***What Are You Smoking, February 2024?***

[PaulRVA]

Escudo Navy Rolls in a Mark Tinsky Stack Billiard.

 

[rsshreck32]

LJ Peretti BPC in a Savinelli this morning.

 

[JOHN72]

Good afternoon. Smoking a bowl of Capstan Blue now, in a MM Diplomat pipe. I accompany it with a hot red berry tea. God bless you all.

 

[rsshreck32]

Now smoking Ready Rubbed Match in a MM Diamondback.

 

[telescopes]

Dr. Grabow Viscount and a Nimrod lighter given to me many years ago by my dad. Lane BCA AND A TOUCH OF FROSTY MINT. Full 1960s vibe. On this rainy SoCal morning .

 

[Ben.R.C]

Haddo’s in a blasted Manduela facet bulldog with mammoth

 

[Speak Easy]

View attachment 285924Dr. Grabow Viscount and a Nimrod lighter given to me many years ago by my dad. Lane BCA AND A TOUCH OF FROSTY MINT. Full 1960s vibe. View attachment 285925On this rainy SoCal morning .

I almost bought that same lighter on eBay, being a man of limited resources I opted for a bic and more tobacco! Cool setup.

 

[Cloozoe]

Worked for about an hour so I'm taking a well-earned break. I'm aware, by the way, that there are, for example, ranchers on this site who spend long days tending stock and mending fences and such. No doubt a man of higher character than I would be embarrassed.

'23 CRF&P in a 4 1/2" long Rhodesian

 

[Ben.R.C]

Been smoking a pipe way to irregular that I forgot to post about it, even lost some interest in smoking, but I picked up the pipe again.

HU Janneman Flake in the J Everett Lovat

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That pipe should help keep interest! Very pretty!

 

[Speak Easy]

Lock up your grannies, it’s about to go down.

 

[telescopes]

I almost bought that same lighter on eBay, being a man of limited resources I opted for a bic and more tobacco! Cool setup.

I was fortunate that my dad had bought his new when he was still a young man. In truth, they don’t work as well as you would think. You can easily blow them out when lightning the pipe. But, yes, it does actually light a pipe. Also, for whatever reason, the fluid only last a week at the most.

 

[Speak Easy]

I was fortunate that my dad had bought his new when he was still a young man. In truth, they don’t work as well as you would think. You can easily blow them out when lightning the pipe. But, yes, it does actually light a pipe. Also, for whatever reason, the fluid only last a week at the most.

Thanks for the info! I was wondering how well they work. Whatever lighter I decide to spend some money on will be an antiquity.

 

[DanWil84]

@Ben.R.C thanks, it was never about the pipes I own or the tobacco I have, more a time constraint issue. Its a mean lean smokingmachine for sure, featherweight pipe. Maybe pipes destined for tobacco is a myth, but this pipe smokes straight Va's & VaPer's great.

 

[SendoT]

2010 Dunhill Elisabethan mixture in a blowfish by Dädä

 

[B.Lew]

C&D XX Flake in an Eltang Apple while walking the property with the oldest.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Earlier this evening…

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This is an assortment that @Peter Turbo kindly gifted me for Secret Santa a year ago. Tried the Sillems Black. The added flavoring were all over for a while, then settled into a peach-raspbery. Enjoyable, but it really masked the tobacco. Still, a pleasant smoke on an unseasonably warm evening.

Glad you found it pleasant, its not something I smoke all the time but I do enjoy it.

 

[daberman]

Yesterday I finally pulled out a sample of Old Gowrie I hand. Smoked it in a ser jacopo. For me it was tasty but just a little light. It reminds me of St Bernard Flake with a nice bready flavor with perique interplay to add interest.

Today Im comparing it to hal o the wynd. I think I prefer the darker and deeper flavor of HOTW. To me, while it is good, OG taste like tobacco on a diet. Then again, I dont get cranked up by straight light virginias either. For the cellar I will likely stick with HOTW, ST Bernard, Salty dogs, and some HU for Vapers and of course marlin flake.

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HOTW in an Il Ceppo

Oh Man that ser jacopo is gorgeous!

 

[daberman]

Starting the morning with a cup of black coffee and a Nov 2020 Mac Baren virginia Flake in a Savinelli 320 KS Roma Lucite for flake february!

 

[Steddy]

C&D Briar Fox in the IMP Meerschaum.

 

[Speak Easy]

A bowl of leftover MM Independence Day. Listening to Don Williams sing Tulsa Time