Iv'e had this little one for ages, but I don't think Iv'e ever smoked it. It's a BC Belami. Had me some Luxury Twist Flake. It is a tiny little thing, it could only take about half a Flake.
***What are You Smoking, March 2022?***
- Thread starter JimInks
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
- Status
My first try of the House Reserve, in a Savinelli Tortuga.
Congratulations on your retirement @Brewfan. This evening I enjoyed PS Luxury Bullseye in a Rossi Billiard, and my goodnight smoke was PS Proper English. No Premier League footie this weekend.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Low Country Pipe & Cigar Natural Virginia & Burley in a 2020 straight black sandblasted Merchant Service “Bing” Standard with a nickel band and black vulcanite tapered stem.
Congrats to you, @Brewfan !
Congrats to you, @Brewfan !
@Latakia Dave Thank you sir!
I couldn't resist the chubby lines of this pipe I got recently. It's kinda dinged up and and not in the greatest shape, but, I thought it was worth putting in a little effort cleaning it up.
I cleaned a ton of gunk out of the mortise with Everclear and Q-tips. I scraped the cake out with the Smoking Pipes Oyster Knife (I love that tool and may now prefer it to my reamers) and had to mix up some cigar ash to fill some small cracks in the chamber above the draught hole. I popped the stem in La Belle Epoque Before & After Deoxidizer for a couple of hours earlier in the week, and spent part of the same afternoon cleaning up the lava with a MagicEraser and some saliva. I wiped down the pipe with La Belle Epoque Restoration Balm.
Tonight, I gave the stem a light buffing with a 12,000 grit pad to get a light sheen (but, not go overboard to take it to a piano gloss finish or obliterate the already worn GBD logo) and topped it off with some Obsidian Oil; then I gave the pipe a coating of Paragon Wax and lightly hand rubbed it.
Now, after a long day, I'm going to have Quiet Nights in this French GBD Flame Rhodesian 9438 with Saddle Stem. It seems like it was worth the two or three hours I futzed around with it.
I cleaned a ton of gunk out of the mortise with Everclear and Q-tips. I scraped the cake out with the Smoking Pipes Oyster Knife (I love that tool and may now prefer it to my reamers) and had to mix up some cigar ash to fill some small cracks in the chamber above the draught hole. I popped the stem in La Belle Epoque Before & After Deoxidizer for a couple of hours earlier in the week, and spent part of the same afternoon cleaning up the lava with a MagicEraser and some saliva. I wiped down the pipe with La Belle Epoque Restoration Balm.
Tonight, I gave the stem a light buffing with a 12,000 grit pad to get a light sheen (but, not go overboard to take it to a piano gloss finish or obliterate the already worn GBD logo) and topped it off with some Obsidian Oil; then I gave the pipe a coating of Paragon Wax and lightly hand rubbed it.
Now, after a long day, I'm going to have Quiet Nights in this French GBD Flame Rhodesian 9438 with Saddle Stem. It seems like it was worth the two or three hours I futzed around with it.
About a third of a bowl left of D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a black tapered vulcanite p-lip stem. Just finished work.
some Amphora Original Brown in a BBB Silver grain 672 standard med.size billiard
A third of the way through this bowl of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a smooth straight brown circa WW2 Trapwell mountain laurel patent apple with a nickel band and a black tapered vulcanite stem. This will end my smoking day. Reading while this bowl lasts.
Good job! It has a whole new look
Thanks! It was fun to work on and didn't take too long. I'm just now finishing smoking it.
Doing it right this early Saturday morning with some half and half in an emerald cob. Good morning pipers
Sunshine & St. James's Plug. Spring has sprung!?
Golden Sliced in an Altinay. Lovely sunny day. Enjoying my pipe in the garden.
Last edited:
- Status