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

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps in sweltering heat and humidity, and am not far from finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager took turns greeting me as I walked down the hill and near the house. They got head and back scratches. The other two ferals stayed in the shade.

 

[The Benedictine]

Casey Jones in a Peterson Emerald series 106. Can't recall what Casey Jones blend it is.

 

[The Benedictine]

Did a set of walking reps in sweltering heat and humidity, and am not far from finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Tomato the Brave and Abner the Eager took turns greeting me as I walked down the hill and near the house. They got head and back scratches. The other two ferals stayed in the shade.
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That is a beautiful pipe Jim

 

[warren99]

C&D Old Joe Krantz Red Label in an Ingo Garbe apple.

 

[SSGT.]

MM Duraham Don with Kopp's Year of the Dragon. First bowl for each pipe is a great smoker and YOD is an excellent sweet Virginia highly recommend both.

 

[Sig]

I should have explained that.
Their filter System uses a 2 or 3 inch long piece of hollow maple, with a metal piece on the end to remove and replace the filter. The pourus wood is supposed to keep the pipe dry, so not so much a filter, as just a wicking system.
The tenon on the stem has the normal 1 inch tenon, then another 2 inches for the wood tube. With or without the wood tube, the pipe was extremely restrictive. If you notice, the metal part of the wood tube nearly touches the draft hole.
I cut about an inch off and it's completely wide open. I could shorten the wood and still use it. I bought it because the aromatics ive been smoking lately can have a bit of moisture. But a restricted draw is not gonna be allowed.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Peruvian Macchu Picchu, neat, is my drink. Have beta tests and two C&D blends on the way for review.

 

[Tabacco]

 

[bobpnm]

After lunch smoke. University Flake in this small Rattray’s Slainte. About 3/4 of one flake folded and stuffed works very nicely! The remaining, rubbed out for future use as kindling.

 

[JimInks]

That is a beautiful pipe Jim

Thank you. It's a good smoker, too.

I have another one similar to it. Haven't smoked it in a long time, though.

 

[telescopes]

Hal O’ the Wind.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2022 Solani 633 in a straight smooth brown Algerian briar post-WW2-mid 50s family era Barling’s Make Ye Olde Wood Straight Grain Made in England bulldog with a diamond shape shank and black ebonite stem. This pipe came from the estate of David Cuneo. Going to clean a few pipes before long.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Capt Bob’s Blend in an IMP Poker and Diet Coke on the side. Too hot out to accomplish anything meaningful so chilling till the Mets- Orioles ️ game and working some bowls through this Meer.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Vauen Bent Egg.

 

[kcmontie]

2016 OGS in a Castello

 

[crazyhog]

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

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Wow, don't tell me you have a Lynx as your pet! I'm afraid of even the domesticated Bengal breed. LOL

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the original 515 that Basil Rathbone smoked, and the model that he smoked it in. Ken Byron is in town and just came over for a visit. He obviously needs blending tips!

 

[ThermionicScott]

Sweet, tasty bowl of BBF in my MM hardwood.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2021 first production Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Had a great visit from Ken and his family. Just wonderful. Sleepy Suzy was next to the ladies and also approved.

 

[BlueRidge]

507c in a Chacom