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

[BenMN]

Easing into Monday with a bowl of Five Brothers to give me that slap to the face I need for a Monday. In a Sav Capri Root Briar with coffee, very black and bitter View attachment 340491

I went with Burley Flake #2 for similar effect

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Low Country Atalaya in a Jeppesen

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

2023 From Beyond in a Vauen Nest.

 

[dottlejockey]

Had a couple pipes before i even got up. Some business to handle today and needed the time to contemplate some angles. Firing up this after-breakfast smoke and then i'll get to it...

Fresh FVF in an unnamed apple meer.

 

[Homer]

I forgot to mention the pipe... an African Meerschaum Rhodesian, a poor, beat up old thing included in a job lot I bid for. Looks as if it spent years in a chap's pocket, rubbing against coins or maybe a waitcoat fob eatch chain. I've rubbed out the worst of the chips and am now re-beeswaxing and smoking to darken the pallor of the smootrhed-out patches.

By the way, it has a tiny rhinocerous stamped on the left hand side of the stem. Can anyone identify the maker from this, please?

The maker is probably Kiko.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[thomasw]

Late morning bowl of ODF in a 1967 32 F/T shell group 1 billiard along with a cup of coffee…

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Watching Mad Dog Russo with Abner the Eager snoozin' by my side. Ice water and bergs is my drink. All of the ferals have eaten.

 

[cynyr]

Neat Pipe! Lovat or Lumberman? any idea what year?

It's a Lumberman, a GBD second. No idea of the year, but it is an impressive piece of lumber, almost 8 inches long. Thanks for the comment!

 

[gord]

Two Birds with one stone. Right now I'm about to light up my morning smoke this Oct 7th, Mad Fiddler, in the top pipe, a McQueen miniature in briarwood, with an ash stem. I'll get about a 25 minute smoke, just right for me in the am with my usual cold coffee. Bracing!

At about 2:00 pm I'll Black Frigate in my little Ropp Etudiante J05 placed below the McQueen, and will get at least 45 minutes of peace and quite while I read the morning news. By the way, The Ropp is a dedicated pipe - It loves Black Frigate, and the tobacco loves it . . . . just one of those perfect fits. So it's my Frigate Pipe!

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[Hillcrest]

Had some Sutliff Sweet Virginia/Lane 1-Q in the Vauen Olaf bent egg with coffee and cream. Later this morning I had a Davidoff Flake Medalion in the Vauen. At a certain point, for about a minute, the flavor was exactly the same as the smell of Windex. It then switched to normal hay/bread. The end of the bowl had a noticeable salad flavor like lettuce and celery then watermelon rind. Tasty and interesting smoke all around !!!

 

[wilblee]

The Red Hunt in my Little Group 2 (you don't know what I got). Watching Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having luxury twist flake in a cob this afternoon

 

[gord]

Smoking Petersdon's Irish Cask inside this wonderfully politically incorrect tin. To complement my look as a late 19thC farm bailiff, I needed a Victorian tin that looks new, and so I did some surfing, found and purchased a) a new blank 2oz. tin, and b) a reproduction label from a specialist provider to very thorough re-enactors. Zoom in, and take a closer look at the label: it's so Jingo, so supremacist, bumptious and Kitsch, I couldn't resist... observe how, with that characteristic British Pluck (TM) inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race, a red-coated, pith-helmeted Tommy is single-handedly holding off a swarm of nondescript brown heathen types with his wounded platoon commander's .450 Adams revolver, as the savages advance with their spears - doubtless the Gatling (off-picture) has jammed.

At first, I was suspicious: didn't it seem to be trying a little too hard? I did some further research on British Pluck Flaked Tobacco labels, and was pleasantly surprised to see that here I had The Real Thing (or at least, a copy of same): a slightly later version shows a pack of what are unmistakably Boers throwing away their Mausers in panicked flight from a British cavalryman who has just stuck one of them with his sabre, and an infantryman advancing in close support, bayonet fixed to his Lee-Metford (They don't like it up 'em, Mister Mainwaring).
If Messrs. W.D. & H.O. Wills had produced a ready-rubbed pipe shag called White Man's Burden, I couldn't have been more astonished.
I'm left wondering what kind of weed British Pluck (TM) was. Contemporary advertisements inform the beholder that it is "Flaked Virginia". That covers a multitude, of course. I imagine it was cheap, though.


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Great story! Made my morning! Thanks! I'm half English myself, so it rung the bells!

 

[Speak Easy]

Had some Kramer’s Father Dempsey in a no-name Italian to start the day. About to introduce some flame to this Five Brothers in the little meer (bowl 358).

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this beautiful day, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Lunch follows this smoke.

 

[warren99]

GLP Samarra in a pre-Lane Charatan Special brandy.

 

[atwaterville]

C&D Palmetto Balkan in Rattray's TGD billiard.

 

[Fralphog]

I decided an after lunch, pre afternoon chores smoke sounded more appealing than chores and then a smoke.
Peterson Derry 106 with HH Half n Half - 50/50 HH Burley Flake and Pure Va.
A mug of 50/50 homemade Kombucha and black ice tea.

 

[john19]

Smoking another bowl for G.L. Pease Key Largo.