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

[Briar Lee]

In 1997 I spent several hours at the Missouri Meerschaum factory and watched a man make this deluxe Freehand with toasted finish for me. The number of freehands is limited to the jumbo cobs they sort out. It cost $25.

The deluxe vulcanite stem was an option then, they may not offer today.

It’s full of my custom catch all blend of left overs.




I found one I bought online a year or two ago and it’s slightly different, but they are all hand made entirely.

The new one has a lucite stem (actually an improvement) and a metal reinforcing band on the shank, where mine was flared so it didn’t need one. And mine was by golly, toasted and the new one is stained to look toasted. In 1997 they had a cob pipe toaster, to get that finish. Maybe the do gooders or insurance company put a stop to that.

 

[sardonicus87]

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a big and tasty golden delicious apple, and am a quarter of the way through this bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[Garcia]

Happy New Years!!

Smoking my Pipes by Woo and Esoterica Margate

 

[Briar Lee]

1792 in a small handmade Nording Bulldog spigot.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of D&R Penhooker in a smooth brown late 1890s, early 1900s unbranded military mount bulldog with a silver windcap and spigot with a black vulcanite, flared stem and orific bit. I'll end the day with this smoke. I was going to bed, but Tomato the Brave jumped on to my chair and settled down to my left side. He's stuck by me all evening and apparently needs me since he doesn't feel well.

 

[Birddog66]

In 1997 I spent several hours at the Missouri Meerschaum factory and watched a man make this deluxe Freehand with toasted finish for me. The number of freehands is limited to the jumbo cobs they sort out. It cost $25.

The deluxe vulcanite stem was an option then, they may not offer today.

It’s full of my custom catch all blend of left overs.

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I found one I bought online a year or two ago and it’s slightly different, but they are all hand made entirely.

The new one has a lucite stem (actually an improvement) and a metal reinforcing band on the shank, where mine was flared so it didn’t need one. And mine was by golly, toasted and the new one is stained to look toasted. In 1997 they had a cob pipe toaster, to get that finish. Maybe the do gooders or insurance company put a stop to that.

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That’s a process id like to see. Can you remember how long it took to make from start to finish?

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Happy new Year forum members and pipe friends!
The Capstan Gold Navy Cut tin (put in a jar) is close to it's end. I am smoking some now in the year's 2024 annual pipe, exclusively made for the members of the Greek Pipe Club by the carver George Leoussis.
I have been gifted a strange, handmade, ceramic pipe with 2 airholes, must check this out.
May, in 2024, you all have good Health and a warm Heart good people!

 

[Birddog66]

Good morning everyone, starting off with Heinrich Curly Special in a Tilshead chimney.

 

[Cloozoe]

Happy and healthy new year to you all.

BBF in a Kolding

 

[Cloozoe]

Hell-oooo? (echos) Anybody out there? (echos)

Sun's up, the rest of the human world's asleep, a bird's chirping, FVF in a '57 Dunhill 59

 

[judcole]

Milan KCM in an MM Boone.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

'18 CRF in a Solomon lovat with a tea

 

[KORNEY]

‏Miscoipipe Blast pipe with fossilized and stabilized Whale spine extension Cornell & Diehl - Red Virginia Ribbon

 

[Two Pipes Crossing]

Happy New Year!
10th Anniversary White Knight
in this Bari Squash 7915.

 

[milk]

First time smoking HH Old Dark Fired. And I’ve been sick for, like, two months. So, first time smoking this 1927 Kaywoodie Aristocrat. Happy New Year!

 

[BlueRidge]

Haunted Bookshop in a cob. Happy New Year (even to those able to cop Gawith tobaccos the other day while I was at work)!

 

[Sobrbiker]

Out on call, a drunk driver took out a large tree. I chopped up and cleared it, now grabbing a street sweeper to finish cleanup.
The Peterson 102 got New Years work duty, first with GLP Windjammer for the lumberjack part then Peterson University Flake for the street sweeper.
Back to Windjammer for the drive home.
Happy New Year!!

 

[Birddog66]

First time smoking HH Old Dark Fired. And I’ve been sick for, like, two months. So, first time smoking this 1927 Kaywoodie Aristocrat. Happy New Year! View attachment 275822
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That’s a real beauty

 

[Sigmund]

Had some HU Nyala in a Meer. Getting some taste back. Still cant taste lat...patience...