Using the big Savinelli 111EX to smoke some Semois.
***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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I love this pipe more every time I see it. Also Jim said "tell Brian hey", per usual haha.
Scottish Cake in a chubby Boswell apple. Drinking beer and making up some burgers.
Now smoking unreleased 2021 Sutliff Virginia plug in a 2002 straight grain Karl Erik Ekstravagant A medium bend dublin sitter with a small horn ferrule accent and black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Afternoon smoke. A bit of an experiment. I have had the best smoke on this Falcon ever a week or so ago, when I smoked TobaccoBarn's Traditional English in this bantam bowl,. I posted this a week or so ago. Today, on a hunch, I smoked a bowlful of my stalwart Navy, Black Frigate, and got a **** smoke. Excellent.
Reason, when I have two pipes, a miniature McQueen longstem, and my delightful Ropp J05, both dedicated to this tobacco? Cuz theyhey give ***** smokes. Yeah, the J05 is probably the quirkiest pipe I own. It needs to be cajoled, and fiddled with, and all kinds of interesting things, but the relationship between this pipe and Black Frigate is akin to a tough but solid guy who marries a totally off the wall babe, quirky as all get out. But they work together. Perfectly. I'm sure you all have seen relationships like this, and perhaps are even in one.
So why tamper with success, you might ask (but probably couldn't care less?) Because the Falcon is my travel pipe, and I'm showing my travel kit to you. It's sturdy, smokes English/Navy very very well (the bantam bowl is dedicated to this genre), so when I'm at the range taking a break, or over at someone else's pad for a puff, I'm not going to pack a couple of delicate pipes, but now I can take the stalwart BF, put a bowlful in a 35mm film container of which I have in abundance cuz I shoot film a lot, and the Falcon is as tough as a pipe can get. Need 2 smokes? I take an extra bowl.
I'm constantly amazed at how well all my Falcons handle Navies, Englishes, and Codgers. About the best choices for these fodders methinks, eh? And the whole kit and kaboodle fits into a very small zip case, except for the jar which is only in this shot as a prop. Life is good.
Reason, when I have two pipes, a miniature McQueen longstem, and my delightful Ropp J05, both dedicated to this tobacco? Cuz theyhey give ***** smokes. Yeah, the J05 is probably the quirkiest pipe I own. It needs to be cajoled, and fiddled with, and all kinds of interesting things, but the relationship between this pipe and Black Frigate is akin to a tough but solid guy who marries a totally off the wall babe, quirky as all get out. But they work together. Perfectly. I'm sure you all have seen relationships like this, and perhaps are even in one.
So why tamper with success, you might ask (but probably couldn't care less?) Because the Falcon is my travel pipe, and I'm showing my travel kit to you. It's sturdy, smokes English/Navy very very well (the bantam bowl is dedicated to this genre), so when I'm at the range taking a break, or over at someone else's pad for a puff, I'm not going to pack a couple of delicate pipes, but now I can take the stalwart BF, put a bowlful in a 35mm film container of which I have in abundance cuz I shoot film a lot, and the Falcon is as tough as a pipe can get. Need 2 smokes? I take an extra bowl.
I'm constantly amazed at how well all my Falcons handle Navies, Englishes, and Codgers. About the best choices for these fodders methinks, eh? And the whole kit and kaboodle fits into a very small zip case, except for the jar which is only in this shot as a prop. Life is good.
Wessex Curly Block in a Tatu:
Picking up pet supplies from the vet and smoking ribbon cut Yenidje in the pipe gifted to me last year by the fellows at IMP.
Second bowl, 25°, small Altinay billiard.
First smoke of the newly-arrived KBV blends. Pipe is a Winslow Crown.
GH Bosun Cut Plug in an IMP Lattice 
Sutliff Match Victorian from January 2020 in a Paykoc Meerschaum Sherlock Holmes - From Sherlock Holmes/ Dr Watson two pipe set
Okay thank you. It was a legitimate question, and I was not trying to be sarcastic or backhanded. I suppose I could have Googled. Enjoy!
ribbon cut Yenidje! That sounds interesting. Wasn’t that one of the Orientals in Balkan Sobranie Original Smoking Mixture?
Some old St. Bruno Ready Rubbed in a lattice globe meer.
