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

[The Clay King]

Rattling around the office this morning trying to finish up a never ending corporate re-organization for a German client - my client is on the beach in the South of France and I am chained to my desk. Call me Cinder-fella! This morning I am smoking my way through my last tin I have on hand of Richmond Navy Cut Flake before I hook up with a chum in the U.K later in the month. I trade Gawith products with him for stuff such as Richmond since Gawith is cheaper in the U.S than in dear old Blighty! My pipe de jour is this fun meerschaum Devil Arse from the early 1900s from an unknown maker.

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@condorlover1 I got stung last time I ordered from Smokingpipes:-(

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Butera Dark Stoved in the Bacigalupi 2 Anchor bent dublin.

 

[JOHN72]

Good Afternoon. Smoking the first third of Davidoff “ Flake Medallions, In a MM Cobbler.

 

[condorlover1]

@condorlover1 I got stung last time I ordered from Smokingpipes:-(

Dan you might have noticed you are in the U.K. Anything sent to you in Great Britain from a U.S supplier will be labeled as 'tobacco'. This is guaranteed to get you caught by HMRC aka the Customs Men! If you cast your mind back you might remember when I or the late @weezel sent you tobacco we would label it as 'Special Ed Supplies' or 'Crayons' and things that would not draw the average bureaucrats inquiring mind!

 

[TampaPete]

Nicely-aged Haddo’s Delight in my (thanks again to @dottlejockey) Stanwell Royal Rouge 233L

 

[jttnk]

1/2 Flake of Newminster 400 and 1/2 Flake of Dark Strong Kentucky. Fully rubbed out mixed, packed and set overnight. Very nice once you get it going. MM Mark Twain with a repurposed Cobbit stem.

 

[The Clay King]

Dan you might have noticed you are in the U.K. Anything sent to you in Great Britain from a U.S supplier will be labeled as 'tobacco'. This is guaranteed to get you caught by HMRC aka the Customs Men! If you cast your mind back you might remember when I or the late @weezel sent you tobacco we would label it as 'Special Ed Supplies' or 'Crayons' and things that would not draw the average bureaucrats inquiring mind!

@condorlover1 Good idea; it worked Got stung for a tin of Sillem's Musketeer that ended up costing 3 times the cost of the baccy:-(

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Dunburton Umbagog

 

[The Clay King]

Cigar Time: Dunburton UmbagogView attachment 314609

@cshubhra Do you think the Clay King could smoke a cigar that size in one big drag?

 

[gcm]

@gcm Sorry to hear you don't like it!

I only got 2 tins, it's not the end of the world .

 

[cshubhra]

@cshubhra Do you think the Clay King could smoke a cigar that size in one big drag?

I surely like to see you try ! if you can, you will win the title “The Supreme Overlord Emperor of Cigars and Clays”

 

[The Clay King]

I only got 2 tins, it's not the end of the world .

@gcm Do think the Clay King would like it? Not into Latakia but not sure about Oriental leaf. The Clay King is more Virginia / Burley / Cavendish blends.

 

[marlow-se]

Ashton Artisan's Blend in a regd. era Stanwell Royal Bark 713 (Sixten Ivarsson shape).

 

[The Clay King]

I surely like to see you try ! if you can, you will win the title “The Supreme Overlord Emperor of Cigars and Clays”

@cshubhra I can smoke a cigarette / cigarillo / Hamlet in one drag

 

[gcm]

@gcm Do think the Clay King would like it? Not into Latakia but not sure about Oriental leaf. The Clay King is more Virginia / Burley / Cavendish blends.

It's a burley/orient/va flake.

I haven't tasted anything besides burley (I also never smoke burley, this must be why).

 

[The Clay King]

It's a burley/orient/va flake.

I haven't tasted anything besides burley (I also never smoke burley, this must be why).

@gcm Do you think it would suit the King's Clay?

 

[Lucro]

@Lucro Yes I lost my footing after smoking a strong baccy once Crashed into a tree, dropped my hat & broke my clay pipe

Craziness! Glad I switched to Old Toby (Country Squire Tombigbee) for breakfast with my favorite iced mocha.

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Spent the first day of Hurricane Season here on East Coast Florida enjoying GH Brown Flake Aromatic in a dedicated wee Tilshead smooth Dublin with flattened shank and matching eighth-bent tapered stem size 3. Contemplated pipes, tobacco and related smoking gear for the hurricane survival/evacuation box. Starting today with Peterson De Luxe Navy Rolls in an Upshall sandblast Canadian size 4.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John’s Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Habana Daydream in a Bruno Nuttens Blasted Twiggy.