***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***

[dunnyboy]

Lovely thing mate and the provenance attached to Kino, what's not to like

Thanks. I agree. Kino passed away four months after he sold this pipe to Luca. Makes it special to me knowing that provenance.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Winter in Anchorage is staying above 4000 feet so far, and except for snow on the mountain tops just outside town, it’s still Fall around my local lake. It was a perfect day for a long walk with the dog. I smoked one of my Dad’s old Kaywoodies and used his old Zippo as well. If you look closely you can just see a cursive “J” peeking out behind the pipe. While cleaning up Dad’s old house I found some old IDs and was amazed at how little his signature changed over the years. I had a local engraver put his signature on his old Zippo which makes it even more nostalgic to me. It’s cool for me to consider Dad lit this pipe with that lighter in the 1950s.
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Today it was packed with my extra-topped version of C&D’s 2024 Golden Days of Yore. It was fine as it came, but I added an extra dose of cooked down rum, peppermint candy cane, cloves and cinnamon. Then I mixed in a bit of a cherry Burly blend, and finally added a pinch of finely chopped spruce needles. It’s very much more holiday-like now.
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Wow man, what a fine lake you have there. Also big ups on the Christmas tobacco topping, that’s crazy man.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Earlier I smoked some Briar Fox in my Pete Dracula 106 blasted billiard, and then later on some Drucquer & Sons Inns of Court in the Pete emerald rusticated 106 - both blends samples courtesy of a wildly generous fellow forum member

Then on my way into town to pick up groceries I smoked some more 507c VA slices in my Peterson Junior lovat
For any who are curious, this is what HEB keeps in the “pipe tobacco” zone of the tobacco cage up at the front of the store - not the worst selection honestly, for a major grocery chain!

 

[damacene]

Enjoying the slightly cooler temperature with some Nightcap in this quite large Castello Bent Bulldog.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking year 2013 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Tomato the Brave escorted me to the street when I took the trash can down, and followed me inside like a good trooper. Harry the Hairy stood by my car, and ran to the back door when I started back up the driveway. Both of them ate some dry food without incident. Harry wanted to play in the cardboard box, but Molly Danger was in the middle of den laying on a catnip sock and the play rope. She gave him and Tomato the death stare, so they backed off and are by the left side of my chair. Daisy the Feral Princess has been by my feet for the last hour. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. I'm watching the Jays-Mariners game from the start since the Dodgers-Brewers game is over.

 

[tmcg81]

Watch City Terrapin Station in a Savinelli Roma Lucite bent pot

 

[dottlejockey]

Nice Don Carlos. He always makes great smoking pipes!
What’s your opinion of the Port Guardian?

Thanks...the grain and size got me.

The only 2 Per Jensen releases i've tried is this one and Brothers In Arms. Still testing them both out in different pipes. I think i've had this one maybe 4 or 5 times and so far, i think it's a decent blend, nothing i'd order 10 tins of for the cellar, but it's an enjoyable smoke. Of course everything smokes better in the new DC.

Moving on to an after-dinner bowl of King Fisher in a Caminetto bamboo with some electrolyte water on the side.

 

[ashdigger]

Capstan Blue in an 1900 Ben Wade. It had a completely chewed up Horn Stem, so Ryan Alden used Tan Cumberland to simulate it.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Received a package from Country Squire today, containing Yazoo Witch for '25 along with a couple others. Smoking the YW tonight in an Altinay meer. This one seems sweeter and much more moist than last year's. I don't know if it's just the bourbon barrel aging that's the difference, but they almost seem like different blends. Its still very good, just different. Dead Guy on the side.

 

[PrivatePiping]

That is a really, really sharp looking Dublin (Zulu?). Really nice.

Thanks man! The draft hole in the shank doesn't line up perfectly with the tenon, so I think it's causing it to smoke a little hot and wet. Otherwise I'd smoke it a lot more often!

 

[dublinpiper90]

Nightcap on the coolest night of the year so far, in The dedicated Peterson SH Baskerville Rusticated which is a 9mm pipe as well

 

[telescopes]

Somewhere in the high desert of Nevada along the Colorado River. Pipe by Lee.

 

[JimInks]

Earlier, I enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and then smoked a bowl of 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.


Currently, I'm passing the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2013 Capstan Blue Flake in a straight 1924 Dunhill’s “Shell Briar” patent pot 7 with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[abecox]

Same pipe different smoke, Haunted Bookshop in a Comoy Everyman Billiard.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Morning smoke with my Nording Compass and some RMC Marylebone, accompanied by a cup of coffee with milk.
Good milk is surprisingly hard to find here in China — but when you do, it makes the moment complete.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JazzInAZ]

HU Asmara in the V.F. Cherrywood Morta.

Trying a new (to me) bourbon - Four Roses Small Batch

Beautiful night out ... Cheers!




Edit to add: This Asmara - Bourbon pairing is really hitting it out of the park. Man, this Asmara ... this is what tobacco should taste like! Love the Orientals. I must have been smoking too much Black Cordial, ha ha ha.
(thanks @dottlejockey !)

 

[petes03]

First smoke in my new house, and first smoke in a new Castello Old Sea Rock Dublin. My wife bought me this pipe for our anniversary about 3 years ago and I told her then that it would not be smoked until we were in our new house on our new property, and that it would be the first pipe I smoked there. Enjoying some 5 year old Gawith Hoggarth Scotch Flake.

 

[OzPiper]

Treating myself to a day off as it’s my b’day
Nice lunch of grilled eel donburi at a nearby Korean cafe


A cased pair of Loewes


The bent billiard with a bowl of cube-cut Peterson’s De Luxe Navy Rolls

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Treating myself to a day off as it’s my b’day
Nice lunch of grilled eel donburi at a nearby Korean cafe
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A cased pair of Loewes
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The bent billiard with a bowl of cube-cut Peterson’s De Luxe Navy Rolls
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You sure know how to live it up, Oz. Happy birthday!