Beautiufl pipe ya got there sam!... ?
***What Are You Smoking, November 2021?***
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Mount stamped HC (Henri Comoy) and STERLING LONDON
+ Peterson's PROFESSIONAL MIX
+ Peterson's PROFESSIONAL MIX
2021 Carolina Red Flake with Perique in a sandblasted Musico panel billiard
1999 Dorchester in my BST LC.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with a small scoop of strawberry ice cream. I'm half way through the last (sadly) of my stash of Ken Byron Ventures Verg 21 in a straight smooth brown 1920s (Comoy’s) Lions Head 123 pot with a black tapered vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching While the Patient Slept. I got a much needed nap in before dinner, but nobody was killed in this house at the time. 
A light lunch of a Vietnamese pork roll (Bahn mi) followed by mango.
The Australian mango sesson is a harbinger of summer to come. Growing up in SE Asia where we had at least a dozen varieties of mangoes to choose from, in my opinion the smooth fleshed and oh-so-sweet Australian Kensington Pride mango can't be beat for flavour.
A Pete afternoon, and in particular Bulldogs. A post-WW II silver-banded London made Pete X155
With well-rubbed out Peterson Irish Flake.
And what else but a nice dram of 21 yo Teeling (Irish) whisky.
The Australian mango sesson is a harbinger of summer to come. Growing up in SE Asia where we had at least a dozen varieties of mangoes to choose from, in my opinion the smooth fleshed and oh-so-sweet Australian Kensington Pride mango can't be beat for flavour.
A Pete afternoon, and in particular Bulldogs. A post-WW II silver-banded London made Pete X155
With well-rubbed out Peterson Irish Flake.
And what else but a nice dram of 21 yo Teeling (Irish) whisky.
Just received these two beauties , Smoking Gawith&Hoggarth Broken Flake #7 into a MM Dagner Poker so far my favorite one with the Mark Twain . 
Esoterica Margate in a Paykoc Meerschaum Dr Watson - From Sherlock Holmes/ Dr Watson two pipe set
Balkan Sobranie in a registration era Stanwell #13
Celebration the end of the week with Eight State Burley in a Peterson System Standard sandblasted 307. 
Enjoyed a tasty peach, and am smoking year 2013 Esoterica Tilbury in a 2002 smooth Rinaldo Silver Line 3 EGER 05 paneled horn with a black acrylic stem. Watching an episode of The Untouchables.
Smoking a bowl of GH&Co Kendal Mixed in a Savinelli Autograph
Whole leaf blend. Maybe call it “night shift”…. Anyway. A no holds barred powerhouse blend of only the most flavourful tobaccos in large proportions. It still classifies as an English/Latakia blend in my books though.
25% Kentucky
25% latakia
25% perique
25% red virginia
coarse chopped, pressed to plug, stoved for a couple hours and cut in wide flakes that break apart easily.
it’s a flavour bomb from the get go and the peppery spice is at the forefront. Once it dies back, the Latakia takes the stage and gets a little creamy. Once it fades, we got the nutty kentucky, which bows down to the Virginia, which has been getting even more stoved this whole time.
through a no name pipe I just got off eBay. Was sort of an impulse buy(only $20 or so). Bowl is smaller that I thought but it’s a really light pipe despite the thick walls(45g I think). The button is curved but it isn’t symmetrical, makes me think this was maybe a one off or project pipe someone made. Not sure. But it smokes all right
25% Kentucky
25% latakia
25% perique
25% red virginia
coarse chopped, pressed to plug, stoved for a couple hours and cut in wide flakes that break apart easily.
it’s a flavour bomb from the get go and the peppery spice is at the forefront. Once it dies back, the Latakia takes the stage and gets a little creamy. Once it fades, we got the nutty kentucky, which bows down to the Virginia, which has been getting even more stoved this whole time.
through a no name pipe I just got off eBay. Was sort of an impulse buy(only $20 or so). Bowl is smaller that I thought but it’s a really light pipe despite the thick walls(45g I think). The button is curved but it isn’t symmetrical, makes me think this was maybe a one off or project pipe someone made. Not sure. But it smokes all right
Next up - Peterson Founder's Choice
in a Peterson Sherloch Holmes Hudson. The thick, shortened shank and big "head" of this Bulldog shape is emblematic of that British breed, in my opinion.
in a Peterson Sherloch Holmes Hudson. The thick, shortened shank and big "head" of this Bulldog shape is emblematic of that British breed, in my opinion.
Sand blasted or "sand carved" ?
Lovely effect, whichever technique used
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