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A night photo of Casey Jones Hero's Blend in a Cayuga (brandy/billiard) from Paul's Pipe Shop in Flint. I primarily smoke vanilla blends in the morning, but the mood hit.

This is my dedicated vanilla aromatic pipe (christened with Arrowhead) that virtually smokes itself and so is saturated with oils from vanilla tobacco that each session is seemingly more enjoyable.

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dino

Lifer
Jul 9, 2011
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I had my first pipe in nearly three weeks! I've been fighting a nasty UTI and felt quite well enough today to meet with my ZOOM buddies. It was just four of us today, many of the others are in Las Vegas.
I smoked some Samovar in my Sixten Ivarsson designed Stanwell 90, a small, slightly bent, squashed tomato with a saddle bit. Great smoke with great company.
 

Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
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I had my first pipe in nearly three weeks! I've been fighting a nasty UTI and felt quite well enough today to meet with my ZOOM buddies. It was just four of us today, many of the others are in Las Vegas.
I smoked some Samovar in my Sixten Ivarsson designed Stanwell 90, a small, slightly bent, squashed tomato with a saddle bit. Great smoke with great company.
Glad your feeling better. Love my Sixten era 90.
 

JimInks

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Aug 31, 2012
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Did some snacking, and then smoked a bowl of year 2016 Wessex Gold Brick in an undated straight black sandblasted Kevin Arthur brandy with a multi-colored accent on the white acrylic saddle stem. This pipe was originally owned by Sante “FishnBanjo” Guiliani. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

@Cloozoe , do you have any of Sante's pipes?

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Skippy B. Coyote

Can't Leave
Jun 19, 2023
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Tonight I decided to do a fun little comparison and smoked 3 different cherry aromatics! First I had Mac Baren 7 Seas Red Blend in the Dr Grabow Lark, then Lane Limited Very Cherry in the Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman, and lastly Cult Blood Red Moon in the Peterson Junior Rusticated Billiard.

The Mac Baren 7 Seas Red was a very natural tart cherry flavor that mixes nicely with dark earthy Burleys and a touch of bright grassy Virginia, Cult Blood Red Moon was more of a sweet cherry pie flavor with a bit of chocolate and not much tobacco flavor to speak of aside from a hint of nutty Burley, and the Lane Very Cherry was... well, I thought it pretty much tasted like a cherry cough drop rolled in sawdust and garnished with a few slivers of almond.

Needless to say I wasn't a fan of Very Cherry, but 7 Seas Red and Blood Red Moon were both excellent! Of the two I liked 7 Seas Red the best, but that's just because I tend to gravitate towards more tobacco-forward and less sweet aromatics and appreciated the higher nicotine content from the central tobacco in the blend being Burley; whereas Blood Red Moon was mainly Black Cavendish. I don't think you could go wrong with either of them though.puffy
 

JimInks

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Aug 31, 2012
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Just finishing this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1970s three quarter bend half smooth, half sandblasted Savinelli Autograph 4 military mount with a pearl brown acrylic ferrule and saddle stem. Haven't smoked this pipe in a long time.
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JimInks

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Aug 31, 2012
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Last smoke of the day is year 2015 Mac Baren Virginia #1 in a straight smooth brown pre-1920s W.D.C. Bakelite bulldog with an electro silver band and tapered black vulcanite stem with an orific bit. Going to check on the ferals, and then read while this bowl lasts.
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Cloozoe

Lifer
Sep 1, 2023
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CRF in a non-frankenhill (I guess that could be just called a Dunhill, but wanted to contrast it with the Frankenhill I posted the other day)

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Before this I finished off a bowl from last night and was reminded that, years ago, on the old, cranky pipe forum I used to frequent, people would promote lighting up, smoking, say, half a bowl, then deliberately setting it aside for a few hours and then relighting in order to be rewarded with a smoking experience of unsurpassed superbiosity. If I remember correctly, the technique even had a name. Is that still a thing? In any event, for those of you who think questionable bullshit (can I say "bullshit" on this forum? I guess I'll find out) as it relates to pipe smoking was invented recently...au contraire, mes amis! We pipe smokers always were, still are, and always will be the undefeated, undisputed champions of confirmation bias, post hoc ergo propter hoc and every other logical fallacy ever delineated, not to mention our stunning ignorance of fluid behavior, thermodynamics, and other basics of physics. Long may we wave!
 
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Cloozoe

Lifer
Sep 1, 2023
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Absolutely cool, man! It does me and m'lady great good to see these photos. If you have more photos, would you please consider starting a thread so more of the forum members who loved and respected Sante could see them? Has his widow Eileen seen them?
I'm truly happy you enjoyed the pictures, Jim. I'll see if I can dredge up some others and will be glad to post them if I find any.
 
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