What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[NeverBend]

Nice to see you back !

Ditto Dan (@MisterMoo)

2015 Cromwell in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard. Last of this. Warm, formerly hot, and soon to be cold tea. Willie and Lobo accompanies.

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania Bengal Slices in a 1990s smooth Peterson Captain Pete XL80 bulldog.

[Bruck]

Continuing my VA flake journey, I'm smoking a bowl of FVF right now. Wow! This is wonderful stuff! Possibly my favorite so far in this genre.

VA flakes are what woke me up to "real" pipe smoking. Prior to that I had been smoking mostly goopers and wondering what all the fuss was about :) First time I broke a flake up into a bowl and lit it, it was, okay, I get it now.

[Bruck]

Some of us were born to blend.


It's my personal compulsion that I just can't leave well enough alone :)

As it happens, I probably should have in this case. The silver river's pretty good by itself but so far I haven't been able to improve on it.

And on a side note, I just chased a possum off the deck. Dang, those thing are ugly!

[Bruck]

Having a bowl of Five Brothers, part of a cluster bomb from our friend Alligator Gar. Not sure how old it is, but it's definitely got some vintage on it. I had to rehydrate it a bit; think it's about right now.

Pipe is a no-name unfinished briar.

[JimInks]

Now smoking a bowl of delicious Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania War Horse in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.

[Lostmason]

It's my personal compulsion that I just can't leave well enough alone :)

As it happens, I probably should have in this case. The silver river's pretty good by itself but so far I haven't been able to improve on it.

And on a side note, I just chased a possum off the deck. Dang, those thing are ugly!

Have you tried layering the tobaccos rather than blending them, JohnnyFlake told me about this and it makes the bowl more interesting.
As to opossums, I took one on a ride over forty miles away in a sealed bucket and 100 degree weather, little peckerhead was
home before I was. Only thing I can figure is he crawled into the undercarriage of my truck and caught a ride.Now I just kill em
and go on to the next rat.

I just finished a bowl of PS Black Coffee in a Swiss BBK 3/4 bent

[c.ortiz108]

VA flakes are what woke me up to "real" pipe smoking. Prior to that I had been smoking mostly goopers and wondering what all the fuss was about :) First time I broke a flake up into a bowl and lit it, it was, okay, I get it now.

I've mostly been enjoying latakia blends. The first few VAs I tried, I thought "meh." But these flakes are really making me "get" it - and especially that FVF.

What are your top VA flakes?

[Bruck]

Have you tried layering the tobaccos rather than blending them, JohnnyFlake told me about this and it makes the bowl more interesting.
As to opossums, I took one on a ride over forty miles away in a sealed bucket and 100 degree weather, little peckerhead was
home before I was. Only thing I can figure is he crawled into the undercarriage of my truck and caught a ride.Now I just kill em
and go on to the next rat.

I just finished a bowl of PS Black Coffee in a Swiss BBK 3/4 bent

Layering - no, I haven't tried that, good idea! For my next trick, I'm going to try pressing it in a flake with some bright and burley, maybe with a little molasses or rum.

& if I see the possum again I'm going to have to introduce it to a shovel. I'm just glad Mrs. Bruck wasn't here to see it - she'd never set foot on the deck again!

[Bruck]

I've mostly been enjoying latakia blends. The first few VAs I tried, I thought "meh." But these flakes are really making me "get" it - and especially that FVF.

What are your top VA flakes?

Big fan of English/Balkans here as well. Re VA flakes, I'm not exactly in the high-rent district. I dig Marlin, pretty much all the Stokkebye flakes, and Newminster 400. Plus I have cold-pressed a few decent ones IIDSSM.

[Alligator Gar]

I've mostly been enjoying latakia blends. The first few VAs I tried, I thought "meh." But these flakes are really making me "get" it - and especially that FVF.

What are your top VA flakes?

Marlin Flake and Best Brown Flake.

[JimInks]

SG Skiff in a medium bend 2001 Ural lattice Rhodesian with a yellow stem with white swirls. Have enough left for a couple bowls.

[Alligator Gar]

Having a bowl of Five Brothers, part of a cluster bomb from our friend Alligator Gar. Not sure how old it is, but it's definitely got some vintage on it. I had to rehydrate it a bit; think it's about right now.

Pipe is a no-name unfinished briar.

I'm smoking some of that Stokkybe Cube Cut Burley you gave me mixed with some 2012 Red Ribbon in a Sav Prince. Very savory.

[Alligator Gar]

Having a bowl of Five Brothers, part of a cluster bomb from our friend Alligator Gar. Not sure how old it is, but it's definitely got some vintage on it. I had to rehydrate it a bit; think it's about right now.

Pipe is a no-name unfinished briar.

Replaced the cube cut with Five Brothers and Red Ribbon, the 5B is smoother and more well mannered, probably due to its age. Stuffed it in a Sav 606 Brown Gator I recently picked up.

http://i.imgur.com/pfRaXSC.jpg

[JimInks]

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.

[JimInks]

Tilbury in a 1990s smooth briar calabash shaped Butz-Choquin Maitre Pipier JR Fait Main with a horn ferrule.

[cpmcdill]

Rattray's Hal O' The Wynd in a MM cob

[JimInks]

Listing this early: 2012 Rolando’s Own in a slight bent 1970's Caminetto 103 Business KS billiard with a fumed rim.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Symphony in a very ugly reddish color 1980 medium bend Lorenzo Leganza Sigma 8635 etched rough top.

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking Jim's Evolving Work Blend in a smooth 1976 Canadian GBD Seventy Six 256.

[JimInks]

Heine's Blend in the very first pipe I ever bought ($2.49) in 1974; a smooth three quarter bend Dr. Grabow Omega.

[Haebar]

Finishing up my last two bowls of Tambolaka in an old Orlik Captain Black billiard.

[NeverBend]

...As to opossums, I took one on a ride over forty miles away in a sealed bucket and 100 degree weather, little peckerhead was
home before I was. Only thing I can figure is he crawled into the undercarriage of my truck and caught a ride.Now I just kill em
and go on to the next rat.

