***What Are You Smoking, December 2020?***

[samuelgawith01]

Man, that's a good looking pipe. I'd love to get my hands on a beautiful sandblasted J.Alan at some point.

I forgot to say thankyou.Thankyou

 

[Backwoods Briar]

The more I see of this Sav shape the more I really want one... This or one of the 904 variants Embers always on about...

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Robert McConnell's MATURE in this Doctor's Bamboozled Bent Squat Pot:

Such a shame, an otherwise stellar Va/Oriental blend ruined ((for me)) because of a licorice topping - it's subtle and complimentary to the blend but if you're like me and don't like licorice you'll notice it immediately..

I’m not a fan of the licorice either.

 

[samuelgawith01]

I have had some good fortune over the years. However, the good finds are very rare.

They are.I would think there would be some in the larger cities.

 

[weezell]

Try weighting the car down with bags of gravel,or rock salt,100 lb. bags preferably.

I go and buy bags of top soil for weight at the end of summer. It's cheap and in the spring I can always find a use for it...

 

[samuelgawith01]

I’m not a fan of the licorice either.

I think if Gawith and Hogarth worked some licorice into their rope tobacco, I could go with it.?

 

[virkia]

M R C (Maréchal Ruchon et Cie, France) set in a shield with MARCEE on the shank
M R C in a shield and AO (Adolphe Oppenheimer & Co Aldersgate Street, London EC - pipe mounter) stamped on the band with marks for London 1922

+ Robert Lewis ORCILLA MIXTURE:-

 

[das3353]

Smoking GH BB#2 in a Radice

 

[irishearl]

Oriental Silk in a Peterson Pipe Smokers of Ireland 2019 pipe of the year spigot poker.

 

[samuelgawith01]

M R C (Maréchal Ruchon et Cie, France) set in a shield with MARCEE on the shank
M R C in a shield and AO (Adolphe Oppenheimer & Co Aldersgate Street, London EC - pipe mounter) stamped on the band with marks for London 1922
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+ Robert Lewis ORCILLA MIXTURE:-
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Have you tried their Tree Mixture?I have an unopened tin,and was wondering how it is.

 

[JimInks]

Just passing the half way mark on this bowl of Wilke No. 515 in a 1998 smooth straight Butz-Choquin Bistro 1501 pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[cigrmaster]

2005 Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky in a Jack Howell Billiard.

 

[Keweenaw]

Been cracking a few tins from the cellar this December. Since the pandemic started, haven't been able to share well aged tins with anyone. Very disheartning. Anyway, pulled a 2013 extinct, McCelland British Woods. Savored the artwork on the tin, peeled the seal, lifted to smell the aroma, and promptly dropped on the floor! I gasped, and watched as vintage tobacco spilled over the floor and the tin continued to roll and spread tobacco even further. Long story short, I was not gonna waste this tin. I'm smoking as I type, enjoying a tobacco we can't get anymore and feeling pretty lucky. Cheers......

 

[virkia]

Have you tried their Tree Mixture?I have an unopened tin,and was wondering how it is.

It's decent stuff . . . hope you like it.

 

[renfield]

2020 Cringle Flake in a Briarworks Rhodesian.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time- Rocky Patel Vintage 1990

 

[weezell]

Smokin it the way ya see it! YUMYUM...

 

[PipeLoverInPA]

A fitting beer for this lovely weather in the Northeastern U.S. Ice pellets now.......dag nab it! Dunbar in a Mark Tinsky.

 

[Bengel]

Scottish Flake in a

 

[shermnatman]

Smoking Now: G.L. Pease, 'The Virginia Cream'; in a MM ''Nose-Warmer" - as night has come, the snow has stopped outside, the winds have picked up, and the now freezing rain is bouncing off my trusty umbrella. - Sherm Natman

 

[F4RM3R]

Whole leaf blend. Some more of that strong kentucky blend I mixed up the other day, this time with a touch of oriental and pressed into a crumble cake. Kind of inspired by moztek dark twist(just kentucky and perique) but I like my blends a little more aromatic and with slightly less strength.

47.5% Kentucky
22.5% perique
20% black stoved bright virginia
5% latakia
5% prelip

Again, really impressed with the 5% latakia blends. This one is strong and spicy, but the bright stoved smoothes it out and adds some caramel sweetness. Latakia enhances the caramel creamy qualities and the prelip gives a woody aromatic touch. The perique gives a bit of dark fruit to liven things up.

Through a vauen sandblasted billiard with a replacement stem so it's a stubby now.