***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

[aguineapig]

Black house in a falcon again. Found a good combo here.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Just finished a bowl of G&H Brown #2 in a GBD Prestige saddle bit billiard. This stuff was really good fresh, but it's fantastic now, after a couple years.

 

[Stan Shmengy]

I'm smoking a Finck Commerce cut up cigar in a badly dinged Peterson. It's terrible...

 

[ofafeather]

First bowl of GLP Sextant in a Karl Erik cherrywood. This is looking to be a fantastic blend in a pipe that has always smoke ‘meh’ at best. I was going to smoke WCC Persian Slipper but, you guessed it, still drying 36hrs later! Maybe tomorrow! Sextant is a keeper, though. I will need to stock up more.

 

[ofafeather]

HH Rustica in a Castello Sea Rock 55 KK.

I love that shape. Just got one but haven’t smoked it yet. It’s a bit like the Jay Leno of pipe shapes.

 

[MrTom]

965 in a Nording.

 

[ofafeather]

2014 Motzak Strang in a 1992 Dunhill Shell 5215 (bent pot) with factory AD silver band.
Trivia:
I bought this pipe through Bob Hamlin’s PCCA web site around 1996 when eBay was just a baby and not yet a major player. Bob had taken on the consignment of a single estate of more than several thousand high grade pipes.
Jim Cooke was refurbishing most of these. Hundreds of pipes: Dunhill, Barling, Charatan, high grade Comoy, Castello and many others. Pages and pages were listed on his web site at a time and more just kept coming as Jim Cooke would deliver the next batch of refurbished pipes to Bob.
The sale went on for months.
Overall, I think it adversely impacted Bob’s normal retail sales of gray market Castello as his customers focused on the endless consignment estate’s and not his purchased Castello inventory.

Great story! What’s the blend? Haven’t heard of it.

 

[ofafeather]

Still smoking MB Mixture Flake. Tasty stuff?.

Haven’t tried Mixture Flake. Do you know how similar is it to MB Navy Flake?

 

[ofafeather]

Billy Budd in a cob while forging a W2 skinner. I’m sweating like a nun in a cucumber patch! ?
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Love to see the pic of your forge! Two things I love.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigarillo- Acid Blue Blondie ?‍

 

[ofafeather]

Barbary Coast in an Old Dominion Chesapeake cob. First time with it, and I really like it so far. I

It’s a great blend but I found it comes very moist and can benefit from substantial drying. Enjoy!

 

[ofafeather]

2006 Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake in a Rad Davis Billiard.

Drool

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty navel orange, and am now smoking Peter Stokkebye No. 400 Luxury Navy Flake in a smooth full bend dark brown 1977 Crown Coachman (Comoy’s second) 215 egg with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[ofafeather]

2014 Dunhill Elizabethan. Didn’t like it then, but I could see myself liking it now. Still nipped me slightly, but as long as I puffed slow the flavors shined. I have a few tins from back then in my cellar and figured if I really loved it I would pick up a few more. Going to smoke a few more bowls and then decide.

I have always had trouble with Elizabethan but many people love it. Nothing wrong with throwing some in the cellar, though. Can always revisit it or trade it down the road.

 

[tenton]

Cult Blood Red Moon in my new Trey Rice Billiard.

 

[das3353]

SG Best Brown in a Moretti

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Chocolate in a 1979 no name French briar smooth full bend egg with a black vulcanite stem.

 

[Pipelady20]

Getting ready to try Rattray's "Old Gowrie".

Got it through Boswell's and it came fast. I'm still waiting for smokingpipes' order that they sent through "SurePost" to arrive. My tracking says it got here Friday...ha, it's still not here.

 

[cigrmaster]

2002 Solani 633 in a Rad Davis Dublin.

 

[aguineapig]

Country doctor match in a Grabow viking.