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

[tfdickson]

2010 Navy Rolls in my MarTelo bent billiard.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Sutcliffe CK VaPer out of a Peterson Donegal Rocky 606 estate.

 

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Smoked a bowel of BCA In a Star Meerschaum Pipes straight Dublin while finishing up a new pipe I am calling a Mapledog! Made from a block of maple from a tree I cut down 25 years ago.View attachment 133300View attachment 133301

That's another nice one!

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, French cut pork chops and sugar snap peas dinner with a few chunks of pineapple for dessert. I'm smoking year 2013 Dunhill Flake in a straight smooth 1960 Dunhill DRA 137 group 4 root briar canted dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching an episode of The Untouchables.

 

[RobNYC]

Shandygaff in a Radice Rind billiard.

 

[virkia]

Going to light up Esoterica And So to Bed (2021) in a Savinelli Punto Oro Bent Billiard (almost an Oom Paul?) with Bamboo Shank (metal reinforced tube inside and a pain to try to make the turn at the bottom to clean).

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Love your pipe - most bodacious - but the bowl looks to me more Hungarian than Oom Paul i.e. more rounded/egg-shaped than cylindrical straight -up.

Speaking about the Oom Paul - Afrikaans/Dutch for ‘Uncle Paul’
(Paulus Kruger 1824-1904 - general and later president) you've got to go back to the second Boer War 1899-1902.
The shape was named after him and was also known as the Kruger pipe.

"In 1898, Kruger’s friends ordered a Peterson Oversized Patent O.2 for his birthday with an engraved crest of the Transvaal on the bowl. While this was merely a special order (and not a gift from K&P), it caused a political publicity storm that was in newspapers around the world, many featuring a photo of the pipe in its clamshell case with its Gratis Pipe Tool and extra stem."
Courtesy Peterson's Pipe Notes

A popular shape at the time with a similar example seen in the mouth of Charles Peterson in this 1910 sketch.
Courtesy Peterson Pipe Notes
The shape continued with various models including the 02, the 02B, the XL02 etc.

All the main pipe-makers of the day (1900) had examples including BBB ...


... and even though all originally had roughly the same bowl size smaller sizes became available from the 1920s onwards

 

[JimInks]

perfect pipe for the annual rewatching of "The Big Lebowski". What blend to smoke in it though is the question?
Back to the subject at hand just had a really enjoyable bowl of Key largo in thee ole falcon. Actually smoked down to just ash. The color of the ash? No idea it was pretty dim under that street lamp. Alright going to go scrub some shitter room floors.

I immediately knew that Dunhill would be a straight Virginia pipe. I had think about which blend, and went with a tobacco that's only dedicated to one other pipe, which is bigger than that Dunhill. Gives me two choices depending on my time this way.

 

[PiedmontPipe]

Smoked a bowel of BCA In a Star Meerschaum Pipes straight Dublin while finishing up a new pipe I am calling a Mapledog! Made from a block of maple from a tree I cut down 25 years ago.View attachment 133301

The Mapledog looks great!

 

[tnfan]

Solani Silver Flake in a Radice Bent Apple.

 

[cshubhra]

Smokers Haven Exotique Mixture in a Dunhill Millennium Shell from 2000

 

[anotherbob]

I immediately knew that Dunhill would be a straight Virginia pipe. I had think about which blend, and went with a tobacco that's only dedicated to one other pipe, which is bigger than that Dunhill. Gives me two choices depending on my time this way.

which blend? In case we ever end up watching that movie together. Want to make sure what I smoke compliments the blend. Best to be prepared.

 

[Streeper541]

... finishing up a new pipe I am calling a Mapledog! Made from a block of maple from a tree I cut down 25 years ago.View attachment 133301

Beautiful pipe sir!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R Penhooker in a straight brown sandblasted post-WWII family era Sasieni “Canadian” London Made with a sterling silver band with a tapered black vulcanite twin bore stem. Off to work now.

 

[Eye-level]

Just finished a bowl of British Imperial in the Owl Shop pipe. Smoked pretty good. Now drying some St Pats gonna use one of the Ed's. Red Diamond. Midway is the movie.

 

[LotusEater]

H&H Black House in a rusticated Shikano53 pipe.

 

[skydog]

Wessex Gold Slice in a Peterson 120 army mount.

 

[Sidehatch]

Esoterica And So To Bed in a Soren Freehand Sitter. Looking forward to some sleep.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2013 Astleys 44 in a Howell.

 

[Skapie]

After the first day without rain in Sydney after 15 days with averaging 33mm a day, enjoying the sun with some EMP in a Pete 314.

 

[RobNYC]

HH Old Dark Fired in a Rinaldo Sahara bent apple.