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

[Scottmi]

HU Director's Cut in the Gefapip Giant with late-morning coffee. An easy choice to make.

 

[gord]

Smoking now a self made "cigar blend". It's based on "Cimette di Toscani". I didn't know about this tobacco, I learned from @karam. Cimette is a -so to speak- secondary product of the Tuscany cigars production process. Actually it's the cigar ends that are cut off but not rejected, instead they are gathered and packed and sold for further smoking, e.g. with a pipe. Karam stated that smoked as it is, Cimette are rather strong. I was immediately interested cause I like Toscano cigars, especially the half sized ones, the Toscanellos and sometimes I slice and rub one of them, mix it with some basic Virginia blend and smoke it as pipe tobacco. I tried to find Cimette to purchase but it was not easy and the hard way was never my path... So I asked karam if he could kindly somehow buy and send me some. Instead, when he came in Athens we met in a nice garden café, drunk coffee and smoked a pipe (each one his own), talked and also he gifted me enough quantity for many mixtures.
So now my mix consists of Cimette and Käpt´n Barsdorfs Bester (grey). I thank karam very much and I smoke this bowl to his and his family's good health!

Be all well good people and good luck!

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We have terrible taxation on tobacco in Canada. It is quasi-normal for many pipe/cigar smokers to cut the chewed and charred ends of their cigars, pitch that and save the clear stubs in a plastic bag, and when a pound or so is collected to grind them up in a dedicated coffee grinder and smoke them. Some guys soak them in cheep whiskey or rum, dry them and then stuff them in a pipe. Adding dried parsley as a stretcher is not uncommon either. $1 an ounce in the Dollar Store.

 

[gord]

Smoking…
5 Brothers 17 grams 60%
C&D Gran. Perique 7 grams 25%
C&D Red Virginia 2 grams 7%
Sutliff TS24 Oriental 2 grams 7%
…and Golden Assam tea with milk and honey.
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Sounds like a pretty good mix!

 

[pipeboy122]

2017 C&D Haunted Bookshop in a SMS Floral Basketweave Meerschaum

 

[gord]

Balkan Supreme in the Hillbilly by a nice fire with some good friends tonight.View attachment 349194

Looking at aquiring a little pipe like that. Love it. Notice the lip protector. I often use one too. I'm a retired professional orchestral symphony violinist. Like a lot of pros, I had a "double", bass trombone, which I also played well enough to gig professionally - often slumming in dance bands, jazz groups, brass quintets, and any other way we could supplement our salaries . . . . in spite of the "glamour" of the job, it doesn't pay as well as other skilled professions, and it's often taking "casuals" that buy us our toys. In any case, I have very sensitive lips due to years of gigging and find my "gizmo" a real aid, especially with wood stems.

 

[dottlejockey]

Back in Washington after a busy couple weeks in Florida. Not digging the weather, but the smoking lounge and all it's abundance is sure a welcome sight!

Currently working on a bowl of Golden Extra in an Ahmet Govem commission pipe with the warmth of a fire going to mitigate the northern chill.

 

[gord]

8/18 MB HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay.
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I bet that pipe smokes even better than it looks! Wonderful!

 

[gord]

Smoking Gawith and Hogarth Kendal Dark shag in this Meerchaum View attachment 349258

That's a very unique and eyecatching pipe!

 

[MattRVA]

Sounds like a pretty good mix!

Thanks! It’s pretty darn tasty, dark and fruity.

 

[gord]

OJK in a Gepetto. Rolling through another Saturday adventure.View attachment 349308

Really nice pipe - simple and elegant.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s cake in a Tine Balleby. Smokes are always better after a long walk, been slack this week on workouts.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Dunburton Umbagog

 

[PaulRVA]

View attachment 349332Chenet’s cake in a Tine Balleby. Smokes are always better after a long walk, been slack this week on workouts.

Increase your workout by walking down to the Post Office and mailing me that Tine
Sweet Pipe Dude !

 

[MisterBadger]

EMP in the falcon, the rain has stopped and it's looking beautiful out thereView attachment 349270

Is that the Firth o' the silvery Tay (as William McGonagall put it) that I can see in the distance?

 

[sardonicus87]

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

The great Early Morning Pipe in a Grand Slam. This blend is so smooth, toasty, and inviting. One of the greatest morning/all day smokes.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Increase your workout by walking down to the Post Office and mailing me that Tine
Sweet Pipe Dude !

It’s the best one out of all of them, no joke. She’s a natural.

 

[MisterBadger]

A second venture with Mr. Gawith's Weed Of A Thousand Lights And One Light. No pipe yesterday - away at a couple of reenactors' markets, and a hotel stay in between the two. Thought about adding a couple of clays to my purchases at one of the markets, decided against it as I seem able to break the things simply by looking at them. In this weather, a hotel car park at night in a strange town just doesn't cut it for a relaxing or studied smoke. Back home this evening so ventured another pipeful of Sam-Sam-Pick-Up-Tha-Musket 1792 in the sacrificial and already-ghosted unnamed Chinese billiard, having left a rubbed handful loose in a paper towel for 36 hours - and had a really pleasant, tranquil and reflexive session ... that was because after a while I dumped the load (I might as well have been smoking Earl Grey tea) and refilled with some nice McConnell's Scottish Cake instead.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

 

[tmc]

Todays lineup. Yard pipes and Hal O’ the Wynd.