***What Are You Smoking, March 2021?***

[KafkaStoleMyBike]

Unnamed Dublin and my recent purchase.

 

[redz]

Just finished a bowl of Sutliff Medium English out of a Ferndown Bark poker.

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of KBV Festivus VaPer beta test in a 1978 Peterson Deluxe 20S medium bend smooth dark brown billiard with a silver cap military mount black vulcanite saddle stem and p-lip. The outdoor feral cat who hurt his leg came back, and is doing better. Poor little fella was hungry as a horse, but not now.

 

[greeneyes]

There is another word, a neutral one, in Greek "τσιμπούκι" ("tsimbouki") - sounds like "cheemboukee". This comes from the Turkish "çubuk", Greeks have lived under (together with) the Turks for 400 years, and hundreds Turkish words are used in Greek. But "çubuk" in Turkish does not mean smoking pipe, it means a wooden stick or a tree branch. This makes sense if you think of the very long pipes of the Ottoman Empire era (as presented in paintings and drawings). Anyway, this second word ("tsimbouki") is seldom used anymore, everybody say "pipa".

This is interesting and makes me wonder if the words 'cachimbo' (pron. 'catsimbou') and 'cachimba,' used in Portuguese and Spanish languages for 'pipe,' aren't etymologically related.

 

[chefmike]

Currently smoking a bowl of McConnell Scotch flake out of a Sav Oscar that has a super glue repaired shank. We are being classy. I am drinking Jumex peach, lime juice and vodka, watching Juvenitis VS Lazio with my son. Wife is suffering second dose Moderna side effects (not complaining) and ordering some asian from a local place for dinner. Good start to spring break. Oh, already killed a little Pegasus and some East India cellar reserve out of a Pete Kapet I love. Drinking a Lonestar. Before cleaning hair out of drains around the house...

 

[Winterreise]

Smoking SPC Plum Pudding Special Reserve into a cutty meer .

 

[virkia]

GBD XTRA on the shank . . . rounded bowl rim only seen, in my experience, on pipe bowls produced during the 1920s and 1930s

"GBD Xtra and GBD Speciale were very early models whose names indicated special final treatments and / or fitments. The standard quality was stamped simply with GBD" (from Pipedia)
The above GBD XTRA catalogue page is apparently from the 1950s so the XTRA model clearly had a long life or it was born again after apparently having been discontinued in the late 1930s . . . as for the Xtra being a "very early model" I'd have expected to see it listed in the 1895 Harrods brochure which it isn't

GBD and AO (Adolphe OPPENHEIMER for A.OPPENHEIMER & CO - pipe mounter) on the ferrule with marks for London 1917
GBD XTRA on the stem


+ Sobranie RESERVE BLEND ORIGINAL VIRGINIA MIXTURE:-

 

[cory84]

Five Brothers in a straight MM 5th Avenue Diplomat

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Wilke Beta Test #3XYZC in a 2003 URAL full bend big bowl egg shaped Lattice meer with a black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I will post the full instructions later today. @hoosierpipeguy can attest, it’s very tasty.

I can attest, it is superb if you like a sweeter tasting blend. Which I do.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #1 in a Vauen 9mm bent egg.

 

[krizzose]

WCC Rhythm & Blues in a Tinsky acorn

 

[greeneyes]

Benson and Hedges Mellow Virginia Flake in a Ben Wade Walnut billiard with diamond shank.

 

[shikano53]

Peterson Nightcap in my

Three examples (one out of the book "Ye Smokiana: Historical Ethnographical - Pipes of all Nations" by R.T. Pritchett first published 1889/1890 . . . a disappointing book with no pipes made of briar despite briar pipes having been around for a good thirty tears before the book was published)

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... and speaking about wooden sticks and tree branches
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Boy, now that is too cool! I'm thinking in order to drill that stem you might use a heated coat hanger that you have taken apart and repeatedly heating it in a fire or via a torch and working your way down. Just a guess.
Very cool IMHO

 

[shikano53]

So many cool pipes on here as I browse through the postings.
GH Happy Brown Boogie in my home made Churchwarden.

 

[renfield]

Mac Baren Virginia Flake in a large Pioneer meer poker.

 

[chefmike]

Just reloaded with a jar of ABUSED PS cube cut that has been on the porch for 1.5 years. Really dang tasty from the light. Game is about over and need to run to town to pick up dinner. Singapore noodles, with instructions to not spare the heat. PS cube cut could be my desert island blend. Might need to buy 5lb bags like chasingembers...

 

[pandapiper]

Just enjoyed a wonderful steak for dinner, followed by chocolate mousse cake. Now wrapping things up with some HH Vintage Syrian in a cob.

 

[Birddog66]

I’m going old school before bed with a 09 Charles Maas Calabash (it’s been in a box, I forgot I had the bloody thing) with some more of the Royal Yacht, this I can get into even though I’m not usually keen on straight Va’s. A lot more body and depth than I thought it would, at least this gamble paid off. Hang on, I’m getting a little rum to go with this
That’s better

 

[shanez]

Started with some GH&C Scotch Flake in a CAO meer with a glass of 2009 10 year old Normandin-Mercier Grande Champagne Cognac while in the pool. Latin pop hits playing on youtube.

Followed by 2x bowls of DT Ascanian No 2 in a MM diplomat apple cob with a double glass of Drambuie on the rocks. 80s rock hits on youtube playing in the background.

Enough water.

Now enjoying some Penzance that was jarred 6/14 for the very first smoke in this exquisite Rolando Negoita (thank you Marty Pulver!) with a glass of 29 year old Glen Fohdry Scotch poolside. American Pie playing in the background!