ODF Ready Rubbed in a Sav, out on the porch, with some tea and rain drops. Bronchitis is fading, so I can actually smoke.
***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***
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Just finished smoking year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem.
KBV Mycroft ('23) in the Il Duca B bent stack (strawb).
It's hot out.
It's hot out.
Now smoking year 2013 Stonehaven in a straight black sandblasted 1957 Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver banded military mount and a black ebonite tapered stem. My favorite pipe.
Who is the carver? Lovely pipe!
Good day all! Back from a two day pipe hiatus due to travel for wife's surgery and starting with a much anticipated bowl of Peterson Royal Yacht in an Upshall P Skater with saddle stem. Yes.
Very nice. I have often wanted to ask you which of your pipes is your favorite (you have lots of nice ones); now I know! I had been betting that it was your 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato (given number of posts featuring that one), but obviously I was mistaken...
HU Nashville County in a Castello. Been on a Burley kick as of late and this is the tobacco that started it.
An Il Duca is high on my bucket list.
Cornell & Diehl Sun Bear Black Locust from June 2021 in a Mike Couch Devil Anse
Now having some C&D Opening Night in my “Visions of Celephais” pipe.
I want to try out some other aromatics before I open the next tin of “Visions”, but want to keep this pipe in rotation, so I’ll just smoke neutral unflavored stuff in it until then. Overthinking? Probably.
I want to try out some other aromatics before I open the next tin of “Visions”, but want to keep this pipe in rotation, so I’ll just smoke neutral unflavored stuff in it until then. Overthinking? Probably.
One of the last pipes carved by my buddy Bruce Weaver. It even has a chunk of lapis lazuli carved for a mortise.
I've had 4 (2 are definite keepers, the other two were much longer pipes that i purchased early on), and while Max's prices have gone up over the years, I think he is terribly underrated.
There's plenty of pipe makers I haven't tried, but I've certainly handled and smoked more than my fair share - I think Max cuts my favorite stem. The buttons are consistently soft, round, narrow, and comfortable.
HH Pure Virginia in a Stanwell Hand Cut
Peterson Aran 68 and Wilke 191.
Pegasus in a Peterson Pub Pipe.
Tonight, some SPC Mississippi River in a Rossi poker. 
Found an old cigar box where I stashed a bunch of try-out blends and promptly forgot. They are all quite dry by now, but I am nonetheless quite enjoying a bowl of C&D Stratfordshire in an early corporate-era Barling EXEXEL billiard.
@PipeIT Another Gawith baccy I'd love to try in my clay pipes; I discovered GH Mahogany when I went to get some loose Gawith Hoggarth: Gawith Hoggarth | Mahogany (Broken Flake) Pipe Tobacco | 50g Tin - https://www.smoke-king.co.uk/gawith-hoggarth-mahogany-broken-flake-pipe-tobacco-50g-tin2020 Samuel Gawith Golden Glow in a Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969, vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger.
This one goes out to The Man in Gawith Land @halfdan
Be well halfdan and everyone else, and of course, long live @gawithhoggarth too!
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I love Gawith flakes and I got a tin of Erinmore Flake to smoke in my clay pipes due to its plastic free packaging. I love the taste of this baccy and feel it's going to be one of the Clay King's 'go to' blends.
I recommend you try the Golden Glow in a clay pipe if you have one!
Close to finishing this bowl of Chris Morgan Jackalope in a straight smooth medium brown year 1912 Henry Tongue bulldog with a silver cap and band and an amber saddle stem with an orific bit.
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