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

[Sobrbiker]

Exclusive in the Illustrious.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a J. Everett.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2014 HU Directors Cut in a very early Ascorti straight New Dear KS billiard with a carved shank and a black acrylic tapered stem. Going to clean a few pipes in a minute or two.

 

[BlueRidge]

Match Revelation in an Il Ceppo

 

[das3353]

2019 GH Best Brown #2 in a Radice Silk Cut

 

[dunnyboy]

Deluxe Navy Rolls in a Castello 1982 cherrywood.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

Anthology 2022 in a Savinelli Linea Piu 3. Such a lovely blend, glad i have 10 unopened tins still.

 

[TN Jed]

Chenet’s Cake in an Altinay

 

[Ben.R.C]

I’m waiting for some estates to get evaluated at SPC, I had the pipe held I was going to trade for, then this estate pops up. I’ve been wanting a Satou Dublin just like this. Red stain, no bamboo, with tsuishu lacquer stem inlay. I’ve seen a few but never been able to grab one. Going to smoke some Chenet’s cake in my Satou billiard to celebrate. Smio Satou RIP doesn’t get enough recognition but I think Brian Levine has done more than anyone to make his work known on the Pipe Mag radio show. That’s how I was introduced to his work.

Here she is:

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Having a bowl of ES 4th Generation Twightlight Mixture in a Chacom Jurassic poker. With water.

 

[Douglas]

Stratford, again, in a Rossi Sitting 8811 Lovat

 

[Pappy Coon]

Had some Wilke LIPC Long Island Sound in a Stokkebye 4th Gen on the drive home earlier today.

 

[happy_lunter]

Mac Baren’s Royal Twist in Orlik De Luxe LX 23 billiard.

 

[Fralphog]

Spent the day from Zero dark thirty to now getting 5 tons of alfalfa hay for the year picked up, unloaded, stacked and tarped. Thank goodness for a good hired hand to help.
I’m relaxing out by the fire pit with an ice cold IPA and some GLP Cairo in a MM cob.

 

[dottlejockey]

After errand-run bowl of Penny Farthing in a Stanwell dublin while awaiting lobster prep/cook and Champagne de Margerie chilling in the fridge.

 

[warren99]

Balkan Supreme in a Rainer Barbi CB apple.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a
Castello 31

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Started with GLP Cairo in an Upshall P Dublin with long saddle stem. Followed with KBV Acadian Flek in a wee Upshall sandblast Dublin with smooth rim and eighth-bent tapered stem size 3.

 

[Scottmi]

Last of this Sixpence in my Merchant Service Short Dark Cutty

 

[Scottmi]

Second Success - My meerschaum is still a touch minerally, but I could now distinguish different notes in the Sunday Picnic, and if I could compare it to a broken-in pipe, I'd say . . . "well, I've had better smokes but I've had worse, too." So I'm not bothering with any more breaking-in angst, but putting the pipe into rotation. Right after a cigar and chew day or two, I'll stuff it with Amphora Rich, (the pipe is being biased for Orientals), one of my other favourites, and just smoke it until it's there. I figure about four more smokes, but after past debacles, I'll pass on rushing the final break in touches.

Pretty happy about it though, and if you look closely the outside of the pipe is beginning to color in certain areas, albeit lightly. Won't put any Oriental containing any Lat, however . . . . . I can just imagine the Ghost of Christmas Past dancing around in my head.

I'll post the third pipe of the day results later tonight. It'll be the final break-in smoke of the meer lined bowl in the bent Falcon. It's about two smokes ahead of this one.

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I quite like the taste of a new meer.