I just finished a bowl of PS Black Coffee in a Swiss BBK 3/4 bent

http://www.soswildlifecontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/raccoon-trash-collector.jpg

After years of trying to rid or reduce my raccoon problem I discovered that there's a secret criminal organization, La Cosa Procione or the Raccoon Mafia. They assigning turf, areas where a battle tested individual is in control. They sift through your garbage with the skill of a seasoned papparazzi and they challenge you to find a way to keep them out. Get rid of your current raccoon boss and by the next night you have a new boss. Move them 40 miles away and they're back before morning.

They even have a school: Raccoon Diploma (http://stanfordflipside.com/2012/11/raccoon-receives-diploma-leftover-pizza/)

There is no relief, just the occasional respite on a morning when you don't find your trash cans tipped and your garbage strewn up and down the road.

Raccoon Attack (http://pagesix.com/2015/10/16/former-porn-actress-attacked-by-raccoon-on-fire-island/?_ga=1.220779803.281354790.1443984311)

[AndyCAYP]

Been at work for two hours and I'm thinking I would've been further ahead just staying in bed. Monumentally lazy coworkers can be a gigantic, royal pain in the ass.

So, lots of Royal Yacht. There must be something in it that tempers my mood because I can be a foul beast and a quarter of the way into a bowl of RY I love the world again hugs & kisses & such. Pete's Irish Oak has the same mind-altering properties.

Re: Tambolaka

Haebar: 9500114134265290033109
Expected delivery Tuesday. There's enough for probably two bowls.

Alligator Gar: 9500114134265290033116
Ditto above.

[JimInks]

Troost Slices in an egg shaped medium bend smooth Burgundy colored 1985 Caminetto. Have enough left for one more bowl.

[Lostmason]

C&D Odessa in a 3/4 bent Old Vic

I used to have a raccoon that would come up on the porch and eat with my cats, I quit feed the cats on the porch when my son went out one night and thought he was petting a cat and found out it was the coon.

[AndyCAYP]

This Royal Yacht train isn't stopping.


http://www.soswildlifecontrol.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/raccoon-trash-collector.jpg


Years back when I was living in sin with my would be wife I worked 2nd shift. We had a downstairs apartment in a split house that was towards the end of a quiet road, so when I got home at 11:30PM on nice nights I would grab a cigar and unwind on the front porch. One evening I was doing such and I just happened to look all the way down the street to a well-lit intersection in time to see something four-legged and big moving around. It started to come my way just as a car turned on to our street, and I realized then, under the headlights, that it was the biggest racoon in the history of racoons. I'm pretty sure he had a Guiness World Record plaque in his right paw.

Anyway, the driver noticed it and slowed down, but the racoon kept huffing and puffing and waddling its way towards me. The driver eventually sped up a bit and began to pass it and as he did the critter took a 90 degree turn to run underneath a parked car. It's a good plan, ducking for cover, but I don't think the racoon was self-aware in regards to his size.

THUMP.

It was so big it couldn't fit underneath the parked car. I should add that it wasn't trying to climb under one of those 1400lb European "cars" that are as small as a matchbox. No, this was a standard sedan.

THUMP.

It tried a second time. I burst out laughing. Thinking quickly, probably to save any further embarrassment, it ran around the front of the car and disappeared into a side yard.

[JimInks]

Ogden’s Walnut in a 2002 medium bend smooth Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10.

[NeverBend]

...I realized then, under the headlights, that it was the biggest racoon in the history of racoons. I'm pretty sure he had a Guiness World Record plaque in his right paw.

THUMP.

THUMP

:) :)

Raccoons love to show off their awards and yours would have carried his Guiness plaque everywhere, fer sure. I think they hold parties, have a few drinks and pass the awards around. I named a raccoon Greyhead, (top of his head was all grey). Twice he broke the trap and escaped within a couple of hours of being caught. Third time I put a carabiner on the trap as soon as he was caught. The professional trapper estimated his weight at over 25 pounds and yes, he broke the third trap.



...I used to have a raccoon that would come up on the porch and eat with my cats, I quit feed the cats on the porch when my son went out one night and thought he was petting a cat and found out it was the coon.

Glad that your son wasn't bitten (as Robin Byrd was - my link to Raccoon Attack below). Raccoons love cat food. I know some silly folks (in this neighborhood) who feed the raccoons cat food believing that it deters them from trashing their garbage. Wishful thinking and they forget about the secret code of La Cosa Procione, "Crash, Smash and Trash" and to drive silly humans crazy and cats from their turf. Evil organization it is! The government should do a cost analysis on lost production.

2015 Cromwell in a 1985 Ser Jacopo Renaissance #313 (sandblast) apple with a white acrylic stem. Second mug of the Guatemalan coffee, light.

[JimInks]

About half way through this bowl of Jim’s C Blend in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2001 Karl Erik Ekstravagant brandy with a leaf engraved silver band.

[JimInks]

HU Asmara in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot wide top Dublin with a canted plateau and black acrylic stem.

[AndyCAYP]

How in the world did every "raccoon" in my post come out misspelled? I blame auto-correct.


Ogden’s Walnut in a 2002 medium bend smooth Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10.

Jim, in your esteemed opinion, what's a good replacement for Walnut?

[JimInks]

2009 McClelland Beacon in a 1982 near full bend egg shaped Ascorti Business KS with a black ferrule and saddle stem.

[JimInks]

Now smoking the very delicious HU RaiKo ChocoLat in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer. This will get me to dinner time.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of Smoky's Blend in a MM Country Gentleman. Smoky's Blend is the best selling house blend from Smoky's Tobacco and Cigars in Knoxville, TN. Dave, the store owner, said that it outsells all the other blends tenfold. It's an aromatic blend that tastes like a mixture between Lane's 1Q and Lane's BCA.

[BryGuySC]

My wife finally broke out the pumpkin spice today, so I acted in kind and lit up a bowl of Sutliff Pumpkin Spice. Not bad, but not really for me. This will probably find its way into my "bomb box."

[Alligator Gar]

Rattray's Old Gowrie in a Kaywoodie 12B. Nice middle-of-the road VaPerKy, puts one in mind of Hal-O-the-Wynd.

[JimInks]

Ramsgate in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl.

[JimInks]

How in the world did every "raccoon" in my post come out misspelled? I blame auto-correct.



Jim, in your esteemed opinion, what's a good replacement for Walnut?

