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

[JoeW]

Luxury Navy Flake for the Friday afternoon social hour.



Every time I bring a pipe, I get positive comments; no one ever commented when I brought cigars.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a
Miscoi Canadian and Diet Coke on the side.

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

Low Country Edisto in an Orlik Lovat

 

[MisterBadger]

That meer is colored so perfectly its indistinguishable from a briar. I always thought it was funny, as a primarily meer smoker myself, that the ultimate goal is to color a meer to look like a briar

@fishmansf - I'd say that's incidental: isn't the really ultimate goal of smoking a Meer, to enjoy the experience of a superlatively good smoke? And, if you wish, another, and another, immediately afterward? The coloration is surely simply an added bonus - that, and observing the process as it goes on (will it be marbled, or mottled - or striated? Or will it do all these?) Most briars, I understand, are stained, and this Meer - which I suspect is a Laxey pipe made for Barling - has had, like a lot of African Meers, a certain amount of pre-colouring. The one thing I've rarely seen in a Meer (in my admittedly very limited experience) is a grain effect. I wonder if the earliest briars were coloured to look like Meerschaums, though?

 

[das3353]

2019 GH Best Brown #2 in a Radice Silk Cut

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of Sutliff Pipe Force Episode III in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth octagonal paneled billiard meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Reviewing and watching the Dodgers-Mets game.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in the Chacom D-Day Army mount pipe.

 

[dottlejockey]

After a nice snack of Cremant de Bourgogne and stanky roquefort with salami, it's time for another taste of the leaf. Fresh Doblone d'Oro in a Celebi deep lattice reverse calabash.

 

[Douglas]

OJK in the Chacom D-Day Army mount pipe.

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I really like that pipe.

 

[Steddy]

We finally got internet and cell service back, waiting for the job to come back is much harder of a wait. We are still blessed because we are alive. Hurricane Helene was a real ****.

Smoking GL Pease Penny Farthing in a fancy cob.

 

[FurCoat]

Washed the wife's car while smoking LTF.

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of Sutliff Pipe Force Episode III in a medium bend fumed tan crackled year 2020 Ahmet Govem reverse calabash meerschaum with a military mount silver band and black acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

KBV Colonial Reserve in a Savinelli Monsieur 703ks.

 

[RL Bucktails]

Some maple shadows

 

[BlueRidge]

We finally got internet and cell service back, waiting for the job to come back is much harder of a wait. We are still blessed because we are alive. Hurricane Helene was a real ****.

Smoking GL Pease Penny Farthing in a fancy cob. View attachment 342949

Not to bore you with back in the day story but I was 11 when Hugo came through. I remember it being very bad even through the eyes of a child

Helene, a much different storm and experienced by my adult self, I hope to never witness this devastation again.

The 1940 flood was a doozy, according to my grandparents but the population in WNC was nowhere near what it is today so loss wasn’t near as bad.

Glad you made it and hope you get back to normal soon enough

 

[telescopes]

A home pressed blend in a Dunhill 49 Pot.

 

[alwayslit]

Penzance in a J Everett

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2015 Sir Walter Raleigh in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash with a tapered black acrylic stem.

 

[telescopes]

Sasieni Second with a home blend, pressed and polished.

 

[Scottmi]

Esoterica Tilbury in my Mastro de Paja 3AL Egg, and a Georgetown 9lb Porter. Boy howdy, this week went fast.