***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***

[Fralphog]

You will LOVE your J16. I plan on getting a rusticated version one day. (I have the smooth, and I'll be posting my Mad Fiddler smoke of this evening later on in the evening.. Along with my Ropp J07, the Brigham Tundra Rhodesian (entry level model!!), the McQueen miniature Barrel Rider I just posted about 20 minutes ago, and my Savinelli Avorio - these are my best smoking pipes of the 3 dozen I own. And except for the Sav, none of these break the bank.

The J04 also looks delightful, but I have no experience with it. Bravo!

Thanks! My first smoke today was delightful. First two Ropp pipes I’ve owned. My first impression is they are a well made, functional smoking vessel that provides a great smoke. I bought them for the bowl size and value ( price point) they provide. Great pipe to smoke around the homestead.
Have a blessed evening.

 

[Pappy Coon]

Inaugural smoke of Haunted Bookshop in a Savinelli Sasso 614. To get this one, I made a deal with the devil..I mean the wife that I wouldn't buy any more pipes for three months. Hope I make it.

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth’s Bob’s Chocolate Flake in PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem

I think this is also a translucent meerschaum

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Smoking the big Radice, filled with Rouxgaroux and having some dark roast. It smokes perfect!

 

[Bbailey324]

Sutliff 759 match in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 69.

 

[TN Jed]

Exclusive in a Pete POTY 2024

 

[Meerly John]

Old Joe Krantz in an Yves-St. Claude Domino billiard

 

[tfdickson]

2007 Tudor Castle in my MarTelo paneled bent billiard.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've about a third of a bowl left of year 2018 Dunhill London Mixture in a brown medium bend 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a military mount and a tapered black acrylic stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Fed all the ferals and my cats. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[dunnyboy]

Bayou Morning in a Castello 1982 great line fiammata.

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson Nightcap from July 2021 in the PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem

 

[Bbailey324]

Chenet's Cake in a Peterson Christmas 2023 69.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a 1984 black rusticated full bend Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Irish Flake in a Savinelli Roma billiard after dinner tonight.
I'm gonna have to pick up a new tin. I've been going through this one pretty rapidly.

 

[rsshreck32]

Chenet’s Cake in a Pete tonight.

 

[gord]

Thanks! My first smoke today was delightful. First two Ropp pipes I’ve owned. My first impression is they are a well made, functional smoking vessel that provides a great smoke. I bought them for the bowl size and value ( price point) they provide. Great pipe to smoke around the homestead.
Have a blessed evening.

Yes, you've hit the nail on the head with respect to the Ropps. I definitely like the smallish bowl as well - as a matter of fact, I'm lighting the Ropp J16 up as I type this, loading it with Mad Fiddler lol! It's a great bowl size for getting a decent length smoke out of protected species tobaccos !

I'd also forgotten to add the Falcon bent to my list of best smoking pipes. They handle English and codgers about perfectly. You have a blessed evening too!

 

[Jester69]

A nice simple MM cob filled with McCranie’s Final Frontier so I can pick out the flavors.

 

[carp rides again]

Bayou Morning in the Stanwell 25th anniversary P&C

 

[tschiraldi]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in an Altinay.
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Man, I miss that blend!