Germain's Rich Dark Flake and Stonehaven. Btw, it looks like MacBaren, who bought the Amphora blends, St. Bruno, and Walnut, will bring it to the US in February. It will depend on rights, but they own it now.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Modern Virginia Loose Cut in my trusty 1970s smooth three quarter bend Peterson System Standard 305.

[Lostmason]

PS Lux Navy Flake in a Rolo pocket pipe.

I'll have to look, but I think my son has a pic of that raccoon.

[cpmcdill]

G&H Louisiana Flake in a Fireside churchwarden

[Alligator Gar]

Working through a bowl of Rattray's Black Viginia. If you love straight stoved Virginia cavendish, you might still hate this. Good mixed with burley, going to add some perique next time. It does not stand alone. The good news is I'm smoking it out of my brown alligator poker. Poking alligators is a legit pastime for Florda Man.

http://i.imgur.com/zp78WX9.jpg

[JimInks]

MacBaren HH Pure Virginia in a mid-late 1930s straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair.

[JimInks]

A couple minutes away from smoking Jim's Va./Bur #2 in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author. It's coloring nicely after five smokes and the grain is starting to show. It's a really good smoker and worth owning.

[Bruck]

Working through a bowl of Rattray's Black Viginia. If you love straight stoved Virginia cavendish, you might still hate this. Good mixed with burley, going to add some perique next time. It does not stand alone. The good news is I'm smoking it out of my brown alligator poker. Poking alligators is a legit pastime for Florda Man.

http://i.imgur.com/zp78WX9.jpg

Why the long face? :)

[cpmcdill]

GL Pease Maltese Falcon in a Fireside churchwarden.

[Bruck]

Burnin some flake I pressed about a year ago, in a cob. This one is burley-based with some VA and sweeteners.

[NeverBend]

...Smoky's Blend is the best selling house blend from Smoky's Tobacco and Cigars in Knoxville, TN. Dave, the store owner, said that it outsells all the other blends tenfold. It's an aromatic blend that tastes like a mixture between Lane's 1Q and Lane's BCA.

You may have hit it on the nose. This pairing, 1Q & BCA has been very common going back more than 30 years.

close to finishing..
2015 Cromwell in a 1981 Mastro de Paja 1C (sandblast) lovat. Water (no need for ice) and a couple of drams of sake on a cold night (<40 degrees).

Good win for the Mets, and a gutty performance by Matt Harvey after getting hit with a batted ball. Of course I wish it were the Yankees but an advantage of living in New York is having multiple teams to root for. Congrats to KC on a gritty performance themselves.

[Emperor Zurg]

what's a good replacement for Walnut?

Why not Hearth and Home Chestnut? That's supposed to be a match.

loaded up some Glengarry flake in a cob today but never got around to smoking it.
maybe tomorrow. ..

[cpmcdill]

Ennerdale Flake that's aged a few years in the can. Huge improvements. More dry, and the aromas have married, so the note is less soapy, but rather just some archetype of "clean" ... I am smoking it indoors with all the windows closed, and not suffering persecution from the rest of the household. Need I say more?

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a medium bend 2002 MM Legend cob.

[JimInks]

2012 Rolando’s Own in a 2002 black short shank grain relief straight Caminetto 6.L.17 tomato.

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing Sergeant Miller’s Inker’s Mixture in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter.

[JimInks]

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.

[Nachman]

Why not Hearth and Home Chestnut? That's supposed to be a match.
..

Different Walnuts.. Jim is referring to Ogden's Walnut Flake, which is not available in the US.

For the last few months I have become a complete Codger. I have been smoking one tobacco in one pipe...Royal Yacht in a smooth Nording Dublin. The pipe looks like a disaster now, but it has had many pounds of tobacco burnt in it and it still smokes well, even though it is ugly.

[Alligator Gar]

Why the long face? :)

She's pouting because she's too young to smoke.

[NeverBend]

2015 Bill's Mixture in a 1940s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood EL saddle billiard. Guatemalan coffee, light. Cold morning after a near freezing night. Game of Thrones has it right, "Winter is Coming"

[NeverBend]

2015 Jim's Outdoor Incense in a 2015 MM Diplomat. Diet Dr. Brown's Black Cherry with a natural chill.

[NeverBend]

2015 Jim's Seminole Red in a 1960s Comoy Extraordinaire Sandblast lovat.

[JimInks]

Smoked a couple bowls while my internet was out, and am almost finished smoking D&R Rimboche A.B. in a 1980 three quarter bend long stem Ascorti New Dear KS egg.

[JimInks]

Troost Slices in an egg shaped medium bend smooth Burgundy colored 1985 Caminetto. This will finish the tin.

[JimInks]

Listing this a few minutes early: Stonehaven in a 1998 smooth medium bend Peterson Limerick 69 with a nickel band.

[BryGuySC]

Samuel Gawith Navy Flake while working on the bike.
It was a little windy and the chill is coming!

[Lostmason]

Germain's Plum Cake in a Dr Grabow savoy (Straight) with a saddle bit
B&M Scottsman in a Dr Grabow Lark 1/2 bent

[Bruck]

She's pouting because she's too young to smoke.

How old is she in dog years?

Meanwhile, having a 5 Vegas Gold, but I'm on the wrong thread for that kind of talk...

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania John Cotton’s Number 1 Mild in 1949 medium bend Dunhill Shell.

[Haebar]

Peter Stokkebye Heather Raspberry in a Savinelli Punto Oro bent stacked billiard.

[JimInks]

The last of my stash of Synjeco Oxenfisl Twist in a 1980 black sandblasted full bent Ascorti Business Extension Saxaphone.

[AndyCAYP]

Germain's Rich Dark Flake and Stonehaven. Btw, it looks like MacBaren, who bought the Amphora blends, St. Bruno, and Walnut, will bring it to the US in February. It will depend on rights, but they own it now.

Ah, sorry, I meant Ogden's [edit - NOPE, I didn't, I meant Middleton's] Walnut. I never did try it, I kept putting off buying a jar and then one day - poof. Gone.

More importantly, Walnut-Walnut might be coming back to the States with Bruno?

????

!!!!!!!!!

