Tonight, SH&Co. Squadron Leader special edition with Perique in a Johs smooth straight taper-stemmed billiard, and for the second act, D&R Two Timer twice-toasted burley in a Jerry Perry straight panel billiard with saddle stem carved of Mountain Laurel, a standard briar substitute during World War Two when briar was not easily available from battle torn areas.
Perry is the only pipe carver I know working in Mountain Laurel, and he sells his pipes only at the N.C. State Fair Village of Yesteryear in October and at the TAPS pipe show at the fair grounds in April ... if the show ever gets re-started after the pandemic. Perry works in Mountain Laurel, briar, and maple, and the occasional exotic wood. I have a cocobolo pocket freehand by him.