Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a straight dark brown 1920s Comoy’s Sunrise Natural S369 squat bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Cleaned a bunch of pipes.
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Back to the topic, back in late ‘23 I picked up a (what I believe to be early Republic) Peterson Kildare 53.
It has a very tight draw from its little skinny p-lip. With all the confidence of an idjut that didn’t know better, I tried to open up the airway and of course, poked a hole through the bottom of the bit.
I sent it to none other than the amazing @RustiePyles CPG. He’d let me know it would take a while, with I was quite ok with.
Well, fate made sure of that but after his unfortunate incident and recovery, it’s back home with a wonderfully engineered hand cut vulcanite p-lip with proper tapered airway. Additionally it wound up needing a sterling repair band, but all’s well that ends well.
It’s now taken its first spin with Ryback+P and 100% worth the wait!
It has a very tight draw from its little skinny p-lip. With all the confidence of an idjut that didn’t know better, I tried to open up the airway and of course, poked a hole through the bottom of the bit.
I sent it to none other than the amazing @RustiePyles CPG. He’d let me know it would take a while, with I was quite ok with.
Well, fate made sure of that but after his unfortunate incident and recovery, it’s back home with a wonderfully engineered hand cut vulcanite p-lip with proper tapered airway. Additionally it wound up needing a sterling repair band, but all’s well that ends well.
It’s now taken its first spin with Ryback+P and 100% worth the wait!
Thanks! I have several Lorenzos and that one is the best smoker of the bunch. I picked it as a walking pipe partly for that reason. The other reasons are that I don't have to relight as I walk, it holds enough tobacco for the entire walk, and the comfortable acrylic stem helps prevent me from denting the bit as I go along.I've seen this pipe many times, and kinda just passed it by, but over the course of time, I've gradually ome to realize just how beautiful it is. Another proverbial 4 Leaf Clover, revealing it's true worth over the course of time.
I'm betting it's about as sweet smoking as they come, too.
Just the other day, I posted similar one that I haven't smoked in a while, and it's a very good smoker, too. Here it is in case you didn't see it:
Now smoking Sutliff Cringle Flake (Holiday Edition 2024) in a medium bend, half black sandblasted, half brown smooth, rough top 1980 Stanwell 668 dublin military mount with a multi-colored ferrule and a black vulcanite stem.
Whew another long day but im winding down with what I started last night: WCC Rougxnotgonnatrytospellitagain in a cob. Delayed gratification is a thing that don’t do often but it’s always pretty tasty. 
My new Butz-Choquin Mirage estate pipe I just received from Blue Room Briars and stuffed it with Boswell's Majestic 586.
I also go to war on them when I find a nest on my property. When I was a kid, me, my younger brother, and Dad were walking on our property and my brother stepped off the logging road to take a leak. I think he was about six years old. He stepped on a yellow jacket nest and was being swarmed by the time my Dad figured out what was happening and scooped him up and out of there. They both got stung many times. It was bad. Luckily, we were not too far from home.
Another time we were camping and I had an open can of soda on the picnic table. When I wasn’t looking a yellow jacket crawled inside the can. I took a sip and it went into my mouth. It nailed me in the lip as I spit it out. That was not pleasant.
So, I totally support any means necessary to destroy them and the nest.
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Exclusive in a Peterson Donegal Rocky X105. 
McCranie’s newest blend, Blackbeard, in a Castello Lake Como billiard. Blackbeard has a little bit of everything including the kitchen sink, as seen in the screenshot of the label below. It’s a stout Navy. My son lives in Charlotte and stopped by McCranies to pick me up a few birthday blends just as Matt was putting Blackbeard on the shelf last week. It was good timing, since as noted below, Blackbeard is now sold out for the time being.
Briar Fox again in the VT Freehand Cherrywood Morta. Good combo.
Muggy Texas night, but with a nice breeze.
Drink is Tucher Dunkles Hefe Weizen.
Muggy Texas night, but with a nice breeze.
Drink is Tucher Dunkles Hefe Weizen.
1931 is totally underrated, imho. one of my Favorites!
a pinch of 5-Year Matured and a pinch of Sutliff RC-515 tossed around and loaded in the Georg Jensen Admiral.
