***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***
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that is just an awesome craggy pipe!
wow that pipe is a stunner! Careful if you take that out in public, don't wanna break any necks!
2011 Dunhill Navy Rolls in my Altinay rhodesian.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rainbow trout, and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've a third of a bowl left of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
The game is still on and now tied at 35 35! The Wessex brown Virginia flake is still working for me. I think I have a new favorite. Going another round this time in my Savinelli 316 KS.
Drew Estate Harvest on the Hudson in an old Streamliner.
Just loading up a bowl of SPC Galloping Gertie. Really enjoying getting to know this blend; seems like I'm on a Vaper kick even though it's a cold winter. I love English blends, and my cellar is full of them, but I somehow keep gravitating to the VaPers and Virginias. Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs, Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake/Navy Flake, Peterson Navy Rolls, Escudo, Elizabethan Mixture, and many, MANY others seem to be where I'm at right now. Anyway, I'm smoking ol' Gertie in my Birinci Eagle Claw Meer.
Tart Cherry concentrate, water and bergs is my drink.
Weather for Nerds/Pilots/Geeks
130253Z AUTO 19003KT 10SM CLR 00/M04 A2974 RMK AO2
Tart Cherry concentrate, water and bergs is my drink.
Weather for Nerds/Pilots/Geeks
130253Z AUTO 19003KT 10SM CLR 00/M04 A2974 RMK AO2
Half way through 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.
A busy Sunday, but full of pipes nonetheless - since returning home from the family symphony trip: Mac Baren Plumcake (pictured), C&D Yorktown, and now GLP Cairo ...must be the perfect humidity today, weather-wise -- everything is smoking down to nothing! ...a good night to all! 
Two Friends Redwood in a Collection Grade Castello "Augusta ".
Sitting in the pole barn with the door open on a cool February evening. Smoking some Jackknife Plug in a Randy Wiley.
10:00pm Sunday Night, still playing Mad Blendologist; and, continuing to "work" out of the 8 Panel Yello-Bole Standard, which is my Dedicated Experimental Pipe - made of indestructible Brylon.
I've adjusted today's experimental mixture and brought the "contributions" of the Lane Ltd BCA way, way, way, down, by splitting it's original quantity in half with Super-Value Vanilla - added together, still equaling 2 parts of the whole mixture.
Adjusted 2nd Mixture: 2 parts Natural American Spirit Perique, 1 part Lane Ltd. BCA, 1 part Super-Value Vanilla, and 1 part 5 Brothers.
Blended Mixture, Version #2
This is a marked improvement over Version 1 from earlier today. Reducing the BCA was essential, and the Super-Value Vanilla worked wonderfully to reduce the flavoring effects of the BCA to the correct level to my palate, while keeping the volume of cooler burning material in balance to that of the hotter burning tabaks.
While I am quite satisfied with the taste - and most importantly to me - the highly increased nicotine level, I am still highly-suspicious that Cube Cut White Burley is the correct ingredient to use; and not, the Super-Value Vanilla - though it did do the job.
Unfortunately, when I went to my inventory of blending tabaks, I discovered was completely out of cube cut white burley; hence, going with the S.V. Vanilla experiment instead.
Since I haven't smoked BCA in years, I was astounded to recall the amount of goop it left in the bottom of the bowl - I had forgotten about this! Thankfully, the Super-Value Vanilla is not the same level of "offender" as the Lane product; so there is a plus.
One thing to note: To get the most even physical distribution of ingredients, it is important to use tabaks which have similar or at least compatible cut profiles. If you use what's at hand - as I did - you will find that it is difficult to get even distribution of ingredients when your 5 Brothers is ultra-light shag, your Perique is super-fine cut, and your bulk Cavendish material is crinkle ribbon cut.
What happens is, the super-fine cut wants to migrate to the bottom of the mix, the light shag wants to float to the top, although the ribbon cuts and course cuts merge with each other nicely; but, try to take up the middle - which is NOT the best quality "blending".
On a positive note: Once you have the flavor and performance, where you like it, you can always order more compatible cuts and refine the "blend-ability" of you experimental mixture; however, because you have made a change, you might experience a change under smoking conditions.
For me, tomorrow, I'm going to order some "proper" Perique - and, in a heftier cut - Cube Cut White Burley, and continue to work with this current iteration of my 'High Nicotine Codger House Blend' - Sherm Natman
I've adjusted today's experimental mixture and brought the "contributions" of the Lane Ltd BCA way, way, way, down, by splitting it's original quantity in half with Super-Value Vanilla - added together, still equaling 2 parts of the whole mixture.
Adjusted 2nd Mixture: 2 parts Natural American Spirit Perique, 1 part Lane Ltd. BCA, 1 part Super-Value Vanilla, and 1 part 5 Brothers.
Blended Mixture, Version #2
This is a marked improvement over Version 1 from earlier today. Reducing the BCA was essential, and the Super-Value Vanilla worked wonderfully to reduce the flavoring effects of the BCA to the correct level to my palate, while keeping the volume of cooler burning material in balance to that of the hotter burning tabaks.
While I am quite satisfied with the taste - and most importantly to me - the highly increased nicotine level, I am still highly-suspicious that Cube Cut White Burley is the correct ingredient to use; and not, the Super-Value Vanilla - though it did do the job.
Unfortunately, when I went to my inventory of blending tabaks, I discovered was completely out of cube cut white burley; hence, going with the S.V. Vanilla experiment instead.
Since I haven't smoked BCA in years, I was astounded to recall the amount of goop it left in the bottom of the bowl - I had forgotten about this! Thankfully, the Super-Value Vanilla is not the same level of "offender" as the Lane product; so there is a plus.
One thing to note: To get the most even physical distribution of ingredients, it is important to use tabaks which have similar or at least compatible cut profiles. If you use what's at hand - as I did - you will find that it is difficult to get even distribution of ingredients when your 5 Brothers is ultra-light shag, your Perique is super-fine cut, and your bulk Cavendish material is crinkle ribbon cut.
What happens is, the super-fine cut wants to migrate to the bottom of the mix, the light shag wants to float to the top, although the ribbon cuts and course cuts merge with each other nicely; but, try to take up the middle - which is NOT the best quality "blending".
On a positive note: Once you have the flavor and performance, where you like it, you can always order more compatible cuts and refine the "blend-ability" of you experimental mixture; however, because you have made a change, you might experience a change under smoking conditions.
For me, tomorrow, I'm going to order some "proper" Perique - and, in a heftier cut - Cube Cut White Burley, and continue to work with this current iteration of my 'High Nicotine Codger House Blend' - Sherm Natman
Coniston cut plug in an Armentrout Apple
Old Gowrie in a ‘66 Dunhill. I’ve had a bunch of great smokes today, this one included.
Almost half way through this bowl of C&D Yorktown in a straight sandblasted black circa 1920s-30s (Comoy’s) Ancestor bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Off to work now.
Happy birthday @MCJ
Congratulations @MacMarty89 !
I am smoking Germain’s Hampton Flake from Feb 2018 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Congratulations @MacMarty89 !
I am smoking Germain’s Hampton Flake from Feb 2018 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Wessex Campaign Dark Flake in a saddel-bit Stanwell billiard.
The azaleas are starting to bloom in the background.
The azaleas are starting to bloom in the background.
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