***What Are You Smoking, January 2023?***

[JimInks]

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

 

[StayPufft]

Gawith Hogarth’s Brown Bogie (or happy bogie?) in a Peterson St. Patrick's day special 2014 edition.

 

[FurCoat]

Scarecrow

 

[avail]

flintlock？！wow！！

Some of the guys were shooting flintlocks, I was shooting a rifle with percussion cap ignition.

 

[avail]

In a little bit will recline and read The Valley Of Fear. As @dino knows well the ADP pipe in one of the Holmes tales was an Adolph Posener. This little ADP was unsmoked, hallmarked Chester 1914 and is now getting a gentle break in with some 2019 Capstan Gold. It is amazing how compact a lot of the pipes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries are and this pipe smokes wonderfully. Only a hair bigger than the little Peterson short 230. Just right for me. View attachment 198306

I recently finished reading both volumes, took me a while, there's a lot there!

 

[avail]

50/50 blend of GH Kendal Mixed shag and Planta Full English in a HSB saddle stemmed billiard.

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I like that tamper.

 

[dunnyboy]

Solani 660 in a Doctor's Pipes strawberry wood apple.

 

[TN Jed]

Last smoke of the weekend. GL Pease Quite Nights in a Pete Sherlock Heritage 150.

 

[tfdickson]

DSP in my ODA 840.

 

[avail]

Today leaving the latest snow outside, now in the shop enjoying some G.L Pease's Virginia Cream in my Peterson System Standard 312 while listening to the 49er's & Eagles.
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That is one of the first blends I just could not stomach, unfortunately...have no idea why.

 

[GatorElGato]

First bowl of the night is Granger. My first time smoking this, enjoyed it in a cob.

 

[GatorElGato]

Second bowl of the night is my current favorite Carter Hall, in a cob. My pipe smoking journey has come full circle. Started with many bowls of SWR. Then explored some more expansive blends for awhile. Now back to an OTC blend. Which will probably be my everyday smoke.

 

[craig61a]

A mix of GH&Co Black Cherry Twist/Newminster 400 in a Bjarne pickaxe.

 

[sjohnston0311]

Capstan Blue in a late 1800’s Ox Blood Meer with Spigot and and Amber Stem.































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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[Beowoulf]

Smoking some Lane's 1-Q in a Stanwell bent. A nice tobacco in a nice pipe.

 

[onestrangeone]

ODF in a Radice Billiard

 

[doctorbob]

Scottish Cake in a 1928 Shell. Pipe is pretty clearly an EK, but there is no shape code stamped, only the inner tube size indicator '21'. This pipe has excellent grain and was owned by John Loring.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, big slab of salmon and sugar snap peas with six pieces of baklava for dessert. I'm smoking Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. M'lady and I are watching a few Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies this evening, so I am smoking 4ABs as I did last Saturday. Currently watching The Pearl of Death. English tea, neat, is my drink.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2015 OGS in a CAO Meer.

 

[BlueRidge]

Love that bird carving!

thanks @Carol i think the carver did a good job representing the attitude of the Carolina Wren. smoking some ODF in the same pipe