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

[PipeIT]

Grabows are hard to beat! They make the best hiking, hunting, fishing, chores, mowing, truck pipe around. My Riviera is tops. That’s a nice looking one too!

Excuse me sir, but I’ll have you know, that my Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969, vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger is exclusively only for the Gentlemen’s Club.

I’m just messing with you! LOL

But seriously, this beauty I was lucky to find, I won’t beat it up outdoors. It’s just an indoor pipe, that I really cherish and baby.

I’m not sure Grabow makes any really nice blasts/grains anymore, but I have seen quite a few amazing looking estates.





From some reading I’ve done, this has on it what they called the Big Blast, and from this pic, it’s really something to look at, besides, the rest of the pipe’s blast.

 

[das3353]

2016 Union Square in an Il Ceppo

 

[Nevaditude]

Newly arrived Peterson System 312 pipe. The color inspired me to choose Gawith, Hogarth & Co. American Black Cherry.
It is quite tasty & the 312 smokes great. ~be well…

 

[NomadOrb]

LLRR in a Barling second bulldog.

 

[PipeIT]

Solani Aged Burley Flake in a Bay Denmark Billiard with a cumberland stem.

WOW December already! ️

Be well everyone and stay warm, or stay frosty, however you like it!



P.S. I mentioned before I’m dedicating this pipe to VAs, the first pipe I’ve ever dedicated. But my first inaugural bowl was 1974 Murray’s Cube Cut and it left a Lakeland/Condor like ghost, so I’ve been smoking the Solani to exorcise the ghost. LOL It’s taken a few bowls, but almost there.

 

[Beowoulf]

Autumn Evening in a Stanwell bent apple. This is the pipe with the broken bit. I tried one of those rubber bit covers. Problem solved!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2013 Dunhill Flake in a straight smooth 1960 Dunhill DR 137 group 4 root briar canted dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This is about a sturdy a dublin as one can own. Just had a great conversation with the President of Archie Comics, who used to be my editor on Sonic the Hedgehog. He called to wish me a belated "Happy Birthday". We mainly talked baseball. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Tbaggins]

Having a bowl of black mallory before work.

 

[NomadOrb]

Now 2019 Haddo's in a new to me Peterson 314 (I think) African meerschaum.

 

[Beowoulf]

Moving right along... Now smoking Lane's BCA in a Talamona (sabbia) Oom Paul(ish) pipe. An intoxicating blend in a very handsome pipe.

 

[craig61a]

Carter Hall in a Pipe by Lee.

 

[Brewfan]

Finished my nightly Cringle Flake and rolled right into some Ennerdale in a Comoys Christmas 1976.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Astleys #2 in a Savinelli

 

[Briar Tuck]

On this first day of December I smoked some SV Buttered Rum in my Emerald MM in the morning after having the septic system pumped. This evening I had some Sutliff D40 vanilla in my CAO meerschaum.

I've got some better tobacco on the way.

 

[Ryan]

Three Sails in a Grabow Omega

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an IMP.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Hamborger Veermaster in a Jim DeSchaine while listening to some Charlie Haden.

 

[MidnightPuff]

Five Brothers out of my clay.

 

[MattRVA]

Ye Olde Signe in a Savinelli Roma 704.

 

[Tabacco]