Squadron Leader w/ Perique in a cob
***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***
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I like this a lot.
Smooth, rich Virginia
A few more years on it should work magic.
About $12/lb
Hand fill, if you're familiar with Peterson B42 (Darwin) shape, it's a bit larger than that, which is a substantial sized bowl. So it fills the hand very nicely. I like larger pipes for that very purpose. The chamber is medium width I guess you could say, so it handles pretty much any cut or blend style equally well. It's burning this Old Toby right now very nicely, and I'm getting amazing flavor out of it. And yes, always a cool smoke. The long shank and stem help out with that. The bowl heats up just enough for a comforting warmth in the hand.
Since IPSD I have been smoking Boswell's Majestic 586 in various pipes.
I really like this blend.
I really like this blend.
Old Joe Krantz in a Den's Freehand. 
Going to have Wilke Peanut Butter in a Missouri Meerschaum MacArthur 5-Star Natural Corn Cob.
Did a set of walking reps on this sunny, chilly day, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. It's time for coffee and lunch.
Well, project finished. Every pipe in this display, and 6 or 7 others I smoke regularly, has been smoked twice with Smokers' Pride Whiskey Tobacco, my go-to fodder for breaking in a pipe, and thoroughly cleaned out.
What brought this on was a couple very mediocre smokes in dedicated pipes, with my a few of my most favoured tobaccos, (Mad Fiddler, Black Frigate, and a couple of others that I know very well), enough to get the fact that something was not exactly right. The long stems were especially guilty, but not exclusively. They were simply clogged with slag, especially those in which heavy aromatics and latakia were dedicated to or smoked in. Whiskey burns fairly fast and hot, and cleans slag like a white tornado. You can actually hear the slag sizzling and being burned off in the bowl, and the cleanup was effective.
The nylon stems of the regular pipes clean easily, but long wooden stems accumulate a lot of residue, and after a couple of pipe cleaners were run through, I'll now run another soaked in brandy or alcohol for the final phase.
Kinda smoked out . . . . will probably only have a small evening pipe or cigars and chew for a day or two. Tongue feels blah, but no real tongue bite . . . . cold coffee and the apple cider vinegar drink I concocted, along with hypochlorus spray, has eliminated that condition for me, even with the amount of pipes I've smoked over the past week. Now to see what this day will bring . . . . .
What brought this on was a couple very mediocre smokes in dedicated pipes, with my a few of my most favoured tobaccos, (Mad Fiddler, Black Frigate, and a couple of others that I know very well), enough to get the fact that something was not exactly right. The long stems were especially guilty, but not exclusively. They were simply clogged with slag, especially those in which heavy aromatics and latakia were dedicated to or smoked in. Whiskey burns fairly fast and hot, and cleans slag like a white tornado. You can actually hear the slag sizzling and being burned off in the bowl, and the cleanup was effective.
The nylon stems of the regular pipes clean easily, but long wooden stems accumulate a lot of residue, and after a couple of pipe cleaners were run through, I'll now run another soaked in brandy or alcohol for the final phase.
Kinda smoked out . . . . will probably only have a small evening pipe or cigars and chew for a day or two. Tongue feels blah, but no real tongue bite . . . . cold coffee and the apple cider vinegar drink I concocted, along with hypochlorus spray, has eliminated that condition for me, even with the amount of pipes I've smoked over the past week. Now to see what this day will bring . . . . .
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CAO meerschaum with J Dengler Black Maria. Enjoying time on my smoking patio.
Trying something new. Just bagged up a few bowls of 333. Smoking it in this. Mastro de paja.
I like those!Well, project finished. Every pipe in this display, and 6 or 7 others I smoke regularly, has been smoked twice with Smokers' Pride Whiskey Tobacco, my go-to fodder for breaking in a pipe, and thoroughly cleaned out.
What brought this on was a couple very mediocre smokes in dedicated pipes, with my a few of my most favoured tobaccos, (Mad Fiddler, Black Frigate, and a couple of others that I know very well), enough to get the fact that something was not exactly right. The long stems were especially guilty, but not exclusively. They were simply clogged with slag, especially those in which heavy aromatics and latakia were dedicated to or smoked in. Whiskey burns fairly fast and hot, and cleans slag like a white tornado. You can actually hear the slag sizzling and being burned off in the bowl, and the cleanup was effective.
The nylon stems of the regular pipes clean easily, but long wooden stems accumulate a lot of residue, and after a couple of pipe cleaners were run through, I'll now run another soaked in brandy or alcohol for the final phase.
Kinda smoked out . . . . will probably only have a small evening pipe or cigars and chew for a day or two. Tongue feels blah, but no real tongue bite . . . . cold coffee and the apple cider vinegar drink I concocted, along with hypochlorus spray, has eliminated that condition for me, even with the amount of pipes I've smoked over the past week. Now to see what this day will bring . . . . .
Took a two-week hiatus with the flu that keeps lingering around. Sterilized my insides today with some OJK in a Savinelli 602.
I’m still not a huge fan of aromatics, and am happy this jar is done, but Uhles does make some decent ones. BJs Cavendish in a MM Dagner Cob with water. 
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am almost half way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Jamaican Estate Reserve, neat, is my drink. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' on her blanket. Tomato the Brave is snoozin' on m'lady's chair. Harry the Hairy is sunning himself by the edge of the back deck. Haven't seen Abner the Eager in two days, but I'm sure he's okay.
C&D Winchester in a Peterson Aran Smooth Nickel Mount X105 Billard with a cup of black tea.
Bosun Cut Plug in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard and Diet Coke on the side. Finally 60f so getting some Patio time in.
Very elegant pipe. Understated in the very best classic manner.
Thank you Gord. I concur.
About to light up my Peterson bent billiard meer with some Rattray's Exotic Passion.
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