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

[judcole]

Amphora Burley in a Mark Twain.

 

[JOHN72]

Good afternoon. We started smoking with a bowl of dt: Veermaster Hamborger, in a Carolina Gent pipe...............

 

[petes03]

Endured another night in hell (work)… Having some GH Broken Scotch Cake in an Ardor Meteora Fantasy (Damiano) with a very stiff rum and coke on the side.

 

[mav]

Maiden voyage with a Radice Hawkbill and some KBV Burley Morning Pipe. This is my first Radice and I am really enjoying it.

I was a little nervous as this is my first pipe with an uncoated bowl but the first smoke was great.

 

[AJL67]

Presbyterian in a Rossi while reading Lee Child’s Die Trying

 

[Fralphog]

Vintage Austrian Dublin Meer packed with MB Nov 20 London Blend and a cup of coffee on the patio.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning all. I’m smoking WCC Original Crumb Cut in a cob, and drinking a cup of coffee with bourbon cream.

I did a job for a guy this morning, who insisted on coming to my house because he was afraid of his wife knowing that he curbed a couple of wheels on his new Tesla. That was a new one for me. It’s usually the wife hiding it from the husband.

Cheers!

 

[gamzultovah]

Enjoying home stoved PS Luxury Twist Flake in a cob.

 

[LotusEater]

Morning All
Enjoying a bowl of EMP in a Ben Wade on a rainy morning in KC.

 

[Tabacco]

 

[telescopes]

Touching on the Lee pipes, would you think that the attention they get on this forum of late, has driven up the price? Does this forum have that much effect on things?

I know it has. It went from zero competition for a bid to some rather aggressive competition- by members on this forum. I’ve been quite clear about my own thoughts on Lee pipes. They are made well enough, the stems are a better quality vulcanite than many others of that time period, you can easily reclock them, and they smoke well once a pipe has fully been cleaned- many are quite abused. But they are in NO way the finest pipe - either visually or in terms of smoking. That is certainly HYPE.

Are Lees worth having In your collection? As an example of Americana, yes. As a reliable smoker, yes. But there are much more interesting pipes out there.

 

[tmcg81]

Big bowl of MacBaren HH Burley Flake in a Peterson System Standard B42. This pipe seems to take to burley flakes pretty well.

 

[telescopes]

Another fine example of Americana, a Willard Dublin with John Dengler’s Black Maria.

 

[LotusEater]

I know it has. It went from zero competition for a bid to some rather aggressive competition- by members on this forum. I’ve been quite clear about my own thoughts on Lee pipes. They are made well enough, the stems are a better quality vulcanite than many others of that time period, you can easily reclock them, and they smoke well once a pipe has fully been cleaned- many are quite abused. But they are in NO way the finest pipe - either visually or in terms of smoking. That is certainly HYPE.

Are Lees worth having In your collection? As an example of Americana, yes. As a reliable smoker, yes. But there are much more interesting pipes out there.

I love the fact that you plainly admit the mediocrity of Lee pipes yet you are somewhat of a fervent collector of them

 

[LotusEater]

Robert McConnell Oriental in a Jeantet Super Olympic

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Good morning all. I’m smoking WCC Original Crumb Cut in a cob, and drinking a cup of coffee with bourbon cream.

I did a job for a guy this morning, who insisted on coming to my house because he was afraid of his wife knowing that he curbed a couple of wheels on his new Tesla. That was a new one for me. It’s usually the wife hiding it from the husband.

Cheers!

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Did you straighten rims he bent? How is that achieved at home?

 

[JimK]

Good holiday weekend and pipes to all! Starting with Peterson Flake in a small Tilshead smooth Dublin with smooth canted rim and flattened shank and matching tapered stem size 3-4 ("eyelash weight").

 

[AJL67]

2 more bowls of Presbyterian while reading

 

[telescopes]

I love the fact that you plainly admit the mediocrity of Lee pipes yet you are somewhat of a fervent collector of them

?. I am different that way. I am more a fan of interesting rather than simply chasing “the best”. Also, like my dad before me, I am a cheapskate at times.

 

[ashdigger]

Some people woke up this morning with all ten fingers, not knowing it’s the last weekend they’ll have all ten.

This is the last weekend some people will live comfortably in their house before a drunk neighbor with pyrotechnics burns it down.

But until all that happens, it’s a beautiful morning. I’ve got my coffee. I’m going to binge “The Terminal List” and smoke my Big Pete’s.

A Modern Sandblasted Peterson House Pipe, a Modern Peterson Smooth Pub Pipe and a 1920’s-30’s (Made in England - Football COM) Peterson Oversized “O”.