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

[Scottmi]

2019 Rouxgaroux in my Merchant Service Dark Cutty with custom 3d-printed short stem. And coffee.

Woke up thoroughly discombobulated this morning with no idea what day of the week it was. But now I remember it is Saturday, which is a fine thing! Post-holiday reengagement commencing in 3...2...1...<click!>

 

[dottlejockey]

After breakfast bowl of Sun Bear in an HS Studio smooth wasp with coffee.

 

[infectedpsyche]

Was loading up my Colonial Gent with some Z88 Maple Walnut and grabbed almost a full leaf scrunched up that missed the cutter

 

[pipeboy122]

2013 Gawith FVF in a LCS Briars pipe 485 Four Star Supergrain slightly bent apple

 

[MisterBadger]

Finally finished splitting and stacking logs for the stove. Snow on the way. More Scottish Cake in the Missouri Meer. With chamomile tea. I am amazed at what a cool, sweet smoke a MM provides.

 

[PaulRVA]

Some Balkan Sasieni in the original version Peterson Sherlock Holmes Deerstalker.
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Nice pipe and love the mug.
I’ve completed the Virginia Section of the AT and portions of GA,SC,NC
also the Natchez Trace. My secretaries daughter beat me and completed the entire AT in 2022 and was married on Mt Katahdin upon completion.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Arturo Fuente Hemingway

 

[SmokeyJock]

Finally finished splitting and stacking logs for the stove. Snow on the way. More Scottish Cake in the Missouri Meer. With chamomile tea. I am amazed at what a cool, sweet smoke a MM provides.
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my cobbit dwarf is one of my favourite pipes, you really can't beat MM for the price, it's no wonder they're so often recommended to people starting out

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed my cats, and all the ferals except for the absent Tomato the Brave.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) that was in the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano—he obtained it at a pipe show from a collector who had it for sixty years. It was unsmoked until I took flame to it on my sixtieth birthday in 2023. You don’t often see 360⁰ grain like this because of the way traditional pipes are cut.

 

[Speak Easy]

Bowl 400 in the little meer is Pegasus.

 

[Briarcutter]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) that was in the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano—he obtained it at a pipe show from a collector who had it for sixty years. It was unsmoked until I took flame to it on my sixtieth birthday in 2023. You don’t often see 360⁰ grain like this because of the way traditional pipes are cut.

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Would have had a ton of birds eye!

 

[BenMN]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) that was in the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano—he obtained it at a pipe show from a collector who had it for sixty years. It was unsmoked until I took flame to it on my sixtieth birthday in 2023. You don’t often see 360⁰ grain like this because of the way traditional pipes are cut.

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Super cool

Is this then a tiny, whole burl that has been "cored" for the chamber? With root as stem?

 

[LeafErikson]

Match Victorian in a cob.

 

[LeafErikson]

My Newgrange 406 arrived today!
I’m very pleased with it. Nice blast with subtle ring grain. Silver work is very sharp indeed and really dresses up the pipes black finish.
Decided the first smoke would be WC ACPM. A mug of Pu’erh tea accompanying.
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Beautiful pipe man! I hope it’s a fantastic smoker.

 

[LeafErikson]

Going to have Esoterica Tobacciana Margate (2021) in a Briar Root (Freehand? Dublin? No idea what to call this organically shaped pipe) that was in the collection of the late pipemaker, Thomas Cristiano—he obtained it at a pipe show from a collector who had it for sixty years. It was unsmoked until I took flame to it on my sixtieth birthday in 2023. You don’t often see 360⁰ grain like this because of the way traditional pipes are cut.

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Dang that is COOL. It looks like something a mythical character would smoke.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Cats beat the Gators- good day!
Celebratory smoke is KBV Byronic Hiro in the Scarlatta bent.

 

[Steddy]

Gatlin-Burley’s Gatlin-Burlier and C&D Oak Alley in some cobs.

 

[Bbailey324]

Mac Baren Mixture Scottish in a KBB Gravity.

 

[das3353]

Rum Flake in a BST