I'd need a nap after a haircut, too!We went to Applebee's for lunch and then my girlfriend gave me a haircut. Took a short one hour nap and now I'm smoking some SG 1792 Flake in a Gefapip.
***What Are You Smoking, May 2023?***
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SP Estates has an Ardor with a kind of sort of similar shape.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken primavera, green beans and Italian pasta salad dinner with a large slice of double chocolate mousse cake for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2018 Solani 633 in a straight 1954 patent Dunhill 148 Group 3 black shell bulldog made for the France market with a black saddle vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
John Marr in a Lovat by Pipes by Lee. This blend does seem to like roomier chambers.
We’re closing on a property in the desert we can have our horses on, I might be scarce here for a bit…
We’re closing on a property in the desert we can have our horses on, I might be scarce here for a bit…
Just finished another bowl of Sillem’s Red.
GLP Stratford in a Castello GG sea rock Canadian. Gearing up for the work week, hopefully a better one than last.
A third of the way through this bowl of 2019 Prince Albert in a straight smooth walnut 1927 KBB Kaywoodie Drinkless 86 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This model was only made in 1927.
Trying out McClelland's 40th Anniversary thanks to @DannoH.
Also in a new Muxuang pipe! It's another lovely Hungarian that I swapped out the stem with one I customized for myself.
Earlier I was at a nearby workshop, working on a new pipe rack that I'm building to hold the collection of pipes I have accumulated up to this point. I'll post the finished product in the next few days once I'm done.
Also in a new Muxuang pipe! It's another lovely Hungarian that I swapped out the stem with one I customized for myself.
Earlier I was at a nearby workshop, working on a new pipe rack that I'm building to hold the collection of pipes I have accumulated up to this point. I'll post the finished product in the next few days once I'm done.
After dinner and trying again my Dunhill Aperitif home clone effort with 2:1 Lancer Slices / St. James Park, loaded into the Big Bent Lattice Meer. This isn't a match, but neither is the SJP which is "supposed" to be. This, I think, was better freshly mixed. The Lancer Slices seem to have lost their bright sweetness after a couple weeks in a jar with the SJP. I wish Peterson of whoever would just manufacture again "the real thing." More tweaking and experimenting to be done in the meantime. 
Those look like some super deep chambers!
Now smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. I may end the day with this smoke.
Another bowl of Opening Night in the Savinelli 313 as I watch another thunderstorm roll in.
This time, I packed it a little looser and gave it more than a few hours to dry. Definitely an improvement in staying lit, now I can try to relax and just breath-smoke it.
This time, I packed it a little looser and gave it more than a few hours to dry. Definitely an improvement in staying lit, now I can try to relax and just breath-smoke it.
p.s. meanwhile, I am smoking quality tobacco and there is nothing bad about that!After dinner and trying again my Dunhill Aperitif home clone effort with 2:1 Lancer Slices / St. James Park, loaded into the Big Bent Lattice Meer. This isn't a match, but neither is the SJP which is "supposed" to be. This, I think, was better freshly mixed. The Lancer Slices seem to have lost their bright sweetness after a couple weeks in a jar with the SJP. I wish Peterson of whoever would just manufacture again "the real thing." More tweaking and experimenting to be done in the meantime.
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GLP Montgomery out of the Wally Frank Chadwick earlier. I’m trying to break in this pipe exclusively with VA based blends as most of my pipes have burley cake in them.
Capstan Bloo RR in my Savinelli Porto Cervo 114KS.
Balkan Sasieni in a Will Purdy "B" apple.
Earlier, I smoked several years old Dunhill Elizabethan in a straight smooth, dark brown patent era 1952 Dunhill Bruyere ODA apple 806 B124 with a black vulcanite tapered stem.
Now, I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2002 Dunhill Durbar in a brown medium bend 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a military mount and a tapered black acrylic stem. Forgot I had a sample of this, which I found while looking for something else.
Now, I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2002 Dunhill Durbar in a brown medium bend 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a military mount and a tapered black acrylic stem. Forgot I had a sample of this, which I found while looking for something else.
After a very hectic Sunday, I sat in the early evening sun and smoked one of the cigars I won at the Chicago Show Dinner (it was a 20 pack of Micallef Torcedores Churchills). A very nice cigar, flavorful, well-constructed, and quite satisfying.
It went well with the Bombay Sapphire gin and Fever Tree tonic in a large berg-filled tumbler.
It went well with the Bombay Sapphire gin and Fever Tree tonic in a large berg-filled tumbler.
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