***What Are You Smoking, August 2021?***

[jaytex1969]

About to have some Kendall Flake in the Peterson 999 I got from @ssjones

It is about to become my 2nd briar Lakeland pipe.

 

[Meerly John]

Sun Bear Black Locust in a Dr. Grabow Duke. For me, the Sun Bear didnt live up to the hype. I hate toppings. I dont know if it's the tequila burning my nose on the retrohale. I enjoy it, but I have to fight to keep it out of my sinuses. The positives are the tin note is beautiful and so is the cut. Admittedly, I am a novice pipe smoker and I may not be smoking it right. I will not be buying another tin, especially for $21.

 

[jmsmitty6]

C&D Bluegrass in a Sandblasted Musico Billiard

 

[jmsmitty6]

PS Bullseye Flake in a 1936-1938 Kaywoodie Thorn with Rock Ambera Stem. I get asked about the stems on old pipes and I use Dry Vinyl Tape to protect them. Normal photo I use vs how it looks for smoking.

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I'm curious about this. I clench like a horse and use rubber bits but then I feel like the bit zone is huge as a result. What has your experience been like?

 

[Meerly John]

Sun Bear Black Locust in a Dr. Grabow Duke. For me, the Sun Bear didnt live up to the hype. I hate toppings. I dont know if it's the tequila burning my nose on the retrohale. I enjoy it, but I have to fight to keep it out of my sinuses. The positives are the tin note is beautiful and so is the cut. Admittedly, I am a novice pipe smoker and I may not be smoking it right. I will not be buying another tin, especially for $21.

It's definitely the topping, which is unfortunate because it alternates between the nose burn, then as the topping burns off it's a fantastic tobacco, then it burns down to fresh, topped leaf and burns again. The elderflower and silver tequila ruin this one for me. Hopefully it will ameliorate with aging.

 

[jewman22]

OH YEAH!! No2 finished, BC Brasilia 2305 horn stem stuffed with GLP Stonehenge.

 

[ashdigger]

I'm curious about this. I clench like a horse and use rubber bits but then I feel like the bit zone is huge as a result. What has your experience been like?

I absolutely hate rubber bits. I absolutely love dry vinyl. Barely affects the feel of the pipe. It’s easy to apply and remove.

 

[LotusEater]

Happy Birthday, LotusEater!
To paraphrase James Thurber: "One G&T is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough."

Thanks Dino - last night I had several egin and tonics. They were excellent and I only paid a small price this morning

 

[LotusEater]

Morning everyone, firstly I’d like to wish a belated happy birthday to Lotus eater and may you see many more.

I’m starting off the day with Tuskegee Airman in the Kiko meer poker. I have some Lizzie Blood drying in the dish for later.

Thanks Birddog!

 

[OzPiper]

Light lunch of cold English pork pie and fruit.
Miserable overcast day on front verandah with 1920 Hall&Fitgerald gold-banded, Amber stemmed Goudron meer loaded with a chopped up Semois cigar.
A Japanese Ryoma rum - delicate spirit with overtones of sake
Cup of green jasmine pearl tea.

 

[Mdutson]

Just got this in the mail. Mr Doodler with some Half N Half in it. Man I love this thing! Smokes great and feels great I know it’s a gimmick type pipe but I love it and thinks it’s going to be my new codger blend pipe. Cheers!

 

[JimInks]

Smoked a bowl of first release Watch City Rouxgaroux in a straight smooth, dark brown patent era 1952 Dunhill Bruyere ODA apple 806 B124 with a black vulcanite tapered stem.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2015 WarHorse Ready Cut in an undated straight sandblasted black Ropp Crystal billiard with a clear acrylic perspex saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R Raccoon’s Accent in an undated straight smooth brown The Lumberman Special (Comoy’s) with a tapered black vulcanite saddle stem. More Community Coffee, neat, for my drink. Working and listening to Suspense on the XM.

 

[karam]

Full Virginia Plug, cube cut.

 

[jewman22]

Frog on a Log in my Cellini Sabbiata by Brebbia bent bulldog.
I dread the day I run out of that stuff.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a black vulcanite tapered stem. There's a comfort in dedicating pipes to blend, and this smoke is a perfect example of that. Btw, for Lucille Ball fans, check out channel 104 on Sirius/XM for her 1960s radio talk show, Let's Talk to Lucy. The episodes run about ten minutes, and the conversations are serious.

 

[Brendan]

Been a week since my last bowl, enjoying my first smoke of PS Luxury twist flake.
Thoroughly enjoying the coconut, caramel topping and as Cosmic mentioned in another thread it does settle down 1/3 way in, more into the Virginia with the topping more in the background.

Tasty, tasty stuff.

Except for one minor hiccup..
A burnt off match head giving me an acrid harsh taste, had to dig around to see what the hell happened and figured it out..

Hope I never do that again.

 

[dino]

While chatting with my Saturday ZOOM buds, I smoked some 2015 Samovar in a Savinelli billiard with a saddle stem and a translucent green acrylic ferrule, made for Harry Yablon's Gift and Tobacco Emporium, a long-gone Skokie, Illinois shop, that was a "hang-out" for the North Side members of the Chicago Pipe Club. Harry is now one of the managers at Iwan Ries.
My beverage was a tumbler full of bergs, Peach/Mango Green Tea and Honey Jack.

 

[Spinkle]

A bowl of Cornell & Diehl Visions of Celephais (or however it’s spelt) in my Lorenzetti bent brandy.