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

[Terry Lennox]

Sillem's Councilor Flake in an Ashton pebble grain billiard. Do not sleep on Sillem's Councilor Flake. If you can't get your hands on Solani 633 this is a very close substitute. It may in fact be the same thing. Both made by K&K. Both are VaPers with a wonderful rich sweetness. Beautiful flakes. And in stock at SP!!!!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown post-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Listening to You Bet Your Life from my radio collection.

 

[Scottmi]

Long day of travel back home from a family event: the Commissioning of my nephew into the Army. The whole family is very proud! Unpacked, etc. and outside for 72 deg F with Dorchester in the Bones Poker and water.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[The Clay King]

Elizabethan Mixture in a Peterson D21
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@DCpiper I got given a pipeful of Elizabethan Mixture at the Nottingham pipe show last year. Smoked it in a clay in memory of Queen Elizabeth II. Last time we had a King Charles people wore wide brimmed hats and smoked clay pipes!

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Uhle’s 00 in a straight smooth brown post-WW2 LHS Purex Superfine 74 Canadian with a metal screw-in tenon and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is Angler's Dream in a 2018 natural smooth medium bend Peterson 03 apple silver spigot military mount with a tapered black acrylic fish tail stem.

 

[newbroom]

Current mixing bowl contents are: Cockstrong, 515RC1-VA, picayune, stoved VA, Voodoo Queen ( I don't think I plunked in anything else). Somehow it all tastes wonderful! Every pipe I use. Just loaded my Chris Besse from Red Deer Alberta Cananda, Smooth maple billiard, hand made from stummel to vulcanite stem. This wood is coloring as the finish was simply wax. Interesting transformation, similar to meerschaum.

 

[haebar]

Up early and smoking some Rougaroux in a Dr. Grabow billiard (second one from the top). These are some that I sent to the Dr. Grabow factory to get re-stemmed.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

Robert McConnell - Scottish Flake in a HCA Stanwell and a Cup of Joe.

 

[The Clay King]

Been litter picking again this morning; 3 bags of rubbish from Chesterfield & found an unopened bottle of Madri beer, an apple, 2 KitKats and a working Clipper lighter. A good haul!

 

[The Clay King]

Egremont Crab Fair 2023:

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[Lost Somnambulist]

Starting this morning with C&D Bijou in a Holtorp.

 

[Grangerous]

For a change of pace. Some mature red Virginia and unsweetened burley cavendish in a cob.

 

[telescopes]

Paronelli and Haddos Delight.

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Sunday morning all. Up relatively early for footie again. Smoking Regents Flake in my unfinished Savinelli 207. One of my English/Oriental dedicated pipes.

 

[The Clay King]

For a change of pace. Some mature red Virginia and unsweetened burley cavendish in a cob.
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@Grangerous I was smoking C&D Winchester in my clay pipes at the Battle of Nantwich re-enactment last January; I had a pint and a clay with some of the Sealed Knot re-enactors. Didn't drop pipe ash down my sheepskin coat in Nantwich

 

[happy_lunter]

Kicking the day off with Sillem’s Red.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Sillem's Councilor Flake in an Ashton pebble grain billiard. Do not sleep on Sillem's Councilor Flake. If you can't get your hands on Solani 633 this is a very close substitute. It may in fact be the same thing. Both made by K&K. Both are VaPers with a wonderful rich sweetness. Beautiful flakes. And in stock at SP!!!!

I've always extolled Councilor Flake, though I ran out of my stash a couple years ago. I really liked the Virginia/perique ratio and the overall flavor was unique.

Today though - coffee stroll - HU Flanagan in the 1960 Dunhill Bruyere (group 2).

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

Sweet Dublin in a Weber Virgin Standard billiard.