***What Are You Smoking, May 2020?***

[maulragoth]

Comoy's Cask #4 in a bent Twain Cob.

 

[virkia]

Dunhill Root Briar 'Hungarian' in a Group 4 . . . another from 1979 + Mac Baren UNCLE LOUIE'S BAR SELECTION RUM:-

 

[das3353]

SG Best Brown in a Moretti

 

[twoonefive]

May the 4th be with you! About to fire up a Weaver Horn with Solani ABF.

 

[MattRVA]

Peretti RCTR in a Ashton Pebble Grain lovat XXX.

 

[canucklehead]

Smoking a homemade English mixture I made a jar of a while ago and almost forgot about. Cheap Drexel VIII vaper flakes rubbed out mixed with C&D blending Latakia and two burleys. One burley is my buddy's homegrown high-nic ass-kicker stuff, the other is 40-year old Prince Albert. Doing wood stuff while smoking.

 

[gaffersweed]

McCranies Somerled in a Flogelwerks Dragon Egg with a 12 inch maple stem. Beautiful evening here in Oregon

 

[dcon]

Kramers Father Dempsey in a MM Little Devil Cutty.

 

[mso489]

Mixture No. 79 in a MM/C&D collaborative cob with a tomato red acrylic stem (stock)

 

[cshubhra]

McClelland Blackwoods Flake from 2009 in a Sasieni Four Dot Hurlingham S

 

[Tabacco]

Good evening.

 

[danimalia]

HH Rustica in an unfinished Sav Lumberman

 

[virkia]

These pipes are fascinating. Can you tell us more, please? It might explain something. And where do you live? Connection with S.A.?

No personal connection to S.A. or to these pipes - just a bit of a (UK) collector back in the day of antique briars and clays and all things pipe and pipe smoking related.

AlI I know about Boer War pipes is what I've read:

Spoiler

- They were made between 1899 - c.1906 by well respected makers such as BBB (Blumfeld's Best Briar), GBD (Ganneval, Bondier & Donninger) etc.
- Quality of carving varies with examples carved by Boer POWs and others by Brits now classified as "Trench Art".
- Some silver banded, some banded in electro-plate and others unbanded. Some also have hinged windshields.
- On the front of certain examples - such as the one on the far left - is an inset Republic of S.A. silver threepence showing the bust of Paulus "Oom (Uncle) Paul" Kruger (General and later President of the South African Republic) struck between 1892-1897.
Etc.

 

[trubka2]

HH Rustica in an unfinished Sav Lumberman

He's going in, folks! See you on the other side, man.. Got mine today, gonna fire it up in a bit, so let us know what you think.

Now smoking GH Co Brown Flake Unscented in a BBB Thorneycroft Dublin.

 

[coming to_falling too]

What's that Briar Fox like? Any blend its similar to?

I like it, though I've read some reviews that say it's cigaretteish. It's a VaBur though I've not smoked anything like it. It has a decent N hit for me. Not much to go on, but I bet you'd like it too

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Where'd you get the Sav, Brian? Kremer's, Oxmoor Smoke Shoppe, or ??

Ordered it with the pipe from SP.com

 

[bluegrassbrian]

What do you think of Radice? I have often looked but never touched.

This makes my fourth recent production Radice. For me they offer the best Italian value of price to quality. Their blasts and smooth pipes have shown exceptional grain, plus they’ve been using vulcanite for some stems. I also prefer their acrylic stems to Castello. It’s been my experience the Radice stems are slimmer at the button.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Finishing up a smoke of Sutliff 507c Virginia Slices that I DGTd earlier in a straight MM country gent.

 

[weezell]

Cornell & Diehl: Old Joe Krantz( just about done with it) in a Meer...

 

[hauntedmyst]

Rehydrated Penzance in an H Wiebe bent brandy