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

[Ben.R.C]

Dark Bird's Eye in a Peterson pre-republic Kilarney 53.View attachment 251686

Nice old Pete, lovats are probably my favorite classic shape. Looks like some decent birdseye as well.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Good morning. Just finished watching the sun rise while enjoying a good cup of coffee and the inaugural smoke of my latest rejuvenation project, a sterling clad WDC "The Wellington" filled with Balkan Supreme.

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I don't think I've seen a Wellington with that "fin". Is there a designated name for the shape?

 

[Lost Somnambulist]

I don't think I've seen a Wellington with that "fin". Is there a designated name for the shape?

Good question, but I don't have an answer on a shape name. It's unusual for sure.

 

[Green Hill Hermit]

Started off the day this morning with strong coffee and Earl of Wilmington a house aro blend From Davis and Sons Tobacconist in Wilmington NC in my Savinelli 637 later I tried Trafalgers Mixture a mild English blend of there’s in a Dr. Grabow Duke billiard.

Try the London guard, it will blow your gourd.

 

[pipeboy122]

2018 SPC Plum Pudding in a MM Country Gentlemen

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Pregame inside - Peterson SH Iora Professor and Iwan Ries Three Star Blue.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Gawith FVF in my “around the ranch” Lee 3star saddle stem medium pear.
Trying the blue wrench as a last resort getting a fitting off of an old iron pipe I’m repurposing into a light pole.

 

[Carol]

Little Lucy is just over 40 lbs.! This morning with some dummy retrieves was doing her version of pulling the football away from good old Charlie Brown, lol! It’s fall! A Pete Deluxe System 9b and Boswell’s Piper’s Pleasure. Chilly on the deck but the sun is out and air is crisp! Have a great weekend! View attachment 251644View attachment 251645

Lucy is beautiful!

 

[PaulRVA]

Thanks to those wishing me a speedy recovery, it’s not better yet, probably because it’s just too damn hard to not smoke but what are you gonna do!
I picked up a very special set last week that was owned by a CSM (Company Sergeant Major) in the Artist’s Rifles in WWl, a regiment that later became the SAS. I’ll be putting it on a thread later as I’ve managed to find out some history about the owner and am researching some more.
Anyhoo I’m going to use the one pipe in there that has been smoked (no more than once or twice) with some Wessex BS. A army mount GBD hallmarked Birmingham 1915. View attachment 251675View attachment 251678View attachment 251681

Seeing that made my day!

 

[RobNYC]

Nice old Pete, lovats are probably my favorite classic shape. Looks like some decent birdseye as well.

Thanks! I find the Lovat to be a very agreeable shape as well. I found this in a Junk shop a few years ago and it was a disaster. I was pleasantly surprised to find that Bird's eye underneath the grime.

 

[alwayslit]

WCC Glass slipper in a Falcon

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue in a Republic era Peterson System 309

 

[bluegrassbrian]

HU Soraya in the Il Duca D sax.

 

[cshubhra]

Cshubra-approved dark birds eye in the Nording Quail to start the day.
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*never realized how ugly those softy bits look until I started posting pictures here...

Most good tobacco start their life as a plug. But the very best amongst them transforms themselves into a shag cut before reaching the hands of the discerning gentle smoker

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tall stack of cinnamon raisin French toast with two small Sweet Tango apples and some unsalted peanuts on the side. I just smoked a bowl of year 2000 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Lavazza Classico, neat, is my drink. Watching the Orioles-Rangers game, and am getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time - Trinidad Espiritu Series No 2

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

507 in a Tendi bulldog earlier with some light roast.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking a bowl from a freshly opened tin of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Smoking Pipes to bring back this model.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Today I've got my Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman with a C type red amber tortoise Forever Stem loaded up with... I'm gonna call it, "Old Dark Golden Sliced". I just took one flake of Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired and one flake of Orlik Golden Sliced then rubbed them out and mixed them together. It's my first attempt at a custom blend and I think it came out pretty tasty! It's medium bodied, naturally sweet, smokey, grassy, earthy, floral, and spicy. All the aromas and flavors of a summertime barbecue!

 

[sardonicus87]

Last smoke of my trip (I leave tomorrow and will be on the road for 3 days headed back home). JA Dragon Flake in the meer.