***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***

[Carol]

Grousemoor in a clay. Now going out for a nice long walk with my dog. Have a good day everyone.

 

[simong]

@Scottmi Last time we had a King Charles people wore wide brimmed hats and smoked clay pipes

Don’t forget the Roundheads Dan, not everyone was a clay smoking cavalier! Or the jocks, with their bonnets.

 

[bobpnm]

EGR in this Savinelli 111 KS. Green tea accompanying.

 

[FurCoat]

GH Dark Plug in the yard cobs. My brias and meers will get a break now that the spring is here and I spend more time outside getting dirty.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem.

 

[lkwttwkl]

Hello! New piper here. Second try of the SG Balkan in a Peterson Spigot 701.
Not very well on the first try, got to relight all the time. I found that the tobacco is way too wet and thicker than the tobacco i try before (Dan tobacco - Holly's Discovery). So I take a much longer drying time, hope it's go well this time.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

I wonder if patching with waterglass (sodium silicate) will be a better choice than cyanoacrylate in terms of toxicity and handling the heat.

@TheIronMonkey I will look into that, thank you

 

[Beowoulf]

Just finished another bowl of of Smoker Friend Vanilla. The first one was so good I had to have another. Smoked it in a Blatter & Blatter One Red Dot bent made by Patrick Blatter exclusively for the Montreal Pipe Smoker's Club.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

I’m getting the Hans Christian Andersen warden out… TCS Black and Tan, with a cup of tea. Reading Charles Dickens “ The Pickwick Papers”.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking the soon-to-be released KBV King's Ransom 2023 in a 1986 three quarter bend Bacchus face CAO meer with a tapered dark tortoise shell colored acrylic stem. Felt that I needed another bowl to decide a fine point on my review.

 

[The Clay King]

Don’t forget the Roundheads Dan, not everyone was a clay smoking cavalier! Or the jocks, with their bonnets.

@simong Oliver Cromwell was known to smoke a pipe!
Famous painting of King Charles Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers:

Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

One of them is blowing clay pipe smoke in his face...
Portrait of Oliver Cromwell smoking a clay pipe:

Oliver Cromwell - National Portrait Gallery

after Unknown artist line engraving 1653 or after © National Portrait Gallery, London

www.npg.org.uk

Some civil war re-enactors portray both sides although the Royalists were more objecting to tobacco smoking; remember King James I's "Counterblaste to Tobacco".
I could imagine Sealed Knot members saying the smoking ban was "like the Counterblaste to Tobacco all over again"...

 

[The Clay King]

I’m getting the Hans Christian Andersen warden out… TCS Black and Tan, with a cup of tea. Reading Charles Dickens “ The Pickwick Papers”.View attachment 212885

@Backwoods Briar I like the length and shape of that pipe

 

[Backwoods Briar]

@Backwoods Briar I like the length and shape of that pipe

Thank you @halfdan, also, two stems come with it, reg and church warden lengths. It resembles a cutty.

 

[dPero]

Motzek Micah cake in Rinaldo

 

[The Clay King]

Thank you @halfdan, also, two stems come with it, reg and church warden lengths. It resembles a cutty.

@Backwoods Briar The shape resembles a larger version of my Old Dominion Jamestown clays:

Jamestowne Clay Pipe - Old Dominion Pipes | Smokingpipes.com

Enjoy the old-school charm of colonial-era pipes, with this Jamestowne clay pipe from Old Dominion.

www.smokingpipes.com

I would smoke that pipe if it was made of clay

 

[The Clay King]

Grousemoor in a clay. View attachment 212876Now going out for a nice long walk with my dog. Have a good day everyone.

@Carol Nice pipe & good tobacco choice. I think Gawith tobacco is very well suited to clays.

 

[KORNEY]

Jeff Alan Blast Nosewarmer & Tree Sails

 

[The Clay King]

Do you think these would suit the Clay King???

Chess Knight 1.75oz - Cobblestone Pipe Tobacco | Smokingpipes.com

As part of its Chess series, Cobblestone's Knight blend is perfect for lovers of pure Virginia tobbaco.

www.smokingpipes.com

Chess King 1.75oz - Cobblestone Pipe Tobacco | Smokingpipes.com

As part of its Chess series, Cobblestone's King blend is perfect for lovers of pure Virginia-Perique tobacco mixtures.

www.smokingpipes.com

I think "Clay King" would be a good name for a pipe baccy; I imagine it as a golden coloured Virginia / Cavendish blend.

 

[Beowoulf]

Right now smoking some Maple Street by Sutliff. Smoking it in a Blatter & Blatter two red dots 100th anniversary medium bent pipe, carved by Robert Blatter.

 

[Servant King]

Thoroughly exhausted from some of the most intense physical labor of my life (building a fence line from scratch in very rocky ground), but got through the worst of it yesterday, and with a break in the weather, I'll be enjoying what is likely my last bowl of the month. Sutliff Match Victorian in my Stefano bent Rhodesian. Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, California towhee, White-crowned sparrow, House finch, Dark-eyed junco, Northern flicker, Common raven, and Oak titmouse.

With Pesach only a week away now, I plan to spend the next several days pigging out on any and all remaining hametz. Can't wait for wifey's homemade matzah!