***What Are You Smoking, May 2021?***

[glub]

Had an Oliva Connecticut Reserve with a farmhouse while grilling.


About to head back out for round 2 with a Man o War Ruination and a double IPA. I predict sleep won't be long after that.

 

[greeneyes]

HU Brullende Leeuw in a Comoy Corinthian for the Sutliff shop. The tin was opened yesterday and had had an opportunity to breathe and open up. My God these people know tobacco. This mixture sings in the pipe.

 

[troutface]

Some '07 Kensington in a Refbjerg Straight Grain.

 

[weezell]

Smokestacking the nub of this Oliva Serie V Melanio. Thing was too good to let it go out.

My Father did that for years. You just didn't toss that nub,to much good tobacco left! Alas, different place and time...

 

[crawdad]

A glorious slightly warm evening, sitting inside the carport sore from remodeling youngest son’s bedroom at new house. My reward is a bowl of jarred Cap’n Black Royal in a Kaywoodie Super Grain straight billiard. A home brewed Belgian Dubbel by my side.

 

[virkia]

hi, no on my pipe it is not horn, it is an acrylic similar horn.

In fact, I personally do not like the horn in the mouthpieces, I have only had two pipes with horn mouthpieces and they did not last long, I got rid of them immediately, I do not find it pleasant, the first one I had, even gave a very strong taste to the smoke when the tobacco was already a little hot.

Thanks for letting me know it's acrylic as I've not seen such an unusual stem before.

Regarding horn: clearly a popular stem material back in the day before Vulcanite started to make inroads from the late 1870s and although not as good-looking as amber or as elegant as ivory it's definitely hard-wearing as seen on this well used BBB from 1890 although prone to chipping ...



... and like amber it came in all shades from dark brown to variegated to an almost ivory colour:-













Speaking about acrylic and brindled vulcanite stems: if you consider the Cumberland stem - its pattern reminds me of the old walnut stock of this Cogswell & Harrison hammer shotgun and when you add the browned Damascus barrels you get the firearm equivalent of a Dunhill Cumberland pipe:-

 

[ashdigger]

Is that a Kirsten bowl on that, it has a very similar shape? It’s lovely pipe and that bamboo will colour nicely.

It looks like a Kirsten bowl; however, it attaches to the bamboo with a hollow piece of all-thread. So the bowl screws onto the all thread and it has a really good draw

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, cobia and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2017 Savinelli Doblone d’Oro in a smooth straight brown early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[FurCoat]

CRF in an emerald cob. Better smoke than the Kendal Plug earlier in my opinion.

 

[Sonorisis]

Old Joe Krantz in a Castello Army Mount Dublin.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Dunhill Elizabethan mixture in a canted Charatan Executive .

 

[MattRVA]

C&D Sun Bear in a cob.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Old Joe Krantz in a Castello Army Mount Dublin.

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Nice piece of wood.

 

[archerdarkpint]

McClelland Tudor Castle from 2012 in a Lorenzo Matte Finished, 9mm pipe. Pipe was purchased circa 2008.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 1960s Half and Half in a tan sandblasted paneled quarter bend 2001 Rinaldo Sahara 2 scoop with a pointed front and a tapered black acrylic stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[cshubhra]

Esoterica Tilbury from June 2017 in a Sasieni Four Dot Amesbury

 

[kg.legat0]

Going to smoke a bowl of GLP Embarcadero for the final pipe of the day. Looks to be rainy and gray tomorrow; I see some Burley in the forecast

 

[ashdigger]

GH&Co Black Cherry Twist in a 1902 Silver Spigot with Silver Cap

 

[virkia]

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This is mine

Thanks
I am very happy with it
This is perhaps a stupid question but - how would you describe this shape?

Looks like a cross between these two Comoys - a #62 'Modern' (looking almost exactly like a slightly earlier 'Skipper') and a #412 'Modern' ('Panelled Zulu') resulting in a ?

 

[tfdickson]

McConnell Pebblecut in my Ashton dublin.