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

[JimInks]

Did a second set of walking reps, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2017 Velvet in a straight smooth medium brown post-1940s Comoy’s Tradition 110B billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. A couple of young fellas were throwing a football to each other, and I asked if they'd let me. They kind of chuckled at the idea, especially when I told them that I hadn't throw one in over forty years. So they gave me the football, and I made three throws to make them run their tails off. I was the one laughing after that, and they just looked astonished to see a man my age catch and throw that far with a pipe in his mouth. I DVR'd the Braves-Giants game so I could see the rest of it although it certainly looks like the Braves won't come back and win.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2019 C&D Derringer in a straight smooth brown 1920s (Comoy’s) Lions Head 399 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Going to smoke a few Comoy's this evening.

 

[das3353]

2020 Brunello in a Genod Bulldog

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue in a Radice

 

[Tbaggins]

2020 Carolina red flake in an imp.

 

[Manawydan]

A nice afternoon smoke of Solani Aged Burley Flake in my Falcon. Just posted a new essay to the General forum.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

I've been absent for a few weeks, maybe a month, but I'm back and working on a new tobacco related project! At this point my cellar has reached just shy of 100 blends and I'd really like to thin it down to just the ones I enjoy the most, so I decided to make a two year project out of it and every Sunday pick a blend in my cellar and smoke that blend every day for a week. If I'm not sick of it and am still enjoying smoking it after a week then it's a keeper, and if not then it goes in the sell/giveaway box.

Thus far the only blends I've determined to be definite keepers are Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices and Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia, and I am allowing myself to smoke verified keepers for my second or third bowl of the day after having the blend of the week. After a couple weeks of fairly unadulterated straight Virginias, this week I'm mixing it up a bit and smoking Peterson Royal Yacht.




I'm on day 5 of smoking Royal Yacht at this point and still enjoying it quite a bit! The flavor is something along the lines of "blueberry muffin + black coffee" with a lot of red Virginia and a bit of dark fired Virginia earthiness underneath, and it often reminds me of Escudo as well with the way the Virginias and plum topping play around to create a very VaPer-like flavor profile. In short, it's really good! The stout nicotine content and surprising smoothness considering the strength is quite appreciated as well.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Eight year old Dunhill 965 in an L.J. Peretti 1/8 bent smooth billiard. Tepid water is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2013 Capstan Blue Flake in a smooth dark brown post-WWII Comoy’s Grand Slam 340 patent billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[FurCoat]

PS41 in a KB&B

 

[Bright Orange Red]

Cobblestone Hiking in a Hardcastle Drawel bulldog.

 

[estate_cob]

Factory Throwouts No. 59. Not bad for under $3.

 

[Manawydan]

Had a hankerin' for some Haddo's Delight. Just started a bowl in my Savinelli Ginger's Favorite. My wife picked this pipe out of the assortment at the local B&M. I really like the demi-warden size -- very comfortable to smoke!

 

[Laurent]

When I was in Columbus, I met a wonderful man named Cem Eren. He sells hand carved Turkish meerschaum. He moved here from Turkey in 2011 and grew up in the local shop that made these pipes. After a wonderful conversation I wanted to own a pipe that I could smoke and remember our conversation. Tonight I’m breaking in that pipe with some Three Nuns and a glass of bourbon.

 

[Skink]

C&D Red Odessa in a Celebi Meerschaum with a cup of black tea while watching Mother Nature paint the sky and listening to the crickets.

 

[Laurent]

C&D Red Odessa in a Celebi Meerschaum with a cup of black tea while watching Mother Nature paint the sky and listening to the crickets.
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I have to ask, are you a reptile keeper? Or how did you get the name skink?

 

[TN Jed]

Pegasus in the Big Shalosky

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson Irish Cask from May 2022 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[telescopes]

First Generation Three Star Lee Apple with a Hugh bowl. I purchased this pipe from Europe of all places. I only have two Lees that I keep in rotation. This is one of them. The other three - unremarkable pipes as are most Lees - are kept in my river home along the Colorado River in Nevada. A Lee is a mediocre pipe with a better than mediocre smoke. There selling point, that is if they have one, is that they are well made and consistently reliable for a good smoke. The two I keep in my main home are outliers. They are great smokes and hold a lot of tobacco. There is nothing wrong with a Lee. It just isn't all that one particular person might want you to believe. I do agree that they can be a decent pipe to have in one's collection, especially if they are interested in Americana.

 

[Chalaw87]

H&H El Niño in a Thompson Prince. Listening to The Decemberists As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again.

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Really cool lighter