***What Are You Smoking, June 2025?***

[das3353]

KBV Jim’s Special Flake in a Radice

 

[stoopidbaits]

C&d chocolate Cavendish in a falcon. Wife liked the room note.

 

[JoeW]

Another day ending in ‘y’, another Falcon snifter of Tashkent, followed by a snifter of Kendal No.7.

 

[Sobrbiker]

2018 F&T Blackjack in a little Eire System 31.
Both from amazing members here.

 

[ThermionicScott]

BBF in my Morgan Smooth.

 

[stoopidbaits]

This one is.... bizarre? Interesting? It's like a cheese you gotta keep smelling to decide if it's amazing or terrible.

 

[JimInks]

Near the last third of this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures Mr. Christian’s Brown Flek 2021 in a smooth brown full bend 1984 Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Been busy traffic copping feral feeding.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

5100 in a Stefan Cashwell sandblast

 

[kcmontie]

Smoking the last of a sample of HU tumbling dice in a Castello

 

[Jwebb90]

Medium Flake (2014) in a Ben Wade.

 

[Briarcutter]

Well, this is a big day for me. I am thrilled and honored to show the debut of my new Larry Roush Poker pipe that I just received this week.

I have wanted one of Larry's works of art for several months now and knowing how I like the poker shape, he contacted me that he had just finished one and I could have it if I wished. "Heck Yeah!!" was my reply.
I went back and forth on which blend would accompany me on this maiden voyage but finally I settled on some Escudo.

Some of you know that my belief in what is the #1 characteristic of a great smoking pipe is draw. This pipe is arguably the finest drawing pipe I have ever smoked. Not to much, not to little...... It is perfect!!!!

Each of Larry's pipes has it's completion date, maker's name and pipe number. This pipe is number 2,791 and has the hand carved sterling silver band and all of the other Roush trademarks.

Larry is a member of this forum and while I won't divulge his username (I'll respect his privacy) I would encourage any of you that are interested in seeing more of his brilliant works to go to his website:

Home Page

Larry Roush, briar,cumberland,ebonite,bakelite,Roush, Larry,pipe, pipes, sandblast, rusticated, delrin tenon, hand made pipes, hand made pipe

roushpipes.com

I couldn't be more pleased!!

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Congratulations "lifer" When I was in the Navy and we'd call someone a lifer we didn't necessarily mean well, but I do here! Every pipe smoker in Tennessee needs at least one Poker!

 

[Carol]

My wife and I take care of ferals, too, and most happen to be mackerels. That look is the classic, “I’m happy to be here and all, and I’m not scared, but I’m watching you because I just don’t quite trust you yet.“ Seen it many times. It’s in the body language, too.

We have some wonderful, sweet ones we care for, but it takes more time and effort to build trust with mackerels, usually.

Thanks for this post. I learned something today. Mackerel, in my world, is a fish. I never heard tabby cats called mackerel before. Had to look it up. Now I know. Beautiful cats.
Enjoying a bowl of SWRA in a cob. Have a good Saturday evening everyone.

 

[Jwebb90]

This is a configuration I've never seen before . . . the pipe will be tilted bowl towards the smoker . . . . pardon my ignorance, but what is this style called? Is it perhaps Lestrade?

I am terrible with pipe shapes, but I would call this a full-bent apple.

Lestrade is a character from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

 

[PaulRVA]

GH Kendal # 6 Shag in a Bruno Nuttens Bing and Diet Coke on the side. Watching the Belmont Stakes - Red Sox Yankees game️

 

[Briarcutter]

Smoking the last of a sample of HU tumbling dice in a Castello View attachment 397405

Very interesting top on that Castello!

 

[cshubhra]

Another cigar: H Upmann 1844 Anejo

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of unreleased 2021 Sutliff VaPer in a mid-2000 decade Tom Eltang straight black sand blasted canted AJ Dublin with a cream and brown horn ferrule, and a tapered black acrylic stem.

 

[Roach1]

Finishing a bowl of Briar Fox in a small DM Stanwell Freehand.

 

[BlueRidge]

1792 in an old antiquari

 

[Briar Lee]

Aged Sir Walter Raleigh in an ancient, oil cured, aged, unvarnished, unstained, and unpainted Algerian briar rustic three quarter bent Bertram, slowly coloring to oxblood, made by crippled soldiers in the shadow of the Capitol dome in Washington D.C.




My pipe is more patriotic than your pipe!

Sing one Merle!