***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

[litup]

Some 2020 Rustica I bought at the Chicago Show in allocate made by Jason Patrick.

 

[gord]

Back indoors for a bit, relaxing with a bowl of Ellipsis flake in a Bonfiglioli and a cup of coffee.

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Hmmm . . . this one has escaped my eye. Don't remember seeing it before, and never seen a shorty quite like it. Looking at all that wood at the base, I'd imagine it smokes very well and quite cool, too. Like it!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking and reviewing C&D Sansepolcro 2025 (Small Batch) in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem.

 

[gord]

Some 2020 Rustica I bought at the Chicago Show in allocate made by Jason Patrick. View attachment 392554

What really caught my eye is that pipe in the screen, and the composition of the entire post.

 

[gord]

Tonight I dug out a home blend I made maybe six or seven years ago. I took 50% Full Virginia Flake and 50% Latakia from one of the online tobacco retailers. Put them in wax paper, then between two chunks of wood and clamped them in the vice in the garage, as tightly as I could crank it, and left it for a few days. Ended up a black block of smoky goodness. It's still holding together in chunks, but easily rubbed out. Smoky, rich, oily, a true Lat bomb but smoothed out very nicely by the FVF. Refuses to bite, burns nicely, lots of smoke. I think I may have to make more when this jar is gone...

Sounds like a Pirate Kake with balls. Might just try that. Like your method, too. That I can do!

 

[dottlejockey]

Hmmm . . . this one has escaped my eye. Don't remember seeing it before, and never seen a shorty quite like it. Looking at all that wood at the base, I'd imagine it smokes very well and quite cool, too. Like it!

It's barely 5" nose to tail. Not a nose-warmer, by any means, but a chunky block and cool smoker, yes, indeed!

Moving on to some Dreams of Kadath in a big ole Mastro de Paja blasted dublin.

 

[Scottmi]

Wingfield Mixture in my pre-Cadogan Comoy's Sandblast Medium Billiard with tapered vulcanite stem

 

[gord]

Pegasus in a Radice Rind. Coffee View attachment 392472

Looking at that whole photo, I'd say you picked the perfect setting, time, beverage and pipe for a great smoke. Now, I don't know Pegasus, but I'd probably in that exact situation and pipe, smoke Magnum Opus. Close?

 

[Tabacco]

 

[Sobrbiker]

Had my Dark Sails mix fetching hay, and University Flake changing the commuter’s oil-both in the early Relief Grain Kaywoodie 04

 

[gord]

Had my Dark Sails mix fetching hay, and University Flake changing the commuter’s oil-both in the early Relief Grain Kaywoodie 04
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Now that's a first! Never seen a picture of a pipe displayed while changing oil. It's a good photo, too.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Looking at that whole photo, I'd say you picked the perfect setting, time, beverage and pipe for a great smoke. Now, I don't know Pegasus, but I'd probably in that exact situation and pipe, smoke Magnum Opus. Close?

Magnum Opus. Mmmm never tried it, all I need is an excuse to shop for more tobacco, now I have it…thanks gord!

 

[das3353]

GH Kendal #6 in a Radice

 

[TheHellYeah]

Following the last day of political campaign for the next Portuguese government with some Pesse Canoe in Bari de Luxe. Guess I was better in Turkey!

 

[gord]

Afternoon Smoke: a Phillies Blunt Regular while catching up on the posts of the morning. Got back about an hour ago, after taking in midday Mass with my sister, and catching up on the family stuff after her harrowing (weatherwise) two week trip to Alberta.

She was happy to get back to PG and our Spring Weather slogan - "Don't like the weather in Prince George? Wait five minutes . . . " Yeah, that's really a PG moniker. Heard up here when I moved up just before Y2K and still hear it all over da place.

I'll save the rest (quite a bit of Skippable Drivel) for this evening's post. Cheers and enjoy Friday.

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[BlueRidge]

Some 2020 Rustica I bought at the Chicago Show in allocate made by Jason Patrick. View attachment 392554

briar Old Boy?

 

[Mortar0341]

probably the last bowl the day. I was falling asleep on the couch, so I switch back to coffee, iced this time because it's gotten pretty hot outside. Haunted Bookshop in the Lorenzetti 03. Gonna pick out a good movie to watch this evening, kick back and call it a day

 

[Bbailey324]

Watch City American Cut Plug in a Peterson Dracula 80s.

 

[Choatecav]

Smoking some Wessex Virginia Plug in a vintage Eagle Claw Meer. I've heard some folks say these are Dragon claws but I've always gone with the Eagle.
It is an old pipe but I don't know who made it. I've had it about 20 years.

 

[cshubhra]

GL Pease Windjammer from January 2021 in the Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Earlier after lunch I smoked a cigar : Arturo Fuente Hemingway