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

[OzPiper]

The first day with summery temperatures in Sydney.
Gentle cooling breeze.
A light family lunch with young coconut water to drink at a Vietnamese restaurant.
Followed by mango pieces at home.

Couple of pipes I haven't smoked for some months
First up a smallish Gert Holbek Polonius.
The cap hammer is small because of its conical shape.

A bowl of well rubbed out Former's Strsight Grain Flake.

Just a large glass of ice cold water to maintain hydration.

 

[Sidehatch]

Dried out Crinkle Flake 2020 in a Nording in their Rocky Patel series. Not bad. Like it better not dried. But a little runny nose smoking. I wonder if I have a little allergy to virginias

 

[tfdickson]

2003 Boar’s Head in my BST.

 

[PipeIT]

Dan Tobacco hamborger Veermaster in a Radice Rind Straight.

@Carol have you tried a Forever Stem on your cobs?

Forever Stems - Vermont Freehand

Forever Stems Stems will fit these Missouri Meerschaum filtered pipe models; Country Gentleman Diplomat Diplomat 5th Ave. Freehand General Great Dane Spool Legend MacArthur Maple Hardwood Mark Twain Ozark Mountain Missouri Pride Washington Stems will fit these...

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Be well everyone!

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Smoking some Peterson's Gold Blend in a Blatter & Blatter Oom Paul (One red dot and one white dot - I wonder what that means).View attachment 186571

Peter Stockkebye's Luxury Twist Flake in a Grabow bent. A very nice smoke!View attachment 186584

8:59 pm, 9:02 pm

That was a quick smoke!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Chris Morgan Jackalope in a straight burgundy sandblasted year 2019 straight Ryan Alden J billiard/pot with a tapered cumberland stem. This will last a while.

 

[Zero]

G.L.Pease Bankside in a Winslow Crown Viking bent dublin. What a game! Happy Smokes!

 

[OzPiper]

Onto a 2nd bowl - Sam Gawith St James Flake
The fold and stuff technique continues to elude me - too many bowls spoilt by countless relights.
So for this bowl I've cube cut and gravity filled the tobacco

In a Comoy's Selected Straight Grain stack billiard with a tapered vulcanite stem.
There is almost 360degree straight grain.
A couple of filled sand pits is all I can see.
Being a reject Specimen Straight Grain there is NO Comoy stamp nor 3-part C inlay in the stem.
It has superior grain to my Blue Riband.
I, for one, am very happy at it's demotion, as this was ridiculously cheap compared with Blue Ribands and Specimen Straight Grains.

 

[Zero]

Onto a 2nd bowl - Sam Gawith St James Flake
The fold and stuff technique continues to elude me - too many bowls spoilt by countless relights.
So for this bowl I've cube cut and gravity filled the tobacco

In a Comoy's Selected Straight Grain stack billiard with a tapered vulcanite stem.
There is almost 360degree straight grain.
A couple of filled sand pits is all I can see.
Being a reject Specimen Straight Grain there is NO Comoy stamp nor 3-part C inlay in the stem.
It has superior grain to my Blue Riband.
I, for one, am very happy at it's demotion, as this was ridiculously cheap compared with Blue Ribands and Specimen Straight Grains.

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I quit folding and stuffing St James Flake for that reason. I've tried it at different moisture levels and bowl widths and depths (with a good draw). I just rub it out anymore.

 

[Carol]

Dan Tobacco hamborger Veermaster in a Radice Rind Straight.

@Carol have you tried a Forever Stem on your cobs?

Forever Stems - Vermont Freehand

Forever Stems Stems will fit these Missouri Meerschaum filtered pipe models; Country Gentleman Diplomat Diplomat 5th Ave. Freehand General Great Dane Spool Legend MacArthur Maple Hardwood Mark Twain Ozark Mountain Missouri Pride Washington Stems will fit these...

vermontfreehand.com

Be well everyone!

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No I haven't. But they look like something I may try one of these days.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

A Brebbia Iceberg hand made in Italy, aged Wilke Rumcake ..Supreme!hat a smoker..aged Wilke Rum Cake, superb!

 

[OzPiper]

I quit folding and stuffing St James Flake for that reason. I've tried it at different moisture levels and bowl widths and depths (with a good draw). I just rub it out anymore.

So far so good with the cube cut and gravity feed technique.

Just about to relight for the first time - 2/3 down the bowl.

I usually rub out the flakes but Inwill persist with cube cutting as it seems to give a nice slow burn.

 

[Zero]

I started cube cutting or chopping flakes after reading this article, in Pipes AND TOBACCOS Winter 1997 edition, by Mike Butera. I get favorable results from both. Whatever works best for you

 

[username]

haddos delight from a jar marked 6-13-11 in a elf cobbit.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Reiner Long Golden Flake in a Ruthenberg.

 

[dino]

I enjoyed some great conversation with my Saturday ZOOM pipe buddies as I smoked one of the first Petersons I ever bought (sometime in the late 80s) a Donegal Rocky 120 Dublin, with folded and stuffed 2015 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake. A mug of Barrie House Indonesian Sumatra coffee, straight up, went quite well with the smoke.

 

[LeafErikson]

Had mulitple bowls of swr, c&d Virginia flake, and cringle flake 2022 today. I was initially not really enjoying the cringle flake but after trying it for a third time (in a third pipe) and breaking up the flakes a bit more I’m actually enjoying it. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced flakes this thick so it took a bit of getting used to.

 

[Steddy]

First time riding this fine steed into battle, the battle being sitting on my my back porch.

 

[Tbaggins]

View attachment 186610Had mulitple bowls of swr, c&d Virginia flake, and cringle flake 2022 today. I was initially not really enjoying the cringle flake but after trying it for a third time (in a third pipe) and breaking up the flakes a bit more I’m actually enjoying it. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced flakes this thick so it took a bit of getting used to.

Yup, those suckers get the coffee grinder treatment.

 

[Tbaggins]

Scratching a lat itch tonight.