***What Are You Smoking, June 2023?***

[shanez]

Worked on my Jeep, cleaned up in the garage, and got some old Jeep parts listed for sale this morning.

Now relaxing in the pool with a triple Drambuie on the rocks with an orange twist and some KBV Sakura in my pool meer:





Got this cutie to keep me company:

 

[The Clay King]

Ennerdale Flake in a Pollock clay; a good tobacco choice for a clay pipe!
Just drunk the can of Thatcher's Gold cider I found while litter picking on Thursday.
Man it went down well!

 

[The Clay King]

I think SG Black Forest is the commercial pipe baccy most like my imagined "Clay King" blend:

Samuel Gawith - Black Forest

GQ Tobaccos specialising in Artisan & Factory Tobacco Pipes, Boutique Tobaccos, Snuffs and other smokers accessories

www.gqtobaccos.com

SG Golden Glow sounds like it would suit the King's clay as well:

Samuel Gawith - Golden Glow

Wow if you like straight up and light Virginia blends, Golden Glow is one for you. This broken flake of mature, flue cured Virginia's has a wonder hay/grass aroma. The tobacco is a little so allowing a little air time, makes for a easier to light smoke and a touch cooler. From the word go this...

www.gqtobaccos.com

"Clay King" would be a Virginia / Cavendish blend; I imagine it would be made by Samuel Gawith / Gawith Hoggarth or Wilson's of Sharrow (just down the road from me in Sheffield).
I'd like to try the Wilson's of Sharrow pipe tobacco:

Wilson's of Sharrow Pipe Tobacco - Black Swan Shoppe

Revel in the historic blends of Wilsons of Sharrow Pipe Tobacco, crafted since 1740 in Sheffield, and enjoy a legacy of quality tobacco products.

www.thebackyshop.co.uk

In a clay of course!
I'll have to get some Gawith & Wilson's of Sharrow blends at the Nottingham pipe show.
A shame @Chaukisch disappeared; he was making me a special "Clay King" clay pipe blend at the time of his disappearance; Gold Lemon Virginia & Sweet Black Cavendish flavoured with honey, lemon & Viking Mead. All gone to waste now:-(

 

[warren99]

Pease Charing Cross in a Barling Brigadier TVF EXEL Apple.

 

[PipeIT]

New toy arrived, Savinelli's Punto Oro army mount 1002.
The first pipe I had in 2008 was a Savinelli Roma Lucite(something like that), and I also took Danish Black Vanilla and Sunday's Fantasy from the pipe shop. This terrible combination almost made me give up smoking pipes too early. Fortunately, a friend gave me a can of Morton Frogs and a can of Orlik Golden Sliced as gifts, reversed my misconception that pipe tobacco is a kind of sweet and greasy artificial spice.
15 years later, I once again get a Savinelli, a product from 1958 to 1969 that was comparable to dunhill from the same era. Now I began to understand why our friend @TheIronMonkey Jeff had such a passion for Savinelli.
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I’m confused, you’re talking about a new Savinelli's Punto Oro army mount.

And I was like, wait a sec Savinelli doesn’t have a White Dot on the stem.

So where’s the new Savinelli's Punto Oro army mount?

Why did you post two pics of Dunhill army mount, to show that the Savinelli is as nice?

Show the Savinelli! LOL

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Peterson CP Iora XL02 and KBV Fallen Cherry.

 

[cshubhra]

Lane 1-Q purchased May 2017 in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX

 

[NightSkyFlash]

Castello See Rock Canadian smoking Sutliff’s Moroccan Spice at the monthly meeting of the Chicago Pipe Collector’s Club in the Arlington Pipe and Cigar Lounge

 

[warren99]

GL Pease Samarra in a JT Cooke cherrywood.

