Wish I had thought about this in my younger days. No, officer, that is just lakeland essence!
***What Are You Smoking? February 2020.***
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Wish I had thought about this in my younger days. No, officer, that is just lakeland essence!
Not really. That is natural coloring. As far as I know how you hold the pipe doesn’t impact the coloring. I usually hold this one by the stem or the bowl. The coloring on this one has taken several years of smoking. Seems each pipe colors differently. Some quickly others slower. Many variables in the coloring process.
Brunello Flake in a Alden Sandblasted Volcano.
Verge Engine Straight in a Kaywoodie super grain poker.
St. Bruno flake in a cob. I am not a classy man.
service people dropped by to pick up my john deere mower for spring service. half&half all day in bones poker.
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2014 HU Directors Cut in a smooth straight Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.
A quarter of the way through this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Burlier Morning Pipe in a mid-70s straight smooth octagonal paneled Jeanet (made by Chacom) billiard with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
Time for a little Amphora Virginia in an MM Diplomat.
Cigar Time - Started smoking a Rocky Patel Vintage 1999 Connecticut on the way back home. Still an inch left, so standing in the driveway finishing it.
HU Louisiana Broken Flake in a Savinelli 315.
My first experience with this rare and elusive blend.
C&D Old Joe Krantz White in a Tinsky Christmas 2011 edition sandblasted bulldog, with coffee.
The oil from ones fingers & hands will colour/stain a meerschaum. [Thinking out loud here; a meerschaum that has been treated with wax probably less so]
Some guys wear a cotton glove to hold their beloved meerschaum.
Far be it for me to criticise others way of doing things - for many a carved block meerschaum pipe is something that they've saved for quite a while, so for them, it's a rare luxury item - but from my point of view, it's too much fuss to smoke a bowl of baccy.
Although I now have a few meerschaum pipes, all were won on ebay at very reasonable cost. So apart from ensuring that they're stored in a way to avoid any damage and never taken outside, the only trouble that I go to is that I wash & dry my hands before handling them.
Carter Hall in a MM Huck Finn. Trying for another 3-bowl day. Cheers to everyone here.
A bowl of Sutliff Mixture 79 in my Peterson System Standard shape 313.
Margate in this ten dollar estate meer billiard. Yum!
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