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

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in an Altinay.

 

[sax&pipes86]

Have some c&d bayou morning (ribbon) in a smith house sandblasted lovat. Happy smokes all!

 

[LotusEater]

Laurel Heights in the Ardor Beehive
My girl Ruby’s got my back.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Apart from smoking my 60th Birthday pipe during the PPV UFC over the weekend, I mostly smoked cigars with our buddy John this past week. Today, I have enough time to sit back uninterrupted to have a pipe solo.

Going to have Brebbia Latakia Flake No. 9 in a Brebbia Golden Gnome Spring Rhodesian 6005 with a flattened oval shank. Supposedly, Brebbia pipes with the Golden Gnome stamp on the stem are from the 1953–1956 period when Enea Buzzi was splitting away from Savinelli; I’m not sure where this info about the stamped stems was sourced—I’ve seen it repeated on various pipe related sites, but with no attribution. I should check with Buzzi’s son if this is indeed the case.

 

[mossdoug]

 

[tnfan]

Dunhill Dark Flake in a J.T. Cooke Poker.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I forgot to mention a couple of things. The pipe does have an inner tube, so it could very well be from the 1950s. I have an e-mail out to Brebbia to find out if there's any truth to the stamped stems being from 1953–1956.

We're heading up to Montreal, Quebec tonight for a couple of days. I posted in the B&M Retailers section the other week, but more eyes might see this here in WAYS. Would anyone be interested in meeting up at Blatter & Blatter on Saturday, May 13th? Maybe we can grab a bite or head to a cigar lounge nearby for a smoke? PM me.

 

[Steddy]

Esoterica Dorchester in a Savinelli Granola 311 KS.

 

[haebar]

Smoking some Drexel VIII in a Butz-Choquin Supermate billiard.

 

[ThermionicScott]

C&D Opening Night in my Dr Grabow Regal bulldog.



This pipe is usually reserved for English blends, but I’m in that mode of trying the new tobacco in various pipes, and there’s no concern about “ghosting” in this instance. Sometimes I like having those Oriental/Latakia hints in the background of a straight Virginia. It’s super-moist out today, so I’m trying not to have feelings about all the relights.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

WCC Simply Red in a GBD Rockroot, enjoying the weather

 

[didimauw]

This bowl is basically powdered OJK.

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of early 2000s Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

 

[B.Lew]

Stoned Plum in a Rossi.
Stonehenge Flake on the bottom and Germain’s Plum Cake on top.

 

[lkwttwkl]

Peterson 965 in a Neerup Structure.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Now for some WhiteKnight in a cob.

 

[Rpink53]

2019 Wessex Brown Virginia Flake:

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this hot, sunny day, and I smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Elizabethan Mixture in a lumberman Ferndown, TGIF like a mofo

 

[krizzose]

McClelland Navy Cavendish in a Savinelli 707