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Briarcutter

Part of the Furniture Now
Aug 17, 2023
577
3,939
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Finding my love for pipe smoking after a long cigarette-filled hiatus. Smoked a large bowl of 3+ year old HU Khoisaan with my morning coffee (black) and was amazed by how complex and enjoyable it was. One of these bowls where you don't want it to end!

Let's hope this is the time I finally escape cigarettes, every time I stop (won't say quit yet until I've been off the cigs for at least a year...) I always think "What a STUPID way to consume tobacco".
My biggest problem ( years ago) with stopping cigarettes was...I kept buying them. Once I stopped buying them it was much easier to stop smoking them. If I had no cigarettes, I smoked my pipe.
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,449
645,376
Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Enjoyed a great chat with a great friend.
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Currently, I just did a second set of walking reps, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Tomato the Brave showed up for more food. Haven't seen Abner the Eager today.
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das3353

Lifer
Sep 7, 2019
2,205
53,819
HU Haymaker in an Altinay

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The Clay King

(Formerly HalfDan)
Oct 2, 2018
6,324
60,122
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1792? Pah! Fie upon these newfangled modern aromaticks! Didst fight with my lord Byron, or with the Rebells?
@MisterBadger I think it's a fitting baccy for the King's Clay. Photo from last January; @Speak Easy says he isn't surprised I got through nearly a full pouch:)
 

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MisterBadger

Can't Leave
Oct 6, 2024
327
2,723
Ludlow, UK
@MisterBadger I think it's a fitting baccy for the King's Clay. Photo from last January; @Speak Easy says he isn't surprised I got through nearly a full pouch:)
Seriously - my 17thC disparagement apart - My curiosity about 1792 has been piqued to the extent that I have actually ordered a small sample :) I am wondering whether the tonquin topping is the 'French beans' to which Ben Jonson refers admiringly in my signature. I grow what are now called French beans (haricots), and they don't smell of anything you'd notice, whereas 'tonquin' is how 'tonka' would be spelled in French. I have a notion the flavouring may have been introduced to England from France in the late 16th/early 17thC. I may speculate further on the 'Tobacciana History' forum later...
 
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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,449
645,376
Just finished 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. Had more great chat with the same buddy that I talked to earlier. Bet his ears are still in shock. :LOL:
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The Clay King

(Formerly HalfDan)
Oct 2, 2018
6,324
60,122
42
Chesterfield, UK
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Seriously - my 17thC disparagement apart - My curiosity about 1792 has been piqued to the extent that I have actually ordered a small sample :) I am wondering whether the tonquin topping is the 'French beans' to which Ben Jonson refers admiringly in my signature. I grow what are now called French beans (haricots), and they don't smell of anything you'd notice, whereas 'tonquin' is how 'tonka' would be spelled in French. I have a notion the flavouring may have been introduced to England from France in the late 16th/early 17thC. I may speculate further on the 'Tobacciana History' forum later...
@MisterBadger Yes it definitely suits the King's Clay and the Sealed Knot.
 

gord

Part of the Furniture Now
Back in the late afternoon after saying goodbye to an old friend, and felt like a smoke. Figured I'd go with one of the cheapest (and best smoking) pipes I own, the Muxiang "Uncle Henry". Cost me 24 bucks Canadian, so is about the same price as the meer miniature (15 bucks US) I posted this morning, so I'll dig up another el cheapo for this evening to round out today's festivities.

Smoked "Skragg" in the Uncle. If you remember, it's a bunch of tailings with 35% dried parsly added, that I had developed over the past year. In a stroke of brilliance about 6 months ago, I added a good pinch of C&D Latakia to it, and it has remained dormant since then. Did a loose 2 pack and expected the worst. Danged if I didn't get 40 minutes out of it. Danged if it wasn't all that bad. Will rechristen it "Popeye's Surprise Garden English," or something of that ilk. The moniker "skragg" was applied, in my area, to a tall, relatively unattractive girl, not a floozie. We had other names for them. Think Olive Oyl. hence the Popeye reference. A bit floral, but went well with the Renaissance Dances and the out of tune recorders, rackets, reed flutes and sackbutts I was listening too.

I'll have to really come up with something tonight to top this one, eh? :LOL:


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