*** What Are You Smoking?*** (July 2018)

[skypilot]

Since the temps were a bit less today, due to storms moving thru, I spent the day working on a mantle for a customer here in Bella Vista. Cherry wood, that the customer's father milled from a dead tree, some years back. Unfortunately, it was not stored well, and the warping, cupping, and twisting is difficult to deal with. Still, it should turn out OK, with a bit of rustic look, for their family room, which will lend toward the Colonial.
Sitting back with a cob full of Sutliff's Sweet Virginia, and marsala.
No online account for my images, or I'd post a picture....of the mantle...not the Sweet Virginia. 8O

 

[scloyd]

Tinderbox Honey Maple in a MM cob.

 

[lochinvar]

McConnell Folded Flake in a Castello Sea Rock Lovat

 

[npod]

John Aylesbury - Luxury Flake/Classic Flake in a Peter Michalski, Germany, egg with multifinish.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of HU Old Fredder’s Broken Flake in a smooth straight early 1960s Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Watching the All Star Game.

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 GL Pease Navigator in a Trever Talbot Goblin.

 

[mikefu]

Stokkebye sweet vanilla in a Butz-Choquin D’Accord panel billiard

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking 1999 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed in a 1970s smooth medium bend Savinelli Autograph 5 Dublin with a pearl brown lucite ferrule and stem.

 

[steamboat]

Raining outside, indoor smoking 1Q in a MM Patriot.

 

[seanv]

Medal of valor in a jeantet primus

 

[weezell]

St. Bruno: Ready Rubbed in a Meer...

 

[cortezattic]

Savinelli Doblone d'Oro in a Castello Sea Rock bent billiard, with coffee, watching the All Star game.

 

[papipeguy]

C&D Bonfiglioli in a Larrysson Rhodesian.

 

[artvandelay007]

I’m smoking a wonderful bowl of 2011, or is it 2013, I don’t remember, FVF. The flakes are approaching the blackness of Butera Dark Stoced. Wonderful. I had trouble lighting it. I’ll have to remember to leave it out for a while or nuke it. I only have a couple flakes left of this vintage other than another sealed tin.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking MacBaren Modern Virginia Flake in a post WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 Bulldog with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[weezell]

Another bowl of St. Bruno: Ready Rubbed in a Meer...

 

[papipeguy]

3P in a Ser Jacapo billiard.

 

[olkofri]

MB Vanilla Creme in my Vauen Basic, and in a filtered MM cob.

 

[JimInks]

Had some soup and then some ice cream, and am now smoking Park Lane Connoisseur in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera and a black acrylic stem. The All Star Game is in the 10th inning.

 

[grimpuffer]

Irish Flake in a Peterson System pipe. Must say I now know why I don’t pick this pipe up as often as others. I love Petes but not a fan of the system pipes. Just muted the taste too much.
Anyway, some Bulleit Barrel Proof as a nightcap before bed.