HU Director's Cut in the Gefapip Giant with late-morning coffee. An easy choice to make. 
***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
- Thread starter JimInks
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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.
Sounds like a pretty good mix!
2017 C&D Haunted Bookshop in a SMS Floral Basketweave Meerschaum 
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.
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.
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.
I bet that pipe smokes even better than it looks! Wonderful!
That's a very unique and eyecatching pipe!
Thanks! It’s pretty darn tasty, dark and fruity.
Really nice pipe - simple and elegant.
Chenet’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 !
Is that the Firth o' the silvery Tay (as William McGonagall put it) that I can see in the distance?
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.
It’s the best one out of all of them, no joke. She’s a natural.Increase your workout by walking down to the Post Office and mailing me that Tine
Sweet Pipe Dude !
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.
Todays lineup. Yard pipes and Hal O’ the Wynd.
