Huh. How'd that work out?
I love Union Square, and many favorites have black Cavendish (Pegasus, Windjammer, Marlin Flake)...
Awesome pipe. Those blue-black stems are great.
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I love Union Square, and many favorites have black Cavendish (Pegasus, Windjammer, Marlin Flake)...
Awesome pipe. Those blue-black stems are great.
More swr aromatic for bowl 61 in the Tekin.
John Patton Dark Horse in a blasted one dot Canadian made Brigham #149 with an Irish coffee.
Flor de Las Antillas robusto in the luxury lounge, with good company.
This has become a quick favorite.
This has become a quick favorite.
2015 Laurel Heights in a Stanwell DM
Working time with my greek pipe! Good day everyone!
Hearth and Home Anniversary Kake in a splendid condition Marxman “A” Bench Made. $14 pipe last August.
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Did a little snacking, and am half way through 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. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
WCC Rouxgaroux (fall 2023).
Half a tin left. Amazing how long it takes to go through 8 oz. That's like, 100-150 smokes in an average sized bowl. Half a pound is a bit much to take a gamble on, but the base being burley and ODF made that decision a little easier for me.. I'm just glad I did and like it as much as I do—easily one of my top 5 aros (through, I don't smoke many aros either). I dunno what I am going to do in 2-3 months when I finally run out, I'll have to pick one of the 100+ other blends I have in the cabinet.We know
You stocked up on it?
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Bowl 62 is the same.
Close to finishing this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Drinking coffee and smoking some Weinig no7 in a George Leoussis pipe. Will drink and smoke some here, in the house, and the rest while driving. I have to do some shopping today. But also to collect the annual pipe of year 2024, exclusively made for the members of the Greek Pipe Club, directly from the carver's workshop.
I absolutely did not need another pipe, but this is not just a pipe, it's the "the annual pipe of year 2024, exclusively made for the members of the Greek Pipe Club".
I hope you understand me good people...
I absolutely did not need another pipe, but this is not just a pipe, it's the "the annual pipe of year 2024, exclusively made for the members of the Greek Pipe Club".
I hope you understand me good people...
Finished a bowl of PS Luxury Navy Flake in this incredibly soft and spongy Marxman Bench Made “A”.
This one is coloring dramatically while breaking in.
This one is coloring dramatically while breaking in.
Half way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend.
It's been four days since I've seen Tomato the Brave. He's been elsewhere before, but this is the longest length of time he's been away. I hope he's okay. As big as Tomato has become, I suspect he's eating elsewhere which is fine with me as long as he's happy. Daisy the Feral Princess mostly sticks around here, and the others come and go.
Sam the Scamp was rather funny today. He stood at the corner of my driveway during the second half of my first set of today's walking reps, and complained loudly that I was going back up the street, and not paying attention to him. When I came back that way on the next and last lap, he ran after me with constant meows. I picked him up, and carried the loudly purring little boy the length of five houses and brought him inside to eat. After that, Sam jumped on my lap, curled up, and took nap. He growled when I picked him up and put him outside, but Molly Danger came into the den, and there would be a scene had I kept Sam inside. At least he left with a full belly. I must say that cat growls more than any cat I've ever known.
It's been four days since I've seen Tomato the Brave. He's been elsewhere before, but this is the longest length of time he's been away. I hope he's okay. As big as Tomato has become, I suspect he's eating elsewhere which is fine with me as long as he's happy. Daisy the Feral Princess mostly sticks around here, and the others come and go.
Sam the Scamp was rather funny today. He stood at the corner of my driveway during the second half of my first set of today's walking reps, and complained loudly that I was going back up the street, and not paying attention to him. When I came back that way on the next and last lap, he ran after me with constant meows. I picked him up, and carried the loudly purring little boy the length of five houses and brought him inside to eat. After that, Sam jumped on my lap, curled up, and took nap. He growled when I picked him up and put him outside, but Molly Danger came into the den, and there would be a scene had I kept Sam inside. At least he left with a full belly. I must say that cat growls more than any cat I've ever known.
Sir John Aylesbury Virginia in my Larry Roush Saddle Billiard.
Last smoke of the day is Angler's Dream in a 2018 natural smooth medium bend Peterson 03 apple silver spigot military mount with a tapered black acrylic fish tail stem.
I've been primarily smoking HH Pure Virginia and Bells Three Nuns recently. I think my technique has taken another leap forward and Im enjoying the heck out of both blends.
A Pre 54 Marxman pipe is not for everybody. Four bowls ago it looked like this.
I’ve finished a delicious bowl of 1792. The pipe is indescribablly delicious and never got hot to hold, and I clenched it and handled with a rag to make sure that’s not oil from my hands.
The pipe soaks up beeswax like a sponge.
Wax traps something that oozes out of the butter soft briar. This is the most dramatic coloring of any Marxman I own but all will color like this, most evenly and not from the bottom of the bowl up. On this one are lines (growth rings?) about a hundred to the inch and those are what colored almost black.
No fancy grained, beautiful artisan pipe could be made from briar that will turn nearly black in a week.
But if you get a taste for these, you’re hooked.
Look how shallow the colors are. A light sanding with 4/0 steel wool restored it to this. The next few times I smoke it, that dark reddish brown color will come right back.
Did Marx use an oil cure?
Or could that possibly be tars from the smoke or tannins in the briar?
I’ve finished a delicious bowl of 1792. The pipe is indescribablly delicious and never got hot to hold, and I clenched it and handled with a rag to make sure that’s not oil from my hands.
The pipe soaks up beeswax like a sponge.
Wax traps something that oozes out of the butter soft briar. This is the most dramatic coloring of any Marxman I own but all will color like this, most evenly and not from the bottom of the bowl up. On this one are lines (growth rings?) about a hundred to the inch and those are what colored almost black.
No fancy grained, beautiful artisan pipe could be made from briar that will turn nearly black in a week.
But if you get a taste for these, you’re hooked.
Look how shallow the colors are. A light sanding with 4/0 steel wool restored it to this. The next few times I smoke it, that dark reddish brown color will come right back.
Did Marx use an oil cure?
Or could that possibly be tars from the smoke or tannins in the briar?
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