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

[Backwoods Briar]

Waking up with simply Red in a Meer and coffee

 

[Scottmi]

HH Pure Virginia Flake in my Radice Rind, with first cup.

 

[Speak Easy]

HH Pure Virginia Flake in my Radice Rind, with first cup.
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There it is! I love that pipe.

 

[JackOrion]

Gawith Hoggarth Brown Flake unscented in a lovely Mastro Gepetto apple.

 

[Ben.R.C]

La Brumeuse in a Doc’s apple

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Miscoi Canadian

 

[Sobrbiker]

Concrete is poured and struck off to my satisfaction, a couple Whopper Jrs down my gullet, KW Campus cleaned and now being de-heliotroped with GH&Co Dark Bird’s Eye

 

[LotusEater]

Epiphany in a giant Don Carlos straight Rhodesian

 

[Birddog66]

I’ve been trying some Va’s that have been on the shelf for a while and I’m just not digging them still, ‘20 Yorktown earlier and now ‘21 Capstan Flake Blue. They either bite or taste like lawn clippings to me unless they’re well stoved. There’s some I enjoy, mostly by Esoterica and a couple of Germain’s but not enough to think “Ooh I must have a bowl of that right now”. I’ll keep going back and trying them occasionally because my palate does change but this Capstan, although it’s not biting, is just kinda meh. Having it in a Kaywoodie Straight Grain.
On deck is some 2013 GH Rum Twist that I found earlier, in a ‘39 Yello Bole with propeller logo.

 

[LeafErikson]

Pegasus for the past couple of days in the Tekin

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

 

[Speak Easy]

Big bowl of Evening Flake sounded great. Kris Kristofferson singing To Beat The Devil plays on the radio.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Miscoi GBD inspired pipe and Wilke No. 515 - first blend I ever tried and remains a constant “friend”.

 

[Birddog66]

Found all sorts of stuff at the back of the shelf today, I’m contemplating Tak Moztek Highland Balls or Tak VB Twist but I feel a bit squeamish into either of them. Kaywoodie Heritage Antique is the pipe.

 

[steveg11]

Samuel Gawith Cabbie's Mixture in this 90's era Mastro De Paja.

 

[RonB]

GLP Montgomery in a Ser Jacopo Rustic Billiard

 

[Ben.R.C]

Anthology ‘23 in a Herbaugh cutty

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Just enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am deciding on my next smoke.

 

[Cloozoe]

Sam's flake in my meerschaum, but since I have a mandate to smoke it a minimum of twice a day, pictures of it are getting tired.

Instead I thought I'd share a picture of my newly, radically condensed pipe drawer; twenty pipes I like to smoke.



Left hand and center column are all Dunhills, arranged by shape/size and ranging in vintage from 1931 to 1999. Right hand column shows two Italian pipes, a Japanese pipe, two Danish pipes and the meer I'm smoking now.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

In this part of the world it is night already, so it's time for Latakia: SG Squadron Leader in a MM Corn Cob pipe which is called "Dagner poker" and was very popular a few years back, pehaps it still is. I purchased it some months after its introduction to the market. I liked the pipe but... it gurgled. This, I did not like. Then, I watched a video of Scott from Aristocob. He had the same problem and suggested changing the stem with a longer one. I tried and indeed the problem was solved, so I'm thankfull. By the way: I wonder if this good, always smiling man, is doing well... I sure hope so!
Have a good rest of your Tuesday good people!