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

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning all. I did a little sleeping in this morning after a late night of basketball and bourbon. We’re still dancing!!
I’m starting my day with KVB Burley Morning Pipe and coffee with bourbon cream, for a little hair of the dog. Cheers!

 

[JimK]

Good weekend and pipes to all! Started with a tryout of St. Bruno RR in a MM Cob. Very nice; the cob softens the strident notes although it dulls the taste somewhat for my challenged palate. Elizabethan Mixture awaits the match. Not in a cob.

 

[ashdigger]

Coniston Plug in a 1908 Imperial Meer with Amber Stem

 

[Latakia Dave]

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.

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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.

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Excellent restoration sir!

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Saturday morning all. Smoking Watch City Rhythm & Blues. I find this blend very pleasing.

 

[Qball89]

Some anglers dream in a MM cob. A lot of mixed reviews but I find it nice, light and pleasing. Sometimes that’s all I can ask for…

 

[kg.legat0]

Smoking a bowl of C&D Eight State Burley in a Peterson Rosslare - really enjoying this ESB ...Mrs. KG was nice enough to purchase a couple tins for me as a surprise

 

[Brewfan]

HH burley flake in a Peterson spigot system. Getting set to watch the Pipestud festivities.

 

[LotusEater]

Presbyterian in a GBD

 

[RobNYC]

Pegasus in Ser Jacopo Maxima bent egg.

 

[Qball89]

Starting the 11 o’clock hour with some SWR in a cob. Really enjoying these codger blends as of late.

 

[jlopez]

‘22 Eight State Burley in a Mastro de Paja Bella 02 bent Rhodesian this morning with coffee. I had my first bowl last night and REALLY enjoying this tobacco. Glad a bought a few tins.

 

[Latakia Dave]

Enjoying a bowl of Capstan Blue flake in a self made Chimney Poker and watching some blowing snow flurries on a windy 50* Saturday morning in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia

 

[Laurent]

This morning is Billy budd and Stanwell

 

[Qball89]

Enjoying a bowl of Capstan Blue flake in a self made Chimney Poker and watching some blowing snow flurries on a windy 50* Saturday morning in the Shenandoah Valley Virginia View attachment 136392

I see you have made some really nice pipes. How do you go about making them? Do you use a lathe or do you carve them? I know I could google it but thought maybe to get a more personal response by asking a fellow forum member that I see on here a bunch. Thanks.

 

[FurCoat]

SWRA im a Medico Seafoam

 

[didimauw]

OJK in my modded cob.

 

[telescopes]

Five Pointed 2 Star Lee rusticated chubby apple loaded with an old favorite of mine, John Dengler Black Maria , a mild English blend.

 

[Jwebb90]

Old Fredders in a Peterson SH Professor PSB.

 

[tmcg81]

Solani Aged Burley Flake in a Kaywoodie Silhouette billiard.