***What Are You Smoking, July 2022?***

[JimInks]

Really, a beautiful and very elegant pipe. Before, I did not appreciate smooth pipes so much, with time, I have discovered and opened my eyes, to appreciate pipes with smooth finishes. Good for you, dear friend Jim.

Thank you for the very kind words. This is an interesting subject to me. I prefer smooth pipes because of the tactile feel of the bowl in my hand. And when the grain is of superior quality, that adds to the beauty of the pipe.

A couple of friends of mine prefer blasted pipes. I do enjoy a good sandblast, and when it's exceptionally craggy, looking at it to see the highs and lows of the ridges and overall texture is almost akin to seeing images in the clouds in the sky.

 

[krizzose]

C&D Engine #611 in a cob

 

[JOHN72]

Thank you for the very kind words. This is an interesting subject to me. I prefer smooth pipes because of the tactile feel of the bowl in my hand. And when the grain is of superior quality, that adds to the beauty of the pipe.

A couple of friends of mine prefer blasted pipes. I do enjoy a good sandblast, and when it's exceptionally craggy, looking at it to see the highs and lows of the ridges and overall texture is almost akin to seeing images in the clouds in the sky.

Thanks to you Jim. It's an honor and a pleasure. I love your vision of the world of pipes and tobacco. God bless you my friend.

 

[JimInks]

Did a second set of walking reps in the brutal heat and humidity, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Plenty of ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Ag®o]

After the holidays I went back to work, a good reason to get back to bad habits too.
Condor in an MM Country Gentleman

 

[sardonicus87]

Considered, against my better judgement as I don't enjoy babysitting adults, on starting a local pipe club (though my ulterior motive would be to trade bowls and taste things I'm interested in without having to buy a whole tin). Saw there was a local pipe group on Facebook with 25 members. They seem like they never meet in person and are 99% cigar smokers, though a mention in there popped up for a local B&M that apparently had a pipe show a few months back with reps from C&D and Peterson.

I presumed the place was just cigars but decided to check them out, and they might as well be just a cigar shop. Three huge humidor rooms of cigars, with the only pipe stuff being a handful of $7 cobs, a few very dingy and gross looking jars of bulk, and a handful of C&D tins with nothing much else, though they did have a tin of Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired, so I walked out with 1.75 oz tin of that, never to cross their doors again.

I've been hitting the burley-based flakes hard as of late, and since I have a tin of the HH Burley Flake on order, in addition to what I got today, I decided to change it up with some gently rubbed out PSLNF, with cranberry juice to start and black coffee to finish.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem. Cleaning a few pipes.

 

[cshubhra]

Watch City Simply Red in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[Fralphog]

Chores are done. Smoking the Dublin Meer with Nov 20, MB London Blend. A glass of sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

 

[happy_lunter]

Presbyterian Mixture in a cob.

 

[Tar Wheel]

It’s been a busy day. Time to sit down and reward myself with a bowl of Louisiana Flake, in a Dagner Diamond Poker, and a glass of iced tea.

@timt , what are we smoking tomorrow? ?

Cheers!

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of 2022 Dominican produced Carter Hall in an undated (1960s?) straight smooth dark brown H. Jones Ltd. Easy Loader 286 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Piping Rooster]

Just got this slab o baccy in the mail today! Now to figure out hot to jar it up without destroying the beautiful flakes! The pipe is a Molina Dublin.

 

[Skink]

WCC Stubb's Pipe for a first smoke in a NOS unmarked meerschaum billard...... Just so I have this right, I'm not to touch the stummel when smoking, I use a screen or such under the tobacco and I dip it Minwax walnut stain at the end of the week. ?

 

[LeafErikson]

Pegasus in the new old stock African meerschaum. Only it’s third or fourth smoke.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Cornell and Diehl XX Dark Flake in a saddle bit Billiard from the Connoisseur pipe shop in NYC. (No longer open)

 

[edger]

Ended up at the end of a jar of PS twist flake at the same time I was ending a jar of navy flake. Decided to experiment, rubbed out the last flake/coin of them both together and left it for a week. About to light it up in this Mark Tinsky Dress Coral blast. View attachment 157546

I think our Cosmic invented that!

 

[Ahi Ka]

PH Res Crüe No. 6 Plug in a Charles Maas meer

 

[timt]

@timt , what are we smoking tomorrow? ?

Well, it's either going to be 2019 Dunbar which I've smoked quite a bit of recently or Bayou Morning Flake, which I haven't tried but really think I should. I've only got 3 tins of it and since I've heard great things about it, I think I need to smoke some and see if I should add some more. Sound like a plan? Which one sounds good to you?