***What Are You Smoking, November 2023?***

[frozenchurchwarden]

Rescued a very old flake of SG St. James Flake its jar.



Cube cut, and even thought it's a decade old it burns as usual for Virginia flakes, that being if you throw this on a house fire it will extinguish the flames.
I had forgotten that no amount of puffing can keep these flakes lit even when crunchy dry.
I have one more from that jar and it's either going to get mixed with GH Dark Bird's Eye or maybe smoke it in a cob and torch the daylights out of it.

Thankfully I paired that with a bowl of Frog Morton On The Town, which is a perfectly behaved blend.

 

[Ben.R.C]

CRFP in an Adam Davidson

 

[Ben.R.C]

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Good morning and Happy Friday everyone. I'm starting the day off with ice coffee and WCCSO in a Abe Herbaugh.

Nice shape! I’m guessing tomato?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Mcclelland 2025 in the Ashton Brindle XX Canadian.
Hoping the rain holds off so I can get this smoke in.

 

[Sigmund]

I was bored this afternoon so I dug a crusty little pipe out of my junk box and cleaned it up. Its a little Golf made by who know? its St Claude. Probably a Butz second.
I loaded it with HU Haymaker and decided again that straight virginias just arent for me. So I put HU Fayyum Kake in it. Much happier!

 

[alwayslit]

Nice shape! I’m guessing tomato?

Thanks, it's a tomato and it really smokes Va well.

 

[Bbailey324]

Just finished a bowl of Captain Black Original in a Kaywoodie straight apple.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Thanks, it's a tomato and it really smokes Va well.

Interesting, It looks like a shallow wide bowl, which folks say smoke English's or complex blends well. I wonder why this smokes VA well?

 

[onepyrotec]

Starting the end of the work week with some Ravenwood Bison Burley in a Dunhill County

 

[ashdigger]

Sixpence in a 1901 CSM&Co cased set of bulldogs.

 

[Western Isles]

A large bowl of Gawith's Balkan Flake in the Dunhill ODA. I've cube cut it and dried it overnight, which seems to work best with this blend for me. Rubbing it out allowed the latakia to disintegrate and fall away.

 

[Western Isles]

Very attractive accesory set!

Thanks!

 

[alwayslit]

Interesting, It looks like a shallow wide bowl, which folks say smoke English's or complex blends well. I wonder why this smokes VA well?

It's smokes slow really well. It really brings out the flavor of Va blends.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[dunnyboy]

Sillem's Councilor in a Castello great line.

 

[Ben.R.C]

CRFP in a Satou as soon as I can take a work break.

 

[Skink]

C&D Winchester in a Kaywoodie Standard Lovat 51S with a mug of black coffee.

 

[ThermionicScott]

but... is life to short to smoke up 'blends you don't love?'

I don’t disagree, and have thrown away tobacco I truly never wanted to smoke again on a few occasions. These burley blends are kind of in the middle where I wonder if I’d develop an affinity for them with a little more exposure. Perhaps there’s some OCD at play right now, too.

Thus, some Half & Half with a little ERR match in my clay...

 

[Ben.R.C]

CRFP in a Satou as soon as I can take a work break.
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Love this pipe so much had to take another shot

 

[Bbailey324]

Peterson EMP in a Peterson Dracula bent bulldog.