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

[Joe H]

I was feeling very 1960s today. I recently found a box of old magazines in my dad’s house, this one from 1961. The beat up lighter (a 1962 Zippo slim) also was found in my dad’s house. I had to do a considerable bit of work getting its crushed body back in shape after Zippo deemed it unrepairable. The Kaywoodie pot (late '50s to mid '60s) was also found at my dad’s house, missing the stem. I found one on ebay and filed and sanded it a bit to get a perfect fit. The cork bit is just to keep the tobacco in while the pipe is in a pocket. I smoked my own blend of Two Friars with a Cherry On Top. After stoving and jarring a couple months, it’s a great smoke. Happy Superbowl Sunday to those who are watching.


It's interesting to imagine dad might have lit this pipe with that lighter while reading the magazine over 60 years ago. Cleaning out the old house is like a historical dig!

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[cshubhra]

Samuel Gawith Grousemoor in the PCI horn meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem

 

[telescopes]

I asked @telescopes about a quintessential Gawith & Hoggarth blend to try, and he suggested Brown Flake Scented. Bought 4oz and just tried today. I had tried 1792 flake and Ennerdale previously, which while maybe acclimating my palatte to the Lakelands concept, were not blends that I ended up jibing with. Brown Flake Scented however I actually love. Smoked it in my Vauen Topas.

I am so happy to hear that it was good for you. I have a bit of a problem with the nic hit, especially 1792. But it is so flavorful.

 

[Pappy Coon]

C&D Mountain Camp for the drive home. Enjoying some Stokkebye Highland Whiskey in a Savinelli while watching the Stuper Bowl.

 

[ravkesef]

Pipeworks and Wilke #72 in a Castello Sea Coral Canadian

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

G&H Scotch Flake in an Altinay.

 

[renfield]

5 year old HU Nyala in a blasted Nuttens Bing.

 

[das3353]

Great blend, great pipe!

Thanks!

 

[The Clay King]

A short one-pipe problem: waiting for the heat and Kroil to loosen some rusty bolts on a water pump that needs replacing, so 2021 Navigator Flake in the little clay (so tasty!) while hoping physics and chemistry do their magic.
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@Scottmi Nice clay; I had one the same but it got broken:-( University Flake in mine.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2020 Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem.

 

[Bbailey324]

Chenet's Cake in an Ashton XXX bulldog.

 

[Ted Vig]

Rich Lewis Armadillo with Dunhill Three Year Matured Virginia.

 

[cshubhra]

GL Pease Windjammer from January 2021 in the Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[Scottmi]

@Scottmi Nice clay; I had one the same but it got broken:-( University Flake in mine.

@The Clay King the only clay i've put in service so far. i've dropped a briar a time or two and thankfully landed bowl down not stem down. If I only smoked a clay I'm sure I'd be a half-dozen in by now for sure! As a smoking tool, dollar per puff, totally under-rated!

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Directors Cut in a Nuttens Rustic Bing and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[tfdickson]

2017 Viprati in my Yeti paneled egg.

 

[JimInks]

Off to the studio with a bowl of year 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Bbailey324]

Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a Peterson Dracula 80s.

 

[MisterDearly]

Some Quiet Nights from 2022 in a Peterson Rocky Donegal 106 Fishtail. The picture is taken by my SO who is much better than taking pictures than me and who picked out the pipe!