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

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking year 2012 Carter Hall in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 437/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Fed all three ferals who are here, and am watching Sherlock Holmes.

 

[ravkesef]

Sutliff’s Blend No. 5 in the PipesMagazine 2012 POY

 

[craig61a]

C&D Burley Flake #1 in an Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation made by Erik Nording.

 

[ThermionicScott]

CRF in my Savinelli 313.

 

[JimInks]

Near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2022 KBV Mr. Christian's Haunted Virginia 2022 in a straight, black sandblasted 1980s Comoy’s Mark-2 G * 6 (4) bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Sleepy Suzy is by my side.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2018 Capstan Blue Flake in an Altinay.

 

[Roach1]

Starting the week with Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[alwayslit]

McClelland Bombay extra in a Grechukhin/J Alan collaboration

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[JimInks]

Close to finishing this bowl of C&D Fireside Fable (Winter Reserve 2024) in a pre-1920s medium bend brown unbranded meerschaum Rhodesian with a tapered Redmanol stem. Not a hard blend to review.

 

[Joe H]

It’s shoulder season in Anchorage: Fall is over and the local lakes are mostly frozen, but still too thin to skate on but no snow in town to ski on. It makes for nice walking when the sun is out, which it was today. I took advantage of the conditions by smoking a burley-based stoved cherry aromatic in a vintage Medico “Double-Dri” system pipe. Very nice!

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2008 Astley’s No. 109 Medium Flake in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. I may end the day with this smoke.

 

[Ted Vig]

Barbary Coast in a London made Ben Wade standard large lovat.

 

[antonine]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking year 2012 Carter Hall in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 437/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Fed all three ferals who are here, and am watching Sherlock Holmes.

It seems like the golden delicious is an integral part of your pipe smoking routine! Is there a method to all this (I feel like an apple could be a really nice companion to a pipe!) or do you just really enjoy apples?

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking well aged Art’s Virginia in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth Rhodesian meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. The pipe and tobacco were gifts from my late friend Art Arterburn. The blend is 80% McClelland Va.s and 20% McClelland burley. 4Noggins sold it for several years. Was tired earlier, but I got my second wind after my last smoke while reading about the old west.

 

[JimInks]

It seems like the golden delicious is an integral part of your pipe smoking routine! Is there a method to all this (I feel like an apple could be a really nice companion to a pipe!) or do you just really enjoy apples?

I love apples. It just turns out that they make great palate refreshers, too.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. We'll see if this'll do it for me today.

 

[newbroom]

macbaren golden extra in a MM Pride using an original Cobbit Shire stem.

 

[BingBong]

Second bowl of SG Cabbie's in my trusty Sarome Cambridge 6760 - the first was so sublime, I had to do it all again and #2 is equally sublime. CD "Leave Them All Behind". Quite.

 

[Sigmund]

Some Nyala and coffee after a few errands. Smoking a customized Ser jacopo.

 

[BingBong]

OGS in the cherished Peterson Cara 406 Prince; it has an 18mm x 22mm chamber, so I halve a flake of the Orlik and fold it 3 times until I have a cube, fits just right. Great flake pipe, get a good long (for me) smoke from relatively little tobacco.