***What Are You Smoking, August 2025?***

[Choatecav]

Oh….mama found this guy up in a tree this morning
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About 7-8ft of Masticophis flagellum piceus, the red racer subspecies of coachwhip.

SB, I have never seen one of those type of racers. What would you estimate the length to be?

 

[seanv]

2023 Solani ABF in a large bent Brigham 4 dot from the "Canada era"

 

[B.Lew]

Doing some errands with the Dunhill Chimney loaded with Stonehenge Flake.

 

[PaulRVA]

One of the best looking bulldogs that I've seen.

Thank you Sir,
I need a Poker like yours and we’d have Dogs playing Poker

 

[Bbailey324]

Watch City American Cut Plug in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 69.

 

[Sobrbiker]

SB, I have never seen one of those type of racers. What would you estimate the length to be?

Seven or eight feet. The branch it’s laying on is about 11-12” in diameter.
Cute little guy though:

 

[gord]

Backed myself into doing some serious deep cleaning today, happy to get it done though. I have decided to dedicate this Peterson rusticated 103 to blends that contain Latakia, specifically and primarily Nightcap, therefore I have loaded it with that tobacco and am about halfway through the bowl.View attachment 411228

I've found that my petes, especially the smaller one, take extremely well to Lats. Looking forward to doing the same with my as yet unsmoked (it has to wait for it's turn. . . . ) small Peterson Tavern Pipe, Rhodesian bowl. Expecting excellence from this one.

My big pete system standard also smokes Lats great, but because of it's large capacity, I re-biased it for aros and use it often for evening movies with friends, where I don't have to get up and reload after a mere hour. Peterson fan I am.

Nightcap is a dynamite tobacco, and it gets the royal treatment in my home with the L'il Pete. Wish I had more, but this is Canada, you know.

That's a marvellous pipe, btw.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the last third of this bowl of Wilke Back Bay w/o perique in a smooth brown quarter bend post-2002 Porsche Design 277-04 radiator horn Made in Holland with an aluminum cap and a tapered black acrylic stem. Watching one of my favorite episodes of M*A*S*H: the episode where Hawkeye wanted barbecue ribs. Makes me want some. Sleepy Suzy's still by my side, but she doesn't eat ribs.

 

[Choatecav]

Seven or eight feet. The branch it’s laying on is about 11-12” in diameter.
Cute little guy though:
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He actually is. All of our racers around here are black with a bit of white or gray underneath. I would imagine he is non-poisonous. I leave them alone around here as they help on the mice and vermin control.

 

[Douglas]

 

[Thepipehunter]

First smoke in an unsmoked Savinelli 673KS Roma Licite I have been holding onto for a while. Smoking Haunted Bookshop. This pipe will be dedicated to Haunted Bookshop.

 

[Mortar0341]

Passing the last third of this bowl of Wilke Back Bay w/o perique in a smooth brown quarter bend post-2002 Porsche Design 277-04 radiator horn Made in Holland with an aluminum cap and a tapered black acrylic stem. Watching one of my favorite episodes of M*A*S*H: the episode where Hawkeye wanted barbecue ribs. Makes me want some. Sleepy Suzy's still by my side, but she doesn't eat ribs.
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This pipe is really cool, I don't think I've seen anything like this here yet. Very cool.

 

[dublinpiper90]

Putting flame to a bowl of Hal O The Wynd in my 021 Dunhill Redbark F/T apple

 

[PaulRVA]

Escudo Navy DeLuxe in a Dunhill Cumberland 4109 and Ginger Tea on the side.
Mariners-Mets ️ on the Box

 

[JimInks]

A real beauty of a pipe, Jim. You reference "military mount" frequently. What constitutes a military mount?

From Smoking Pipes: Army and spigot mounts address the issue of mortise/tenon joints being weak by reinforcing the mortise with a metal band or cap, and by using a stem that doesn't include a traditional tenon, but instead tapers to a point where it fits into the mortise.

I dunno how accurate this is, but this is the reason it's called a "military mount": These were originally made for soldiers to be able to smoke, pull the pipe apart to clean and store and not ruin it.

 

[JazzInAZ]

Trying out a new (to me) HU - Asmara (thx to a gracious member). Burning beautifully in a Neerup Classic 4 Dublin Sitter.

It's a really, really pleasant tobacco. Smooth and flavorful. Combined with BAI Molokai Coconut.


(@dottlejockey )

 

[Thepipehunter]

Another pipe I have been waiting to smoke for a while. Breaking in this Savinelli Pipes&tobaccos POY 2007 with Cornell and Diehl Dawn.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

1/18 Dunhill Flake in an Altinay.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Louisiana Red in a Hasty brandy.

 

[Pipesandbourbon]

2020 BBF in a Brandon brooks tomato