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

[JimInks]

Missed out on the 2021 POTY. Yours is gorgeous.

Thank you. I got all seven of them.


In case you missed this thread, you'll learn about my journey in getting them made, and getting the pipes here:

The Peterson 4AB POTY Is Coming! :: Pipe Talk

My first exposure to Sherlock Holmes was the movies where Basil Rathbone played Holmes. I quickly learned that Sherlock Holmes was one of the earliest fictional detectives. Thanks to my local library, I was able to read every one of the sixty Conan Doyle written Holmes stories. The next year...

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[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2021 unreleased Sutliff Black Virginia flake in a late 80's, early 90s James Upshall P DS Tilshead England Made By Hand L185 Canadian with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. I'm aging the plug version.

 

[tnfan]

F&T Cut Virginia Plug in a Rad Davis Chubby Author.

 

[cshubhra]

Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX

 

[samuelgawith01]

Getting some Watch City Waltham Flake ready to go in rhe Brad Pohlmann.

 

[ak2000]

GH Kendall Dark in a Howell

 

[tnfan]

GH Kendall Dark in a Howell

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Very nice1 He makes a great pipe.

 

[Peter - CCB]

Today… started with Folklore in a brand new Ardor I’m breaking in. Followed up by a freshly opened tin of Presbyterian Ordained trying it out. Then had some Fat bastard by Watch City Cigar in a Dagner Poker. Smoked a big bowl of Full Virginia Flake in a Sav 614 Tortuga, evening I smoked a bowl of Rattray’s Red Raparee in ann SMS Meer smooth apple, About the 4th time and I’m really liking that. Currently having Rattray‘s Stirling flake in same Meer. Prob get one more in before end of the night.

 

[Peter - CCB]

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Where might one find the pipe and lighter holders here? I’d love to find something like these.

Bourbon Ram Co. Everything I’ve ordered has been well made, rugged and distinct, unfortunately he’s on a hiatus for the time being.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am nearing the half way mark on this bowl of year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a straight smooth brown post-WWII Comoy’s Grand Slam billiard 27 Canadian patent 341422 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Time to clean a few pipes.

 

[Scottmi]

Stoved MB Vanilla Flake in the Chinese Lumberman (Roadtown) with a wee dram of the Water of Life and more book! First time stoving and trying the Vanilla Flake... i am wondering what it might do with the vanilla flavor.. will report soon.!

 

[dcrguns]

St Bruno Flake in a Kristiansen at our local B&M pipe night.

 

[Scottmi]

Stoved MB Vanilla Flake in the Chinese Lumberman (Roadtown) with a wee dram of the Water of Life and more book! First time stoving and trying the Vanilla Flake... i am wondering what it might do with the vanilla flavor.. will report soon.!
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jar note was great! vanilla and sweet tobacco.. loaded very easy, took straight to the flame, tasty and smooth and plenty of smoke with easy sipping. light vanilla flavor/scent all the way through. vanilla perhaps muted a bit by the stoving. will have to line up the unstoved tomorrow to compare.

 

[JimInks]

Closing in on the last third of this bowl of Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Stoved MB Vanilla Flake in the Chinese Lumberman (Roadtown) with a wee dram of the Water of Life and more book! First time stoving and trying the Vanilla Flake... i am wondering what it might do with the vanilla flavor.. will report soon.!
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I just started listening to this book tonight, very interesting. I love vanilla, I’ve never stoved it. Sounds like a good idea

 

[orvet]

The last 3 days I've been enjoying Mallard Flake with perique. It's a great smoke, a little drier than Capstan Blue flake. It smokes down to a fine white ash. Great Smoke! It probably will not replace my Capstan Blue flake anytime soon, but I find it to be a good all day smoke.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am not far from finishing this bowl of year 2022 Mac Baren Burley London Blend in a smooth medium bend 2011 Rinaldo Collection Fiammata Silver Line 7 Odea 04 flame grain bulldog with a silver band and a tortoise shell acrylic saddle stem.

 

[isaac liu]

Athens and Türkiye are just across the Aegean Sea. Do you have any tremors?

Smoking Three Nuns tonight, in another MM corn cob pipe, from the modified series "Rusticob" as sold by Aristocob, a few years back.
Drinking a hot, red, spicy drink and reading the poem "The Lake Isle" by the "heretic" American poet Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972). I find it very nice and since it is related to our "thing", please allow me to put it here below:

The Lake Isle

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes
piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragment cavendish
and the shag,
And the bright Virginia
loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales
not too greasy,
And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.

O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn’d profession of writing,
where one needs one’s brains all the time.

Keep calm good people and may God help and comfort the people of Turkey.

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