*** What Are You Smoking?*** (September 2019)
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A before bed bowl of Balkan Supreme again in my new Peterson XL14 Rhodesian Bent.
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am part way through this bowl of Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight late ‘50s, early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Phone chatting with the fella who gifted me the pipe.
For me it's about a 7. It's 50% perique, which is a lot, but it's balanced out by the other stuff. You might want to try Bayou Morning too. It has has 25% but it seems more periquey?...periquy?....perique-forward to me than Bayou Night.
C&D Redburn in my new estate Johs bent apple. I feel like these C&D crumble cakes will be really good for breaking in a new/reamed pipe, so I'm going to stick with them for my first dozen bowls or so with this pipe.
Now smoking H&H Classic Burley Kake in the very first pipe I ever bought ($2.49) in 1974; a smooth three quarter bend Dr. Grabow Omega with a black vulcanite stem in the military mount style.
More McC Samovar in a Dunhill Shell.
I Realize that with every bowl of Samovar smoked, that is one less pipe full of this wonderful blend on the planet.
Gone, never to be made again. Ever. Makes me feel a twinge of sadness for the up and coming pipers who will never know it's charms. That said, I'm thankful there are a lot of excellent available blends out there.
The times they are a changin'....
I Realize that with every bowl of Samovar smoked, that is one less pipe full of this wonderful blend on the planet.
Gone, never to be made again. Ever. Makes me feel a twinge of sadness for the up and coming pipers who will never know it's charms. That said, I'm thankful there are a lot of excellent available blends out there.
The times they are a changin'....
So Jim, what's your preference? Jazz or Golden Delicious?
Inquiring minds and all.... ?
Wessex Campaign Dark Flake in a Charatan 292.
Half way through this bowl of Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.
Last smoke of the day is Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a medium bend 2002 MM Legend cob with a yellow stem. Reading while this bowl lasts.
Rattray's Brown Clunee in an Il Ceppo sandblasted Rhodesian, with coffee and the morning paper.
Smoking a Romeo y Juliette Short Churchill At La Casa Del Habano in St. Petersburg, Russia. I have picked up several pipe tobaccos on this trip and will report when I return
Some 2003 Pease Piccadilly in a Brigham President sans insert.
Wessex BCDF in a Castello Sea Rock (kkk) bent billiard, with coffee.
Rattray's Exotic Passion in a '70s Al Pascià
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Dunhill London Mixture in a rusticated Peterson System bent apple 303, with some coffee. My kind of breakfast!
Wessex Gold Brick in a Dunhill amber root bent rhodesian with a repair band and cumberland stem.
Drying out some 4th Generation 10 year old for my new Michael Parks 1096 dark Rhodesian
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