2016 is shaping up to be a hallmark year! Now if only Condor, Warrior Plug, and Punchbowle would get on a boat and float over...


Why not Hearth and Home Chestnut? That's supposed to be a match.

Cool cool! See, I'm much too lazy to read through descriptions of bulk tobaccos to see if they're meant to be a match. You did the work for me. Thanks!

[Alligator Gar]

How old is she in dog years?

Meanwhile, having a 5 Vegas Gold, but I'm on the wrong thread for that kind of talk...

There's nothing wrong with that kind of talk. I started the day with an '06 Short Bolivar Asia Pacifico. Now I'm having a GBD 269 full of Engine 99.

Pup is almost exactly 7 dog years old. Far too young for pipes.

[JustTroItIn]

Semois in an MM Freehand.

http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd62/jclarke7/IMG_3303_zps7roqzwuk.jpg (http://s222.photobucket.com/user/jclarke7/media/IMG_3303_zps7roqzwuk.jpg.html)

[AndyCAYP]

Going out to brave the cold. Snow actually stuck to the ground today. Hail stuck, too. I'm not ready for the change.

Loading half a Missouri Meerschaum bowl of Erinmore crumbs from the remainder of a tin marked October 2008. At least I think. Maybe, when I go to my temporary pipe workstation, I'll decide on Paul Olsen's B93 from a tin that's marked either - I forget - '99 or '01.

[Cool Breeze]

If you haven't already, jar up some of the FVF and then lose it for a few years. I have a gigantic mason jar tucked away that I filled with a box or two of the stuff back in 2011. You'd be convinced I'm growing diamonds, not storing tobacco.

I certainly need to do that.
I'm trying to slowly build up a cellar of pipe tobacco. I've got some SJF from the inaugural group buy we did when the Bum first got started, a little bit of straight VA tobacco and a little English stuck back. If I could stop buying cigars, I'd be able to build a cellar faster.

[JimInks]

Ah, sorry, I meant Ogden's [edit - NOPE, I didn't, I meant Middleton's] Walnut. I never did try it, I kept putting off buying a jar and then one day - poof. Gone.

More importantly, Walnut-Walnut might be coming back to the States with Bruno?

????

!!!!!!!!!

2016 is shaping up to be a hallmark year! Now if only Condor, Warrior Plug, and Punchbowle would get on a boat and float over...



Cool cool! See, I'm much too lazy to read through descriptions of bulk tobaccos to see if they're meant to be a match. You did the work for me. Thanks!

If you want the Middleton Walnut Match, then you must try P&C's Mid-Town Chestnut. It virtually is Walnut. Go to Tobaccos Reviews and read mine. I was the taste tester for the Mid-Town series, and they did their best job on the hardest one to match: Walnut.


Now smoking HU Asmara in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot wide top Dublin with a canted plateau and black acrylic stem.

[c.ortiz108]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in my Hardcastle billiard. Not sure I'm getting a lot of chocolate, or latakia for that matter, but this sure is nice stuff.

[Lostmason]

Just finished a bowl of PS Lux Navy Flake in my DG Savoy, I rubbed it out this time but packed it a bit tight.Little bit of tongue bite but otherwise a good smoke on a cool evening.

[BryGuySC]

I certainly need to do that.
I'm trying to slowly build up a cellar of pipe tobacco. I've got some SJF from the inaugural group buy we did when the Bum first got started, a little bit of straight VA tobacco and a little English stuck back. If I could stop buying cigars, I'd be able to build a cellar faster.

I'm working on the same thing! Except I've managed to put a halt to the cigar purchasing.
I do need to put up a couple more boxes of FVF... and St. James flake... and Navy flake (not to mention a lot more that I'd like to store up)

Little by little, we'll get there!

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of the wonderfully delicious Peter Heinrichs Curly Block in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog.

[Haebar]

I just finished a bowl of Smoky's Blend from Smoky's Tobacco and Cigars in a Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman.

[cpmcdill]

Sutliff Voodoo Queen in a churchwarden

[JimInks]

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.

[JimInks]

About a third of the way through this bowl of Greve Gilbert Hamiltons Blandning in a 1980 smooth Lorenzo Ambra 803 Oom Paul with an pearl colored acrylic stem.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking D&R Rowland Regular in a slight bend 1984 Stanwell Antique 124 grain etched with a smooth front.

- - - Updated - - -

2012 Rolando’s Own in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.

[JimInks]

Heine's Blend in the very first pipe I ever bought ($2.49) in 1974; a smooth three quarter bend Dr. Grabow Omega.

[AndyCAYP]

A disappointing bowl of my whiskey pipe. It smells great, like you're sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows with a drunk in the background, but the flavor just isn't there... Not sure if I should just walk away from this - trying my hand at aros - and concentrate on normal blends, or keep at it.

[Emperor Zurg]

A disappointing bowl of my whiskey pipe. It smells great, like you're sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows with a drunk in the background, but the flavor just isn't there... Not sure if I should just walk away from this - trying my hand at aros - and concentrate on normal blends, or keep at it.

You probably have to use an extract. I'd imagine whiskey itself probably doesn't have enough of the actual whiskey flavor to stick around after the alcohol and water evaporate off. Maybe try something like this --> Amazon.com : OliveNation Bourbon Whiskey Extract 4 oz. : Natural Flavoring Extracts : Grocery & Gourmet Food (http://www.amazon.com/OliveNation-Bourbon-Whiskey-Extract-oz/dp/B002X4DIFK)

OTOH, Tobias Lutz sent me a sample of some whiskey blend flake he made a while back (he called it 'whiskey gogo') and it was really good. I hate the taste of actual whiskey - it all tastes like used paint thinner to me - but the flavor in the tobacco was noticeable and went well with the smoke.

[JimInks]

Smoker’s Pride Rich Taste in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand.

[AndyCAYP]

You probably have to use an extract. I'd imagine whiskey itself probably doesn't have enough of the actual whiskey flavor to stick around after the alcohol and water evaporate off. Maybe try something like this --> Amazon.com : OliveNation Bourbon Whiskey Extract 4 oz. : Natural Flavoring Extracts : Grocery & Gourmet Food (http://www.amazon.com/OliveNation-Bourbon-Whiskey-Extract-oz/dp/B002X4DIFK)

OTOH, Tobias Lutz sent me a sample of some whiskey blend flake he made a while back (he called it 'whiskey gogo') and it was really good. I hate the taste of actual whiskey - it all tastes like used paint thinner to me - but the flavor in the tobacco was noticeable and went well with the smoke.