 

[PipeIT]

I think SG Black Forest is the commercial pipe baccy most like my imagined "Clay King" blend:

Samuel Gawith - Black Forest

GQ Tobaccos specialising in Artisan & Factory Tobacco Pipes, Boutique Tobaccos, Snuffs and other smokers accessories

www.gqtobaccos.com

SG Golden Glow sounds like it would suit the King's clay as well:

Samuel Gawith - Golden Glow

Wow if you like straight up and light Virginia blends, Golden Glow is one for you. This broken flake of mature, flue cured Virginia's has a wonder hay/grass aroma. The tobacco is a little so allowing a little air time, makes for a easier to light smoke and a touch cooler. From the word go this...

www.gqtobaccos.com

"Clay King" would be a Virginia / Cavendish blend; I imagine it would be made by Samuel Gawith / Gawith Hoggarth or Wilson's of Sharrow (just down the road from me in Sheffield).
I'd like to try the Wilson's of Sharrow pipe tobacco:

Wilson's of Sharrow Pipe Tobacco - Black Swan Shoppe

Revel in the historic blends of Wilsons of Sharrow Pipe Tobacco, crafted since 1740 in Sheffield, and enjoy a legacy of quality tobacco products.

www.thebackyshop.co.uk

In a clay of course!
I'll have to get some Gawith & Wilson's of Sharrow blends at the Nottingham pipe show.
A shame @Chaukisch disappeared; he was making me a special "Clay King" clay pipe blend at the time of his disappearance; Gold Lemon Virginia & Sweet Black Cavendish flavoured with honey, lemon & Viking Mead. All gone to waste now:-(

Golden Glow is a really nice, slightly sweel VA, I have a tin.

If you like light, straight, slightly sweet VAs, give it a try.

 

[nelamvr6]

Worked on my Jeep, cleaned up in the garage, and got some old Jeep parts listed for sale this morning.

Now relaxing in the pool with a triple Drambuie on the rocks with an orange twist and some KBV Sakura in my pool meer:

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Got this cutie to keep me company:

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Of course! How could you not have a pool meer? We're not savages, right?

 

[nelamvr6]

Smoking some 6 year old Escudo in the Radice Rind

 

[PipeIT]

Just bought a new pipe today, I’ll post it when it arrives. I was very fortunate to get it, as it was on hold for someone that later declined.

You PAD muthers, and sons of blah blah blah will have to wait! Muhahaha....



So for this special occasion...

2018 HU Director’s Cut in a Bay Denmark Apple bamboo with a cumberland stem!

Be well everyone, and my smiles and Aloha to you!





P.S. Almost forgot, I couldn’t be enjoying this amazing blend without @AJL67 who gifted me some!

Now I’ll need to pester him for a tin! LOL

 

[The Clay King]

Golden Glow is a really nice, slightly sweel VA, I have a tin.

If you like light, straight, slightly sweet VAs, give it a try.

@PipeIT I was smoking C&D Yorktown in my clay pipe when I had it lit with an ember from the blacksmith's forge at the Redcoats & Revolutionaries events last 2 years; he'll probably be doing the honours again this year!

 

[jakesmokes]

 

[FurCoat]

Glengarry in a Manx meer. This one is for Raul Martinez who lost his life at the TT this year.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm almost at the last quarter of this bowl of year 2013 Stonehaven in a straight black sandblasted 1957 Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver banded military mount and a black ebonite tapered stem. Gave this pipe a deep clean which it sorely needed. Cleaned a few other pipes, too. Watching the Yankees-Red Sox game. Got some great pics of the black cat today. He sure loves attention. I'll post a few soon.

 

[Beowoulf]

Now smoking some Carter Hall in a Blatter & Blatter 100th Anniversary commemorative pipe, signed by Robert Blatter (2 red dots). I've been smoking only exotic aromatics since February so this seems kinda 'plain Jane' - though that could be because my mouth is all burned to sh*t from a day of non-stop pipe smoking.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

More Wessex Brown VA. Saw it fitting to enjoy it from a Wessex billiard this time.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2014 Aylesbury Classic Flake in a Castello.