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

[hoosierpipeguy]

Watch City Son on a Beach in a Rubio.

 

[Ted Vig]

Smoking some haunted bookshop in a MM Pony Express. These are great little pipes. I was supposed to have tomorrow off, but nope. One of my guys has a bad case of Conjunctivitis. Poor guy. No fun!

 

[JimInks]

Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of Wilke Picket’s Charge in a post-WW2 straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Dublin 3 bulldog with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. This blend is Wall Street with much less perique (10%) than the regular W.S.

 

[Scottmi]

Le Petit Robin in le petit Brulor Extra Prince, with lavender chamomile tea.

 

[BenMN]

Earlier today, some old Brown Clunee in the DM.


Real nice, this stuff has held up well. Of course, I jarred it shortly after Ted Vig opened the tin for me, must've been April? Maybe March...
I told the pipe club guys to take a bunch but they took only little pinches, so it lingers...

Now smoking 2020 Burley Flake #1 in a cost-ello

 

[Scottmi]

Bonfired a clay pipe of Clan in 48.24s!

Dan, do you have to have a specific weight of tobacco in the pipe for the Fast Pipe Competition?

 

[Scottmi]

The wife and I went and watched the National Reined Cow Horse Association’s Western Derby to check out bloodlines we may breed into Gracie.
I snuck in a couple short bowls of Irish Flake on the J11P without getting in trouble.View attachment 314699

Love it! And brought this old classic to mind

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a little low calorie snacking, and am smoking year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem. Listening to Fibber McGee and Molly from my radio collection. We named Molly Danger after Molly McGee. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Sandblast]

Earlier today, some old Brown Clunee in the DM. Real nice, this stuff has held up well. Of course, I jarred it shortly after Ted Vig opened the tin for me, must've been April? Maybe March... I told the pipe club guys to take a bunch but they took only little pinches, so it lingers...

Not me. With your encouragement, I took nearly a full tin worth. I then brought in May (forgot you were fishing on vacation) half a tin of Old Gowrie for you. But underneath, I added a "surprise" blend to make the tin almost full, separated with a piece of paper. Confident you'll savor the "surprise". Will bring to June meeting. The Brown Clunee is nice, has been enjoyable.
NOTE: The May meeting began with Canadians all around. Excellent conversation, as usual.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Briar Fox in my Vauen Basic Nature 096 with acrylic saddle stem and 9mm filter.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Next up is a Canadian Julius Vesz 3/4 bent egg with a diamond shank and saddle stem
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With a bowl of 4Noggins Weybridge
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That is one beautiful pipe. Do Vesz’s pipes really smoke cooler and sweeter than others as he says?

 

[alaskanpiper]

2016 McClelland Frank P. Burla in a Peterson Iora 124.

 

[OzPiper]

That is one beautiful pipe. Do Vesz’s pipes really smoke cooler and sweeter than others as he says?

Thank you.
I bought that as an estate, just because I loved the look of the pipe.
Hangs well and smokes very well, though I’m not aware of any magical “sap”
Does not pass a cleaner.
But I’m OK with that as I have a few Petersons with the same affliction

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. Reading baseball box scores.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Haunted Bookshop in my Vauen Dr. Perl 6278 with vulcanite saddle stem and 9mm filter.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Thank you.
I bought that as an estate, just because I loved the look of the pipe.
Hangs well and smokes very well, though I’m not aware of any magical “sap”
Does not pass a cleaner.
But I’m OK with that as I have a few Petersons with the same affliction

Sounds like a good pipe to me if it checks all those boxes except passing a cleaner. I have no idea about the dead root briar he speaks of though.

 

[OzPiper]

Sounds like a good pipe to me if it checks all those boxes except passing a cleaner. I have no idea about the dead root briar he speaks of though.

No, my sense of taste is not so developed that I can discern nuances in briar from different regions or if they are air vs kiln dried or oil-cured

I can imagine that some super tasters may be able to tell the difference in new pipes with unstained chambers.
I just can’t see how that is possible in a well-loved estate -despite the assertions of some

 

[Roach1]

Started the week with a bowl of Haunted Bookshop.

 

[The Clay King]

Dan, do you have to have a specific weight of tobacco in the pipe for the Fast Pipe Competition?

@Scottmi It says in the video it's the same amount of tobacco in every pipe:

I notice the Condor packet on the table when they're handing out the clay pipes. I can almost smell all that pipe smoke just watching the video

 

[The Clay King]

Yep, fairly utilitarian, but it smokes!View attachment 314700

@dad-o-nine Nice pipe; I've never had a black one!