***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2020?

[J.GANDY]

Haunted Bookshop in a Willard, drinking a strong black tea.

 

[mso489]

Dunhill Durbar, a discontinued Virginia based English blend, in a Luciano straight blast saddle-stem billiard that SP brought to the TAPS pipe show on spec to save me shipping, and which I promptly bought, a great pipe at a fine price. The last bit of Durbar in the tin isn't a bowl worth, so I mixed in some cigar leaf and will try that perhaps tomorrow. I never jarred the Durbar, and it has only gotten better bowl after bowl, full-flavored, refined, sophisticated in the best sense. "For the experienced smoker," that would be me such as I am. If you spot a tin of Durbar collecting dust at your pipe shop, I say buy it.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking D&R Picayune in a MM cob. Having a diet Coke. Looks like I missed the Samuel Gawith.. Damnit, just Damn.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Carolina Red Flake with Perique:

 

[cigrmaster]

2013 Brigham Klondike Gold in a Rad Davis Lovat.

 

[atomic]

Opening time was C&D's Oriental Silk which was a perfect call. Now G.L. Peace's JackKnife Plug in a Vitale Dublin. Back pour over coffee, neat, is my beverage.

 

[guylesss]

2008 GLP Westminster in a faux-ivory stemmed 2007 Dunhill 4144 shell billiard.

 

[Tennessee Dave]

Codger time since I am one. Kaywoodie stovepipe with CH and Founder's Porter.

 

[happy_lunter]

My first VaPer experience with a bowl of Sutliff’s Match Elizabethan in the Mark Twain cob with a cup of Earl Grey and a slice of lemon. Very nice!

 

[Mis Pipas]

Capstan Original Navy Flake in Savinelli Porto Cervo

 

[das3353]

GLP Union Square in a Radice

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Edward G. Robinson’s Pipe Blend. About to grill fajitas.

 

[jaytex1969]

Dark Plug in a Tekin Meerschaum Rhodesian.



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[cshubhra]

Lakeland Time- Gawith Hoggarth & Co Coniston Cut Plug In a Mullins & Westley

 

[Jwebb90]

Trying to regain a taste for Latakia mixtures. Tonight’s attempt is Black Frigate.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking King B Twist in a MM Hardwood. Black coffee is my drink, as I try to squeeze in a few bowls this afternoon.

 

[JimInks]

While I was away, I smoked:
The last of my stash of Ken Byron Ventures Red Forest Phenomenon in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth octagonal paneled billiard meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem.

Year 2016 Robert McConnell Scottish Cake in a 2002 black pebble finish straight Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano Billiard and a black acrylic tapered stem.

D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank lumberman Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 with a black vulcanite tapered stem.

And now I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of Sutliff Prince Andrew in a 1980s straight smooth Big Ben pot with a nickel band and a black vulcanite saddle stem. Time to do my last set of walking reps.

 

[virkia]

Early 20th Cent. maker unknown + G. L. Pease UNION SQUARE:-

 

[Humblepipe]

"Walbridge Honey"... my own blend named after the massive fire that caused us to evacuate here last week in Northern CA. An "Oriental" blend soaked in Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey. Smoked in my old Larsen Freehand.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Up in Tahoe with Burly morning in a Radice Rind