***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

[MattRVA]

FVF in a Kaywoodie super grain 5007 billiard. Drinking black coffee.

 

[condorlover1]

* Mainly smoking Calabashes nowadays.
* No maker's marks on the meer or on its case . . . as for the stem it's got HAND CUT STEM embossed around close to where it screws into the shank . . . as for it being original to the pipe I can't be sure but my feeling is that it is.
* Clay pipe portions c.1580 - c. 1800 on the left lower shelf were collected the lazy way and picked up from The House of Pipes auction in 1991 although it did take some travelling to get to the auctions from where I live.

House of Pipes in Bramber, Sussex. I loved that place. First visited there in the mid 1970s. The owner always reminded me of Benny Hill. He had some lovely examples of meerschaum skull pipes that I believe were stolen in the mid 1980s.

 

[renfield]

Three Nuns Green in an unfinished Sav 320.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Pork Chops & Apple Sauce 2020 in a 1980s White Pipe straight lattice apple meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Have enough left for a bowl or so.

Still waiting for pork chops to be in stock

 

[tfdickson]

2010 St James Flake in my Castello bulldog.

 

[trubka2]

GH Co Brown Flake Unscented in a BBB Thorneycroft.

 

[greeneyes]

Samuel Gawith Kendal Plug in a Meerschaum. This tobacco wasn't meant to be rushed, either in preparation or enjoyment. An average size bowl, I fell, might last two hours.

 

[marlinspike]

C&D Star of the East flake in a Falcon bent stem with Plymouth briar bowl, on a beautiful late summer evening here.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Peretti 150th Anniversary in a smooth three quarter bend 1970s Charatan Belvedere 4211DC egg with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.

 

[tnfan]

2017 Escudo in a Castello Collection Great Line.

 

[jaytex1969]

MB HH ODL RR in a Ben Wade Tankard.

 

[PipesRock]

A bit of a late smoke on the back porch enjoying black coffee, the gentle rain, and some 4 year old Arango Balkan Supreme in the Brebbia Dublin.

 

[smknron]

Comoy's cask #4 aged 2 years, in a Dr. Graybow Savoy. Nice night here in central Florida.

 

[rajangan]

Three Nuns Green in an unfinished Sav 320.

Wait! What's an unfinished Sav?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking D&R Picayune in a MM Hardwood. Having black coffee.

 

[mso489]

Dunhill Durbar, a Virginia based English, in a small straight Scott Klein prince. To answer a question from a recent post on this thread, an unfinished Savinelli is a pipe that is not stained or otherwise finished. It looks a little like the color of raw lumber, but as you smoke it, the color deepens, and gets better over the years. I have a forty year old Sav I bought unfinished that now has a deep walnut polished finish, all from smoking. Developing color on an unfinished pipe is one of the pleasures of pipe smoking that is not to be missed. I have several other "unfinished" pipes that are in various stages of taking on color.

 

[das3353]

WC Simply Red in a Pete Premier 303

 

[alaskanpiper]

CD Sun Bear 2020 in an MM/Dagner Cob Poker. Evening lunt with the wife and kiddo.

 

[JimInks]

About half way through this bowl of Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

 

[cshubhra]

Tabac Vincent Manil Semois La Brumeuse in a Sasieni Perfect Ten Canadian