***What Are You Smoking, January 2022?***

[AlanH]

Rum Twist/Brown Flake Unscented in a Kapruf 263.
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Never heard.of Kapruf but I read like the pipe ?

 

[AlanH]

I can’t keep up with this thread!
Today’s icy View attachment 119436View attachment 119437wander with the pups and some Grasmere Flake in the cob

Great pictures ?

 

[AlanH]

Pegasus in a Stanboo billiard.
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Very nice pic?

 

[AlanH]

Finishing up my sutliff 507 in my Nutten’s while looking a my new poster in the smoke shopView attachment 119456

What do you think about the 507? I tried it today for the first time and I did not like near as much as Newminster. I am going to put away and let it age.

 

[AlanH]

MRC into a shield above MARCEE

(MARECHAL, RUCHON & CIE - MRC initials - A sub-brand of GBD.
Marcee pipes were produced exclusively for the French market. The company was owned by Auguste Marechal and Ferdinand Ruchon ("& Cie" is the french equivalent of "& Co") who also owned the GBD brand from the end of the 19th century until 1902 when they sold Marechal, Ruchon & Cie. to Oppenheimer Pipe, which in turn changed the name of the company to Marechal, Ruchon & Co., Ltd.. Upon the creation of Cadogan, however, the brand was no more, remembered only in the name of the GBD Marcee pipes made until just after the Second World War.)
Courtesy Pipedia

MRC into a shield and AO (Adolphe Oppenheimer & Co.) stamped on the band with marks for London 1918

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+ Dunhill 965 MIXTURE
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You sir have an excellent collection of historic pipes !

 

[craig61a]

Wilke Lizzy Blood Red Virginia in a Don Warren Osage Orange Stack.

 

[AlanH]

As it seems all of North America is gripped in a cold snap.
-30C here in Central Alberta
GLP Gaslight in a Vaun Meer lined Churchwarden
Wrapped in my electric blanket in my garage/shop

I received an electric throw for Christmas It is a game changer ??

 

[AlanH]

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Rouxgaroux in a Kingston Judge.

Finally able to get in a smoke, after the wife made me catch up on a couple t.v. shows we’ve been watching. She’s off to bed now, so I’m in the garage, watching the UNC- Notre Dame game and getting caught up on all the shenanigans going on around here.

Wife first smart man?

 

[AlanH]

The 507-C Slices need a few years of age. If yours isn't aged much, jar it and come back to it in a few years.

That is what I was thinking. Being new to all this aged tobacco is not an option. I really like the way the Newminister 400 and Orlick taste fresh compared to the 507c . I guess my cellar has begun because I really did not enjoy this blend fresh much.

 

[AlanH]

Newminster 400 in a Cermak.

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Lovely pipe love the green band. How old is the 400? ?

 

[AlanH]

Wilke Lizzy Blood Red Virginia in a Don Warren Osage Orange Stack.

I want an Osage Orange Bodark pipe!!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Lovely pipe love the green band. How old is the 400? ?

Thank you. Bought that from Martin at the 2018 Chicago Pipe Show. I think the green is some kind of dinosaur fossil. Newminster canned in 2/18.

 

[tnfan]

2012 HH Old Dark Fired in a Castello Old AntiquarI Hawkbill.

 

[Bax Burley]

Sutliff Butter Pecan in a Chacom Reybert Diplomat. I've had this jarred for maybe 9 months. It's still the wettest tobacco I've ever tried to smoke. I left it uncovered once for several days with no change. I had a one ounce sample last spring that was delicious, so I bought several ounces to jar, and the big order was just propylene glycol city. It's still tasty though. Has this sort of soda flavor to it. Like a hint of coke syrup.

 

[beargreasediet]

My last pipe of the day (feeling like Jiminks here), 2008 Maltese Falcon in a Peterson Donegal Rocky with silver band and P-lip.

 

[SmokestackLightnin]

MacBaren Plumcake in a Savinelli 320 KS.

 

[JKoD]

Old Gowrie in Peterson system standard. Learning the p-lip. Doesn’t cause tongue bite…!!!! But, can cause roof of mouth burn. ?

thanks @LotusEater - good smoker…but, the p-lip… doesn’t wear rubbers well…and - I won’t seek out that stem style - but, love the pipe as it fits the clincher’s profile. I imagine I should be able to find a stem that will work or have one made that fits and isn’t p-lip. Might be small for some - but, I have a nice selection of “smaller”’ pipes i truly enjoy. This is in the club for sure. Maybe someday I’ll take a snapshot of my smaller bowled pipes. Some blends just rock in a smaller pipe. ?‍

 

[Eye-level]

Fixing to burn some more Blend #1 and staying with a BBB...Silver Grain. Also a very good comfortable smoker. Sprite. Very nice stuff!

Something I am curious about....in tobacco reviews of Ted's Pipe Shoppe and Blend #1 it is called out as English. One of the reviewers mentions that the Virginia component is more of a condiment. I have read that less Virginia is Balkan more Virginia English in these sort of VA Oriental Lat blends. Any thoughts?

 

[charf]

Smoking some C&D Bayou Night in a Savenelli 673. Bit of tropical thunder and rain this evening. Listening to a podcast about Vudoo Gun’s .22 platform.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Just got caught in the rain mowing the lawns. Ended up being one of those special smoking moments. Flipped my Dunhill upside down and enjoyed the rest of the bowl. 50:50 rum twist and semois. Seriously good combo