Mild / Medium English blends - including Dunhill STANDARD - in a modern Calabash (1982) with replacement bowl:-
***What Are You Smoking? February 2020.***
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GH Brown Flake Unscented in a BBB Thorneycroft Dublin.
The Punto Oro pipes are beauties for sure.A pipe's beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Such huge victories just make one feel naughty..., like getting away with not just one cookie, but the entire cookie jar, with none the wiser. What I'm smoking as I type is one such pipe, a Savinelli Punto Oro straight apple(having some Brown Clunee in it by the way, to stay on topic). I got it last month for 23 smackers-- was badly caked, had a sizeable gash on the rim from careless reaming(which has been covered up just from excess alcohol "restaining" it during S+A treatment), and had a wicked Cherry cough syrup ghost which I presumed to be Captain Black, and a yellow oxidized stem. Did my best to restore it with my absolutely minimal resources, and did okay I'd say-- chasing embers' toothpaste trick worked pretty well. Currently trying to re-break it in, hoping it performs well.
When I started to build a pipe rotation I bought a heap of cleaning/restoring gear & did a lot of reading on restoration. The first two estate pipes were duds & a waste of money.
From then on I only bid on lightly smoked, professionally restored pipes that are often cheaper than estates that need restoring.
Metal pipes like Falcons are the only exception. Easy to restore & pics usually show the ones to avoid.
After dodging dark rain clouds I managed to give my German Shepherd his daily 50 minute trot & 10 minute training session. Not long after coming home the Sun appeared.
While the dog rests with one ear open for possible infiltrators, I'm smoking a bowl of Early Morning Pipe Match in a Radfords Vario 404.
Peterson's Perfect Plug in a Savinelli 320 KS Brown Alligator. 
About to enjoy some Pembroke in my bent billiard(?)
Verge Engine Overdrive in my 1986 Ashton saddle billiard.
Some 4 year old 1792 Flake in a MM General.
Now smoking P&W Nut Brown Burley in a 2016 PSF POY quarter bend black sandblasted Vermont Freehand egg with an aluminum band and a tortoise shell colored acrylic saddle stem. Have enough left for a bowl or so.
HU Louisiana Broken Flake in a Duca Carlo bent bulldog.
Tabac Vincent Manil Semois La Brumeuse- In a Paykoc Meerschaum Bulldog
Did back to backs tonight with GH&C. Black Sliced and Black Cherry Twist.
2012 Escudo in a Castello “Castello“ 55
A third of the way through the last of my stash of Ken Byron Ventures First Burley in a smooth straight pre-transition Barling 313 T.V.F. EXEXEL pot with a black ebonite saddle stem. Watching Johnny Carson.
Brunello Flake in a Moretti bent billiard. Between Brunello and Doblone D' Oro, Savinelli has some blends to take pride in.
Gawith Hoggarth Cherry Cream Flake out of my Whitehall Washington Park Algerian Briar Bullcap.
this must not have posted earlier?
this must not have posted earlier?
how is that? Any noticeable Cherry smell?
Verge Engine Straight in a Kaywoodie super grain Canadian.
Pegasus in an International Selection pot.
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