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

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm part way through this bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Steddy]

C&D Briar Fox on my back porch followed by C&D Interlude at Bruce’s Pipe Shop in Asheville NC. Peterson Army 80s

 

[tfdickson]

1999 Old Gowrie in my Former bamboo billiard.

 

[Carol]

Grousemoor, in the little Algerian. Lovely day today.

 

[Scottmi]

Enjoying the 2nd half of this afternoon's Sun Bear Mountain Flower, with Match Victorian in the Radice Rind on deck.

 

[Bright Orange Red]

2022 Palmetto Balkan in a BBB Walnut Own Make 428.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Cupido Robusto.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[Humblepipe]

Just got these pipes back from @RustiePyles CPG all spruced up/repaired. The Kalmasch is loaded with some Haddo's Delight 2020, the old Meer Cutty with 2014 Anniversary Kake, and the old bent briar with 2022 Cringle Flake.

 

[Bbailey324]

Mac Baren Virginia #1 in a Peterson Dracula 80s.

 

[rokerdepipe]

Enjoyed a parfait of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture on a bed of C&D Autumn Evening tonight in the Savinelli Roma. Love the 320 shape.

 

[Scottmi]

More of that 2021 Union Square in my Savinelli 313 Prince. Call me crazy, but the sweetness in this bowl is reminiscent of eating the flowerhead off a thistle. Anyone here done that?

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I've only seen the horseys do that, but I'll have to dig this out of the bookshelf and see if it's covered.

 

[JSPiper71]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm part way through this bowl of year 2012 St. James Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Tanshell octagonal paneled EK F/T billiard with a square shank and tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
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Dark and salty, like a piece of beef jerky??

 

[Scottmi]

More Rouxgaroux. Have to make sure it’s not spoiled!! This time in a CAO lattice meer.

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Awesome meer! Love sitters!!

 

[dottlejockey]

After a hearty steak dinner I felt the need for something strong and natural. So, naturally, I reached for what's left of my 2010 Tambolaka stash and filled the Stanwell UFO.

 

[cshubhra]

Sutliff Crème Brûlée spiked with shredded whole leaf wild Rustica (50:50) in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Cornell & Diehl’s Big ‘n Burley in my Astas slightly bent Dublin with acrylic stem and 9mm filter.

 

[Hillcrest]

Before dinner, Autmn Evening in a '69-'71 Kapmeer Peterson 999 with P-Lip. After dinner, Creme Brulee in the Peterson XL339S second. I guess I have smoked it enough now that the stem now fits snugly and is no longer loose. I'm guessing it had been sitting too long with the prior owner. Interestingly, I removed the stem mid-smoke to check the snugness and the huge shank chamber was filled with thick white smoke. I wonder if this is how a reverse calabash works. I do notice the smoke is generally cooler in this pipe.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Dark and salty, like a piece of beef jerky??

Nahhh... I'm a carnivore, not a cannibal.