***What Are You Smoking, December 2022?***

[OzPiper]

My very first smoke of the Xmas holidays.
Having my 5yo granddaughter busily buzzing around the house means no opportunity for a smoke the past few days.
She is off visiting off visiting friends with her Mum this afternoon, so peace and quiet for a couple of hours, and a welcome bowl.

Breaking in my new arrival, the L'Anatra canted egg/tulip with oval shank and stem.
Love the way the sandblasted grooves follow the curve of the bowl/shank.

A bowl of Silliem's Black

A very warm day, so a glass of ice cold chrysthemum flower infusion

 

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Halfway through some F&T CVP in my trusty pool meer while in the hottub. Had the last of a bottle of Costco XO Cognac and now enjoying a Stella!

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My wife informed me you have excellent taste in beer. Cheers brother!

 

[username]

Oriental mixture 14 in a claw meer.

 

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Just finished Folklore in a 1961 Dunhill Shell group 4 bulldog with cabernet. Going to pack some more Haunted bookshop in the new Peterson 302.

 

[Scottmi]

Oh my gosh, big dinner under my belt. Very good! Fortified for 2022 cringle flake as the third smoke in the Santa Sav. 2/3 of a meaty flake folded and stuffed. Merlot went very well with the Yuletide. Hope it will go as well with this!

 

[tfdickson]

Krater Plug in my Castello saddle dublin. Merry Christmas!

 

[JimInks]

Just passing the quarter mark on this bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Rubio.

 

[UncleRasta]

Anthology in an unfinished Savinelli 644 and Old Gowrie in the brand new Savinelli 606 EX. The bowl coating in the east 606 tasted horrible. I think I've removed most of it with some alcohol. I'm traumatized enough to leave it alone for a day or so before putting some more tobacco through it.

 

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Anthology in an unfinished Savinelli 644 and Old Gowrie in the brand new Savinelli 606 EX. The bowl coating in the east 606 tasted horrible. I think I've removed most of it with some alcohol. I'm traumatized enough to leave it alone for a day or so before putting some more tobacco through it.

Seems as though some of the makers put some nasty bowl coatings in their pipes. I've heard several members comment on the acrid taste. My Rossi was that way. Horrible experience. It went away after a few smokes. Hope yours does as well.

 

[Smoke Wagon]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Rubio.

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Beautiful pipe

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking 1970s Philip Morris Revelation in a 1920s-30s Grant’s Pipe Shop Corinthian Deluxe 409 (made by Comoy’s) smooth brown medium bend bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Brewfan]

The last smoke in the Santa Claus meer for the season, Elf Dandruff seemed appropriate. And to all a good night...

 

[onestrangeone]

Bayou Morning in an Il Ceppo Brandy

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Beautiful pipe

Thank you, one of my top favorites.

 

[das3353]

Beautiful pipe.

Thank you!

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[OzPiper]

My wife informed me you have excellent taste in beer. Cheers brother!

Did you tell her of @shanez 's superlative tastes in pipes ?

 

[coming to_falling too]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Brown Flake Unscented

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in a Cermak.