***What Are You Smoking, June 2021?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with peach slices for dessert. I'm smoking Watch City Glass Slipper Micro-Batch in a 2003 medium bent straight grain military mount Two dot 2 P. Ardor Venere Extra Bucaneve dublin signed by Dorelio Rovera with a silver ferrule and a black acrylic stem. Not far from finishing this review. Going to try it in another pipe tomorrow to see how it does. El Salvador Dali, neat, is my drink.

 

[Birddog66]

Yes, I remember the Naval and Military club - affectionately known as the In and Out.
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Yes, I also remember Jermyn Street for other things apart from pipes - Turnbull & Asser and Harvie and Hudson where I had some shirts made back in the 1970s when a made-to-measure shirt cost £30 including personal touches such as turn-back cuffs, initials on breast pocket etc. God knows how much a similar shirt costs today.

I guess it's the same with pipe prices - The Dunhill pipes I bought from their flagship store in Jermyn Street at around the same time as the shirts nearly all cost me between £30 - £40 each.

Turning left at Davidoff on the corner of Jermyn Street let's not forget made-to-measure shoes and hats - respectively, John Lobb Ltd. (founded 1866) and James Lock & Co. (founded 1676).

There were also a few great gun shops within a couple of hundred yards of Jermyn Street including Cogswell & Harrison (Piccadilly), Churchill Atkin Grant & Lang (Pall Mall) and Robert Evans (St. James' Street) - two out of three are no longer there.

Oh now you’re talking, in the late 80’s I traded a T&B shirt for a Lee Enfield rifle. I used to love wandering around that part of the West End.
My father was a gunsmith and worked as a proofer for Purdy’s the shotgun maker, they have an incredible place in Mayfair, haven’t been through that area in years though.

 

[greeneyes]

Olaf's Favourite English in an old Ben Wade County. I'd forgotten how outstanding this blend is. It's a broken flake English mixture, similar to Blairgowrie, but much more refined and flavorful.

 

[Birddog66]

Can’t sleep so having a bowl from the odds and sods tin, all the leftovers from custom blends. This is from the Aromatic tin and in the Kiko Caveman.

 

[whitebar]

After dinner I’m enjoying D&R Ryback in a Baki meer.

 

[tfdickson]

Krater Plug in my Jesse Jones bulldog.

 

[JimInks]

Nearing the half way mark on this bowl of Watch City Rhythm & Blues in a straight smooth brown 1920s-30s Sasieni patent 8 dot Marborough lovat with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[cshubhra]

HU AL Indaba in a Paykoc Meerschaum Bulldog

 

[samuelgawith01]

Gawith & Hogarth Dark BIrd's Eye in this small clay.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Finishing an amazing bowl of GH&Co Louisiana Flake in a MM Mark Twain. A perfect 68 degree night. Have a good night Folks.

 

[shanez]

Enjoying the heck out of some Wilke Lizzie Blood Red English in a floral egg in claw meer by carver Altay with a glass of Delord XO Bas Armagnac:

 

[tnfan]

2011 Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Lee Van Erck Brandy.

 

[B_Rock]

A warm night on the deck enjoying some GLP Meridian in a Peterson Irish Harp Bulldog.

 

[shikano53]

Took my MM Wizard Cobbit on it's maiden voyage tonight with a bowl of G.L. Pease Montgomery

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with burgundy undertone sandblasted early 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Been busy dealing with the last batch of pipes I got.

 

[greeneyes]

Blending up some mixtures and letting them settle overnight.

 

[MattRVA]

KBV Pork Chops & Applesauce in a cob.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Wilke PBP beta test in a smooth dark brown medium bend undated Peterson Kildare 80S bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Listening to the Dodgers-Phillies game as I work.

 

[crawdad]

Nice and cool outside. In the carport savoring this Briar Fox in the big-ass Moretti.

 

[dcrguns]

MacBaren’s Stockton Spun Cut in a Nate King Custom Blasted Billard with Bamboo and a splash of Angels Envy Finished Rye. Beautiful Evening!