I was thinking about that. I want to get a semi-usable Lakeland essence ready to spice up boring tobaccos, so when I look into that I'll order some other extracts to play around with.

In the meantime, I found about two bowls worth of 2001 Erinmore Flake buried underneath some other stuff this morning, so that's what I'm smoking. This stuff is jet black.

[Emperor Zurg]

I want to get a semi-usable Lakeland essence ready to spice up boring tobaccos...

Oh that's an easy one. You can buy that stuff right at the grocery store.

http://www.ourbestbites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ivory-Soap.jpg

[AndyCAYP]

Oh that's an easy one. You can buy that stuff right at the grocery store.

http://www.ourbestbites.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Ivory-Soap.jpg

That and perfume.

In pipe or nasal snuff form, I can't get enough!

[JimInks]

P&W #191 in a smooth straight late 1970s Tinderbox Selected Grecian Briar Dublin.

[NeverBend]

You probably have to use an extract. I'd imagine whiskey itself probably doesn't have enough of the actual whiskey flavor to stick around after the alcohol and water evaporate off. Maybe try something like this --> Amazon.com : OliveNation Bourbon Whiskey Extract 4 oz. : Natural Flavoring Extracts : Grocery & Gourmet Food (http://www.amazon.com/OliveNation-Bourbon-Whiskey-Extract-oz/dp/B002X4DIFK)

OTOH, @Tobias Lutz (http://www.cigarbum.com/forum/members/tobias-lutz.html) sent me a sample of some whiskey blend flake he made a while back (he called it 'whiskey gogo') and it was really good. I hate the taste of actual whiskey - it all tastes like used paint thinner to me - but the flavor in the tobacco was noticeable and went well with the smoke.

Burley picks up flavor easily (case) but not Virginia (top sauce). Extracts are used but differ in the application solution. Alcohol can oxidize (turns into acetone). @TobiasLutz, can we ask what kind of solution you used to make your 'Whiskey GoGo'?

2015 Bryan's Mixture in a 1961 Barling's Make #5179 saddle billiard.

[AndyCAYP]

Royal Yacht.

I'm gonna buy stock in Dunhill.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author.

[JimInks]

Hayward Mixture in an early 1930s smooth straight Super Grain Kaywoodie Synchrostem Canadian 5129.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Amphora Brown in a 1990s slight bend black Sasieni 4 Dot Ruff Root Dark 4 Dublin.

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania Bengal Slices in a 1990s smooth Peterson Captain Pete XL80 bulldog.

[Haebar]

Been at work for two hours and I'm thinking I would've been further ahead just staying in bed. Monumentally lazy coworkers can be a gigantic, royal pain in the ass.

So, lots of Royal Yacht. There must be something in it that tempers my mood because I can be a foul beast and a quarter of the way into a bowl of RY I love the world again hugs & kisses & such. Pete's Irish Oak has the same mind-altering properties.

Re: Tambolaka

Haebar: 9500114134265290033109
Expected delivery Tuesday. There's enough for probably two bowls.

Alligator Gar: 9500114134265290033116
Ditto above.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to AndyCAYP again.

Andy, Thanks again for the generous tobacco bomb! I really appreciate it.

[AlanS]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to AndyCAYP again.

Andy, Thanks again for the generous tobacco bomb! I really appreciate it.

I got him for ya! I tried, what can I say.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of Shemp Jizzle's Rope-a-Dope blend in an Orlik Captain Black Billiard. I'm pretty sure this has some Tambolaka in it. Thanks Shemp!

http://i1377.photobucket.com/albums/ah50/haebar/Cigar%20Bum%20Photos%20003_zpsw8k20xvu.jpg

[BryGuySC]

2014 Holiday Spirit in a Savinelli Roma.

[Alligator Gar]

Smoking a flake of Stonehaven in my new (to me) Peterson XL02 2006 St.Patrick's Day. Getting ready to dive into some 2011 SG Commonwealth, Skiff Mixture or (shudder) Tambolaka, all compliments of AndyCAYP. Thank you, friend. http://i.imgur.com/nMeF2vc.png

[Bruck]

Smoking some C&D Crowley's Best, from our friend Alligator Gar, in a MM Diplomat.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Revelation in a 1978 smooth three quarter bend Danish Special with a volcano-ish bowl.

[JimInks]

Peter Stokkebye 308 Aromatic Dutch Slices in a straight black sandblast undated Savinelli Hercules 115EX pot.

[AndyCAYP]

You guys are awesome.

Going back to a standard: Dunhill 965.

[Alligator Gar]

SG Commonwealth in a Vauen 5031. I've been sitting on a tin of this and Andy was nice enough to give me a taste of what's to come. Sweet and smoky. 50/50 LatVir; I like it.

[cpmcdill]

Rattray's Hal O' the Wynd in a churchwarden

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania War Horse in a smooth almost full bend 1981 Briar Workshop round volcano signed by Elliott Nachwalter with a gold acrylic stem.

[cpmcdill]

C&D's Exclusive in a Redonian army-mount billiard

[JimInks]

A minute or two away from smoking 2011 Villiger Maryland No. 333 in a 2004 smooth long stem Canadian Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3.

[JimInks]

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.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Burley London Blend in a 2001 black sandblasted three quarter bend Rinaldo Lithos YY bulldog with an amber colored stem.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Symphony in a mid-70s slight bend black sandblasted English Rustic 120 billiard.

[NeverBend]

Had some company so I didn't list last night...
2015 (new) Stout (10-9 sample) in a MM Washington.
2015 Thomas Hariot (new formula) in a 1985 Ser Jacopo #313 Renaissance (sandblast) taper apple.

this morning...
2015 (new) Stout (10-12 sample) in a Mastro de Paja 1C (sandblast) lovat. New Orleans Cafe du Monde light. Warmed up to the mid 50s with 60s possible today and I'll take any respite from the Winter like weather of the last few days. Giants looked pretty sad last night, congrats to the Eagles who seem to have found themselves.