UFC 311, Islam Makhachev vs. Renato Moicano, is taking place in the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California. Makhachev was supposed to fight Arman Tsarukyan, but Tsarukyan had to withdraw yesterday due to a back injury. Moicano was chosen as a substitute and his fight on the same card against Beneil Dariush was cancelled. As UFC fights take place in an Octagon, I’m opting to use my eight-sided Savinelli pipes to smoke during the fights today. Our friend, John is visiting to watch the fights with us. He happened to bring his Ottagono Due and Tre limited edition pipes with him; it seems the stars were in alignment (well, more accurately, planets this week): we had a belated Christmas present waiting for him when we got back to Pennsylvania—the original 2022 Ottagono pipe.
I’m starting off with Savinelli Doblone d’Oro in the first Savinelli Ottagono, a sandblasted, black, Straight Billiard (sort of a Pot after shaping) Limited Edition (No. 359/550), with a 9mm orange and black craquelure acrylic stem (I’m not using a filter; I opted for a 3mm adapter). This first Ottagono in the series used new old-stock stummels (probably made from leftover Octavia 138 stummels). John’s pipe is No. 262/550.
I’m following that up with Savinelli Brunello Flake in a sandblasted, black, Savinelli Ottagono Due (aka Ottagono II) Straight Dublin Limited Edition (No. 63/600, selected for my birth year, 1963—John has No. 76/600 for his birth year). This pipe is based on the Octavia 438.
Next up will be Savinelli Juno in a sandblasted, black, Savinelli Ottagono Tre (aka Ottagono III) Bent Billiard Limited Edition (No. 484/600, selected for the two 4s and one 8 tying in with the octagonal theme; our birthday present to John was supposed to be No. 448/600, but smokingpipes.com sent the wrong one—they didn’t actually have 448 in stock and sent some randomly selected number without asking me if I had a preferred substitution, which messed up my carefully crafted gift plan. John’s pipe is No. 468/600. This pipe is based on the Octavia 638.
These three pipes should get me through most of the six hour broadcast, and maybe the post show. My pipes are the ones on the left side of each tin, John’s on the right.
@Humblepipe @Speak Easy
Hope you’re watching, too.
I’m starting off with Savinelli Doblone d’Oro in the first Savinelli Ottagono, a sandblasted, black, Straight Billiard (sort of a Pot after shaping) Limited Edition (No. 359/550), with a 9mm orange and black craquelure acrylic stem (I’m not using a filter; I opted for a 3mm adapter). This first Ottagono in the series used new old-stock stummels (probably made from leftover Octavia 138 stummels). John’s pipe is No. 262/550.
I’m following that up with Savinelli Brunello Flake in a sandblasted, black, Savinelli Ottagono Due (aka Ottagono II) Straight Dublin Limited Edition (No. 63/600, selected for my birth year, 1963—John has No. 76/600 for his birth year). This pipe is based on the Octavia 438.
Next up will be Savinelli Juno in a sandblasted, black, Savinelli Ottagono Tre (aka Ottagono III) Bent Billiard Limited Edition (No. 484/600, selected for the two 4s and one 8 tying in with the octagonal theme; our birthday present to John was supposed to be No. 448/600, but smokingpipes.com sent the wrong one—they didn’t actually have 448 in stock and sent some randomly selected number without asking me if I had a preferred substitution, which messed up my carefully crafted gift plan. John’s pipe is No. 468/600. This pipe is based on the Octavia 638.
These three pipes should get me through most of the six hour broadcast, and maybe the post show. My pipes are the ones on the left side of each tin, John’s on the right.
@Humblepipe @Speak Easy
Hope you’re watching, too.
Yep.
My love of Yenidje Highlander prompted me to buy many pounds of whole leaf several years ago.
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Smoking some C&D Maestro Pucinni in a Savinelli Estella 511KS. Watching the Texans vs the refs…I mean Chiefs lol! Bracing for another round of snow tomorrow and will likely spend my “day off” on Monday at work shoveling!
John Cotton's Double Pressed Virginia in a short and stout Randy Wiley.
2020 C&D Opening Night in a Radice Silk Cut 55
Jarrred up my 8oz box of Sam's Flake today. So happy to have this now 'stocked.' High moisture content with this stuff when fresh! Lovely tiny sugar crystals already throughout... A quality control sample was rubbed out and dried in a sunny windowsill, now loaded up in the Imp Sitter, and will enjoy with an Alpenhaze IPA this sunny afternoon.
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