***What Are You Smoking, June 2024?***

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok. Managed to buy 35 tins of this blend this morning. My number 1 fa and it seems to ship about every 6 months. I try to buy 30 to 40 tins each time. Another 4 to 5 buys and I should have a comfortable buffer.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Bayou Night in a Morgan Bones

 

[happy_lunter]

A bowl of Italia in The French Pipe #5 with a cup of fresh Bali Blue Moon coffee.

 

[mpjetset]

Three big bowls full of miscellaneous VA sweepings. Pete system (needs a polising), Tinsky volcano, and churchwarden-sitter.

 

[PaulRVA]

In an Ashton XXX Old Church Stack Billiard.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps in the steamy heat, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[didimauw]

Hi, I have claw-egg Meerschaums like yours. The shank and claws caramelize well, but never the egg, so I assume it's by design. Maybe the egg is African while the base is Turk? Or different curing to acheive the effect? Do you know? TIA!

I've never seen a meer claw that was not one solid piece. But the coloring is something we are all still trying to figure out lol. I'm only at 8 bowls with this one (humidity sucks) but the claw is getting noticeably darker than the egg already. Could be finger oils, as it's where I hold it. But it's definetly not dirt. I can't wipe it away. My meer apple would get almost black where I touched it, from my gross fingers.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Dunburton Umbagog

 

[AroEnglish]

Union Square in a Don Carlos Canadian.
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Can we get pics of the other side?

 

[AroEnglish]

This morning, dueling Racice "Radichi" sitters, one a smoothe dual-bore stem, and the other a blast with conventional stem. Purchased simultaneously to see if there is a difference.
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Is there?

 

[umbrella001]

Can we get pics of the other side?

You bet!

 

[AroEnglish]

You bet!View attachment 320702

Droolworthy on each side!

 

[warren99]

Bill Bailey’s Balkan Blend in a Tonni Nielsen No. 5 Nautilus.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking and reviewing Per G. Jensen Blender’s Collection Burley in a 1980s White Pipe straight lattice apple meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Going to watch the Reds-Cards game until the Braves-Pirates game starts after 4 p.m.

 

[alaskanpiper]

2011 McClelland Sophisticate in a Ray Kurusu.

 

[renfield]

5 year old HU Janneman Flake in a Qandale.

 

[LotusEater]

Joschi’s Oriental Sunrise in a Ser Jacopo.Waiting for Germany vs Denmark to get underway

 

[pipeboy122]

Carter Hall in a SMS Smooth Bulldog Meerschaum

 

[Ryan]

Three Sails in a meer

 

[Chasing Embers]

I totally love that pipe !

The carvers at IMP gifted me that one for my 50th birthday.