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

[Fralphog]

Will be interested to know what you think of the comparison

Here ya go-

Just Opened Pre 1987 Carter Hall :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion

I have a really nice 5X cowboy hat that needs to be reshaped. But it’s really hard to find anyone in Boise to do it. I’ve never shaped a cowboy hat myself? I couldn’t make it to the Boise pipe club meeting tonight. Maybe next month. is that a Texas Ranger company a replica badge? All in all a...

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[cosmicfolklore]

WCC Flake 558. Why 558? Did it really take that many tries?

 

[AlanH]

This finish stands out more, I noticed a little too many dark parts in the previous one (IMHO)

It had quite a few flaws pits in the briar. I was afraid to rusticate it because I've never done it before but It was not a difficult task. It suits the briar better not sure if I like the light or a darker finish more? I guess it'll get darker as I use it. Thank you very much for the input ?

 

[timt]

WCC Flake 558. Why 558? Did it really take that many tries?
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"Flake #558 (The measured distance in miles between Watch City Cigar and Richmond, VA, plus a couple extra miles for good measure!) This is another of our "Crumble Flakes". (A mixture of cut leaf with some whole leaf added, pressed and sliced thick). Similiar to our "Old Dominion" this rich, dark flake substitutes a rich stoved Virginia for the Matured Virginia. A wonderfully complex flake with a naturally sweet aftertaste is the result. Just a bit less Perique than Old Dominion."

 

[Fralphog]

After smoking some HH earlier, I couldn’t refuse mixing up my own “Half N Half”
packed 50/50 Sutliff J4 Burley with C&D Red Virginia ribbon in a MM.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB Original Choice in a cob.

 

[Jaylotw]

20" last weekend, 7" yesterday and still snowing. 21 degrees. I've got some Embarcadero in a Brigham, a cup of PG Tips, and not enough coat on out here on the porch. Stalling on painting the hallway.

 

[The Clay King]

Ok. Thanks. I'll see what happens.

@Carol Try not to break any clay pipes; my new year's resolutions are:
1) Don't fall in any more rivers.
2) Don't break any clay pipes.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Smoking Louisiana Flake in a Dagner Diamond Poker and sipping an Arnold Palmer. The last time I smoked this, I was really picking up on a Lakeland essence that I hadn’t picked up on in the past. Today, the chocolate tones are coming through more pronounced. If I didn’t know better, I might think it was two completely different tobaccos. Either way, it’s still fantastic.

 

[Jacob74]

I'm enjoying Mississippi River, jarred up in Nov 2020. Smoking implement is a WO Larsen half-rusticated bulldog, and my drink of choice is high quality H2O.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

"Flake #558 (The measured distance in miles between Watch City Cigar and Richmond, VA, plus a couple extra miles for good measure!) This is another of our "Crumble Flakes". (A mixture of cut leaf with some whole leaf added, pressed and sliced thick). Similiar to our "Old Dominion" this rich, dark flake substitutes a rich stoved Virginia for the Matured Virginia. A wonderfully complex flake with a naturally sweet aftertaste is the result. Just a bit less Perique than Old Dominion."

That doesn’t make much sense to me, but…. If it works for everyone else, sure.
I guess they assume Virginias are just grown in Virginia, Richmond specifically? And the measurement is just an estimate, because they added a few extra miles?

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am half 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.

 

[Jacob74]

That doesn’t make much sense to me, but…. If it works for everyone else, sure.
I guess they assume Virginias are just grown in Virginia, Richmond specifically? And the measurement is just an estimate, because they added a few extra miles?

You just haven't been initiated into the higher illuminated levels yet. Your time will come, brother.




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[JOHN72]

Good evening. We started smoking with. mb: Mixture Scottish Flake, in a MM General....................

Hey John. you were wrong, it's not flake, it's blend. Oh, thank you John. How absent-minded of me.............Give my regards to your wife, and to the dog too

 

[Paul lec]

Amphora Kentucky in a big Rossi bulldog,barefoot pipe nation?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Mississippi River Special Reserve Flake in a cob.

 

[SmokestackLightnin]

Bob’s Chocolate Flake in a Savinelli 412 KS.

 

[FurCoat]

Eeik Stokkebye Evening Flake on a Maru Armellini Verona 306

 

[weezell]

Samuel Gawith: 1792 Flake in a Meer...​

 

[goosetime]

Local Virginia "Toasted Hazelnut" in a Caminetto Super Moustache.