My first bowl for this month is Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the blend Basil Rathbone smoked.
Chenet's cake in my no-name Mariana trench of a bowl. I am now beginning to understand how you determine which pipe is best suited for a blend. I shall stick with a smaller bowl when smoking that blend from now on.
Cleaned up an old no name nickel clad billiard I got from Walls Frank in the late 1960s. Going to Christian August with a bowl of Orlik Golden Sliced in it.