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

[dd57chevy]

Carter Hall in a spiffy Carey billiard ( wish my phone would take clear pics ).

Waiting for my shipment from pipesandcigars.com . Need some flavor variety ..........

 

[BenMN]

Burley Flake #1

 

[PaulRVA]

Bosun Cut Plug in an IMP Poker

 

[Elric]

Country Squire Cowboy Coffee in an Ardor Urano poker this afternoon. New blend to me.

 

[cshubhra]

Cornell & Diehl Chenet’s cake from April 2017 in an AKB Meerschaum Latice Volcano

Seven and half years have done wonders to this blend in my opinion (Although I have never smoked it before - Either fresh or aged). The thing that I like the most is that this does not smell bad like fresh Perique. It has a wine / fruity kind of smell. It delivers the pepper / tingle we expect from Perique with a nuanced fruity sweetness from the Virginia as the background, while I taste the nuttiness of the Burley in the foreground

 

[tmcg81]

MacBaren Navy Flake from 2014 in a Mauro Armellini bent billiard.

 

[BlueRidge]

Makhuwa in an old sea rock kk

 

[Speak Easy]

Cornell & Diehl Chenet’s cake from April 2017 in an AKB Meerschaum Latice Volcano

Seven and half years have done wonders to this blend in my opinion (Although I have never smoked it before - Either fresh or aged). The thing that I like the most is that this does not smell bad like fresh Perique. It has a wine / fruity kind of smell. It delivers the pepper / tingle we expect from Perique with a nuanced fruity sweetness from the Virginia as the background, while I taste the nuttiness of the Burley in the foreground

Good on you to be able to wait. I bought an 8oz tin and burned through 2oz like wild fire. I will probably be getting another 8oz tin to jar up and hopefully it will be able to hide awhile!

 

[SmokeyJock]

A poetic gem, indeed. I love this line:

"No less than 250 trees and 37 tombstones were blown down at Balgay."

That has to be the worst bit of scansion I have ever encountered in my entire life of reading and composing verse. Even for McGonagall, that's really ingenious.

Take comfort then, dear SmokeyJock,
That you shall probably not suffer such a terrible shock,
Though the Storm Fiend sends his blasts once more upon Bonnie Dundee,
And do not venture on the Tay in a boat, because Worse Things Happen At Sea.

If you stay safe indoors, I have no doubt,
That if you avoid the leak, your pipe will not go out.



You're welcome.

this has made my week, thank you so much

 

[PapaCoolDown]

Digging through the estate pipes at a local pipe lounge and this one caught my eye. Bought it and found it’s a 2014 Mark Tinskey Coral.
Immediately bought some Eastfarthing and put them together. I fell in love. The Tinskey pipe smoked great and Eastfarthing is amazing.

 

[cshubhra]

Good on you to be able to wait. I bought an 8oz tin and burned through 2oz like wild fire. I will probably be getting another 8oz tin to jar up and hopefully it will be able to hide awhile!

I might get one or two 8 oz tins and wait again myself

 

[JimInks]

Did a second set of walking reps, and smoked a 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. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Abner the Eager is on top of my chair. Tomato the Brave is snoozin' on my feet.

 

[pipeboy122]

2017 Dobie’s Four Square English in a Holmes and Watson Eagle Claw Meerschaum

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Chris Morgan Jackalope in a straight smooth medium brown year 1912 Henry Tongue bulldog with a silver cap and band and an amber saddle stem with an orific bit.

 

[JimRoseLV]

Samuel Gawith Black XX Twist.

 

[Joe H]

I previously posted a picture of a moose that crossed my path while smoking a pipe, but whales, especially dead ones washed ashore are far less common. This Fin Whale is only the third beached one I’ve seen in the last ten years. I didn’t fire up my 1950s Red Root at the time in deference to the large number of gawkers, but later enjoyed a very fine match of Kentucky Club Mild (Sutliff calls it KC Aromatic).

 

[MisterBadger]

I previously posted a picture of a moose that crossed my path while smoking a pipe, but whales, especially dead ones washed ashore are far less common. This Fin Whale is only the third beached one View attachment 350982I’ve seen in the last ten years. I didn’t fire up my 1950s Red Root at the time in deference to the large number of gawkers, but later enjoyed a very fine match of Kentucky Club Mild (Sutliff calls it KC Aromatic).

It's unusual to see a moose smoking a pipe. I assume whales never do, for lack of opportunity.

 

[dottlejockey]

HS Studio and Huge Stone pipes are criminally underrated.

I think so, too, but it certainly creates an opportunity for great value - at least currently, for those willing. I have several of them and most smoke great. I would only be wary of anything with too extreme of a bend. Otherwise, great quality and craftsmanship.

Moving on to some HU Eddie G in another HS Studio, this time a reverse calabash.

 

[das3353]

MB Navy Flake in a Radice Silk Cut

 

[Sobrbiker]

Exhausted Rooster in the Sportsman 87