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

[Birddog66]

A different Barling pick axe, this one was brought for the equivalent of $7 but needed a shank repair and Geoff at Cambridge pipe repair fitted the gold band to make it look like a army mount but it’s actually a push tenon. It made it one of my most expensive pipes at the time but he did a great job. Filled with McClelland Balkan Beauty.

 

[PaulRVA]

A generous bowl of Frog Morton Cellar in a Castello Old Antiquari 55 (KKKK).

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Arrived nicely’ Beautiful 55

 

[PaulRVA]

HH Pure Virginia in a Miscoi.

 

[troutface]

Debut year ODF in a Wiley. My friend just replaced the stem after I broke it off at the tenon. First flush Darjeeling tea is the drink. Goes well with the Christmas cookies.

 

[Barkman]

Smoking some Meridian to christen this new Radice Rind Dublin.

 

[Skink]

Wilkes Rum & Maple in my Rattray's Yule 2023 Sandblasted, with a cup of black tea in the Yeti.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am passing the first third of this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink.

 

[yanoJL]

Ernie's Santa's Sack in a Savinelli 601

 

[bobomatic]

Smoking my new señorita this morning:

 

[Bbailey324]

Is your Kaywoodie stamped “Straight Grain” by any chance? If so I’d love to see some pictures, they’re among the highest end of pipes they produced and I love mine, very difficult to find too.

Stamping is somewhat buffed out and hard to read. One side reads 'EXPORT' over 'Super Grain' (I think) in script with 'KAYWOODIE' under that. Other side is stamped 'IMPORTED BRIAR' over '42'. It appears to be a factory push stem and I didn't get a stinger with it. I don't know much about it past that and don't remember where I got it.

 

[Ben.R.C]

PF 6 in a Sabina

 

[Bbailey324]

Forgot this part: GLP Geometrie in a Peterson bent Dracula bulldog.

 

[tmcg81]

First time smoking semois. It was a gift from my Secret Santa. I've got it in a cob and I'm enjoying it. I like a shag cut.

 

[JimInks]

Best wishes to you and your family, @JOHN72 .

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

RLP-6 in a Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 80.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

2015 Mcclelland Tudor Castle in the Radice Clear E.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Cupido Churchill.

 

[sardonicus87]

I'm surprised I haven't gotten tired of this stuff by now, Sutliff Maple Shadows.

 

[warren99]

Kramer’s Father Dempsey in a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Hansom bent bulldog.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2021 Watch City Glass Slipper Micro-Batch in a post-2000 straight brown sandblasted Tom Eltang cherrywood with a black acrylic saddle stem.


Sam the Scamp is laying by my side.




Sam does a Jack Kirby pose.