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

[Zlyner]

I'm smoking G. L. Pease Géométrie in a cheap poker, the taste is good but not great.
I'll use a larger bowl for this tobacco next time

 

[DesertDan]

It was lovelier before it got smoked so much, well in some ways. When new, the rim was much lighter, and the brown in the stummel was a little more grey. But I absolutely love this shape (apples in general and princes are my most preferred shape). I also think this finish looks a lot better on this shape than some of the others.

I still like the look of it though. Finish actually looks better in person, the grain doesn't show up well on camera. Though the grain shows through a lot more now than when it was new.

Pic is a screenshot of the actual listing when I bought it next to I tried to take the same angle. The change is more noticeable in-person, as is the grain. Also included a pic with flash that really makes the grain stand out, even though that's not even close to how it actually looks in person:
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Beautiful pipe, I love the shape of it!

 

[upnorth1]

Coniston cut plug in a blasted GBD Prehistoric #254 with an Irish coffee and Maker’s Mark neat on the side. Happy weekend folks!

 

[alaskanpiper]

I think that may be one of the most beautiful briars I've seen, that grain pattern is amazing!

Thanks! I mislabeled it, just FYI, it’s a Chacom not a Comoy’s, FWIW, haha. Technically I was half right

 

[OzPiper]

The next bowl is Sam Gawith’s St Jame’s Flake - cube cut and gravity loaded

In a second cased small straight billiard -
WHC in an oval over “France”
Horn saddle stem with slotted button. No hallmarks

 

[BenMN]

Finishing up a My Father Le Bijou 1922. First time smoking this cigar.View attachment 279181

What did you think?
I preferred the Flor de Las Antillas to le Bijou

 

[JimInks]

Did a bit of low calorie snacking, and am half way through this bowl of Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a smooth medium bend terracotta Peterson POY 2023 X160 464/1100 military mount egg with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[BenMN]

Had a cigar with my buddy, diamond crown Caeser robusto.

For some reason cigars put me in the rare mood for latakia.
Abingdon in a Nording churchwarden

Hope you all have a nice weekend

 

[Tbaggins]

Merry monk in a Baglan.

 

[rsshreck32]

What did you think?
I preferred the Flor de Las Antillas to le Bijou

I really like them both, but I'll have to agree with you that I like the Flor de Las Antillas a little more.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Esoterica Penzance (2021) in an early 1900s Zulu with later 1988 silverwork done by M. Kamin & Co. Ltd.



Read some of the armchair detective work done in this thread to see how it went from @ashdigger to @Ahi Ka to @Humblepipe and finally to me—that’s how we keep it in the Pipes Magazine family!

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a big and tasty Snap Dragon apple, and am passing the half way mark of this bowl of year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Have enough left for most of a bowl.

 

[Winnipeger]

Vanilla Roll Cake from last night.

 

[Birddog66]

Been shopping for one of those or another Belgique-I really like the long saddle stem.

It’s very comfortable but it’s not a vulcanite stem, I have seen one on eBay recently but it’s for sale with a few other K’s, Super and Prime Grain if I remember rightly.

 

[Birddog66]

Morning everyone, starting off with Nebari in a Kaywoodie Straight Grain with push tenon.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2016 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a straight smooth terracotta 2014 Sherlock Holmes Baker Street bulldog with sterling silver band and a tapered black p-lip stem. That'll do it for me today.

 

[The Clay King]

GH Kendal Mix in a clay. Burns hot and fast- it's soon gone...

 

[Sigmund]

Im cleaning up my shop a little and smoking a bowl of Hal O the Wynd in an Ascorti pipe of the year 2002

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I’ve realised it’s a all Kaywoodie day for me which I suppose isn’t difficult as they are the brand that has a larger representation in my collection than any other, and that isn’t a bad thing by any stretch.

I just finished some Peterson Irish Flake in the billiard and for my last smoke of the evening I’m having Germain’s 1820 Cross Cut Flake in the Dublin in the foreground.

I just finished watching all the Peaky Blinders series, it was brilliant in every aspect and if anyone here hasn’t seen it you really must. View attachment 279115

I’m a huge fan of Peaky Blinders. I started to unbox my limited edition 1/6 scale action figures to take some pics to share, but abandoned that as it was a little too much trouble with all the protective plastic wrap, etc., in the packages, so I’m just sharing existing product shots by the sadly, now-defunct UK toy manufacturer, Big Chief Studios instead. But, I did snap some shots of the signed plates (by both actors, Cillian Murphy and Paul Anderson) from my numbered pair of Signature Editions before putting everything back.









Still smoking the same pipe as earlier—I had a couple of extra bowls of Penzance while Susan and I watched a couple of documentaries on Netflix.

 

[Cloozoe]

Deluxe Navy Rolls, coffee, and the further adventures of The Boss