***What are You Smoking, March 2022?***

[Servant King]

Capstan Gold RR (sample) in my newly acquired Medico White Wall Meer-lined straight billiard. No bird report today...I was too busy lavishing my attention on to the action of the pipe. ?

 

[onestrangeone]

Haunted Bookshop in an IMP Devil Anse

 

[mso489]

Sutliff Field and Stream Match in a C&D MM bent cob, getting toward the bottom of a 2 oz. jar. A pleasant old time blend, a little too sweet for me but tasty.

 

[OzPiper]

Testing down for the 1st of 2 bowls.

MacBaren's HH Arcadian Perique

In a Tom Eltang sandblasted Polonius. This pipe was bought new and the 1st bowl was awful because of the dreadful bowl coating. (Tom, how could you ?). I have patiently sanded out the coating, so let's see how it smokes now.

Just a mug of black chai tea and a glass of water.

 

[shanez]

Capstan Gold Flake in a Bruno Nuttens billiard with a glass of St Feuillien Grand Cru beer:

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking year 2008 Kramer’s Father Dempsey in an undated unbranded straight black sandblasted short shank billiard with a long black vulcanite tapered stem. Running low on this blend now.

 

[jaytex1969]

C&D Redburn in a Karl Erik Ball.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Folklore in a Rubio.

 

[onestrangeone]

Tobac Manil, Reserve du Patron in an Il Duca Apple

 

[OzPiper]

That 1st bowl of MacBaren's HH Arcadian Perique went a lot better than I'd expected. The awful smell from the coating only appeared intermittently. I really did not want to dedicate this pipe to an English/Balkan blend.

The next bowl is Peterson's Elizabethan Mixture

In a S Bang canted tulip - deeply grooved and sandblasted (a la Tom Eltang). With a slightly bent saddle stem. Copenhagen era.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cut out of work early and am smoking Visions of Celephäis.

 

[jewman22]

CB Cherry in a Bruyere Guarantee that I rusticated for fun last year.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke No. 24 in a smooth straight brown 1949 Yello-Bole Century Model Lovat with a nickel band accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Have one last track to listen to on Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci.

 

[Jacob74]

Working through the last bowl of the evening, some 7Seas regular in my Danmore 6025,

 

[leonardbill1]

Watch City Rhythm & Blues in a 32-34 Kaywoodie Drinkless shape 8767.

 

[UncleRasta]

It did well. I do think you were onto something when you noticed that it mellows the rough edges on some blends. I was trying the "breath" method for the first time today, so that made a little difference in all the pipes I smoked.

Yes indeed. I deploy them with more awareness mow and am deriving more pleasure from them. They do better with Latakia and/or Perique heavy blends.

 

[jaytex1969]

Another round of Redburn in the Karl Erik Ball.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Jubilaeums Flake Small Batch (1371/1500) in a Savinelli Autograph (Grade 6, or Group 6 as described on the Savinelli site) Rhodesian.


This is the first of two Autograph Rhodesians gotten directly from Savinelli. Their low slung profiles made my eyes pop out of my head; I'm a sucker for squat Rhodesians. I'm bummed there were were duties and taxes due upon arrival; I'm just glad they weren't as high as some stories I've read. The chamber is a good deal smaller than is my usual preference, but, I love the look and feel of the pipe so much. In actuality, the size may work out well for a Virginia blend.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.