***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

[BrightDarkEyes]

Orlik Golden Sliced in a Tekin meerschaum with acrylic 9mm filter stem.

 

[dottlejockey]

Off to the post office with a package and a pipe. Pegasus in a Ser Jac.

 

[dublinpiper90]

Didn't sleep much, so I got up, fed Harry the Hairy, and am almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem.
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Jim I have a 264 Shamrock, do you know anyone/where I can obtain a replacement stem for it by chance? Great looking Pete by the way

 

[TN Jed]

Brown Flake Aro in an Altinay

 

[das3353]

2021 HH Burley Flake in a Radice Silk Cut

 

[Sobrbiker]

MacB Royal Twist (PMSS23) in the 7409B.
Headed home.

 

[crawdad]

2019 LBF in this bent Ascorti Striata along with a lowball glass of McCallan 12 year single malt, double cask and ice.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a Cavicchi Dublin

 

[Bbailey324]

RLP-6 in a Dr. Grawbow Omega. Pre dinner dessert smoke.

 

[BenMN]

'07 Old Gowrie in a Kai Nielsen

 

[Bright Orange Red]

KBV 2023 Jim's Special Flake in a Marxman Royal.

 

[JimInks]

Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2021 Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.


Then, I smoked a bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a sandblasted medium bend 1950s Reuben era Charatan Deluxe 11 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Watching the Braves-Reds game.


PM must be acting up. It took me almost fifteen minutes to load this post.

 

[rsshreck32]

GL Pease JackKnife Plug in a MM Diamondback this evening.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Wilke Pickett’s Charge in a post-WW2 straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Dublin 3 bulldog with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[Hillcrest]

This afternoon I had to re-reem the Vauen Olaf bent egg which I partially reemed a few weeks ago. Apparently I left a slight hourglass shape and the carbon quickly enhanced it. Its smoother now and the I could once again taste the tea and honey in the Sutliff 507-C and got a bit of a nic hit which is low in this blend.

 

[dottlejockey]

Maiden voyage on a new H Ege meer that just hit the porch. Running a little Butera Kingfisher through it and see how she does. I like this pipe already. Love the solid bottom on the hammer.

 

[DesertDan]

I don't mind opinions. The hardest thing I experience in pipe smoking is figuring out what blend or genre to dedicate a pipe. I have a lot of estate pipes that I cleaned just waiting on me to figure out what to smoke in them. I'm obviously very picky about that.

Much of the problem is that these pipes came to me years after I had matched pipes to blends. As I noted, I have six pipes dedicated to Dunhill Elizabethan Match, and I try to rotate them depending on my mood, so why add another pipe to that scenario? And there are some blends that I like that I only enjoy in smaller bowls.

I have plenty of pipes dedicated to English blends so I don't need to add to that genre. Same goes for aromatics.

The old pipes, pre-1950s, I prefer untopped blends so I can take advantage of what old wood brings to my smoking experience. That greatly narrows the field for choices.

Here are two examples of bigger pipes that I want to smoke, but can't decide what to dedicate them to.

Peterson Irish Whiskey XL90.
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This Pierluigi is a big one. There's not many blends I want to smoke for that long a period, which greatly limits my choices.
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And I have several Ardors and Rinaldos that I inherited that I don't smoke because they are giant size. Never smoked the middle one, but the other two are among the best smokers I have, too. I smoked vintage Three Nuns in that last Ardor, and it was the best it ever tasted, but it took almost two hours to do it. That's a long time for me with any blend, even VaPer Three Nuns.
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I've discovered that I really prefer Sillem's Black in a large bowl

 

[Pappy Coon]

Wilke 8th Street in a Nording.

 

[Bbailey324]

PS LNF from 2019 in a Peterson Derry 69.

 

[redleaderdave]

Taking a break from the burleys with some Loch Ness in a Sav 626