Now smoking Samuel Gawith Sam's Flake into a Bent Lorenzo with Chai Tea, Sam Gawith always amazed me with the quality of these flakes , So Chunky and Plummy straight out of the tin.
On another note. I was scrolling through this thread in the early hours of the morning with my 2 year boy. He kept asking “is that your pipe papi?”, “is that my pipe papi?”…until he saw @Latakia Dave selfie. “I see Santa”
Semois thick cut in a Rossi smooth Palermo yacht (8404). I've always liked the 404 shape in Savinelli, and this is the same, in a smooth pipe with a deep red stain. You know if the Italians name a pipe after a Sicilian city, it has got to be a serious pipe. I like it for the compactness, balance, ample bowl, and oval shank. I have family whose mother was Sicilian, who took his daughter there for a high school graduation gift to meet the family. The biological family I mean.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rainbow trout and sugar snap peas dinner with sliced strawberries over a half a chocolate muffin. M'lady ate the other half. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2001 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching Hollywood Hotel starring Dick Powell.
Enjoyed a tasty navel orange, and am a quarter of the way through this bowl of C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.