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Hillcrest

Lifer
Dec 3, 2021
4,878
27,649
Connecticut, USA
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Black coffee? WOW ... but as I've said before, "Who says there's no value to this thread?".
Will be cleaning couple pipes soon & instead of using Canadian Whisky, I'll try black coffee. Very intriguing! Will this render any type of ghost? Can't wait ...
No, just the opposite. I fill the bowl and shank and let it swish from one to other for about 20-30 seconds then rinse with water as normal. I find it removes the oils and gunk easier.
 

JazzInAZ

Can't Leave
May 29, 2025
420
9,599
Texas, USA
I'm having John Bull True English, this time in the Country Gentleman. Seems to be a fine match, so far.
Drink is iced coffee, cream/no sugar. 🧊:coffee:

I'm paying more attention these days to which blends work/smoke/taste better in which pipes. I always thought the differences were more due to my own day-to-day variables of taste-buds, packing, cadence etc, but I'm really beginning to understand there are better and worse pipe/tobacco matches.

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
70,169
802,835
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of 1990s Edgeworth Ready Rubbed in a medium bend dark brown 2017 Don Warren 17 smooth straight grain rough top Dublin with a multi-brown cumberland stem and ferrule in the military mount style. The orignal Edgeworth is all this pipe has ever seen.
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Currently, I'm almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a black sandblast PSB medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 228/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Fed three ferals and my cats.
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Scottmi

Lifer
Oct 15, 2022
5,213
80,660
Orcas, WA
The Aperitif in the Li'l Pete 317
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The carbs are reassembled and tomorrow will remount and try to start 'er up. The throttle spindle seals had definitely perished. Also, the last setting on the carbs was WAY RICH, set before I got the vacuum advance properly setup.. Timing adjusting will be necessary along with all the rest. Good thing I have until Saturday! :oops:
 

Benedict Munsinger

Part of the Furniture Now
Nov 6, 2024
538
10,334
54
Manchester
C&D Autumn Evening in the Pete Sherlock Dr Watson.
When its time to make this a Virginia pipe, the ghosts will be hard to remove. Its had a bunch of aromatics run through it.
But its destiny is to be a Va pipe.
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Happy birthday colleague. Let the smoke be pleasant, but without harm to health!🤝
 

Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
6,557
89,560
Casa Grande, AZ
Inspired by @JimInks post yesterday I believe it was, I cleaned up a Peterson Dublin 3 medium bulldog and stuffed in some C&D XXV Dusk.

Unfortunately, I should’ve fully gone over the pipe, not just sanitizing it as the stem went to tan, nasty oxidation when exposed to saliva and kinda put a damper on the smoke…I’ve never been known for my patience.

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The Pete3’s stummel is now reamed and cleaned, and stem is deoxidized.
Didn’t have time to fully hand polish stem, but I do kind of like a semi-gloss finish on some of my pipes’ stems, we’ll see.
Too late for another smoke, so a pinch of sweet snuff and off to bed.
See yall in a few hours!

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