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

[Backwoods Briar]

Finished cleaning a few pipes, now MacBaren vanilla rolls in a Dunham deluxe with Italian dark roast. Still listening to jazz

 

[Laurent]

Finished cleaning a few pipes, now MacBaren vanilla rolls in a Dunham deluxe with Italian dark roast. Still listening to jazz View attachment 278413

Cool spoon and pick.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Cool spoon and pick.

Thank you @Laurent, I picked these up a couple of years ago. The maker has shut down unfortunately.

 

[renfield]

2013 Christmas Cheer in a Nuttens Bing.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Last bowl from a tin of Viking Bay Flake in an Altinay.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Anthology in a Howell.

 

[alaskanpiper]

You’re a lifer on the forum so I can’t bestow the codger title upon you. If you remained a lurker with no profile picture and one post, your pipe was caked with more lava than Hawaii, and your stems looked like they’d been clenched by a Sabre tooth tiger for 22 straight years then we could talk.

Fair enough!

 

[AroEnglish]

Watch City American Cut Plug in a Kaywoodie. Is this codgering? Am I doing it right? .

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I didn’t think Kaywoodies could come with grain like that

 

[Fralphog]

A third of a bowl left of Sam Gawith Burnt Ends in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend 320KS author with a black acrylic military mount ferrule and tapered stem.
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I’m interested in your review. I missed out on getting some of this offering.
Hoping it is available again?

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

McC No. 2015 VaPer from a Sara Eltang sandblast. Enjoying with a Sumatra from Luminous.

 

[Bbailey324]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson 2023 Christmas.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Nightcap in a Northern Briars Premier bent bulldog.

 

[Tate]

Finally cracked another jar of Exclusive for bowl 102.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rock fish and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2013 Stonehaven in a straight black sandblasted 1957 Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver banded military mount and a black ebonite tapered stem. A cup of hot tea, neat, is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[JimInks]

I’m interested in your review. I missed out on getting some of this offering.
Hoping it is available again?

I read that it will be available again some time in the future. No date was given. Nobody has said this - and this is my opinion only - but I would not be surprised to see them do the same for Best Brown Flake and SJF one of these days.

I am not far from finishing my review. I'm being very careful with this one because I have had a lot to think about regarding what I want to say.

 

[LeafErikson]

Mostly through bowl 101 in the meer. Sutliff Match Victorian for 100 and 101. The dark photo was 100 lol
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Holy shit you’ve been smoking that thing a retired 75 year old widower ignoring the advice of his doctor! Love the basket weave on that meer.

 

[JSPiper71]

‘21 Telegraph Hill in a Calich from the 70’s.

 

[cshubhra]

Sutliff Match Victorian from January 2020 in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX

 

[samuelgawith01]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) that was in the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano for about sixty years.

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It’s rare that you’ll ever see 360 degree grain in this orientation:

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That's the only other pipe with the radial straight grain that I've seen.The other was a silver inlayed Dublin shape freehand (I can’t recall the maker) I saw at Carmignani in Rome,Italy back in 1998.NI CE pipe you have there.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1 with a smattering of HH Rustica just to keep me honest in the Peterson Ragaire Bulldog. Best smoking Peterson I've had.