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

[coming to_falling too]

GH&Co. Dark Birds Eye in a Tsuge stack

 

[cigrmaster]

2001 Astleys no 109 in a Jack Howell Billiard.

 

[BROBS]

1980s Mac Baren Navy Flake

 

[Birddog66]

I’m going for a long walk with a few pipes packed up, SG Choc Flake, Royal Yacht and St James Mayors Flake in a Nording Sailor, MM Legend and my trusty cheap Clipper (same brand that makes the lighters) that still smokes well even after losing it in the garden for a year. A flask of rum might find its way into my pocket as well.

 

[edger]

I reckon the only way to make a hole through a 24"/60cm long tree branch to make a pipe stem back in the day would've been the way these guys did it

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Pipe Dance, Assiniboine by George Catlin, Smithsonian American Art Museum (1835-1837)

According to a 1949 article in Pipe Lovers magazine the cores of the woods used for stems contain pulpy, soft, pith centers. Pipemakers would pour grease into the wood and the pith would soak it up. Then a small hole was fashioned for placement of a hungry grub, which was sealed inside with pitch. The grub would eat through the greasy pith and come out the other side, leaving a smooth, even smoke hole behind.
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And the pipe ghosted with grub poo.

 

[dcon]

MB VA #1 in a Rossi Vittoria #8315 Prince.

 

[mikefu]

Mississippi River Special Reserve in a BriarWorks c51 Crimson Sandblasted Rhodesian

 

[JimK]

Good morning all. Lovely pipes and sentiments. Starting the day with some old Peretti Rum Flake in an Upshall Rusticated Canadian size 4.

 

[newbroom]

Keeping it simple with a 50/50 mix of Penhooker/TwoTimer in a straight MasterCraft Deluxe smooth apple w/sterling silver band

 

[PipeLoverInPA]

Good morning gentlemen.

Frog Morton Cellar, in a Larrysson. Have an outstanding day gents!

 

[telescopes]

My first smoke in my Geppetto. A mildly aromatic blend of cherry and cavendish. The break in process as taught to me by my father will take a week or so.

 

[telescopes]

Remarkably light weight and balanced.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired in a Brigham Klondike 09 apple

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing this bowl of circa year 2000 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Finally got a good night's sleep in.

 

[B_Rock]

Starting the morning off with Haddo’s Delight in a Rossi Rubino Antico 8404. Drinking coffee - Neil Young continues to play on the Bose...Long may you run!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a black tapered vulcanite stem. Time to do some walking reps.

 

[danimalia]

We had a terrific ZOOM today, with a guest presenter from Barrie House, to discuss the complimentary relationships and possible pairings of coffee and pipe tobacco. Very informative!
I smoked my new (it arrived in the mail just before the meeting) Morta pipe from ChamersburgPipe. It's a smooth, straight grained poker with a bamboo shank. I filled it with McClelland's No. 24, and it smoked great, right out of the box! No break-in necessary.
I enjoyed a mug of Barrie House Indonesian Sumatra to go with the Virginia tobacco. Very nice combo.

I am no coffee expert, but I seem to always love a good cup of a Sumatran coffee.

Just finishing up a bowl of C&D Burley Flake #3 in an unfinished Savinelli Series III lumberman

 

[The Clay King]

Spent the day in the saddle to clear the head. Now on the patio with a nice bowl of Rattray’s Exotic Orange in a Big Ben Sera with clear acrylic stem.
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A BMW R1200 - it's like the one James Bond rides in Vietnam when he jumps over the helicopter in Tomorrow Never Dies!

 

[gamzultovah]

Finally got a good night's sleep in.

Not to pry but, too many worries at work, Jim? If it is, trust me, I know the feeling.

 

[FurCoat]

SWR in a Grand Duke