*** What Are You Smoking?*** (June 2016)

[weezell]

Hearth & Home Signature Louisiana Red(from 2011) in a Meerschaum Bulldog...

 

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking Jim's Half Va., Half Burley w/Per in a 1970s slight bend Caminetto business 134 poker with a gold acrylic stem.

 

[JimInks]

2003 GLP Raven’s Wing in a 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a black acrylic stem.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Sir Walter Raleigh in a medium bend 2002 MM Legend cob.

 

[JimInks]

Milan “Our Kentucky Club Mild” in the third pipe I ever bought ($1.95), a 1974 smooth straight French briar Hadley Apple with a black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

A little over half way through this bowl of Salty Dogs in an early '70s pebble relief Savinelli 315 Prince with a black vulcanite stem.

 

[andystewart]

Rich Dark Flake in a 1/8 bent French racing egg.
Andy

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Heine's Blend in a 2013 MM straight Legend.

 

[newbroom]

Just started a bowl of Cornell and Deihl's Super Balkan in my Sterling Hall smooth Rhodesian

Unlike a lot of the C&D blends I smoke, this one is not burley forward, so far. I'd say the burley combines with the Turkish, Perique and Lat in the background and the others play and dance in front.

This is not a 'bright' balkan like WhiteKnight seems to me, but rather more a mellow balkan. Perfect amounts of Perique, Turkish, and Lat it seems. Very smooth and very tasty.

(I rate this one higher than I do Hearth and Home Chestnut, for which one revered reviewer gave 4*'s.)

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Lane's Dark Red in a Dalkey 106 by the fine folks at Peterson of Dublin

 

[jfox520]

Newminster Ultimate English in a Savinelli Series III Canadian

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Stonehaven in a 1984 black sandblasted straight Dunhill Shell 4103 Billiard with a black vulcanite stem. Ice tea and bergs is my drink. Watching Mad Dog Russo.
Newbroom: Super Balkan got four stars from me, too. Terrific blend!

 

[maynard]

Orlik DSK in a Danish Pride free hand.

 

[JimInks]

Boswell’s Main St. Burley in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot.

 

[JimInks]

Escudo in a brown rusticated slight bend 1982 Savinelli Non Pareil 99 Acorn with a brown pearl colored lucite ferrule and stem.

 

[andystewart]

Virginia Spice in a slightly bent canted egg by A La Pipe du Nord in Paris.
Andy

 

[papipeguy]

Uhle's #255 in a Falcon.

 

[pipeboy122]

Dunhill Standard Mixture in a Savinelli Caramella 606

 

[JimInks]

Just finished running an errand and this bowl of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in the second pipe I ever bought, a 1974 three quarter bend black groove carved Dr. Grabow Omega with a black vulcanite stem.