***What Are You Smoking, December 2023?***

[samuelgawith01]

Did that really happen??

Looks like it did.Long live the King.

 

[tfdickson]

St Bernard Flake in my Former bamboo billiard.

 

[samuelgawith01]

St Bernard Flake in my Former bamboo billiard.

I've never smoked a pipe with a bamboo shank.I'll bet that makes a difference in the smoking quality, no?

 

[Ben.R.C]

ODF in a Manz

 

[Tate]

Just had some KBV Jim's Special Flake in the Super Briar. Got the char light on some Ten Russians but was beckoned back inside to help with some preparations lol

 

[samuelgawith01]

Having a last bowl of The Sphinx in a ‘66 Jeantet President Jubilee, my birth year pipe and a drop of Scotch while listening to the late, great and incredibly gorgeous Donna Summer.

Merry Christmas, birddog. Just picked up a 5th of Jim Beam "Devil's Cut" Bourbon tonight.

 

[tfdickson]

I've never smoked a pipe with a bamboo shank.I'll bet that makes a difference in the smoking quality, no?

I’m not so sure it does, but I can see it possibly absorbing moisture. It definitely cuts the weight down.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Shank’s round, stem’s a saddle, so it’d be a Lovat. I think the only question is if bent stems are even allowed in the Canadian family.

If one can have a bent billiard, why not a bent lovat? But yeah, that’s not a thing but it should be!

 

[BenMN]

Glad you’re enjoying the new pipe

Thank you!
I'm quite happy with it

 

[Ben.R.C]

I’m not so sure it does, but I can see it possibly absorbing moisture. It definitely cuts the weight down.

It’s a metal tube right? I can’t imagine moisture but definitely lighter, I have a bunch of them, they smoke as good as any long shank pipe I own. Metal shanks don’t develop cake, maybe easier to keep clean?

 

[samuelgawith01]

I’m not so sure it does, but I can see it possibly absorbing moisture. It definitely cuts the weight down.

Roger that.

It’s a metal tube right? I can’t imagine moisture but definitely lighter, I have a bunch of them, they smoke as good as any long shank pipe I own. Metal shanks don’t develop cake, maybe easier to keep clean?

Time will tell?

 

[renfield]

2013 Christmas Cheer in a Nuttens Bing.

 

[Bbailey324]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson bent Aran. Still liking both really well.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Roger that.

Time will tell?

Sixten was the one that started using it because of briar shortages, I think it looks great as a side benefit.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after two giant bowls of freshly made chicken soup with unsalted crackers dinner. Dessert was a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream. I'm smoking Seattle Pipe Club Down Yonder in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[PaulRVA]

GLP-Quiet Nights in a Savinelli Auto

 

[Laurent]

Just some basic ones - little squares folded in to make a well with some lemon and some apple filling, some icing after baking. Can't remember where I first saw them, could be a Paul Hollywood thing, lol.

Actually using puff to make some pheasant/onion/gravy "sausage rolls" for dinner tonight - my tolerance for making puff pastry from scratch only extends to sweets, lol, and not that often - it's time consuming to get the layers.

Damn! What time is dinner!?

 

[atwaterville]

Starting to get into the holiday spirits now so I'll keep smoking Watch City's Santa's Sack in a Diplomat.

 

[OzPiper]

A second bowl of Penzance

This time in a Charatan straight stemmed Cutty



This was a good smoke.

The previous one in the Reiner Thilo was very good.
Perhaps the pundits are right - the combination of Latakia blends and morta really sings

 

[Rockyrepose]

H.U. Makhuwa in the Radice 55