[AndyCAYP]

SG Commonwealth in a Vauen 5031. I've been sitting on a tin of this and Andy was nice enough to give me a taste of what's to come. Sweet and smoky. 50/50 LatVir; I like it.

Glad to hear! It's definitely not for everyone, and I'll typically use it for condiment-ing up a blend that I feel needs a bit more Lat, but every now and again - especially on fall walks through the woods - I'll load it straight and enjoy myself.

Still working on 965. I need to empty the plethora of open tins and baggies cluttering up my desk.

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Jim’s B Blend in a smooth 1998 Parker 489 three quarter bend Billiard.

[NeverBend]

2015 Thomas Hariot in a MM Diplomat cob with water sans ice.

[JimInks]

Tobacco Galleria Wild Cherry in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.

[NeverBend]

Taking a break from English/Balkan types and will soon start...

2015 Rattray's Marlin Flake in a 1963 Barling #6269, smooth, wide-mouth saddle pot with tea. Turned into a beautiful Fall day in the mid 60s.

[JimInks]

HU Asmara in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot wide top Dublin with a canted plateau and black acrylic stem.

[AndyCAYP]

Taking a break from English/Balkan types and will soon start...

2015 Rattray's Marlin Flake in a 1963 Barling #6269, smooth, wide-mouth saddle pot with tea. Turned into a beautiful Fall day in the mid 60s.

Mmmmmmm, Marlin. Great choice!

You must live on the same longitude as me because you complain about the cold when it's cold here and I saw 67 degrees on the big thermometer on my way to the Post Office just a few minutes ago. It's gorgeous out.

965 in the McCarter Egg. Gonna finish this tin if it kills me!

[JimInks]

P&W Dummerston in a 2014 smooth medium bend Basil Meadows egg with an aluminum band and a "root beer swirl" acrylic stem.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking D&R Rowland Regular in a slight bend 1984 Stanwell Antique 124 grain etched with a smooth front.

[JimInks]

St. James Flake in a straight sandblasted pre-transition Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver band and military bit.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of Smoky's blend in a MM Country Gentleman with a forever stem.

[JimInks]

HU RaiKo ChocoLat in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.

[Lostmason]

Had me a bowl of Virginia Gold "Black and Gold" in my Monterey.

[cbr310]

Peter stokebye #6 sweet vanilla in dr G savoy3996

[BryGuySC]

A very nice bowl of Hal O the Wynd in a short briar yacht, while messing around in the back yard with one of the boys. A clean and slightly spicy smoke.

[JimInks]

About two thirds of the way through this bowl of MacBaren Modern Virginia Loose Cut in my trusty 1970s smooth three quarter bend Peterson System Standard 305.

[Lostmason]

Some of my mystry mix in a John Middleton "Middletonian"

Germains's Plum Cake in a Wiley rodesian

[JimInks]

Almost half through this bowl of the best durn tobacco made today: Strang in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin.

[NeverBend]

2015 Blood Meridian in a 2000s Ser Jacopo Pict #23, taper, oval shank egg billiard with a slight bend for most but full (bent) to me. With tea.

Watching the Mets-Cubs, bottom of the ninth, 2 out. I'll start smoking as soon as the inning is over.

[Desertlifter]

Bowl of Butera Pelican in my Hwiebe. This pipe takes and Lat blend and makes it glorious. Blends like Pelican even more so.

[JimInks]

Listing this early: Smoker’s Pride Rich Taste in a three quarter bend 1983 Jobey Danski 2 straight grain freehand rough top sitter.

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking P&W #400 in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl.

[JimInks]

Smoker’s Pride Mellow in a smooth three quarter bend 1979 Ben Wade Golden Matt freehand sitter.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of 2012 Rolando’s Own in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.

[JimInks]

Flying Dutchman Match in a slight bend black sandblasted Lorenzo Elba Imperia 8636 with an amber colored acrylic stem.

[AndyCAYP]

In honor of the FDA handing over what I assume is a completely idiotic, brain-dead, reality-lacking, harmful-to-small-business, and painfully restrictive set of regulations to the OMB, I'm starting my day with Ennerdale Flake... And I have to say, the scent is so enticing that I have had to shoo away legions of youths who came crawling to me like zombies looking for their premium tobacco fix. Obviously Gawith & Hoggarth & Co. and I have done a masterful job marketing this product to the underage.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Stonehaven in a 1998 smooth medium bend Peterson Limerick 69 with a nickel band. Have enough left of the trade sample for a couple bowls.

[JimInks]

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.

[JimInks]

SG Firedance in a 2013 slight bend red stone John Barrett Rockcob poker.

[NeverBend]

2015 Red Ronnett's Sonnett in a 1940s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood #1372R, long taper billiard (small bowl). Diet Pepsi on a glorious day.

[cpmcdill]

GL Pease Maltese Falcon in a Redonian army-mount billiard

[JimInks]

Lane 125th Anniversary in a 2003 smooth full bend, gold banded 3 Star Ferndown Tudor Root.

[NeverBend]

2015 (new) Stout in a 1986 Ser Jacopo S2 (sandblast) taper apple.

[BryGuySC]

In honor of the FDA handing over what I assume is a completely idiotic, brain-dead, reality-lacking, harmful-to-small-business, and painfully restrictive set of regulations to the OMB, I'm starting my day with Ennerdale Flake... And I have to say, the scent is so enticing that I have had to shoo away legions of youths who came crawling to me like zombies looking for their premium tobacco fix. Obviously Gawith & Hoggarth & Co. and I have done a masterful job marketing this product to the underage.

I know, right?!?
It is a constant struggle keeping my kids out of my pipe tobacco!

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Tilbury in a 2002 smooth Rinaldo Silver Line 3 EGER 05 paneled horn. Have enough left for three more bowls.

[Lostmason]

Yous Guys relize wat Page we're on?

[AndyCAYP]

Yous Guys relize wat Page we're on?

Shout.

Shout.

Shout.

Shout at the devil! :yes!::dude:

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Amphora Brown in a three quarter bend big bowl grain relief 1970s Savinelli Autograph 5 freehand.

[Alligator Gar]

Bowl of 2012 McCranies Red Flake in the Sav Author. If you like full Virginia, you'll like Red Flake. So damn good...

