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

[JimInks]

Did a bit of snacking, and am half way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. As much as I have eaten today and will tomorrow, I hate to think how much I'll weigh on Monday.

 

[BenMN]

Pegasus in a clean and rested Kai Nielsen Billiard

 

[LeafErikson]

Burley flake #1 in the tekin - bowl 42
last pipe of the night for me

 

[dino]

I dropped-in to my ZOOM meeting just to wish my friends warm holiday greetings, and planned to smoke my calabash pipe with some 2017 Christmas Cheer, but a nagging sore throat put me off.
I want to wish all of you, my Forum friends, who celebrate this blessed holiday a very...
Merry Christmas!

 

[UncleRasta]

Came across a small forgotten stash of WCC Slices. A pleasant smoke in my MM nekkid Country Gentleman.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and smoked a bowl of year 2021 HU Directors Cut in a smooth slight bend dark brown 1940s-1950s Comoy’s Blue Riband 228C prince with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Tomato the brave is snuggling by my side.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is Uhle’s Blend 71 in a smooth straight brown family era Sasieni Mayfair 64 N Canadian with a black tapered vulcanite stem.


After walking with me, Tomato the Brave was in play mode and rolled around in the back yard. Sam the Scamp was standing on the birdbath waiting for his chance to eat. Daisy the Feral Princess was watching it all happen with her typical imperious nature. There was very little drama today.

Tomato the Brave is thinking "This land may be your land, but it's my land, too. This land was made for you and especially me."

 

[Homer]

Happy holidays to you all!

 

[Cloozoe]

CRF&P in a Yuki on this early Sunday morning

 

[Briar Lee]

PS Luxury Twist Flake in a medium Lovat by Fischer Buffalo NY.

 

[Birddog66]

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

Merry Christmas my friend, I’ve not tried Devils Cut yet but when this Makers is finished I need to give it a rest for a little while and give my liver time to recover.

 

[Birddog66]

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?

The bamboo stem on my Kiseru has coloured but it’s unlined and relatively thin.

 

[Birddog66]

Morning everyone, Heinrich Curly Special in a Barling Fossil that my sister sent me from Australia for Christmas.

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in an MM Washington.

 

[Cloozoe]

Studiously smoking Anthology in my Shilling and happily falling to detect any ground--correction; "crushed"--allspice

 

[Cloozoe]

GH&Co Black Cherry Twist in my #1 cob. Don’t tell @The Clay King , but I think Gawith tobaccos might work better in cobs than clays.

The Clay King is probably too busy plotting against King Charles to note your blasphemy.

 

[Gimlet]

Some Original Walnut flake in my Chacom Montmartre. Not tried this blend before. Very similar to Solani aged burley. I think the Solani has more complexity and outright taste but the walnut flake would make a very acceptable substitute if the Solani is unavailable.
Early days with this pipe. Only had it a couple of weeks. I thought it would be ideal for the Petersons aros I like to smoke but I think these mellow, biscuity blends suit it better.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Tashkent in my own make. I recently did some reshaping on this old pipe. The shank was tapered and the cheeks weren't at all defined. I also took an 1/8" off the top. A friend who carves helped me out and then reblasted it and gave it a couple coats of oil. I like it much better now.
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Wow!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Olympia Coffee Holiday Blend in a Snoopy Xmas mug - lol, no pipe today just waiting for daybreak with my growing way too fast companion while other people and dogs snooze away.

 

[Birddog66]

Watching White Christmas, it’s one of those classics that I’ll never tire of, especially the amazing dancing of Vera-Ellen. I’m having a glass of Cointreau and a bowl of Murray’s Erinmore in my Sasieni Eight Dot Straight Grain.