My son had a similar experiece on our property when it was new to us. He was 7 and taking his grandpa for a tour. Stepped on a ground nest and 11 stings all over... Early trauma still haunts him around the buggers. A couple years later, he and a friend were climbing on a bank next to the docks and his friend got a swarm after him...another bunch of vicious stings! These brutes are vile meanies, no kidding, no mistake, and NO MERCY.
Did some snacking including a very tasty bowl of fifteen bean soup, and am part way through this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1984 medium bend black grain etched Savinelli Non Pareil 9310 pokerish dublin with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite flared stem.
Love the silver work on your pipe.
Last Night's Smoke - and it was a disturbing smoke. The prelude is that I gave away another MM regular size cob, and replaced it, forthwith. I was able to select the pipe from about a dozen, and I picked the smallest bowl of all that were at Sheffield's at the PG Mall. I wanted a picnic pipe that would give me about a 40-45 minute smoke, and it delivered more, even on break in. (Yeah, another one ) It was just Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish. Very decent smoke, even for a break in procedure . . . . .
I related it to a previous post @happy_lunter, in which he said (paraphrase) that he noticed that the flavour of Steamworks was much better if the tobacco was dry as a bone.
I agreed, but had mentally reserved the possibility that other tobaccos may not respond to dessication.
While smoking the pipe, I Ran into an interesting phenomenon that I'd never seen before, but the following picture reveals something I found disturbing, and now confirms my conversion to the glaring possibility that tobaccos should be dry before smoking. Look at the following picture:
That's heavy duty condensation that I had never seen before, because I'd only smoked tobacco in opaque stems, never in a transparent one.
I'd imagine that this condensation is a result of wet tobacco, (actually, I know it is) and will indeed ruin the flavour of so many tobaccos that are too wet. And I'm now aware that this condesation will rear it's ugly head in opaque stems, as well.
I think it also is the main cause of gurgling, and too many relights and other frustrations. Condensation is also caused by turbulence inside the stem. Slow smoking also will help with that. But, wet tobacco definitely causes wet smoke.
I put in a pipe cleaner, and removed the condensation, but it quickly returned and so did ash and debris as I got to the bottom of the bowl. That crap contributed to an acrid taste that was rather noticeable, and told me a lot of other things.
I present this to all of you for your consideration and comments, and will leave my post without opinions except that I'll be drying out my tobacco much more in future.
Have at it, please.
Seems learning is a never ending process, eh? Let me know what you think of all this. Thanks.
) It was just Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish. Very decent smoke, even for a break in procedure . . . . .BUT . . . . .
I related it to a previous post @happy_lunter, in which he said (paraphrase) that he noticed that the flavour of Steamworks was much better if the tobacco was dry as a bone.
I agreed, but had mentally reserved the possibility that other tobaccos may not respond to dessication.
However . . . . .
While smoking the pipe, I Ran into an interesting phenomenon that I'd never seen before, but the following picture reveals something I found disturbing, and now confirms my conversion to the glaring possibility that tobaccos should be dry before smoking. Look at the following picture:
That's heavy duty condensation that I had never seen before, because I'd only smoked tobacco in opaque stems, never in a transparent one.
I'd imagine that this condensation is a result of wet tobacco, (actually, I know it is) and will indeed ruin the flavour of so many tobaccos that are too wet. And I'm now aware that this condesation will rear it's ugly head in opaque stems, as well.
I think it also is the main cause of gurgling, and too many relights and other frustrations. Condensation is also caused by turbulence inside the stem. Slow smoking also will help with that. But, wet tobacco definitely causes wet smoke.
I put in a pipe cleaner, and removed the condensation, but it quickly returned and so did ash and debris as I got to the bottom of the bowl. That crap contributed to an acrid taste that was rather noticeable, and told me a lot of other things.
I present this to all of you for your consideration and comments, and will leave my post without opinions except that I'll be drying out my tobacco much more in future.
Have at it, please.
Seems learning is a never ending process, eh? Let me know what you think of all this. Thanks.
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Briar Fox in a Pete SPD 2011 69 with coffee. 
Orlik Golden Sliced in a Pete’s 999 on the front porch
Now smoking year 2018 D&R Windsail in a 2018 full bend smooth natural Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade with a silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. Going to check on the ferals soon.
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