***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Country Gent.

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Low Country Atalaya in a Jeppesen

 

[Sigmund]

Hot tea for a damp day and a bowl of HU Delight in a Ser jacopo Calabash. Im used to sunny weather and we have three more days of this swamp.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Too tired and cold to get up and take a decent photo. Chenet a cake in a Jess Chonowitsch

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello Aristocratica Pot and Coffee ️ on the side.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Smoking a mixture of Cherokee Red and Dunhill Elizabethan in the Manduela Bulldog. View attachment 342208

Ah you have good taste in pipes! Very pretty Manduela.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Never had Wall Street. Looked it up on TR's, saw it was a "BurPer". Never actually had that combo, so will have to make up a Home Blend = maybe PS41 Cube Cub + some C&D Granulated Perique. Yup ... Humbly acknowledging that my attempt will, in no way, equal Wilke's expertise!

Yeah, just buy some Wall Street.

 

[Hillcrest]

Today I smoked my two oldest pipes. The first pipe I ever bought my Savinelli 614KS Dry System pipe in rusticated finish and my Erica (Pete 2nd) 302. Both were purchased in 1982 so they are over 40 yrs old and having been maintained, still smoke as perfectly today as they did 40 yrs ago. They both bring forth all of the flavors of the tobacco and smoke cool and dry. The Savinelli is the pipe (or smoke) by which I judge all my other pipes. Few come close. Sutliff 507-c Navy flake was my choice. Even the room note was sweet and pleasant. I suspect pipes made many years ago are better than today's variants or at least it seems that way to me.

 

[MattRVA]

Good morning everyone. Smoking OJK and drinking Community Coffee black.

 

[Briarcutter]

I suspect pipes made many years ago are better than today's

I've wondered that many times, especially old Dunhills. Is it manufacturing, the wood of long ago or the fact that they've been smoked for fifty years?

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having some Le Petit Robin in a Grabow with coffee.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Steamworks in the BST full bent chimney.

 

[Hillcrest]

I've wondered that many times, especially old Dunhills. Is it manufacturing, the wood of long ago or the fact that they've been smoked for fifty years?

I suspect the only proper answer to that question is : YMMV ! I don't want to derail the Ways thread but I suspect it was, as always, quality craftmanship and skill, hence the artisan boom.

 

[RPK]

Today I smoked my two oldest pipes. The first pipe I ever bought my Savinelli 614KS Dry System pipe in rusticated finish and my Erica (Pete 2nd) 302. Both were purchased in 1982 so they are over 40 yrs old and having been maintained, still smoke as perfectly today as they did 40 yrs ago. They both bring forth all of the flavors of the tobacco and smoke cool and dry. The Savinelli is the pipe (or smoke) by which I judge all my other pipes. Few come close. Sutliff 507-c Navy flake was my choice. Even the room note was sweet and pleasant. I suspect pipes made many years ago are better than today's variants or at least it seems that way to me.

@Hillcrest, I don't know if they were made any better than some of today's pipes but the key is that you "maintained" them ! My first pipe a Butz-Choquin that I bought in about 1972 except for some rim darkening is in excellent shape. I wipe my bowls out with a paper towel and run a cleaner thru them after each smoke and if there is moisture in them I leave the stem off so they can dry a bit before putting back in the rack. In today's throw away world items are more easily replaced than maintained and old, used items are not cherished, so unless you left them out in the weather why shouldn't they last? Having said all that I now feel better.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a BC Big Bowl 1553.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a Charatan’s Make Perfection 371 DC.

 

[AuroraSurrealis]

After finishing a tin of H&H WhiteKnight, popped open my first tin of GLP Westminster from year 2020.

 

[telescopes]

Radice Rind Pure - Match Revelation.

 

[PaulRVA]

2022 Carolina Red Flake in a Castello KK 10 and the last of the ️

 

[MattRVA]

Haunted Bookshop and coffee.