***What Are You Smoking, May 2024?***

[BrightDarkEyes]

I haven’t been posting smokes over the weekend. It was really busy.

This morning I enjoyed a bowl of Haunted Bookshop in my Vauen Dr. Perl straight black sandblast billiard with acrylic stem and 9mm filter.

Right now I’m smoking some Legend Hudson’s Bay in my Vauen 9001 straight mostly rusticated billiard with vulcanite stem and 9mm filter. Apparently, this is a copy of Dunhill’s Royal Yacht (with remarkably less nicotine) before Peterson picked it up. I can’t compare since I’ve never had it by Dunhill or Peterson. What I can say is that it is a very smooth and enjoyable smoke.

 

[AJL67]

Picked this unsigned meer up on fleabay for like $30, XL bowl and oddly lite, i have enough meers that i smoke every day that this one surprised me, it’s like it’s almost hollow walled or something, the other nice surprise as the screw tendon is tight and aligns perfectly, we most people know when you buy these shot in the dark meers they don’t always have the best fit. High hopes of how it will color.

First bowl is some OGS

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Mcclelland Pebblecut in the Yeti Dublin w/Bakelite.

 

[newbroom]

HH ODF RR in my small straight apple meer. (reused pic)

 

[Silverwing]

I have a feeling it’s going to be a very long week, but at least today is drawing to a close. I’m quite happy to send it off with some of last year’s Steamworks in my Peterson tavern series prince. Plus a bonus derpy cat that looked up long enough to take a pic with his eyes closed before face planting into my thigh. I don’t know how he breaths like this

 

[TheIronMonkey]

MacB Vintage Syrian in this Savenelli 920KS oddball pipe.
The pipe was natural when I bought it, no stain.
It has the Savenelli shield and "ITALY" stamped on it.
But, it also has a two tone briar band and a Cumberland stem.
I have never seen another one like it.
I found it in a tobacco shop about 15 years ago.
It has a bunch of fills on the top of the pipe, so I would think a "seconds" type pipe, but the brair band and Cumberland stem are odd on a second or a Savenelli Natural line. And why would they put their shield on a second?
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That looks like it might be from the Savinelli Tris line (or a second that was supposed to be in the Tris line of pipes).

 

[BCF]

Smoking Ratttray's Dark Fragrant after supper and cracking a beer. A beautiful day turning towards an even better evening.

 

[Scottmi]

Finally a chance for a pipe! In Franklin, Tennessee with whole family visiting our son who is now based here. Exciting to discover the majesty of the Brood XIX Cicada hatch. Wow! Tinbits mystery mixture in my Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty with a Nashville Fat Bottom Tropical Blonde brew.

 

[das3353]

GLP Navigator in a Ropp Vintage with horn stem

 

[Scottmi]

What are the chamber dimensions on that pipe?

it's their Dark Cutty. .65"x1.5" smokes great!

 

[Sig]

That looks like it might be from the Savinelli Tris line (or a second that was supposed to be in the Tris line of pipes).

Could be, ill look into it.
Its not a big deal, but its interesting that the stummel looks like their natural line, but it has a two tone briar band and a Cumberland stem.
Then I though maybe someone created it themselves from a Sav Natural, but it was purchased in an actual shop, among other Savenellis.

 

[PipeIT]

All the War Horse stuff aside-that's a gorgeous pipe, even better (in my view) that it is vulcanite military mounted. Simply gorgeous.

Thanks for the compliment on the pipe, I have @ashdigger to thank for it.

Speaking of @ashdigger I haven’t seen him around for quite sometime, anyone know what’s up with him? Hmm

Oh, and for posterity's sake, here’s a pic, so others know I wasn’t lying, that I did indeed try the illustrious War Horse Bar, and I came out on the other side alive! LOL

P.S. And never to be repeated again!

 

[keith929]

C&D Blockade Runner in a Peterson Meerschaum SH Professor.

 

[Sig]

C&D Pegasus in my Excelsior "basket" pipe..
Years ago I added a briar and ivory inlay.....which ironically I found looks like a Cavicchi inlay.
At that point I had never seen a Cavicchi pipe, I just thought it looked cool. My Kindle takes horrible pictures, but its the only way to smoke outside on a computer.....in my world.

 

[Manawydan]

Had a smoke-filled Sunday and really put my Tinsky 2023 Christmas Bengal Bulldog through its paces. Enjoyed two bowls of Boswell's Best, a bowl of Northwoods, and then finished off with some 'dessert' -- Cult Blood Red Moon.

 

[Sig]

Finally a chance for a pipe! In Franklin, Tennessee with whole family visiting our son who is now based here. Exciting to discover the majesty of the Brood XIX Cicada hatch. Wow! Tinbits mystery mixture in my Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty with a Nashville Fat Bottom Tropical Blonde brew.
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You have a tall Billiard too.
Im smoking mine right now.
I have so many Billiards, they may be my favorite shape, that this one got the name the "Tall Billiard".
Mine is just a cheapo basket pipe, but it smokes great.
Its from the early 1980s and made by " Excelsior".....whoever they are.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Uhle, Cob, Coffee, Perfection

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

2022 Cringle Flake in a Marxman Royal.