Good day all! Starting with Peterson Flake in a Tilshead Semibent with tapered stem (an EXL size pipe with a .75" bore that's wonderful with delicate Virginias).
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Country Squire Rivendell minus the burley (picked out) in a Barontini 1/2 spigot bent billiard. The taste was good but it seemed Italian - by that I mean it tasted like tomato paste on warm bread. Will have to try in another pipe to see if i get same flavor.
2019 Six Pence from my new Cristian Galeazzi blasted billiard. Such a comfortable little pipe.
Larsen Signature in a Doctor's bent brandy.
This blend from Tom Darasz, Kiel is new to me. Pipe Walker, of course some Latakia with Virginias, Burley, Cavendish in a Georg Jensen Chimney.
Having a bowl of Field and Stream match in a mm general, another warm, muggy day.
Happy Labor Day! Peterson (System) 4AB 44/500 and Wilke No. 515! 
C&D House Reserve in an IMP Meerschaum. 
Brown Clunee in a George Boyadjiev.
Just passing the half way point on this bowl of year 2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Not looking like walking reps will happen today. It's already sprinkling outside. Hope it subsides long enough for me to do some walking today. In the meantime, I'm about to watch the Yankees-Twins game. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Peterson Old Dublin in a Viggo Nielsen Hand Finished freehand.
2013 Capstan Blue Flake in a Jack Howell Dublin.
First a wall of text and then a picture.
Sorry to clutter up your screens and this nice thread, ladies and gentlemen.
A recent conversation with our King of Clay, halfdan, inspired me to find a new way to clean out the long stem of my clay pipe. Regular pipe cleaners are too short, paying more for longer ones is out of the question and I'm too forgetful and lazy to harvest new pipe weed/moor grass all the time.
I used to waste lighter gas to burn it out, that's no good. These days it's downright disrespectful
and that's something I don't want to be.
So I remembered the wooden skewers I used for shashlik one year and sanded one of them down until it was thin enough to fit through the stem.
I can even roll up a tiny ball of tissue paper and stuff it down all the way into the chamber, just like a muzzle loader. It's lots of fun!
It's also pretty strong and flexible, I predict many uses out of it.
Clay pipes don't soak up moisture well at all and I often like to draw up some heat, so it often starts to gurgle. Now I push this down the stem and the wood will soak everything up and clear it in seconds.
So I don't need to burn my clay anymore, this allows me a little modification I used before:
Strong hemp wick around the chamber, where I like to hold it and where my clay likes to burn me.
Bound tightly and roasted over a flame.
You can bind it in many ways and to me it'll always look and feel great. I can just put it on the table and the chamber will be at a nice enough angle - it won't spill. That's also great. It also doesn't add much weight so clenching it is still no problem.
And here it is, filled to the brim with that "Jolly Turk" batch I made up.
(30% Oriental, 25% bright and dark Kentucky, 15% bright Latakia Virginia, 15% Virginia and 15% Burley)
I gotta admit that my previous "bind" looked much better, this one is quite unshapely.
Soon I'm going to burn/clean the clay out properly in a bed of hot coals, then rebind it with a nicer shape.
But for now I'll just enjoy the good tobacco.
And wish you all a good time to enjoy.
Sorry to clutter up your screens and this nice thread, ladies and gentlemen.
A recent conversation with our King of Clay, halfdan, inspired me to find a new way to clean out the long stem of my clay pipe. Regular pipe cleaners are too short, paying more for longer ones is out of the question and I'm too forgetful and lazy to harvest new pipe weed/moor grass all the time.
I used to waste lighter gas to burn it out, that's no good. These days it's downright disrespectful
and that's something I don't want to be.
So I remembered the wooden skewers I used for shashlik one year and sanded one of them down until it was thin enough to fit through the stem.
I can even roll up a tiny ball of tissue paper and stuff it down all the way into the chamber, just like a muzzle loader. It's lots of fun!
It's also pretty strong and flexible, I predict many uses out of it.Clay pipes don't soak up moisture well at all and I often like to draw up some heat, so it often starts to gurgle. Now I push this down the stem and the wood will soak everything up and clear it in seconds.
So I don't need to burn my clay anymore, this allows me a little modification I used before:
Strong hemp wick around the chamber, where I like to hold it and where my clay likes to burn me.
Bound tightly and roasted over a flame.
You can bind it in many ways and to me it'll always look and feel great. I can just put it on the table and the chamber will be at a nice enough angle - it won't spill. That's also great. It also doesn't add much weight so clenching it is still no problem.
And here it is, filled to the brim with that "Jolly Turk" batch I made up.
(30% Oriental, 25% bright and dark Kentucky, 15% bright Latakia Virginia, 15% Virginia and 15% Burley)
I gotta admit that my previous "bind" looked much better, this one is quite unshapely.
Soon I'm going to burn/clean the clay out properly in a bed of hot coals, then rebind it with a nicer shape.
But for now I'll just enjoy the good tobacco.
And wish you all a good time to enjoy.
Now smoking year 2016 Peter Heinrichs Dark Strong Kentucky in an undated family era Sasieni Natural Four Dot Grosvenor smooth medium brown quarter bend bulldog with a black tapered vulcanite stem.
Peterson (System) 4AB 67/500 and Autumn Evening. Have some golden, yet very Irish looking company on the deck!
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