***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***

[BenMN]

Round 2

 

[telescopes]

Marxman with McConnell Orientals at the bar at Outback Steakhouse.

 

[yohanan]

Last of the Billy Budd from 2011 in a Charles Towne Cobbler, I have really enjoyed this bend, It's been a good ride for Ole Billy and me, I got a fresher version laid back in the cellar, and I'm sure it will be just as good.

 

[Bbailey324]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson bent Aran.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking the last of my stash of Wilke No. 24 in a smooth straight brown 1949 KBB Yello-Bole Century Model Lovat with a nickel band accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Working and listening to This Is Your FBI from my radio collection.

 

[OzPiper]

Back looking at Penzance

This afternoon in 2 old Britwoods
The first is this 1906 Birmingham hallmarked AD in a lozenge, and on the shank - maker/tobacconist WJB&Co (in an oval) straight billiard with an (?)amberoid stem with a bone tenon and orific bit

 

[Peterson314]

Whenever I think I can handle a pipe full of just about anything, Joe pops up to correct me.

This jar had me on the couch as if I just started smoking yesterday. Got 7/8ths through it without feeling anything, then the Vitamin-N came on like a sledgehammer.

Five-year-old Plum Pudding in my Castello Sea Rock. I had an enjoyable smoke. And now, this jar will return to the cellar until I need another reminder.

 

[rsshreck32]

Briar Fox in a Peterson Christmas 23 Canadian to start off tonight. Earlier today I had LJP Cuban Mixture and Ampersand Flake in a Rossi Piccolo.

 

[Tate]

Hope everyone is doing well! Just had some Exclusive in the meer. Hit 151!

 

[JimInks]

A couple of minutes away from smoking year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[spearheadbill]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm nearing the half way mark of this bowl of year 2020 Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This blend ages well. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Time to clean a few pipes.
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I hope you were up for 11 chickens legs tonight! Thats a sure fire sign of good health and well being and I mean that sincerely as a strong appetite is strength! Good evening Jim always enjoy your posts.

 

[spearheadbill]

Enjoyed a largeish bowl of Wessex curly block in my Wiley panel dublin. I hear this year’s mixture may not be as good as it was some years ago but I sure do enjoy it more than most other Vapers.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

22 Rouxgaroux in a Morgan, some dark roast with a book

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[thesmokindragon]

GLP's JK RR in an Eltang Basic - Brown Rusticated Poker

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2018 Union Square in a Howell.

 

[Steddy]

Castello Sea Rock KK 10 Bent with C&D Exclusive.
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Break that beauty in!

 

[OzPiper]

The recent article on member @greeneyes remarkable collection of Ben Wades prompted me to dig out this next pipe, a 1914 straight billiard.
The stamping are very faint, but on the reverse side of the shank, “DUBLIN” stands proud. I take it that this was sold by a Dublin tobacconist, and that Peterson did not have a monopoly on pipes sold in the Republic

A second bowl of Penzance



The difference between this and the preceding bowl is quite stark.
The previous pipe had a much more restrictive draw due to its bone tenon.
The Latakia was more pronounced whereas the more open draw of this Ben Wade results in a much gentler flavour.
I preferred the former.