***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

[Roach1]

Today God blessed me with yet another trip around the sun. To celebrate on this overcast, slightly cool (in contrast to the HOT weather here of late), day with light sprinkles I enjoyed a bowl of Pegasus in an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon saddle-bit bulldog pipe.

On August 5, 2017 I posted the following in a thread titled "The BILTMORE: What Information and Ads are There?": "This thread reminded me that I had purchased an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon bulldog briar several years ago, but found it disappointing and so consigned it to my "trade goods" bag where it has resided until today. I pulled it out, gave it a light cleaning, and filled it with a load from my leftovers jar. I was prepared to again be nonplussed, but it surprised me with an enjoyable dry smoke! What changed in the intervening years, the pipe or me or both? I cannot answer that question; however, I know that it will not be rejoining the outcasts in the bag anytime soon."

On August 2, 2017 In a post to that same thread jguss wrote, in part, "As usual this catches me out of town, but here's what I know more or less off the top of my head. The Biltmore Pipe Company opened in April of 1943. It maintained an office at 220 5th Avenue in Manhattan and a factory at 204 Newport Street in Brooklyn. The founder was Herbert Gall (1910-1976), who had previously been working as a salesman to the trade for a pipe manufacturer. The chief models in the forties and early fifties included the Biltmore Superb ($1.50); the Biltmore Deluxe ($2.50); the Biltmore Blue Ribbon ($3.50); the Biltmore Reserve ($5.00); the Biltmore Executive ($7.50); and the Biltmore Golden Crest ($10.00)."

Happy Birthday

 

[bobpnm]

Good morning! Coffee, burley, cob. Beautiful morning here in the panhandle of Florida.

 

[ashdigger]

It’s another day in paradise. Hamborger Veermaster in a big Pete

 

[bobpnm]

Today God blessed me with yet another trip around the sun. To celebrate on this overcast, slightly cool (in contrast to the HOT weather here of late), day with light sprinkles I enjoyed a bowl of Pegasus in an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon saddle-bit bulldog pipe.

On August 5, 2017 I posted the following in a thread titled "The BILTMORE: What Information and Ads are There?": "This thread reminded me that I had purchased an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon bulldog briar several years ago, but found it disappointing and so consigned it to my "trade goods" bag where it has resided until today. I pulled it out, gave it a light cleaning, and filled it with a load from my leftovers jar. I was prepared to again be nonplussed, but it surprised me with an enjoyable dry smoke! What changed in the intervening years, the pipe or me or both? I cannot answer that question; however, I know that it will not be rejoining the outcasts in the bag anytime soon."

On August 2, 2017 In a post to that same thread jguss wrote, in part, "As usual this catches me out of town, but here's what I know more or less off the top of my head. The Biltmore Pipe Company opened in April of 1943. It maintained an office at 220 5th Avenue in Manhattan and a factory at 204 Newport Street in Brooklyn. The founder was Herbert Gall (1910-1976), who had previously been working as a salesman to the trade for a pipe manufacturer. The chief models in the forties and early fifties included the Biltmore Superb ($1.50); the Biltmore Deluxe ($2.50); the Biltmore Blue Ribbon ($3.50); the Biltmore Reserve ($5.00); the Biltmore Executive ($7.50); and the Biltmore Golden Crest ($10.00)."

Happy birthday and best wishes for many more!

 

[Sobrbiker]

Dark Sails in the Briarlee driving in, now in the field with Peterson 3P’s in a Pete.

FIL is doing ok, seems to have been a hypotensive rather than ischemic event.

 

[PaulRVA]

@huntertrw Happy Birthday

 

[bobpnm]

Newminster 400 in a new Chacom

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Great looking pipe!

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Makhuwa in a Radice Silk Cut Chubby Billiard and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[B.Lew]

McClelland 40th in a Rad Davis Rhodesian from 2012. Purchased this pipe from a forum member 3 or 4 years back.

 

[Mike N]

2017 GLP Blackpoint in one of my go-to SmithHouse billiards. Rich’s pipes never disappoint and have an incredibly slim button that I prefer for clenching. I

 

[ravkesef]

Peretti’s Royal in a Stanwell Classic Dublin. The lynx likes me, and I’m getting a kitty wash.

 

[BriaronBoerum]

Rattrays Exotic Passion in my very cheap new Brigham pipe.
Instead of cleaning up one of the dozens of old, dirty ebay pipes I have, ive been buying new pipes the last month.
This Brigham came today. It is one of their "System" pipes with the Rock Maple insert filters. I smoked it earlier today. I then immediately took it apart, grabbed a hacksaw, and made it NOT a System pipe with a Rock Maple insert.
It now smokes perfectly.


Why use a hacksaw, instead of just removing the filter?

 

[BriaronBoerum]

Watch City's Rouxgaroux in a Boswell​

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[BriaronBoerum]

Today God blessed me with yet another trip around the sun. To celebrate on this overcast, slightly cool (in contrast to the HOT weather here of late), day with light sprinkles I enjoyed a bowl of Pegasus in an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon saddle-bit bulldog pipe.

On August 5, 2017 I posted the following in a thread titled "The BILTMORE: What Information and Ads are There?": "This thread reminded me that I had purchased an estate The Biltmore Blue Ribbon bulldog briar several years ago, but found it disappointing and so consigned it to my "trade goods" bag where it has resided until today. I pulled it out, gave it a light cleaning, and filled it with a load from my leftovers jar. I was prepared to again be nonplussed, but it surprised me with an enjoyable dry smoke! What changed in the intervening years, the pipe or me or both? I cannot answer that question; however, I know that it will not be rejoining the outcasts in the bag anytime soon."

On August 2, 2017 In a post to that same thread jguss wrote, in part, "As usual this catches me out of town, but here's what I know more or less off the top of my head. The Biltmore Pipe Company opened in April of 1943. It maintained an office at 220 5th Avenue in Manhattan and a factory at 204 Newport Street in Brooklyn. The founder was Herbert Gall (1910-1976), who had previously been working as a salesman to the trade for a pipe manufacturer. The chief models in the forties and early fifties included the Biltmore Superb ($1.50); the Biltmore Deluxe ($2.50); the Biltmore Blue Ribbon ($3.50); the Biltmore Reserve ($5.00); the Biltmore Executive ($7.50); and the Biltmore Golden Crest ($10.00)."

Happy Birthday, smoke in peace!

 

[Choatecav]

Happy Birthday, @huntertrw .
Hope it is a great one!!

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2024 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Fed my cats and all the ferals.


Right after I finished my last smoke, I went out to bring Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager (who was sitting on top of the cat tree) in to eat. I picked Abner the Eager up when I heard a loud explosion to my right. A transformer blew, and all the power went out. I brought the cats in, got a lantern, fed Harry the Hairy outside, and proceeded to feed the others inside. The power was out until twenty minutes ago, but all is well now.

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Makhuwa in a Savinelli Punto Oro 101 and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[towhee89]

BP Jum Boer with 5Bros+Carter Hall.

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

Peretti’s Royal in a Stanwell Classic Dublin. The lynx likes me, and I’m getting a kitty wash.

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That’s a big kitty. I hope he never STOPS liking you.