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

[tfdickson]

2008 Escudo in my Jesse Jones diamond shank bent billiard.

 

[crashthegrey]

A little Capstan Gold Flake with five years in an Allen Kipp hiding back there.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

122 in figurehead, War Horse.
That's it for the day, considering the porch is populated by more bugs than usual, I had a migraine earlier, ran out flint in my lighter, and have all of three matches left.

 

[renfield]

A couple of bowls of HU Janneman Flake in a Briarworks author.

 

[dublinpiper90]

EGR in a Kaywoodie

 

[FurCoat]

For desert CBG in a Medico

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Cavicchi Dublin.

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard. Or in other words… “The Usual”

 

[The Clay King]

Hello King -- Did flintlock "technology" follow matchlocks? I believe that percussion caps evolved after flintlocks. And I'm thinking matchlocks were all smoothbores, no rifling. Not sure if flintlocks were exclusively smoothbores. Thinking rifling came in with percussion caps. In the evolution of weaponry, I think flintlocks were a huge upgrade for all uses .... hunting, warfare, etc. I'm also thinking flintlocks were much lighter than matchlocks.

@Sandblast Yes, flintlocks came after matchlocks; they had replaced them by the 18th century.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a Claudio Cavicchi Sandblasted Dublin
that I picked up on the SPC July 4th Sale. I watched this pipe for awhile and the sale clenched the deal. I’ve never smoked a Cavicchi so we’ll see how it goes.View attachment 322095

I got mine in the mail today too!

 

[ThomasS]

@Sandblast Yes, flintlocks came after matchlocks; they had replaced them by the 18th century.

And in between were the really cool but generally forgotten wheel-lock guns

 

[Bbailey324]

SG Chocolate Flake in a Peterson 2024 Christmas 69.

 

[The Clay King]

Now smoking Gawith and Hogarth Dark Flake Aromatic in a small clay.View attachment 322098View attachment 322099

@samuelgawith01 Looks like an Old Dominion Jamestowne; good baccy choice as well! I love Gawith baccy in my clay pipes.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Peterson MM 965 in my new Radice strawberry wood Silk Cut Tomato.

 

[FoggyMorning]

Warped Midsommer in a no name meer.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, then smoked a bowl of year 2019 C&D Derringer in a late 1890s, early 1900s straight smooth brown unbranded billiard with an A&D silver cap and ferrule with a tapered amber stem and orific bit. I also enjoyed a wonderful chat with one of the best people I know.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a 1984 black rusticated full bend Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Watching the Dodgers-Brewers game.

 

[Bbailey324]

Sutliff Duke Albert in a Kaywoodie Shellcraft.

 

[dingdong]

Preben Holm Deluxe burning Macbaren Vanilla Cream. Saturday morning here, bleak then the rain comes down

Hey look at me!! dang those pipes !!!

 

[OzPiper]

A couple of French GBDs
French silver hallmarks - diamond and boar’s head. No date hallmark


1st is the straight billiard, tapered stem with an orific bit

With a bowl of Peterson’s Elizabethan Mixture