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

[hawky454]

Smoking some Esoterica Woodbridge (2008) in a Colossus Masterpiece

 

[BROBS]

This morning Sutliff Red VA Crumble Kake from my Il Ceppo natural sandblast bent billiard.

 

[mso489]

PS Amsterdam in a Nording signature nicely darkened over several years, a gift pipe from friends.

 

[weezell]

St. Bruno: Ready Rubbed in a Meer...

 

[craig61a]

Peterson Early Morning Pipe in a BBB 673 Billiard.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Prince Albert in a medium bend black sandblasted IPSD 2016 Mark Tinsky book keeper 5 with a square shank and a black acrylic saddle stem with a cream colored accent. M'lady loves the smell of this tobacco.

 

[hawky454]

St. Bruno: Ready Rubbed in a Meer...

You really make me want to get a meerschaum some day! Some of the colors/patina on yours are the best I’ve ever seen! I want to season one to the point it gets that really dark color that some of yours have.... I imagine that would take a lifetime though, it would be very satisfying to watch the colors develop over time. I’ve had a total of 3 meers in my life but all of them had a really shitty draw.

 

[gerryp]

Rattray's Summer 2014 in a fancy MM Mark Twain. Founder's Centennial IPA to the left, the ol' lady in the background.

 

[Sonorisis]

Dunbar in a blasted Radice Bent Apple.

 

[marlinspike]

Peretti’s Cuban Mixture in a blaster finish Briarworks bullmoose. Ice water with orange slices to accompany.

 

[marlinspike]

You really make me want to get a meerschaum some day! Some of the colors/patina on yours are the best I’ve ever seen! I want to season one to the point it gets that really dark color that some of yours have.... I imagine that would take a lifetime though, it would be very satisfying to watch the colors develop over time. I’ve had a total of 3 meers in my life but all of them had a really shitty draw.

Trade secret: @weezell hires in itinerant laborers at cut rates to heavily smoke his meers for a one-month period before changing stems. This is an Mark Twain solution that he read about while perusing articles in old copies of The Atlantic and having the help bring him mint juleps.

 

[virkia]

Late 1970s H. Simmons Burlington Arcade, W. Vest-Pocket + 2007 Colibri Flexion pipe lighter + Century BLACK & BROWN:-

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Esoterica And So to Bed in a hobby block. About to grill some fajitas and bacon wrapped stuffed jalapeños.

 

[PipesRock]

Enjoying some Balkan Supreme in the Brebbia Dublin on the FL back porch. It cooled off nicely following the afternoon storms. Will pour the black coffee in a few min.

 

[virkia]

Having posted pics over the past weeks of nearly all of my *'modern' pipes - as in pipes I bought new from pipe shops in London and Cannes during the 1970s and 1980s when I was in my late teens and twenties - I'll be moving on tomorrow from the late 20th Cent. to early & mid 20th Cent. examples.
Before I end this section I'm taking the opportunity to post a quick overview of the pipes already posted individually:-



Speaking about 'modern' and 'new' pipes - I know I shouldn't but I still remain a bit weirded out by similar age pipes appearing here and on auction sites referred to as 'estate pipes'.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 in a 1998 smooth straight Butz-Choquin Bistro 1501 pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This may get me to dinner time.

 

[das3353]

Having some Balkan Supreme in a Radice Silk Cut 55

 

[trubka2]

Yoshimi's Outshine in a Scandia 724.

 

[Drew72]

C&D Yorktown in Molina with 9mm charcoal filter. Simple pleasures!

 

[ak2000]

GLP Key Largo from 2013 in the Caminetto Business, very tasty in the large bowl