Close to finishing this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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Kind of, I want to mix it with the Danish style Black Cavendish. Together with the mead, honey and lemon skin sprayed Virginia Gold Lemon it will make for one hell of a sweet smoke.
So I gotta post it again;
Yep, tightly wrapped in hemp twine and soaked with glue afterwards. Not just for style but also so I can hold it at the chamber and I can put it on the table without the pipe falling over, the one visible knot serves as a rest so it can stand on its own.
I've never seen a clay pipe like it, they might have some yarn around the shank or very mouthpiece, to make holding or the touch to the lips more comfortable. But this is pretty much unique.
It also broke twice, once I bit off about 1.5 inches and it broke once again about 1.5 inches behind the bowl.
About 8 euros but I didn't throw it away and it still smokes great, so far it's my main pipe.
I can line up bowl to bowl and this thing keeps on delivering a great smoke.
It even whistles when I put on a hard enough draw. Makes me feel like Popeye!
An extremely rare back-to-back for me, C&D SOTE flake in my Savinelli Bacco 321 bent author. Such beautiful pre-storm weather...I just had to!
Smoking Kendal Gold in a Bones billiard.
@ashdigger I like the carving; it looks very medieval!
CS Kingsfoil from a Casanova bent egg. 
10 year old NYPC Bowling Green Virginia Cake from P&C in a lattice globe meer.
Five Brothers: Five Brothers in a Clay...
Please tell me about that Kingsfoil.. currently constructing an order with Country Squire...
HH bold Kentucky in my new estate unknown meerschaum.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, porterhouse steak and cheddar cheese topped baked potato and green beans dinner. I just finished smoking Robert McConnell’s Scottish Blend in a 2002 black pebble finish straight Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano lovat with a black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the World Series as I work on a review of this blend.
Gawith Hoggarth and Company Dark Flake Aromatic in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Watch City Slices in a Briarworks bent apple. I'm down to my last couple ounces of this blend. I'll be bummed when it's gone, but I'm excited to try its replacement blend.
Davidoff Flake Medallions in a 1975 Dunhill Root Briar Bulldog.
Just enjoyed this evening's dessert, which was a big slice of cheesecake topped with sliced cherries and a little Ready Whip. I'm part way through this bowl of Robert McConnell’s Scottish Blend in a 2003 URAL full bend big bowl egg shaped Lattice meer with a black acrylic saddle stem. Still working on the review.
Usually wait till Wednesday from the weekend deluge of smoking, but tonight felt right. Nothing crazy. Quick hitter of KBV Scary Spice in a MM cob.
Dunhill Royal Yacht in a cross cut Radice billiard
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