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

[The Amish Tyrant]

Today's estate pipe is one I was really excited to get as part of an auction lot win. I've been wanting a lattice meer for a while now and this is a nice one. Maker unknown, but it has a coffee and cream swirl stem, it's good sized, and it smokes great. Packed with Sutliff D40 Vanilla.

Not bad for less than $20!

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Paging @Chasing Embers

Here is another true lattice meerschaum. Now I've seen two and think the concept is amazing.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Very dry Cornell and Diehl Dreams of Kadath in a Castello Collection grade #55.The Aventinus is doing it's work.

 

[TN Jed]

Solani ABF in a Ropp. Mortlach Game of Thrones night cap. The last drop looked smaller in the bottle than in the glass. Oh well can’t pour it back night night good people.

 

[Akoni808]

Sutliff Crumble Kake no. 5 in a Cob. Really enjoying this blend. I might even prefer it to HH Rustica.

 

[Rpink53]

2011 OGS in a Peterson:

 

[Ben.R.C]

Brown Clunee in a Lane era Charatan Executive

 

[LotusEater]

 

[Brewfan]

Black Irish X in a Uhles stamped billiard, an old no name beautiful smoker.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, steel head trout and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm passing the half way mark on this bowl of Dan Tobacco The Mallard Flake Plus Perique in a straight smooth brown 2017 unbranded Upshall Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Here's an example of a pipe that didn't like the burley blend I had smoked in it previously as I'm breaking it in. I switched to a VaPer and am immediately getting better performance. When a pipe doesn't work well with a tobacco genre, a switch to something else often works for me. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[cshubhra]

Comoy’s Cask No 4 from December 2019 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Planning to diversify into sweet goopy aromatics which crackle and pop, and a new cob to smoke them for IPSD

 

[alaskanpiper]

What a unique bowl shape, I don't think I've seen something like that before. Did you have it commissioned?

Right? Nope, it was available.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of SWRA in a straight, black sandblasted undated Comoy’s Sunrise Etched Grain straight apple 551 with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[AJL67]

Having a bowl of Wessex Dark Flake, an older in, in my '67 Dunhill in memory of Harris, have to say I miss his posts and matter of fact flexing, he is missed.

 

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I miss country living. Been in a small town since '96 and still dont like it.

I grew up in a small town in the hills of Pennsylvania, moved to cities while in the Navy, ended up in a tiny town here in New Mexico. Love the small town experience but miss the perks of a city. I think I'll be here until they lay me in the ground.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

F&T CBP in an Alden.

 

[shermnatman]

Now Smoking: Gently sipping-away on some of C&D's Yorktown, in my old faithful Dr Grabow: Omega, a smooth billiard, with bent plastic stem.

With it's "Fa-Ko" P-Lip styled button, this is drug store $34.95 pipe (at the time of purchase) is one of the best and most comfortable 'Natural Hangers' (sounds like a men's magazine) in my collection; and, makes it the perfect choice when tasked with the chore of cleaning the others pipes in my rotation - a dirty, nasty chore, which your humble and normally fastidiously clean narrator is currently engaged in.



- Sherm "Dirty Pipes" Natman

 

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More Haunted Bookshop, this time in a Butz Chocquin Arsenal with Pinot Noir on the side. I've never come across another BC Arsenal, so when I cull my herd soon this will be one that stays int he family.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am off to work with a bowl of D&R Penhooker in a straight smooth brown undated (Colossal) Custom Made Natural Grain Algerian Briar Made In France Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[mso489]

Old Joe Krantz original from C&D in a BC straight tapered billiard Rocaille with a wide silver-colored band. OJK is one of the Tarler original burley blends from their early days in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. The current C&D lead blender Jeremy Reeves has done a good job sustaining those old C&D favorites while doing plenty of new blends of his own.

 

[Steddy]

C&D Poplar Camp for the ride home. Happy trails.