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

[Bright Orange Red]

Watch City Glass Slipper in a Peterson Walnut Spigot 80s.

 

[tfdickson]

Erinmore Flake in my 2000 Ashton Old Church.

 

[Servant King]

First try of Mac Baren HH Pure VA in a Peterson Irish Harp 80s blasted bulldog, on the heels of my first try of VA flake (@hoosierpipeguy you're right, the latter is just a little sweeter, but both kick ass in their own way, of course) in the same pipe. I definitely see what all the hoopla is about, and emphatically concur. 9.3/10

Bird report: California scrub-jay, House finch, California towhee, Western bluebird, Hairy woodpecker, Mountain chickadee, Common raven, and White-breasted nuthatch.

Glad to finally have some relaxing time, and enjoy this big temperature drop. Hope everyone has a great weekend!

 

[dingdong]

First bowl of the weekend..DR Windsail + BBF in a Meer and coasting the forum

 

[Sobrbiker]

PS 400 Luxury Navy Flake in a pre-republic Made in England 363 System 3

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in an Altinay.

 

[happy_lunter]

Wilke’s Maple & Rum in Ropp Vintage Stout apple.

 

[bullet08]

Celebrated World No Tobacco Day yesterday with lunch and with a few like-minded people and cigars. The cigar gods were with us - rained while we were lunching, then dried up while we lit up.
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No such luck today - it’s been pissing down all day

Taking out my only 2 North American briars.
The 1st is a post-WWll LHS Sterncrest Lovat with a chimney tenon extension instead of the more usual metal stinger
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Lovely fez. Club fez? I'm uncultured.

 

[OzPiper]

A trio of Danes today


1st up is this unsmoked 2006 Peter Hedegaard flame grained straight apple(bottom)


With a bowl of MacBaren’s Navy Flake - cube-cut and gravity filled

 

[Steddy]

Some C&D Old Joe Krantz in a cob. Acadia National Park. Back to reality tomorrow.

 

[OzPiper]

Lovely fez. Club fez?

The club fez is a bit of “up yours” to the anti-smoking Karens that have permeated the club in recent years

 

[DesertDan]

MM cob stuffed with Wilke's #515
Been smoking this exclusively for a while and really like it. For me it is best in a briar though I usually smoke a cob when driving. However, this stuff does need drying a while before packing a bowl.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Having Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader in the smallest of my very early Eugène-Léon Ropp pipes, a Cherrywood with a Natural Horn Stem. It’s stamped “Bussang,” so, it’s very likely it was made at Ropp’s original workshop there between 1870–1893.





Below is a vintage postcard depicting the Ropp workshop in Bussang.

 

[dingdong]

Look like a Rosewood Pipe, the Ropp?

 

[OzPiper]

Having Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader in the smallest of my very early Eugène-Léon Ropp pipes, a Cherrywood with a Natural Horn Stem. It’s stamped “Bussang,” so, it’s very likely it was made at Ropp’s original workshop there between 1870–1893.

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Below is a vintage postcard depicting the Ropp workshop in Bussang.

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@TheIronMonkey
Always pleased to see your Ropp cherry woods
It’s a pity that they have stopped producing these

 

[OzPiper]

Look like a Rosewood Pipe, the Ropp?

Made from wood of the cherry tree.
The cherrywood shape derives from these

 

[dingdong]

How is the taste compared to briar or meer, if i may ask ?

 

[Bbailey324]

GLP Union Square in a Peterson Dracula 80s. This tin didn't last long.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Look like a Rosewood Pipe, the Ropp?

To the best of my knowledge, Ropp only used cherry for the natural tree branch style pipes for close to 100 years.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

How is the taste compared to briar or meer, if i may ask ?

After a certain point, not appreciably different from any pipe with 150+ years of smoking through it. I joke, but am serious at the same time.