Bouncing between Altinok Meer and Urushi, with the goal of finishing my Seersucker today.

Pretty sure I have a second tin at home, which I'll probably either try to trade or give away, since it's good enough to smoke but I don't think I like it enough to go through a second plug of.

 

[gord]

Evening smoke of Rattary's Stirling Flakes in a Jeantet Distinction 701 lithe billiardView attachment 388868

A totally unpretentious but extremely elegant pipe. Wonderful!

 

[jerry]

I opened this tin of C&D Joie De Vivre, from 2014. Tin label read “estimated peak 8-12 years.” It is sublime! (In a Bekler meer).

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having G&H Curly Cut Deluxe in a Chacom poker.

 

[fr0st]

Played hooky from work, beautiful day to go entertain the trout.

Newminster #400 Superior Navy Flake in an Old Dominion Cob. Probably not the first or last time some Navy Flake was carried in a tackle box.

 

[B.Lew]

Old Gowrie in a Caminetto.

 

[keith929]

Lane 1Q in an unknown meer for Meerschaum Monday.

 

[gord]

When you get there, don't think you can't afford artisan pipes, too. If you want artisan pipes, but without spending 4 figures, your job is to find people who'll be charging $1,500-2,500 for their pipes someday, but who are just getting started, yet are really, really good already. With other hobbies taking up funds, too, I can't afford artisan pipes now from several I bought from when they were starting out. It's kind of neat to see a pipe go up on SP for $1,500 to $2,500, and know you have a similar one you paid $200-500 for, from the same maker.

More great wisdom and advice. You're on a roll today, Sir Puff! for sure. Kudos and thanks!

 

[gord]

Voting Day in Canada Today. Got a welcome ride to to go to take out the trash. The buddy who drove me also smokes a pipe, so we paused at a local parklet, lit up, and discussed the planning of the takeover of the known universe.

I braved some Capt. Black Cherry Cavendish, in my mini-cobb, and in spite of the past few days, wasn't bad at all. Looks like the allergy, virus or whatever it was is clearing up. Had some coffee with it from Rotton Ronnies, and yeah, the pipe was reminiscent of a fruit drink taste with your coffee. Back on track. Will take it easy for a couple of days, though, because my experience says that frustration leads to tongue bite. None of us need that.

Also of note is that this little pipe has definitely instilled in me the necessity of owning a nose-warmer, so that'll be upcoming in my planned 8 pipe tweak, which is now 2 down, 6 six to go, btw. The older you get, the less you grow up.

 

[BlueRidge]

Good afternoon. 1792 in a Castello

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Jirsa 210.

 

[Mortar0341]

When you get there, don't think you can't afford artisan pipes, too. If you want artisan pipes, but without spending 4 figures, your job is to find people who'll be charging $1,500-2,500 for their pipes someday, but who are just getting started, yet are really, really good already. With other hobbies taking up funds, too, I can't afford artisan pipes now from several I bought from when they were starting out. It's kind of neat to see a pipe go up on SP for $1,500 to $2,500, and know you have a similar one you paid $200-500 for, from the same maker.

I like straight pipes and I look at pipes under $200. The Punto Oro pipes are just over $200 I think maybe $300. And I can see maybe paying that But over $300 you start getting into Gun money. Hell $1500, you could buy a decent rifle for that.

 

[JimInks]

Smoking and reviewing Sutliff Sweated! in a 1986 three quarter bend Bacchus face CAO meer with a tapered dark tortoise shell colored acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Speak Easy]

I like straight pipes and I look at pipes under $200. The Punto Oro pipes are just over $200 I think maybe $300. And I can see maybe paying that But over $300 you start getting into Gun money. Hell $1500, you could buy a decent rifle for that.

I love that mindset!

 

[EssJaySea]

2021 Eight State Burley in a plain and simple Scotts pipe

 

[PrivatePiping]

Yard work with Burley Morning Pipe in a Kaywoodie Relief Grain poker.