[JimInks]

Peter Heinrichs Curly Block in a 2002 black pebble finish straight Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano Billiard.

[GWBowman]

Bowl of 2012 McCranies Red Flake in the Sav Author. If you like full Virginia, you'll like Red Flake. So damn good...

Why must everyone keep adding to the "to try" list?

C&D Five O'Clock Shadow in a Dr. G

[AndyCAYP]

Going back to one of my first favs: Pete's Irish Flake. Never fails to make me warm and happy.

[Bruck]

Having my 2nd bowl of Batch 27 homemade flake in an unfinished no-name briar. Batch 27 is based on "Tobias' Surprise," an aro blend that Tobias Lutz sent me a while back. I'm not sure what's in Tobias' blend, but it tastes like a VA/cavendish blend w/ whisky and some sweet flavoring. I pressed it with some burley and perique plus some other things to make a flake.

[Cool Breeze]

Had some St. James Flake earlier when I first got off work.
Now I'm enjoying a bowl of Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky in a MM Country Gentleman. Damn this is good stuff. One of my new favorites.

[AndyCAYP]

Finally done with work. Been putting in 65+ hours a week for what feels like the last year, but it's probably only been three or four months. My day starts at 8AM and I'm lucky to get a bit of time to myself to not work at night. I'm under the gun: I promised to deliver a brand new, built from the ground up, retail website to replace one of ours that was built in 2000-2001 - by no later than October 31st. Unfortunately I spend 40+ hours a week doing things other than website building, so I haven't been able to focus on this the way I'd want.

Still, here I am, with only 6 more (time consuming) tasks left on the checklist before it's finished.

I'm going to bundle up, head out, and watch the clear night sky. The rest of this bowl of Irish Flake will go with me, as will a big glass of pureh (pu'er, whatever) tea, and I'll load up the 4-Dot with some 38 year old MacBaren Symphony just in case I feel like staying out later. Night, all!

[NeverBend]

2015 Test Mixture #7 in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard. Tea with lemon.

Taping the Mets game (yes, I know that it's 6-1) but felt like a bowl was more important at this moment.

[c.ortiz108]

2015 Test Mixture #7 in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard. Tea with lemon.

Taping the Mets game (yes, I know that it's 6-1) but felt like a bowl was more important at this moment.

Literally "taping", with a VCR?

[JimInks]

About a third of the way through this bowl of McClelland #2035 Dark Navy Flake in a smooth full bend 1977 Crown Coachman 215 egg.

[Shemp Jizzle]

Baptized the NEW H.Weibe pipe with some DBE!!

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a602/gajuju/P1070191_zpsezqbtrnb.jpg (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/gajuju/media/P1070191_zpsezqbtrnb.jpg.html)

[cpmcdill]

Esoterica Penzance in a Hickok Premiere straight billiard.

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot.

[JimInks]

P&W #515 in a 2003 IMP horn Meer.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Smoker’s Pride Mellow in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash.

[JimInks]

Now smoking Greve Gilbert Hamiltons Blandning in a 1979 large calabash briar 221-B Baker Street made in Israel. Have enough left for about three bowls.

[AndyCAYP]

Mac Baren Plumcake from 1977 in a Sasieni from around the same time period.

[NeverBend]

Literally "taping", with a VCR?

Morning Chico,

Recording :). DVR provided with my cable service (Verizon).

Congrats to the Mets. Cubs had a great season, have a bright future and a classy manager in Joe Maddon. I made a small bet on the Mets to win the WS at 4-1 as a rooting interest but mainly because I saw their young pitching studs all year and they're very good. Matz is the least of them, at this point, still good but he only projects to be their 5th starter in 2016.
JimInks, what do you think of the Mets pitching?

Pete

[Lostmason]

Started with "The Professor" (2015) in my DG Savoy

[BryGuySC]

Baptized the NEW H.Weibe pipe with some DBE!!

http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a602/gajuju/P1070191_zpsezqbtrnb.jpg (http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/gajuju/media/P1070191_zpsezqbtrnb.jpg.html)

How'd it go?
How much tobacco does that bowl hold? It looks really tall.

[Lostmason]

Working (yeah Right) on a bowl of HH AJ;s VaPer in my "Old Vic"

[NeverBend]

2015 Stout in a 1950s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood Fossil (sandblast) #251 taper billiard with Dr. Brown's Diet Black Cherry on a nice Fall day.

[JimInks]

Morning Chico,

Recording :). DVR provided with my cable service (Verizon).

Congrats to the Mets. Cubs had a great season, have a bright future and a classy manager in Joe Maddon. I made a small bet on the Mets to win the WS at 4-1 as a rooting interest but mainly because I saw their young pitching studs all year and they're very good. Matz is the least of them, at this point, still good but he only projects to be their 5th starter in 2016.
JimInks, what do you think of the Mets pitching?

Pete

I've been saying for months that even though the Mets bullpen isn't that strong, with the exception of Familia, that in a short series, the Mets have three very good starters who could make life hell for you. I think they'd have had a harder time had they played the Pirates instead of the Cubs, and I think they will have a harder time playing the Royals if that's who they face.


Ogden’s Walnut in a 2002 medium bend smooth Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10.

[Shemp Jizzle]

How'd it go?
How much tobacco does that bowl hold? It looks really tall.

It was my first naked bowl in a while so the taste of raw wood was pretty dominate. Will need a couple of more smokes to get it nice and coated but all in all it smoked like a dream.
not a gurgle at all. ( i did baby it by running a cleaner thru it now and then) but smoked it all the way down to dusty ash.
after the bowl, ran the base under running water and its all cleaned out. ( the base does collect a little ash goo, but rather the base get the goo and not the bowl)

I don't know why but every pic i take of the pipe makes it look huge but its really not. To me the bowl seems medium sized

Bowl
diameter: 1.25" height: 2.25"
Tobacco Chamber
diameter 0.75" depth 1.5"

[Alligator Gar]

Why must everyone keep adding to the "to try" list?

C&D Five O'Clock Shadow in a Dr. G

What else is on your list, George?

[BryGuySC]

What else is on your list, George?

Be careful, George! This sounds like a loaded question!

