You have a collection of pipes I could only dream of!
***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
- Thread starter JimInks
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Good morning everyone, I’m smoking 2020 Le Petit Robin and drinking Community Coffee medium roast, I hope everyone has a great day.
Thanks! It all starts with pipe dreams!
I can't stop chortling. I was browsing pipes - again - thinking calabash or 9mm filter, to get the best from Cabbies and then I had an idea. Uh-oh. Couple of years ago, I picked up a James Fox billiard they had in a basket, probably paid too much in their Selfridges branch. Alas, when I got it home, I discovered why it had been discarded; the draught hole hadn't been drilled. I nearly flung it in the bin, but thought, maybe sometime I'll have a go.
Today was the day. I dug it out and found that it's a 9mm pipe and the filter chamber is longer than any filter I've ever seen. My eyes lit up. The dremel came to the fore. There were false starts and difficulties with the bit length and hand holding. It's a bit ropey, to say the least. I had to go in via the bowl to finish, scratched the rim. But... job done, however badly, and I did center the hole. It takes a pipe cleaner right through! Stuck a mesh basket in to hide the internal wreckage.
I had some very dry Dunhill 3-year matured virginia, loaded up, huffed in the bowl, lit it. Oh, this is ok. After that, loaded up with Cabbies, the acid test. And it tastes great! Result!
Today was the day. I dug it out and found that it's a 9mm pipe and the filter chamber is longer than any filter I've ever seen. My eyes lit up. The dremel came to the fore. There were false starts and difficulties with the bit length and hand holding. It's a bit ropey, to say the least. I had to go in via the bowl to finish, scratched the rim. But... job done, however badly, and I did center the hole. It takes a pipe cleaner right through! Stuck a mesh basket in to hide the internal wreckage.
I had some very dry Dunhill 3-year matured virginia, loaded up, huffed in the bowl, lit it. Oh, this is ok. After that, loaded up with Cabbies, the acid test. And it tastes great! Result!
C&D Exclusive in a Nuttens Twiggy and Coffee 
️ on the side.
️ on the side.
OJK in a Karl Erik Handmade. 
Black coffee ️ with a bowl of Stirling Flake in a Grabow 
️ with a bowl of Stirling Flake in a Grabow 
Among other things, I've been smoking a lot of my secret blend. SWR and Half & Half mixed 50/50.
Steamworks in the Radice Clear E.
2017 Dunhill Nightcap in a nice & small Altinay meerschaum pipe.
Hamborger Veermaster in a Peterson SH Rathbone PSB. Drinking coffee and listening to Yes Fragile.
Waking bowl of Cobbledstone's Hiking in a small Cinar billiard, then off to make some eggs n bacie. 
Still hammering away cleaning the basement and garage. Time for some Directors Cut in a Paul Becker with a cup of tea.
Good day all! Last three days saw me constantly rotating KBV Red Line and GH Ennerdale Flake. WIth the Holiday Spirit in the offing (several houses have Christmas decorations up and lights on - and I'm in Florida), starting with Reiner Professional in an Upshall P Bulldog with half-bent hex shank with matching saddle stem.
It’s a good one to have around for sure.
Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Quick work break, Chenets in a Manduela prince
Enjoying this beautiful morning with McClelland No. 110 Just Plain Nut in a Viprati Freehand. I've had this blend sitting around too long unsmoked!
Your secret is safe with us!Among other things, I've been smoking a lot of my secret blend. SWR and Half & Half mixed 50/50.
MB Vanilla Cream Loose in one of my very best smokers. The 9mm twin bore DB Berlin volcano plateau foot. What a gorgeous slow delicious and expressive smoke. In the zone.
