***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***

[Goblin_Walrus]

Now smoking some 08 Nightcap in the no-name feather-stamped morta bulldog
Don’t freak out about the Christmas decorations, I know. My wife decorated already, what am I supposed to do, stop her?

 

[Phiredog]

Beautiful, fairly warm evening with Wilke’s 515 in a Jansen’s of New Orleans belge or canted egg with water to drink. This 515 is good stuff!

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth’s Ennerdale Flake in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Earlier I smoked a cigar: Rocky Patel Black Label

 

[Bbailey324]

C&D We Three Kings in a Falcon.

 

[Phiredog]

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Broke in a Mastro Geppetto Churchwarden with some Bayou Morning ribbon cut i’ve had sitting for a couple of years. I will probably give this one a dose of Tashkent this weekend around the fire.

That’s a really pretty pipe! Nice photo too.

 

[Chieftiabo]

2022 LJP Thanksgiving Day
(Thanks Peter Turbo) in a Radice

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, halibut and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm part way through this bowl of year 2019 HU Directors Cut in a straight smooth brown undated (1940s?) Orlik Reject London Made 0 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Picked a bigger pipe than the Comoy's prince that I usually smoke it in to better gauge how much the DFK may have diminished in six years. I'll dedicate this pipe to this blend since I have a lot of it. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[renfield]

9 year old Hearth and Home Virginia Memory in a Baglan claw and egg meer.

 

[Chieftiabo]

Thursday triple fisting!

A daily ration. Two pints and a whisky. Size of whiskey subject to the days challenges .

 

[kcmontie]

KC, please let us know if that sharpener does any good at putting an edge on your knife. I never got a really good edge using one similar.

Im still figuring it out , i haven’t gotten the technique down yet. I will report back. I have got a couple kitchen knives sharp but not scalp sharp. I think its a technique thing.

 

[tfdickson]

2016 Dunhill Dark Flake in my Castello 4 square.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Now smoking some 2021 Yorktown in my new clay, very much inspired by @The Clay King. I get it, I totally get it now. Currently browsing more clay pipes…

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Im still figuring it out , i haven’t gotten the technique down yet. I will report back. I have got a couple kitchen knives sharp but not scalp sharp. I think it’s a technique thing.

“Scalp sharp” is a wonderfully evocative phrase.
Those unguided sharpeners are hard to get down, but I think well worth it. My first cooking job, chef had me sharpen the house knives with a set of three stones. It took me almost half a year before I started getting approval from the knive’s daily users, those being esteemed members of the front of house. After a year, he let me sharpen his knives, once.
Keep at it!

 

[PrivatePiping]

GLP Chelsea Morning from '18, courtesy @Fralphog, in a Castello Sea Rock 55 kkk Pi. A warm mug of glühwein on the side.

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. The cats have been quiet tonight.

 

[spearheadbill]

2020 Germain’s B.K. Flake in a Rattray’s Yule pipe

 

[kcmontie]

“Scalp sharp” is a wonderfully evocative phrase.
Those unguided sharpeners are hard to get down, but I think well worth it. My first cooking job, chef had me sharpen the house knives with a set of three stones. It took me almost half a year before I started getting approval from the knive’s daily users, those being esteemed members of the front of house. After a year, he let me sharpen his knives, once.
Keep at it!

Yep this. The knives I sharpened are good enough for my pocket knife or my home kitchen knives but would be laughed at by anyone that knows what they are doing.

 

[kcmontie]

Finishing off the day with a good sized bowl of fresh OJK in a Baki meer.

i have a 6:45 tee time in the morning, so it will be a early night.

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[ravkesef]

Watch City English Efnie-Ental in a Charatan’s Make Apple

 

[spearheadbill]

Yep this. The knives I sharpened are good enough for my pocket knife or my home kitchen knives but would be laughed at by anyone that knows what they are doing.

I would never laugh out loud at you my little buddy!!!