***What Are You Smoking, June 2020?***

[marlinspike]

I got in a couple of tins of Smokers’ Haven blends, and am trying out a bowl of the Cognac Mixture in an unplastered MM Diplomat apple.

 

[mso489]

Home and Hearth Drawing Room, an English blend, in a Savinelli Opera bent bulldog 673 KS, with the diamond shank much rounded toward a Rhodesian shape, but still a bulldog for sure, an interesting variation on a traditional shape in a factory pipe.

 

[newbroom]

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake in a meer lined smooth St James London Pipe, a Canadian shape with a flat bottom.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem.

 

[maulragoth]

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Incendiary Device: Missouri Meerschaum bent Twain, blk/wht swirl "Regal" Forever Stem
Quenching Device: Garage Brewing - Belgian Triple
Sonic Device: currently running around slaying monsters in GW2

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Bayou Morning Flake

 

[doro]

2006 Bright flake in a Charatan selected 58.

 

[maulragoth]

Well to be honest felt a bit embarrassed to order the matching stand, since it is so simple that I could have tried my non existing woodworking skills at it...

Ya, nice pipe, and bunch up some sticks with glue or screws in the yard for the aesthetic =) I like churchwarden's and that pipe looks great, I really like how Vauen keeps a wooden stemmed churchwarden practical with being able to break it down for cleaning. I do like a wooden stemmed bit more, but practicality does necessitate a longer lasting useful pipe with the lucite tips. Please report back how you like the pipe as a smoker. Bought 2 MacQueen's way back for a friend and I in the past (not workable really, they suck in the cleaning respect IMO), and I have been contemplating a Vauen wooden churchwarden for ... ??... 20 years? Being that they actually know pipes, I've always been interested.

 

[Bowie]

C&D Morley's Best in a Dr. Grabow Regal, with some black coffee.

 

[cshubhra]

Tabac Vincent Manil Semois in a Sasieni Two Dot Author

 

[ofafeather]

Erinmore Flake in a Tinsky Peterson 02 copy. Had Mark make this for me in 2000. Received a seriously crushed tin of Erinmore today so decided to smoke it. Forgot how great this stuff is! Oh, and retailer was AMAZING. Sent replacement tin almost before I pushed send on the email to them letting them know!

 

[ofafeather]

Now smoking Watch City Rhythm & Blues in a black sandblasted straight 1998 XXX Ashton lovat with a black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink on this hot and humid day.

Had to look up bergs. I’m getting more and more edumacted on this forum!

 

[ofafeather]

G.L.P Temple bar in a The Guildhall 331 (Comoy's 2nd)

That’s a beauty!

 

[ofafeather]

2 year aged Erinmore Mixture from my GBD Unique Handmade in France 1/8 bent Canadegg? I think I like the mixture more than the flake.

Haven’t tried the mixture but LOVE the Flake. Nice looking GBD. Think I need to get some again. Sold all of my GBDs years ago but have a cool little Digby.

 

[ofafeather]

C&D Morley's Best in a Dr. Grabow Regal, with some black coffee.

I love the shape of that pipe and a lot of the old Grabows and Kays but never really found ones that agree well with me. Not sure if it’s the stingers or my general pipe snobbery. ?

 

[kg.legat0]

Smoking my own blend of red and lemon flue-cured Virginias, air-cured Burley, and Brown Burley Cavendish I cooked myself, all from Total Leaf Supply. Pressed the whole leaves for 3 weeks, cut, shredded and topped with Bushmill's and vanilla. Jarred for 6 weeks, and it's really nice and smooth.

sounds fantastic!

 

[dcon]

Rattray’s Exotic Passion in a Peterson Rustic Tankard with a P-lip.

 

[ofafeather]

Rattray’s Exotic Passion in a Peterson Rustic Tankard with a P-lip.

How do you find the tankards to smoke? Always admired them and they are so cheap!

 

[maulragoth]

Erinmore Flake in a Tinsky Peterson 02 copy. Had Mark make this for me in 2000. Received a seriously crushed tin of Erinmore today so decided to smoke it. Forgot how great this stuff is! Oh, and retailer was AMAZING. Sent replacement tin almost before I pushed send on the email to them letting them know!

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wow.. that is a real crushing. I don't like any dents at all, but I guess I should be happy with the dented tins I have now.

 

[maulragoth]

Smoking my own blend of red and lemon flue-cured Virginias, air-cured Burley, and Brown Burley Cavendish I cooked myself, all from Total Leaf Supply. Pressed the whole leaves for 3 weeks, cut, shredded and topped with Bushmill's and vanilla. Jarred for 6 weeks, and it's really nice and smooth.

That's kinda badass real blending there. Very cool.