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

[PaulRVA]

SG Best Brown Flake in an antique cob. Welly got bit by a coyote yesterday, so I’m packing Mr. Rawlings at night now.

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Hope Welly’s ok!
A nice driver or fairway wood is easier to carry and works like a champ if you have one available.
Hope you get some payback.

 

[Scottmi]

Such a cool little pipe, good smoker
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absolute beauty! and I cannot say which i like best... Great set, Ben!

 

[sparker69]

How about some Vanners Mixture in my Blatter zulu.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've passed the first third of this bowl of year 2001 Murray’s Dunhill Navy Rolls in a 2002 black pebble finish straight Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano billiard with a tapered black acrylic stem. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[JimInks]

Jim .... so many fantastic looking pipes in this thread (!!!). But I have to say I really like & admire this Peterson. I've always had a special love for black sandblasted or rusticated pipes (hence my avatar). And the military mount is historical, along with the nickel cap. There's lots of interesting history behind military mounts.

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Thank you. I have great affection for military mount pipes, and own quite a few. As you probably know, that aspect of the 4AB is one of the reasons I was immediately attracted to that shape when I saw Basil Rathbone smoking it in the movies. In fact, the first two pipes I bought were Grabow Omegas which copied the Peterson military mount system.

 

[renfield]

2013 Christmas Cheer in an amber stemmed meer billiard-ish shape.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Anthology in a Rubio.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Seattle Pipe Club Christmas Spirit 2023 in a Ardor Urano bent apple.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

And So To Bed in a Peterson Walnut Spigot 80s.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I almost forgot the simple pleasures…like how tasty Sutliff’s Match Victorian can be in a cob, and how a little bit of the craziness of the current world can disappear with each scoop of horsesh*t shoveled under a nice sunset.

 

[tfdickson]

HU Scotney in my Suhr dublin.

 

[tmcg81]

St Bruno Flake in a Kaywoodie Silhouette billiard.

 

[AroEnglish]

How about some Vanners Mixture in my Blatter zulu.View attachment 278613

Nice! First Blatter I’ve seen here in a while.

 

[cshubhra]

Sutliff Match Victorian January 2020 in a MM Country Gentleman Cob

 

[samuelgawith01]

Thank you @samuelgawith01, Been smoking 50 years I better have some kind of collection. Being a codger in our hobby has its advantages. Your collection is first rate and I appreciate your posts.

Thanks for the kind words, @backwoods.

 

[samuelgawith01]

More Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1 layered with HH Rustica throughout in a my Castello Collection grade Greatline from the "1982" .

 

[samuelgawith01]

Nice! First Blatter I’ve seen here in a while.

Blatter & Blatter is on my Bucket List, and the bucket is getting closer and closer.

 

[JimInks]

Off to start work on a new Archie story with a bowl of 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.


General feral update:
When it was raining yesterday, the only feral who showed up was Sam the Scamp who braved the rain for food and attention. I toweled the li'l fella off, and he marked my hand twice as a thank you. He’s hung around most of today. Saw that new-to-me feral today following Sam, but I still can’t get close enough to get a decent photo of it. Abner the Eager showed up a little while ago, and after he ate, went behind m’lady’s chair, and has been sleeping the last couple a couple of hours. Tomato the Brave showed up around midnight and ate, and then wanted to go back outside. Haven’t seen him today.

Daisy the Feral Princess tried to attack Sam (she hates him and Abner), and the poor little fella was very scared. I immediately put Daisy out, and spent some time reassuring Sam that all is okay. Sam is hiding somewhere in the house having a good sleep.

 

[LeafErikson]

2019 opening night in a Tekin

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Had Bobs Choc Flake in my Kaywoodie.