Arrowhead in an old half bent basket, with my favorite herbal “Spring Dragon longevity tea.”
***What Are You Smoking, November 2022?***
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Now smoking year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a black sandblast PSB medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 228/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
Cornel & Diel Autumn Evening in my newly refurbished 1995 Christmas edition Comoy’s pipe. I purchased this pipe on EBay cheap because it badly needed to be cleaned up. This was my first attempt at refurbishing a pipe. The stem was in bad need of cleaning and polish, lots of charring on the rim and the bowl needed to be reamed. I know newer Comoy’s aren’t consider top tier pipes but I think it turned out nice and it smokes really well. I’m admittedly new to the pipe world but the briar wood on this pipe really pops after a good cleaning and polish. 
Having a bowl of 2016 Christmas cheer while playing fs2020
Bengal Slices in a Vauen Classic #4415 Bent Billard. I'm guessing the neighbors are not fond of this blend, being they just slammed the windows shut.
Going to have Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding Special Reserve Flake in a Peterson Ebony Rhodesian Silver Spigot 999.
1/2 bowl of Country Squire Old Toby in the Vauen Olaf bent egg tonight just before the sleet began. My tamper was a piece of Tulip Poplar cut off a fallen branch - very rustic but highly efficient and cost effective!
I became a Grandfather today, for the first time! 
LOL 
The youngest of the three I have was the one to give birth, and so far the only grandchild, wow, reality hasn’t sunk in yet, but I still don’t feel old.
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
Erinmore flake was one of the first blends I smoked in the early 80s and this smells just like before, yes a Pineapple tin note and taste. When I opened the tin, it also has a slight perfume note to it, like Condor and Lakeland blends, and there is a faint taste of that with Pineapple, absolutely sublime.
I truly hope everyone is doing ok and well, as I am truly blessed today, not only from family, but all of you too, in this amazing place!
Be well everyone!
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
LOL The youngest of the three I have was the one to give birth, and so far the only grandchild, wow, reality hasn’t sunk in yet, but I still don’t feel old.
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
Erinmore flake was one of the first blends I smoked in the early 80s and this smells just like before, yes a Pineapple tin note and taste. When I opened the tin, it also has a slight perfume note to it, like Condor and Lakeland blends, and there is a faint taste of that with Pineapple, absolutely sublime.
I truly hope everyone is doing ok and well, as I am truly blessed today, not only from family, but all of you too, in this amazing place!
Be well everyone!
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
About a quarter of a bowl left of year 2013 Dunhill Flake in a straight smooth 1960 Dunhill DR 137 group 4 root briar canted dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Congrats to you, @PipeIT !
Congrats to you, @PipeIT !
Congratulations, @PipeIT !
I hadn't seen Erinmore Cube Cut before -- is it just the Flake in cube cut form?
I hadn't seen Erinmore Cube Cut before -- is it just the Flake in cube cut form?
Congratulations!I became a Grandfather today, for the first time!
The youngest of the three I have was the one to give birth, and so far the only grandchild, wow, reality hasn’t sunk in yet, but I still don’t feel old.
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
Erinmore flake was one of the first blends I smoked in the early 80s and this smells just like before, yes a Pineapple tin note and taste. When I opened the tin, it also has a slight perfume note to it, like Condor and Lakeland blends, and there is a faint taste of that with Pineapple, absolutely sublime.
I truly hope everyone is doing ok and well, as I am truly blessed today, not only from family, but all of you too, in this amazing place!
Be well everyone!
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
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Wilke 191 in a Dagner, cup of Dark roast coffee, yum
Congratulations !!! Wishing you and your family all the best !I became a Grandfather today, for the first time!
The youngest of the three I have was the one to give birth, and so far the only grandchild, wow, reality hasn’t sunk in yet, but I still don’t feel old.
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
Erinmore flake was one of the first blends I smoked in the early 80s and this smells just like before, yes a Pineapple tin note and taste. When I opened the tin, it also has a slight perfume note to it, like Condor and Lakeland blends, and there is a faint taste of that with Pineapple, absolutely sublime.
I truly hope everyone is doing ok and well, as I am truly blessed today, not only from family, but all of you too, in this amazing place!
Be well everyone!
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
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To be honest, I don’t know if they took the flake and turned it into this, or the blend is it’s own.
There is a difference here from the flake, because upon opening the tin, and taking a smell, I was greeted with perfume and pineapple. Since Irish Condor was the last perfume Lakeland like blend I smelled/smoked last month, it was the first thing that came to mind, along with Gawith’s Lakeland perfume like blends, very similar.
But no soap notes, just a subtle perfume smell and taste.
Looking back on Erinmore flake I had in the 80s, it definitely had no perfume Lakeland going on, it was all Pineapple.
The Pineapple smell and taste is 100% like I remember from the flake in the 80s, just amazing.
I still can’t believe the moisture remained perfect for 48 years, it boggles my mind.
NOW I seriously need to find more and stock up, if possible LOL.
P.S. It does look like little cut up flakes, if you look closely at the pic I posted before, not cubes.
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Congrats and WOW! That cube cut looks -delicious- like bacon! (say, maybe that's where Calverley got his inspriation for his closing word in Ode to Tobacco?)I became a Grandfather today, for the first time!
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
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Congrats! Being a grandparent should be the finest and most enjoyable thing you ever do.I became a Grandfather today, for the first time!
The youngest of the three I have was the one to give birth, and so far the only grandchild, wow, reality hasn’t sunk in yet, but I still don’t feel old.
I was saving a tin and a pipe for another occasion I had in mind, but this is something to celebrate! So today I opened the tin, and gave the pipe it’s inaugural smoke, I bought the pipe October last year.
1974 Murray’s Erinmore Cube Cut, in a Bay Denmark Apple with a cumberland stem.
Erinmore flake was one of the first blends I smoked in the early 80s and this smells just like before, yes a Pineapple tin note and taste. When I opened the tin, it also has a slight perfume note to it, like Condor and Lakeland blends, and there is a faint taste of that with Pineapple, absolutely sublime.
I truly hope everyone is doing ok and well, as I am truly blessed today, not only from family, but all of you too, in this amazing place!
Be well everyone!
P.S. I was shocked, for a 48 year old tin, the moisture was perfect.
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Some more Derriston mixture. This time in a Peterson Irish Army #406 (sort of a squat prince). Drinking Pinot noir and listening to Latin jazz (Arturo Sandoval) and dreaming of re-mastering my new plastic trumpet! I was pretty good in my youth. I even got to play on Ted Mack's Amateur Hour in 1962!
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