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

[Joe H]

I smoked a very tasty bowl of the 2024 Golden Days of Yore. I’ve modified it with an extra dose of Christmas topping, and finally added a pinch of finely chopped Spruce needles. Now the jar note is very Christmassy and the smoke smells amazing. I’ll be happy to dip into this mixture throughout the winter season up here. My old Dr. Grabow managed the job nicely.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

View attachment 371296My first time having exclusive and this stuff is just fantastic. In a Savinelli tre rusticated 207. Featuring our dog, Shems.

I haven’t been active much the past few days because my wife and I welcomed our second child into the world, a son, on Feb 13th in the early hours of the morning. We now have a 5 year old daughter and a son. We are blessed beyond words.

Congratulations! Good to know the homemade spermaceti is as potent as ever.

 

[OzPiper]

Couldn't get out for a birthday smoke yesterday - it was -17C - a bit cold even for a Great White North smoker! But today, a bit warmer, despite the 40cm of snow. Set up in the shed with my first bowl of Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in the Brebbia with a thermos of tea (with just a glug of Havana Club 7 year in it).

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Wishing you a Very Happy Birthday

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Currently smoking my Adana Turkey bent billiard meerschaum with some Chocolate Manhood tobacco (Latakia w/ 1Q).

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Any Peterson with Steamworks C&D

 

[Ted Vig]

Smoking some C&D White Lightning in a Brandon Brooks.

 

[Brad H]

Smoking some C&D White Lightning in a Brandon Brooks. View attachment 371387

beautiful grain

 

[JimInks]

Been very busy since I last posted, and smoked a bunch of tobacco, too. Currently, I'm near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2018 D&R Windsail in a 2018 full bend smooth natural Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade with a silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. All the ferals showed up at one point or another today.

 

[ukbob]

Germains Rich Dark Flake in a Peterson St Patrick’s Day Xl02, on a chilly Sunday morning.

 

[Sigmund]

Nayla in a Kai with morning coffee. It got down to near freezing last night but the high today is 60.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[dino]

While visiting with my Saturday afternoon ZOOM buddies, I smoked some vintage Nat Sherman 536 English Empire in the first "expensive" new pipe I bought ($35) in the 60s, a Charatan 8DC sandblasted bulldog. Fun conversations, great smoke.
A mug of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Coffee was my beverage.

 

[JimInks]

Near the first third of this bowl of 1970s Heine's Blend in the second pipe I ever bought, a 1974 three quarter bend black sandblasted Dr. Grabow Omega military mount with a nickel band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. I'll probably end the day with this smoke. The rains topped for about an hour, and then came back with a lot of force. I looked out the back door window, and saw Tomato the Brave and Harry the Hairy. Tomato must have been on the deck for a while because he was dry, but I had to dry off Harry. They've eaten, and judging by the weather forecast, it'll be bad rain and wind, so I'll leave them inside. Dunno where Abner the Eager is.

 

[Tbaggins]

Chestnut in an Altinay.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

Cornell & Diehl - Haunted Bookshop in a Diplomat 5th Avenue Cob and a Cup of Joe.

 

[condorlover1]

Good Morning denizens of the forum. It is 68 degrees here in Lutz, the sun is about to show itself and I am at my desk cutting up some Brown Pig Tail into thin slices. Today I am in a good mood since I have neither read the papers nor listened to the anything on the wireless and I intend to keep it that way. In fact I have decided to close my email account when I retire and go totally analog with the exception of this place. Since I tend to write people letters when I wish to communicate with them so not getting emails would be something of a joy. Every morning my inbox is full of offers from sundry companies offering me pills to make certain parts of your anatomy huge so that your wife walks like John Wayne for a few days. Worse still are the assorted begging letters, credit card offers and notification that someone you detest has found you and is trying to friend you on FaceBook, normally one of my ex-wives! My pipe de jour is this Austrian late 1880s meerschaum 'cutty' pipe with amber stem. Enjoy your Sunday and I'll drop by put my head around the door after church.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Jirsa 210.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm up and smoking year 2019 Prince Albert in a straight smooth walnut 1927 KBB Kaywoodie Drinkless 86 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This model was only made in 1927. Sleepy Suzy is by my side.

 

[Skippy Piper]

This evening I'm breaking in a new Falcon International stem with some Peterson Irish Flake.




My hope was that the combination of the Falcon system with the little pipe cleaner ring filter in the humidome below the bowl and a Savinelli 6mm balsa wood filter in the stem would reduce the harshness of the Burley in Irish Flake enough that it wouldn't give me a sore throat, but no such luck. It still turned quite harsh towards the last third of the bowl and I had to dump it out when it started tearing up my throat.

Next time I'll try it with a Vauen 6mm Dr. Perl Junior charcoal filter and see how it goes, since sadly the Falcon International stem doesn't seem to work with my preferred Dr. Grabow or Medico 6mm filters as the fit is too loose and the filter just rattles around inside the stem and all the smoke goes around it instead of through it. A bit of a bummer, but such is life.