***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***

[ClassicKehler]

L.J. Perretti #8 slices in my barling.

 

[Scottmi]

2021 Mad Fiddler Flake in the Pete Short Army 606 Pot, and a rather tame Mexican Hot Chocolate on this gusty afternoon.

 

[VDL_Piper]

@VDL_Piper - Sounds like a much-needed smoke! (And ample dessert, too.)

After a nice lunch, back to the smoking lounge for another round. This time, Exclusive in a Tekin squashed tomato.

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Yes indeed my friend. It's always a very interesting adventure when dealing with bureaucracy. On the tobacco, dessert it is but I'm trying to cut the sweetness back and I have now put more cigar leaf in this tasting and I'm smoking another bowl now in the Meer and its better, more like I was hoping but still some tinkering to get it balanced right.

 

[Peterson314]

Afternoon smoke on IPSD!
Peterson 301 System with WC Old Dominion.
A mug of Pu’erh tea.

A mug of Pu’erh tea goes great with a pipe, for sure!!

2010 Menghai Gong Ting Shu Pu'er in a Lai Xiaohong Yixing. Reading a Jeff Jewitt novel.

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Watching an episode of Hell On Wheels while smoking some McClelland's Frog Morton's Cellar in the Nording Grade 20. Coffee on the side... I tell you all, after the last couple work days, I freaking DESERVE this! Happy smokes everyone.

 

[Scottmi]

MB Classic Rollcake from 2023 in a Jirsa 210. Getting to like this stuff. View attachment 372171

Those Mac Baren coins just kinda sneak up on ya!

 

[Scottmi]

That looks like a "comfortable" pipe, that we'd all be at home with. Nothing flashy but just good and solidl Love it!

Thank you Gord! I found the original stem, though elegant, to be just too long. This is handy and 'just right'

 

[Scottmi]

And a solid custom stem!

Amen!

3d Stem :: Pipe Talk

My Merchant Service Cutty, delight that it is, had a very very very tight hole through the bit. A couple weeks ago, I BROKE it pulling the thinnest pipe cleaner I had through. So sad. Emailed them to see if any replacement is available. No response. So. Inspired by Kevin Godbeeee's photos of...

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[TN Jed]

Started out the snow day with Blackthorn Shillelagh in the mini me of yesterday’s Pete.
Continued with more Blackthorn S in another Pete
Currently enjoying Celebrated Sovereign in the Dunhill Latakia Lovat

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson Nightcap in the Luigi Viprati Collection Silver Dragon “B” pipe.

#coldrab

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

GH Kendal #7 in a Radice Rind 55View attachment 372199

This is a reminder to me to never "give up" on looking at a brand, even if you think subjectively, it's just not for you. I've literally, until today, never seen (at least to my knowledge) a single Radice I personally liked, despite the fam, and now I've seen two I not only like but LOVE. Gorgeous! Stunning. And truly different from anything I've ever seen. Now another brand calling me to find money to spend on, lol.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Nørding Pointer topped with the remnants of some 2020 C&D Opening Night in a Radice Silk Cut

And just to clarify, this is the second Radice I've seen I truly LOVE. Nothing like a traditional shape in a sandblast that looks as if it could have been made into a high dollar smooth. Love the definition, and the clearly visible, parallel flame grain.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Gonna have to step up my game after this one. Today's continuing $5 cob torture test continues, and it continues to exist. Missouri Pride VaBur, again. The bowl isn't burned, it's just rusticated! Still think the pouch will outlast it.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Stepping up my game at least a little, I had a bowl of SPC Plum Pudding BBA in this Pete Sherlock Holmes Lestrade full bent apple/ball with P-lip saddle stem.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Everyone put up such impressive pipes today, I nearly smoked one of my unsmoked artisan pipes, but chickened out. Here's an early period, undated which means early 1980s Rainer Barbi XL straight brandy with bone and brown brindle saddle stem. After supper, I'll be having C&D Small Batch Eight State Burley from 2021 in him.

 

[wyfbane]

P.S. Aalborg in a cob. I'm about out of this. It is good, but not stellar.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2020 MB Virginia Flake in an Altinay.

 

[Servant King]

Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Savinelli Porto Cervo 122 rusticated pot while wrapping up a third straight day of strenuous ranch chores. Burleys in this wide chamber just go and go like the Energizer bunny. 9/10

Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, White-crowned sparrow, House finch, California towhee, Chipping sparrow, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, American crow, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Oak titmouse, American robin, Red-tailed hawk, Western bluebird, Northern flicker, Hairy woodpecker, California quail, and Spotted towhee. Full cast today, not a single absentee.

 

[Brad H]

Peterson pipe of the year 2023?
At Bruno flake.
No pictures. It was 19 degrees

 

[dottlejockey]

Yes indeed my friend. It's always a very interesting adventure when dealing with bureaucracy. On the tobacco, dessert it is but I'm trying to cut the sweetness back and I have now put more cigar leaf in this tasting and I'm smoking another bowl now in the Meer and its better, more like I was hoping but still some tinkering to get it balanced right.

I could tell by the ingredient that's what you were up to. I have a nice stock of whole Tampa cigar leaf on hand for blending. Just picked up a tin of Robert McConnell's Pure Cuba leaf while ordering from Germany as well. This one was of particular interest, since many years ago (when i smoked a large selection of Habanos regularly), i would save the cigar caps - after clipping - in a baby food jar. When i had enough, i'd use those in my pipe blends to similar effect.

Time to quit yapping and get back to smoking. Next up...Dark Twist in a Stanwell bamboo.