2021 HH Burley Flake in a Dunhill Cumberland
***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***
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Back in from a nice cigar in the backyard with the sun. Moving on to something fitting to relax indoors with while downing a jar of electrolyte water.
Sam's Flake in the IMP.
Sam's Flake in the IMP.
Taking what I hope is a victory lap (test drive around town), with the Color Duke on bowl number four today-this time Match Victorian, as that’s what’s in the truck this week.
Hopefully this little bastage was the source of much consternation I’ve endured for the past few weeks:
Hopefully this little bastage was the source of much consternation I’ve endured for the past few weeks:
CRF w/P in the un-named large pot estate ( think i paid $45 or so for).
Sutliff Estate Blend in a Kaywoodie Shellcraft.
Now smoking year 2000 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This will get me to dinner time. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.
@Speak Easy I love your clay pipe photos; glad your clay is still smokable! One of the Redcoats I met at the International Living History Festival FILLED my clay with Peterson Connoisseur's Choice, tamped it down and managed to get some more in! I'll have to get a tin myself as it was a good smoke in Ye Olde Clay!
Special Virginia in a clay. Had a good day practicing my sword moves on Merrylegs & Dad managed a sword fight!
Going Viking axe throwing today at the Snake Room on Whittington Moor, not having too many beers after - I don't want to feel TOO much like a Viking
Going Viking axe throwing today at the Snake Room on Whittington Moor, not having too many beers after - I don't want to feel TOO much like a Viking
I picked up 2" of rain during the course of the day.Bob’s ChocolateFlake in an IMP Reverse Calabash and Capt Bob’s Blend
in an IMP Poker
While waiting on a storm
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@khiddy Nice clay and leather pipe rest!
Smoking some Old Gowrie for the first time and I really like it.
Realized I only had one Vaper open and that just wouldn't do.. Consulted spreadsheet and aha! an aged Escudo was in the cellar, picked up in trade from a fellow board member last year. OK! Since first time with a legendary blend, I figured a good time to break in a new unsmoked pipe that had been in the drawer for a couple years... So. Double firsts: 2012 Escudo in a Richard Mason Strawberrywood Large Apple. Took three coins like it was made for 'em. Now enjoying a bit of bliss. 
We are about the same. It’s been off an on. Hoping we get the current
predictions for an all nighter
That’s a cool pot. Smooth straights are some of the hardest meer deals to come by!
Thank you, sir!
Thank you, sir! I got the pipe rest via Ravenwood Fine Provisions, along with a 50g bag of his Hobbit's Leaf and Leaves of Athelas blends. I think that package arrived the same week that I went to see the extended versions of LOTR on the big screen. Nearly 12 hours in the theater that week!
And I am a big fan of clay pipes, I find that they smoke dry, even if kind of sharp. I think of it as the mouthfeel equivalent of cranking up the treble in an audio mix.
My first tin arrived this week, I haven't yet opened it but I will do so over the weekend. I am intrigued by the claim that it's similar to the Murray-made version of Dunhill's Royal Yacht. RY is one of my favorite blends, so I have every expectation that I'll like OG.
That is probably correct, at least when it comes to the smooth versions—I know that the very first two Savinelli Luisa Fiammata pipes, a 904 (No. 1) and a 920 (No. 2, the one I bought) would have been given Giubileo d’Oro designations had it not been for flaws on their shanks; instead, the flaws were covered with .925 silver bands and issued in boxes. I almost bought the 904 because I liked the idea of getting a No. 1 stamped pipe, but I don’t like the modern 904 shape as much as the slimmer earlier versions. I also waited too long to grab both, but the No. 2 became available again (it may have gotten pulled for the Savinelli archives, then ultimately released back to the public).
2014 Capstan Blue Flake in a Ryan Alden
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