***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

[LotusEater]

Regent’s Flake in a Merchant Service Bing

 

[LotusEater]

Thanks. It’s actually a Ser Jacopo second and it was an estate. Someone had botched a repair on it...probably took out a scratch and they sanded out color. Aside from being uneven I thought the color hid the incredible birdseye. So I stripped it down to wood, did a contrast stain and shined it up. It’s one of my favorite pipes. It doesnt matter to me that it’s a second (one tiny fill). It’s not gonna ever get sold.

That birdseye is pretty awesome!

 

[sallow]

Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a Dunhill Shell

 

[FLDRD]

Weather got so hot and humid and horrible that I was having trouble getting any enjoyment out of a pipe.
Remembered I had some cigars stashed away from a trip several years ago.
Not hydrated well but it was pretty tasty and worked better in the current weather.


It was only a couple of years ago that I was stating that I was expanding my palate by moving from English blends to trying Virginias. Someone noted that eventually I'd get to VaPers, BurPers, VaOrs, etc.
I didn't even know most of those were a thing then.
Now here I am enjoying a bowl of Big-n-Burley (in a Pete 314) with 25% Perique IIRC.
A BurPer for sure...

 

[DKpiper]

Still smoking Capstan Blue Flake - now in a Henning Poulsen Volcano. Really enjoying this combo

 

[Briarcutter]

Mixed some Perique with Brown Bogie!

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Watching High Heat with Sleepy Suzy by my side.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a 1963 Dunhill Shell 59 4.

 

[Edwoooo]

Still smoking Capstan Blue Flake - now in a Henning Poulsen Volcano. Really enjoying this combo

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I'm so jealous you are in Denmark. My cousin has lived in Denmark for 30 years. our family emigrated out of Iran, each ran out to a different country. He said Denmark has a vibrant pipe smoking culture.

 

[Briarcutter]

Still smoking Capstan Blue Flake - now in a Henning Poulsen Volcano. Really enjoying this combo

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Nice pipe and a pretty cool lighter!

 

[Backwoods Briar]

5-Brothers and Half &Half in a Stanwell Rook bought in 95. Great combo in a great pipe. Major Dickinson neat is my drink.

 

[DKpiper]

I'm so jealous you are in Denmark. My cousin has lived in Denmark for 30 years. our family emigrated out of Iran, each ran out to a different country. He said Denmark has a vibrant pipe smoking culture.

It's true; we like pipes in Denmark. We don't have many B & M' left, but we have The Danish Pipe Shop - one of the best pipe-shops on Europe.

 

[DKpiper]

Nice pipe and a pretty cool lighter!

Thank you. The Zippo lighter is from their 90 years anniversary (in 2022) where they made 3000 for the European marked - I have N⁰ 2315.