HU Director’s Cut in C. Wolff pipe***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
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HU Director’s Cut in C. Wolff pipe
LJ Peretti Burlington in a L’Anatra Dalle Uova D’Oro Partially Rusticated Paneled Billard - Pipes & Tobacco Magazine Pipe of the Year 2005 #000/250 with a mug of black coffee.
KBV "Voodoo Tour" from an Alexander Hasty 
Enjoyed a tall stack of cinnamon raisin French toast with a golden delicious apple lunch. I'm smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Coffee from a freshly opened bag of Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink. Watching Carefree starring Astaire and Rogers.
Match Victorian in a Briarlee Illustrious.
Pipe? What pipe?
Decided today was a good day to open this 21 year old Hal O’ the Wind I picked up a few weeks ago.
The Briarworks 10th Anniversary Zulu outside on this cool, sunny, low wind day!
Never smoked HOTW.
The Briarworks 10th Anniversary Zulu outside on this cool, sunny, low wind day!
Never smoked HOTW.
Morning project - opened a new tin of Black Frigate last night, and filled up a jar. Did a late evening smoke and ran into some problems with the Ropp, so consulted the Cap and he filled me in. Apparently, my loose packs weren't. Too tight. And I didn't crumble the cake fine enough. Gravity feed. So I tried a gravity feed two pack in the Ropp this morning after last night's travails. Used about 2/3 the tobacco as in my usual loose packs. Figured this new gravity feed was overkill and I'd end up with a much shorter smoke. Not so. A longer and more flavourful smoke!
So just to open my unbelieving eyes, I took one of my McQ Barrel Riders (I have two, one dedicated to Mad Fiddler) and gave the miniature a gravity feed loose 2 pack of Black Frigate and got an astounding 17 minutes, a great smoke as well. Now look carefully at these two pipes. Believe it or not, the Ropp has over 3X the tobacco capacity of the Barrel. Reason? The bowl in the rider is very very shallow, and there is a lot of briar to take up the heat. You can't see this in the photo (which is new btw). So skipping the details, I now have 2 pipes dedicated to my favourite afternoon tobacco. The McQ loves the heck out of BF, just like the Ropp, which drew 40+ minutes with a miniscule amount of fodder.
And I now have short and long smoke tools for the job. And will be using a lot less of this great tobacco for longer and better smokes, conserving my stock as well. And will stop watching the clock and enjoy!
Man, am I glad there are guys in this forum who know what the hell they are talking about. The trick is to listen.
I'm actually pretty good at that, being a retired professional violinist, he said arrogantly. I'll go away now. Time for an encore.
So just to open my unbelieving eyes, I took one of my McQ Barrel Riders (I have two, one dedicated to Mad Fiddler) and gave the miniature a gravity feed loose 2 pack of Black Frigate and got an astounding 17 minutes, a great smoke as well. Now look carefully at these two pipes. Believe it or not, the Ropp has over 3X the tobacco capacity of the Barrel. Reason? The bowl in the rider is very very shallow, and there is a lot of briar to take up the heat. You can't see this in the photo (which is new btw). So skipping the details, I now have 2 pipes dedicated to my favourite afternoon tobacco. The McQ loves the heck out of BF, just like the Ropp, which drew 40+ minutes with a miniscule amount of fodder.
And I now have short and long smoke tools for the job. And will be using a lot less of this great tobacco for longer and better smokes, conserving my stock as well. And will stop watching the clock and enjoy!
Man, am I glad there are guys in this forum who know what the hell they are talking about. The trick is to listen.
I'm actually pretty good at that, being a retired professional violinist, he said arrogantly. I'll go away now. Time for an encore.
Now smoking Watch City English Ernie-ental in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem.
The midgets knees are worn on his britches..... teaching him to shoot marbles ?
Striking and unusual pipe!
No smokes for me for the past two days - can you believe I couldn't find the time? I don't care to smoke without giving it my undivided attention - but I am happy to report that at Thanksgiving dinner, the most contentious subject raised was between me and a fellow guest, as to whether nitrogen top pressure and serving at 4-5 degrees Celsius actually improves Guinness. Well of course it doesn't. Over the first two centuries during which that beer became world famous, it was simply poured out of a bottle at room temperature, or pumped out of a barrel cellar-cool. Pah. Anyhow, here's a tin of Charatan Black Flake and another of Sam-I-Am Gawith's 1792, in disguise and awaiting a pipe and a match. Hope you all had as peaceful and agreeable a Thanksgiving as Mrs. Badger and I did.
Trying to vicariously enjoy a pipe from everyone’s posts. I’ve had a terrible cold now for about 4-5 days. Missing the pipe.
Hope you get well soon!
Bob’s Chocolate Flake in an IMP Reverse Calabash and Balinese Coffee 
️ on the side.
️ on the side.
GLP Union Square in my custom tapered chamber 6mm Monier shape 55. Thankful for this smoke.
