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

[luigi]

Preparing for HH Rustica session in Chris Morgan's hanging brandy.

 

[pipeboy122]

2014 Drew Estate Meat Pie in a Viking Head Meerschaum

 

[danimalia]

I was in the mood for a big bowl, so I picked my Schrauf's pipe which is (together with the MM corn cob General) the largest I have. Schrauf is the name of a tobacco & pipes shop in the beautiful city of Nuremberg, in Bavaria, south Germany. You can find there tobacco products and accessories from different vendors, own house blends and also house pipes. They are made of briar, big sized, sold at -very- affordable prices and they are unfinished / unpainted. The smoker decides whether he will leave them as they are and let them darken naturally through time or he will apply some kind of paint or oil on them. I chose the second and used (what else?) olive oil.
So, I have loaded it with a generous quantity of John Aylesbury mixture 777, and enjoying it together with a double dose of Greek/Turkish coffee, a special blend with spices in it.
To me personally, when I smoke my pipe, usually twice per day, one in the morning and one in the evening, it is more than something that gives me a feeling of satisfaction, it is closer to... happiness. Yes, I am happy when I smoke my pipe.
Nice weekend and good heart to all the good people.

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The pipe looks amazing! You coated it with olive oil? Interesting. I have been using olive oil on my vulcanite stems, applying it every 6 smokes or so with a paper towel and then rubbing it in with a dry paper towel. It seems to work well in keeping the stems looking nice and black instead of faded and gross.

Now smoking MacBaren Latakia Rolls in a Peterson Shannon 150.

 

[das3353]

Having some WC Old Dominion in a Radice Silk Cut

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 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.

 

[Paul lec]

Some Two Timer in a once Peterson Ebony Killarney, the finish blistered badly,my fault??‍. I stripped the black finish and used olive oil, not perfect, but better than blusters.

 

[Paul lec]

Blisters?

 

[tnfan]

OGS in a CAO Bekler.

 

[JOHN72]

We continue with. C&D Sansepolcro in corn pipe Charles Towne Cobbler.........................

 

[greeneyes]

2018 Presbyterian in a Koppenhagen Bros. straight grain Birmingham mount (1890s).

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

The pipe looks amazing! You coated it with olive oil? Interesting. I have been using olive oil on my vulcanite stems, applying it every 6 smokes or so with a paper towel and then rubbing it in with a dry paper towel. It seems to work well in keeping the stems looking nice and black instead of faded and gross.
Now smoking MacBaren Latakia Rolls in a Peterson Shannon 150.

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Thank you, this is as it was in the start, olive oil gives a darker coloring.

 

[Winterreise]

Peterson Perfect Plug into a Meer , green tea is my drink ? .

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

Pipe is a kkkk Sea Rock Liverpool 12

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of C&D Burley Ribbon Cut in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 square shank sitter with a silver pearl gray acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[FurCoat]

WCC Fat Bastard in a Mark Twain cob.

 

[pipeboy122]

2014 Dunhill Nightcap in a Savinelli Caramella 606

 

[keith929]

Drucquer & Sons Trafalgar in a cob.

 

[Mtlpiper]

Breaking in this oom paul again with some HH Acadian Perique - delicious stuff with a big can of black coffee.

 

[cory84]

HGL in a sandblasted Crown Manola scoop

 

[ebnash]

Five Bros in a GBD Bulldog