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

[PipeIT]

Going to have Savinelli 140° (by Cornell & Diehl) in my 60th Birthday pipe: the unfinished, natural, sandblasted Savinelli Autograph Extraordinaire (Eccezionale) Fan*.

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*Full back story on this unique and rare pipe here.

Be sure to show pics, how it’s coloring...

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[gamzultovah]

I've smoked it a few times, but it's fairly new. Got it in mid-March.

Love it! Enjoy it in good health.

 

[gamzultovah]

Have you tried drying them crispy? I find that a lot of VAs, I have to dry fairly crisp, or quite crisp.

Two yes in a sandwich bag and then 10 minutes in the microwave. Oh yeah, it was dry.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Va Jazz in a GG Castello sea rock Canadian

 

[PipeIT]

Two yes in a sandwich bag and then 10 minutes in the microwave. Oh yeah, it was dry.

If you haven’t, just spread out on a plate and let naturally dry, and see if it makes a difference.

I’m sure you know, but young VAs, certainly can be more bite. Brights too have some bite as well.

 

[Hillcrest]

Late afternoon/early evening bowl of Sutliffe 507-C in the Vauen Olaf bent egg ... the last batch was clearly hay, bread, honey, lemon and tea flavored. This batch so far tastes like vanilla cream soda and bread. A relative volunteered (unsolicited) that it smelled like vanilla perfume. Maybe it got mixed up with something at the factory. Tastes good just not the usual tea honey lemon.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Be sure to show pics, how it’s coloring...

I post new pics each time I smoke any of my pipes, so any progress in terms of colouring that might be occurring, you’ve seen—which is very little, since at present, I actually wear a white cotton glove when handling it—I’m not keen on it getting soiled or grubby looking from skin oils like my unfinished Savinelli Corallo di Mare pipes. After I smoke it, I disassemble, and wipe the rim with alcohol to prevent lava build up and even wipe out the chamber to get all the tars out so the presentation box doesn’t get all funky when the pipe goes “back to sleep” after use. I’ve only smoked it a handful of times since getting it, and it hasn’t changed that much. I imagine it will naturally darken a bit over time from heat and oxidation, but its exposure to air and light is fairly minimal since it goes back in the blue box after use.

 

[jakesmokes]

OJK in a rusticated squire

 

[warren99]

GL Pease Samarra in a Rolando Negoita lovat.

 

[StayPufft]

Sutliff's match Elizabethan mixture in a Mark Tinsky Golden Blast billiard.

 

[onestrangeone]

Mac Baren pure Virginia in a Sliver Grey Hawk’s egg

 

[Ryan]

OGS in a James Upshall

 

[Steddy]

Gawith Hoggarth Brown Twist in a Savinelli 673.

 

[tfdickson]

Louisiana Broken in my Castello bent bulldog.

 

[dunnyboy]

Union Square in a Castello great line.

 

[tmcg81]

Earlier today, several bowls of Watch City Stubb's Pipe in a Georg Jensen bent brandy. This is the rare blend that I've smoked so much that I have it dialed in and can pack it standing up holding the pipe and the tobacco pouch at the same time. It's so easy to pack and smoke. Sometimes I wonder why it isn't the only blend I smoke.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, steel head trout and half a rack of ribs with gree beans dinner. Dessert was a bowl of vanilla bean ice cream. I'm half way through this bowl of Sutliff Whimsical (Signature Series) in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the Braves-A's game, and getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[craig61a]

2020 Wilke Surbrug Crystal Palace in a Peterson Pub pipe.

 

[tnfan]

Escudo in a Shalosky Dublin.