***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***

Log in

SmokingPipes.com Updates

Watch for Updates Twice a Week

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor

BurleyVonPuffington

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 26, 2021
271
4,723
I used to run both ends of a pipe cleaner through the stem, and then fold it in half and do the chamber every time I smoked. I realized I was causing my pipes to burn hotter because they weren’t building any cake at all, so now I clean them about every five or so smokes.
I probably need to clarify that my bowl cleaning isn’t really cleaning in terms of removing cake; it’s just lightly turning a paper towel to loosen dottle. Ideally, I hardly ever CLEAN clean any pipe bowl unless something’s gone wrong.
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
66,046
690,576
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2014 Dan Tobacco Hamborger Veermaster in a smooth straight brown 1950 Dunhill 48 bulldog group 4 root briar with a black vulcanite fish tail saddle stem.
Dunhill_1950_root-bulldog48.jpg

Currently, I'm near the finish of this year 2012 Dan Tobacco Treasures of Ireland: Limerick in a 2021 medium bend black sandblasted Peterson Newgrange 80S bent bulldog silver spigot with a tapered reddish brown, black striped acrylic stem.
Peterson_80S_NG_bbulldog_ ss.jpg

Another photo of Ringo the birthday boy.
Ringo_Birthday2.jpg

Here's Ringo's brothers Archie and Billy.
Archie&BillySnooze1.jpg
 

Fooberticus

Might Stick Around
Dec 14, 2019
60
477
Over the last couple of weeks I've been going through my deep storage of jars. Tonight I cracked open a jar of Nat Sherman 536 Empire English from 2019, smoked in a Savinelli Dry System 613 smooth bent billiard. Rich, creamy and smooth smoke, spicy, fruity and bready. Everything about it seems to have improved with age.
 

BenMN

Lifer
Jun 21, 2023
2,765
46,714
St. Paul, MN
Over the last couple of weeks I've been going through my deep storage of jars. Tonight I cracked open a jar of Nat Sherman 536 Empire English from 2019, smoked in a Savinelli Dry System 613 smooth bent billiard. Rich, creamy and smooth smoke, spicy, fruity and bready. Everything about it seems to have improved with age.
That's a great one we don't see much. I have a single tin left from the period after Nat, before its total demise, when labeled Metropolitan 536.

Smoking through some Scottish Cake gifted by @Ted Vig after pipe club tonight, in an old Nording

20240905_235708.jpg
 

Zamora

Lifer
Mar 15, 2023
1,117
2,922
Olympia, Washington
Had a bowl of Plum Pudding in my Paykok Sherlock. I won't be smoking PP with this pipe again, the bowl is tapering and that makes kakes in general more difficult but PP is so chunky even when rubbed out it doesn't fit well especially as it expands from charring. No big deal, it smokes ready rubbed wonderfully and does a good job with cube cut flakes. Next time I want PP I'll smoke it one of my English dedicated briars.20250220_132139 (1).jpg