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

[Sandblast]

For anthonyrosenthal74:
I share your interest in Nordings. My avatar, also pic below, shows one of my greatest pipe regrets. I bought, many years back, that black sandblasted Nording. With the plateau top, it looked like a Freehand, sort of a Ben Wade, but with the traditional shank & stem, I just thought it was SO cool. And G-- only knows WHY I traded it off. It was a great smoking pipe & very unique. My acquisition of Stanwells ... a 62, a 64 & several 63s ... was my attempt to somewhat rectify that wrong. They're Danish & the 63's look similar, but I'll never stop kicking myself for letting that beautiful Nording go down the road. I keep the memory alive with my avatar. I've contacted Nording but was told that they haven't made that exact pipe for years.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Savinelli Tortuga 673KS.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Still working on the Barlings.

 

[JimInks]

Jim ... Great pipe! I've got both a Smooth & a Donegal Rocky rusticated. I ordered both with the Fishtail stem.
Both are System Standards, of course, and the Smooth is actually called the 305XL. Not sure why they didn't just call it a 315, like the Rusticated? My smaller 305s, also both a Smooth & a Donegal Rocky rusticated, are each called 305s. LOVE the Pete System Standards (!!!).
QUES:
In all the WAYS I've followed, I don't think I've ever seen you show a Cob, nor a Falcon. Guessing they're not your "thing", but I'm curious???

I have over 30 cobs, and some are unsmoked, but I'm not into cobs because the stems don't take clenching well at one point or another, and there's no chance that I'll buy a forever stem that's worth a lot more than the cob is.

A friend made this for me, and once in a while, I do smoke it.


Falcons and Vikings are just not my style.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking first production Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 67/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. I'll probably finish the day with this smoke if I can get everything done that needs doing before bed time.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in this basket pipe to start the day

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Morning smoke of Amphora Original brown in a group 3 Dunhill Bruyere 111 F/T anno 1974

 

[Sigmund]

Reiner's long golden flake in a Kai with tea this morning.

 

[Roach1]

Orlik Golden Sliced in a Georg Jensen.

 

[DanWil84]

Last crums of Ascanian #2 in a Stanwell Silverline 85

 

[Sigmund]

Classic Roll Cake in a Radice.