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

[tschiraldi]

F&T Blackjack in the original 2016 Jesse Jones 1/8 bent Brandy tan blast.

 

[cshubhra]

Cornell & Diehl Old Joe Krantz in a Sasieni Perfect Ten Canadian

 

[Chasing Embers]

40th Anniversary

 

[craig61a]

2013 HH ODF in an Ashton Sovereign XXX.

 

[Apipeinthewoods]

Holger & Danske Original in a Peterson Killarney second.

I like it. Even though I'm smoking fast as there are two fighting rats scurrying about so I wont be staying long.

Cappuccino is the beverage.

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of circa year 2000 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. Couldn't sleep.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of year 2014 McClelland Pebblecut in a small slight bend black sandblast 2000 D.R. Ardor Urano Ninfea Fatta A Mano author with a silver spigot military bit and a tapered black acrylic stem. Got a great late birthday package of "hate mail" early in the a.m. again! Tins of aged straight Va.s!

 

[virkia]

@virkia Did you actually smoke the one with the horn stem?
I wouldn't mind smoking it - it would be just right for English Civil War re-enactment.
I used to have an English Civil War clay pipe which I smoked when I went to see the Sealed Knot and Cavendish's Horses at Bolsover Castle last year - where I found it impossible to light in all the wind - but I've sold it now!

No, but thanks to the stem would be easier to clench.

For the English Civil War (1642-1651) - depending on which part of the country you were coming from - you'd be smoking out of a pipe similar to (1) - (3):-
These few examples from c.1580-1600 to c.1650-1680
From front to back:-
(1) c.1650 - 1680
(2) c.1640 - 1660
(3) c.1630 - 1640
(4) c.1600 - 1610
(5) c.1580 - 1600
(6) c.1580 - 1600


You'll notice the difference in bowl size over approx. one hundred years as tobacco became cheaper and more readily available.

 

[newbroom]

I've been smoking my latest mixture for the last several bowls, in various pipes.
The mix consists of D&R PennHooker, McLelland's bleding perique, and some Lane's vanilla black cavendish.
I just finished a bowl out on the porch using a Roger's Standard, smooth apple. A shortish tapered stem.
I pulled all the cobs I had but one out of rotation for awhile. Just a whim.

 

[The Clay King]

Yes, I've got a couple of modern reprints but ...

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... a better and more thoughtful read is the 1601 pamphlet of three years before Counterblaste entitled "A Warning for Tabacconists" aka " A Caveat for Tabaccho" by a doctor who called himself 'Philaretes'.

Conterblaste, despite being less scientific, is certainly full of colourful language replete with great quotes such as this one about tobacco-smoking being a "custome lothsome to the eye, hatefull to the Nose, harmefull to the brains, daungerouse to the Lungs, and in the blacke stinking fume thereof, neerest resembling the horrible Stigian smoke of the pit that is bottomelesse".
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Did you actually smoke the vintage clay pipe?

No, but thanks to the stem would be easier to clench.

For the English Civil War (1642-1651) - depending on which part of the country you were coming from - you'd be smoking out of a pipe similar to (1) - (3):-
These few examples from c.1580-1600 to c.1650-1680
From front to back:-
(1) c.1650 - 1680
(2) c.1640 - 1660
(3) c.1630 - 1640
(4) c.1600 - 1610
(5) c.1580 - 1600
(6) c.1580 - 1600
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You'll notice the difference in bowl size over approx. one hundred years as tobacco became cheaper and more readily available.

Are they original 17th century pipes?

 

[J.GANDY]

Flying Dutchman match and tending to some Mustard greens.

Enjoy your day.

 

[Jwebb90]

Thoroughly enjoying a bowl of Best Brown Flake.

 

[Pit&Pipes]

Breaking in my MM Christmas Cob with some Wilke Rum and Maple. Perfect for holiday, actually all year smoking LOL

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of KBV Burrrrley Morning Pipe Fall/Winter Edition Beta Test in an undated, unbranded straight smooth medium brown made in France Los Alton VBF Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Chatting with the generous friend who gifted me the tobaccos I got today.

 

[FurCoat]

Smoking Billy Budd Blonde in a MM Country Gentleman between meetings.

 

[kg.legat0]

Smoking a bowl of Mac Baren Symphony in a cob, drinking some Cafe Bustello, and listening to a vaporwave mix

 

[Paul lec]

Smoking some Amphora Full Aroma in a MM hardwood. Just sitting looking at the fireplace on this beautifully cool morning.

 

[The Clay King]

No, but thanks to the stem would be easier to clench.

For the English Civil War (1642-1651) - depending on which part of the country you were coming from - you'd be smoking out of a pipe similar to (1) - (3):-
These few examples from c.1580-1600 to c.1650-1680
From front to back:-
(1) c.1650 - 1680
(2) c.1640 - 1660
(3) c.1630 - 1640
(4) c.1600 - 1610
(5) c.1580 - 1600
(6) c.1580 - 1600
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You'll notice the difference in bowl size over approx. one hundred years as tobacco became cheaper and more readily available.

My favourites are pipes 1 and 3.

 

[The Clay King]

Been smoke-free for over a week now!

 

[bnichols23]

Corncob Pipe/Button Nose. In the Carolina Gent, naturally.