***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

[MattRVA]

Home mix, mostly 5 Brothers.

 

[telescopes]

Vauen Ranger bought in Cologne, Germany. Star of the East.

 

[gord]

As my thoughts use to be, then I realized, it's as long as I want the commitment, or as short. Nothing wrong with setting the pipe down and finishing it later.

I've solved that problem by having pipes of different sizes. Miniatures for short smokes, smaller bowls for longer smokes, and if I really want to stretch it, my big Peterson, Tundras and my Sav. Pipe dedication has helped in this regard, too. Knowing what each pipe will do with a particular tobacco (each pipe was chosen for the task when it delivered a particularly outstanding smoke with a particular tobacco) If it delivered two or three, it's hired!

 

[Fralphog]

Using the weather as a great excuse for an after lunch smoke. Another bowl of 2011 Marlin Flake in the KW Custom Grain Meer lined Zulu, shape 01.

 

[gord]

Sutliff’s Blend No. 5 in a Connoisseur Bent Apple

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just looking at that pipe, I know it's a sweet smoker! I love that slightly bent stem and have quite a few of that style - it allows me to look under my glasses while lighting up. Still scorch bowls though - tend to get them rusticated or sandblasted but I'm still a sucker for beautiful woods!

 

[Douglas]

Pegasus in a Rossi Lovat

 

[gord]

Binning industrial quantities of leaves for composting, manuring rhubarb with donkey sh1t, then McConnell's Scottish Cake in a new acquisition, a Butz-Choquin 'Balzac' churchwarden. Hadn't smoked a churchwarden for years, and my jury's out as to how well the pipe smokes until I've also tried it with the normal-length bent stem it also came equipped with.
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I do like smoking churchwardens, and have about a dozen of them. Comfortable to read with and tamping can be done visually. Downside with mine? All wooden stems. Delicate and definitely take a "ghost" or "set". But I find they all have their places. The only style of pipe I don't own is a short bulldog. I'll take care of that one day.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2018 CVP in an Altinay.

 

[gord]

2018 CVP in an Altinay.
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Beeeeoootiful pipe!

 

[RPK]

Dan Tobacco's, Milonga in a Rattray Beltane's Fire Contrast

 

[keith929]

50/50 Drexel & 507C Virginia Slices in a 2008 large Rad Davis billiard.

 

[PaulRVA]

Bosun Cut Plug in a Peterson Pub Pipe. Time for a fire

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s cake in a Doctor’s egg

 

[dunnyboy]

Navy Rolls in a Rainer Barbi Dublin.

 

[SmokeyJock]

EMP in the MM Legend

 

[ziv]

Continuing the strong tobacco journey today - this one is C&D Bayou Night. It's pretty spicy, someone said it's 50% Perique.

 

[gord]

Afternoon smoke. McQueen Cherrywood Russet, and my own (and probably favorite home brew - Gord's Cherry Balkan English. 7 parts Smoker's Pride Classic, 2 parts Balkan leaves, 3 parts Captain Black Cherry Cavendish, and a pinch of Lat.) Smokes great in the shown English dedicated pipe; used a 3 stage fairly loose pack, which gave me a great smoke. Listened to Prokofiev's Violin Concerto #2 with Perlman. Lasts 32 minutes and it finished with another 5 minutes left on the pipe. Getting better at this lol!

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[Chasing Embers]

Mihrimah in a commissioned IMP.

 

[infectedpsyche]

Well, the rain is back so I'm under the carport again. Mac Baren Plumcake in my La Rocca tonight. @Servant King, though I like the Peterson VA Flake a whole lot, this was #2 in my opinion of the samples you sent. Knowing it's at risk of death, I've got a pound in my SP cart now, thanks for that

 

[gord]

Mihrimah in a commissioned IMP.

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Dazzling pipe! Stem is eyecatching for sure!