***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

[PipeIT]

Starting out December with HU Directors Cut from the recent USA drop.

I have a small sample of Director’s Cut gifted to me from 2018. I must say, when I opened the tin today, the look and smell was amazing like the 2018.

I dried it 30 minutes, and starting out it’s quite light tasting on the VA, Kentucky, slightly floral sweet.

I’ll have to just try it next time without drying. Maybe it will get more robust as I smoke through it, but I didn’t expect 30 minutes to be long, unless this is a mild smoke to begin with… hmm

Be well everyone!

Wow December already… time flys…

 

[JimInks]

I've passed the first third of this bowl of year 2018 Solani 633 in a straight 1954 patent Dunhill 148 Group 3 black shell bulldog made for the France market with a black saddle vulcanite stem. I took part in a zoom meeting the family of my dear, late friend David Cuneo. Some of you may have seen what I wrote on this forum about him. It was a special time for all of us to trade stories about him.

 

[cshubhra]

Daughters & Ryan Three Sails in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX

 

[SmokeyJock]

Now smoking GH Kendall No 7 and C&D Burley Ribbon mix in a Don Carlos

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I see your pipe has been circumcised

 

[troutface]

Cairo in a Pete '23 Christmas 606 pot. I love this little pipe. I take back all the bad things I've said about Peterson.

 

[BenMN]

Cairo in a Pete '23 Christmas 606 pot. I love this little pipe. I take back all the bad things I've said about Peterson.
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It really is a great pipe and shape

2 year old Abingdon in my Nording

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Currently smoking my Meerschaum Market bent apple meerschaum pipe with some Iwan Ries - Old Colonial.

 

[ziv]

Currently smoking my Meerschaum Market bent apple meerschaum pipe with some Iwan Ries - Old Colonial.

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Beautiful cat!

 

[troutface]

It really is a great pipe and shape

Yes, it's a smallish pipe, but not a small pipe, if that makes any sense.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Beautiful cat!

Thanks! That's Charlie, she's a cross-eyed, crazy hyper, Siamese. The two older cats don't care for her much, but she's a snuggler and loves to sit behind me while I'm in the shop. Normally they're in the house, but due to the house being remodeled, they're temporarily living in the shop.

 

[samuelgawith01]

@samuelgawith01 The only pipe baccy the Clay King has ever got a baccy rush from

This,and Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1.

 

[dublinpiper90]

The first day of Advent which, being a penitential season, I decided to try and see off the last of the Sammael Gagworth 1792 Relights Granny 's Underwear Drawer Flake, in the condemned Chinese basket billiard. After the 17th charlight, it didn't smoke too bad, and stayed alight long enough for a sip or two... vanilla milkshake, with a hint of vinegar. Then, vanilla ice cream soda. With more vinegar. Frankly, I think I might have had as much fun wearing a high-nicotine patch and lighting up some broken up joss stick in the pipe instead. On the bright side, the penance might have gotten me maybe an hour's remission from Purgatory.
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Nice Three nuns tin you have there

 

[BenMN]

Yes, it's a smallish pipe, but not a small pipe, if that makes any sense.

Sure does. I've got a Stanwell that is similar, and might just be my favorite pipe

 

[troutface]

Sure does. I've got a Stanwell that is similar, and might just be my favorite pipe

Perfect !!!

 

[MisterBadger]

Nice Three nuns tin you have there

Thank you. I found the original 1890s design on the web, downloaded and printed it, and stuck it on an old repurposed tin. I work as a costumed interpreter at a heritage farm showing farming life circa 1900, and this is also why most of my pipes will pass muster as Victorian. I like to get the details right.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Ryback in the Color Duke

 

[Speak Easy]

After dark smoke of OJK in a Legend. Smoking some chicken legs too.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Away for a few days. Smoking some Wilke Beeker street in a Peterson Cara. The flavor of this tobacco is one of the best.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This afternoon, 2018 MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[Bbailey324]

Peterson EMP in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 69.