***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***
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more HU Directors Cut. in a cobbit this time. earler it was in a claw meer.
Family lunch today so a late start to the pipe session.
Hence 2 small group 1 pipes
A 1970 group 1 Dunhill Apple shape no 110 F/T with a tapered stem. Buttered finish
A generous graduation gift from one of my classmates.
A melange of GLP Stonehenge, Sam Gawith’s St Jame’s Flake and Former’s Straight Grain Flake (leftovers from previous smokes). Cube cut.
Hence 2 small group 1 pipes
A 1970 group 1 Dunhill Apple shape no 110 F/T with a tapered stem. Buttered finish
A generous graduation gift from one of my classmates.
A melange of GLP Stonehenge, Sam Gawith’s St Jame’s Flake and Former’s Straight Grain Flake (leftovers from previous smokes). Cube cut.
Just finished Wilke No. 222 in an undated, unbranded straight smooth dark brown made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Now smoking Wilke Gentry Royal Blend No. 2 in a black sandblast quarter bend undated Briarcraft (Dr. Grabow made) Wimbledon 810 author with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
2015 Salty Dogs in a pipe gifted to me by my dear friend Bruce Weaver.
2017 blasted, canted dublin with a cumberland stem and hippo tooth shank accent.
2017 blasted, canted dublin with a cumberland stem and hippo tooth shank accent.
The 1st smoke in the Group Dunhill lasted over 45mins
with no relights.
Cube cut flakes do smoke more slowly than rubbing out
My next smoke is in a similarly sized group 1 1914 straight Bulldog, tapered stem with an orific bit. Measuring 4 1/4ins in length.
London hallmarks AD over JD for Auguste and Joseph Delacour
Finishing the melange of Stonehenge, St James and Former’s Straight Grain flakes (cube cut)
A very pleasant mix, as it turns out
with no relights.
Cube cut flakes do smoke more slowly than rubbing out
My next smoke is in a similarly sized group 1 1914 straight Bulldog, tapered stem with an orific bit. Measuring 4 1/4ins in length.
London hallmarks AD over JD for Auguste and Joseph Delacour
Finishing the melange of Stonehenge, St James and Former’s Straight Grain flakes (cube cut)
A very pleasant mix, as it turns out
K. Tsatsaronis, I do believe you mean Greek coffee...
with a nice thick kaimaki.
with a nice thick kaimaki.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Wilke No. 111 in a straight smooth medium brown 2016 Brigham Klondike 16 bulldog with a tapered black acrylic stem.
A third of a bowl left of Wilke High Hat in an undated black sandblasted straight made in France Silvermatch Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Finished work for the day, and am close to finishing this bowl of D&R Windsail in a smooth straight dark brown family era “Canadian” by Sasieni with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
A third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Peanut Butter in a 1980s black sandblasted slight bend Savory’s Argyll 281 Cherrywood with a tapered black vulcanite stem. I'll end the day with this smoke.
Charatan's Make Reuben era Select "Giant Billiard".
Davidoff Flake Medallions from a new tin in a S.T. Dupont de Paris pipe. My latest purchase.
It arrived by mail yesterday. I did some cleaning with ethanol 98%, some polishing with a cloth and Dunhill pipe bowl and mouthpiece polish and it already looks great again.
Now see how it smokes...
It arrived by mail yesterday. I did some cleaning with ethanol 98%, some polishing with a cloth and Dunhill pipe bowl and mouthpiece polish and it already looks great again.
Now see how it smokes...
Making my pre-service burnt offering... C&D Big & Burley in a Peterson Dublin Millennium. 
Bowl 8 in the Tekin Meer
1998 -99 ish Frog Morton , Frog on a Log.
1998 -99 ish Frog Morton , Frog on a Log.
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