*** What Are You Smoking?*** (June 2018)

[bnichols23]

Sail Regular in a pre-Cadogan GBD De Luxe full bent, reading Ehwa's classic Book of Pipes & Tobacco. Old guy, old pipe, old book, old tobacco. I'm good with all of that.

 

[bnichols23]

Yeah, I'd heard from old what's-her-name that sci-fi's bad boy had assumed room temperature, Jim. One cranky SOB to know, but a true icon & icono*clast* in a world with dang few of them left. S'long, Harlan.

 

[weezell]

Samuel Gawith: 1792 Flake in a Meer Cutty...

 

[slowroll]

Now smoking HH Acadian Perique in my #2 Iron Horse stack. Not bad at all for this lataholic. Subtle, but rich. Best VaPer style I've tried.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Old Dark Fired in a smooth medium bend post-WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock Killarney 9BC with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite stem.

 

[weezell]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co.: Black Irish X in a Meer Cutty...

 

[mikefu]

Stokkebye English Oriental Supreme in a Nording bent Rhodesian

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Amphora Virginia in a carolina gent from C&D + MM

 

[thefishguy]

Dark birds eye in a Morgan bones big pickaxe.

 

[jmagen]

C&D Robusto in my Savinelli LaCorta 616C.

 

[JimInks]

About a quarter of a bowl left of Peretti No. 8 Slice in a 1979 brown grain etched Lane Era Charatan's Make medium bend calabash shape 483DC with a black vulcanite double comfort stem.

 

[JimInks]

About a quarter of the way through this bowl of Park Lane Connoisseur in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera and a black acrylic stem. Phone chatting about baseball.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of 2012 Virginia Spice in a 2004 smooth long shank Canadian Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 with a black vulcanite stem. Phone chatting about comic books.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is 2011 Villiger Virginia No. 444 in a three quarter bend smooth 1985 Dunhill Chestnut 5202 billiard with a cumberland stem.

 

[newbroom]

PS LTF in an old estate cob, that's right, an estate cob, one of two identical, unknown mfr. that smoke VA's like a dream.

These are straight shanked, 5/8 dia. chamber (a tad small, but worth the effort) well cured poker shaped, w/lucite stems. When I started smoking a pipe about 4 yrs ago, I bought two different 'lots' on ebay. Both 'lots' were for less than 10 bucks.

I'm still smoking most of the 8 or 9 pipes I got back then. In the 'lot' of cobs, one actually turned out to be African meer that only LOOKED like a cob. It was this Kiko score that got my bargain hunter's mindset going on estate pipe acquisitions.

Now, I must admit, I should have stopped after those first two buys, but, I've really enjoyed amassing way too many pipes.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, and am almost 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. Watching a Tex Ritter movie.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1979 black sandblasted medium bend Savinelli Non Pareil 9606 Billiard with a military mount horn ferrule and black vulcanite stem.

 

[kickinbears]

Samuel Gawith FVF, cube cut, in a Molina Aurelia smooth brown brandy

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Some :*( Mellow Mack by McClelland in a Don Warren Acorn shaped Maple Wood '15. This tin sat in a B&M for 13yrs. Interested in seeing how it is after so long in the can.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Haymaker in a little "Castello" kk bent billiard.