[NeverBend]

2015 Red Mixture in a (new) MM Washington.

[Nature]

Drama Reserve in A Dr. G

[JimInks]

Rich Dark Flake in a 1984 black sandblasted straight Dunhill Shell 4103 Billiard.

[JimInks]

HU Asmara in a smooth medium bend straight grain 2000 Winslow C silver spigot wide top Dublin with a canted plateau and black acrylic stem.

[NeverBend]

2015 Stout in a 1986 Radice Rind KS liverpool with tea.

[JimInks]

A couple minutes away from smoking Ramsgate in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl.

[BryGuySC]

2012 McClelland Christmas Cheer in a vintage Yorkshire Deluxe straight pot briar.
A very nice smoke.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Bad Nun 2 in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.

[AndyCAYP]

PS Aromatic Dutch Slices as I finish mixing this kitchen-sink blend. Once incorporated it'll be moving into a container to hopefully be successfully pressed into a kake.

[JimInks]

Seattle Evening in 1949 medium bend Dunhill Shell.

[Haebar]

Just finished up a bowl of Gatlin-burlier's Frank's Blend in a MM Country Gentleman with a forever stem.

[Alligator Gar]

Be careful, George! This sounds like a loaded question!

It's an innocent enough question. Geez, people are jumpy around here.

[AndyCAYP]

Just finished up a bowl of Gatlin-burlier's Frank's Blend in a MM Country Gentleman with a forever stem.

It's sad that their online tobacco sales have been shut down. I don't know the whole story or what exactly lead to this, but I hope they get it straightened out. One day I'd like to pick up one of their pipes and some Frank's Blend.

[Bruck]

Havin' a little nightcap of Nightcap :)
In a super-cool mini meer carved (actually molded probably, it's a cheapie) into an eagle's head, with a blue acrylic stem.

[NeverBend]

2015 Blue Mixture in a 1963 Barling #6106 sandblast taper billiard. Diet Pepsi on a luxurious evening with the thermometer at 69 degrees. Boo-yah!

Don't know why but the sky's ablaze with fireworks.

[JimInks]

2009 McClelland Beacon in a 1982 near full bend egg shaped Ascorti Business KS with a black ferrule and saddle stem.

[GWBowman]

What else is on your list, George?


It's an innocent enough question. Geez, people are jumpy around here.

who's jumpy who said that what are you talking about?

I was just checking and seems I mainly need more time to smoke.

(Yep, everybody's innocent.)

[NeverBend]

2015 Green Mixture in a 1960s Comoy Extraordinaire Sandblast lovat with tea and a quiet evening, soon to watch the recorded broadcast of the Seahawks - 49ers game.

[cpmcdill]

GL Pease Maltese Falcon in a Hickok straight bulldog

[AndyCAYP]

Hamborger Veermaster. I love this flake so much I feel like I'm cheating on my wife.

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania War Horse in a smooth almost full bend 1981 Briar Workshop round volcano signed by Elliott Nachwalter with a gold acrylic stem.

[Lostmason]

Hamborger Veermaster. I love this flake so much I feel like I'm cheating on my wife.

I'm lucky in that my wife enjoys the room note, so I get to smoke inside :)

Think I'm gonna load some B&M Scottsman in my cob.Need to settle my head before bedtime.

[cpmcdill]

GL Pease Quiet Nights in the same bulldog as previous.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of H&H Beverwyck in a 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank.

[Desertlifter]

BBF in my Stanwell silver band.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Old Dark Fired in a smooth briar calabash shape 1984 Fero Danese made in Italy.

[JimInks]

Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1982 black sandblasted paneled slight bend Savinelli flat bottom sitter.

[AndyCAYP]

http://www.niceashnews.com/blucover/lava.jpg

[Lostmason]

I'm starting the day off with Thomas Hariot (2015) In a no name dress briar with a sliver band.
Got a real Bromance going with this blend,Thanks Pete, NeverBend !!

[AlanS]

I'm starting the day off with Thomas Hariot (2015) In a no name dress briar with a sliver band.
Got a real Bromance going with this blend,Thanks Pete, NeverBend !!

Look like this did it?
http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w366/awssr58/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-10/FB_IMG_1445609966262_zpsielojlch.jpg (http://s1072.photobucket.com/user/awssr58/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-10/FB_IMG_1445609966262_zpsielojlch.jpg.html)

[Lostmason]

Look like this did it?
http://i1072.photobucket.com/albums/w366/awssr58/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-10/FB_IMG_1445609966262_zpsielojlch.jpg (http://s1072.photobucket.com/user/awssr58/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-10/FB_IMG_1445609966262_zpsielojlch.jpg.html)

What can I say,,,,,,Yup !

[AndyCAYP]

I'm starting the day off with Thomas Hariot (2015) In a no name dress briar with a sliver band.
Got a real Bromance going with this blend,Thanks Pete, NeverBend !!

Yeah, NeverBend needs to make his tobaccos available for purchase...

[Nature]

H&H Chestnut in a Wally Frank Bulldog on the rainy drive to work this AM.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking P&W #191 in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking McClelland Dark Star in a 1970s small bowl smooth medium bend Danish Sovereign 324 volcano with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

Hayward Mixture in a 1975 full bend black Dunhill Shell 52021 with a black vulcanite stem.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of Smoky's Blend in an old, beat-up Missouri Meerschaum.

[AndyCAYP]

I'm currently smoking MY RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN.

Ahem.

If you haven't already, please voice your opinion re: FDA tobacco regulation using this link...

CLICK ME!!! (http://www.capwiz.com/cigarrights/issues/alert/?alertid=62606471&type=CO)

Now that the FDA has handed over their proposed regulations to the OMB, it's important that we give the gov't one last push as a group concerning our thoughts on the matter. They need to understand that premium tobacco - handmade cigars, pipe tobaccos, and snuffs that aren't homogenized nor chemically altered - are different from cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and gas station "cigars". They need to understand that stopping people like us from buying premium tobacco does nothing to curtail youth consumption of tobacco. Children aren't consuming the tobaccos we enjoy, these tobaccos aren't marketed towards or appealing to children, and the whole idea that new rules & regulations on premium tobacco will stamp out youth smoking is preposterous.

Frankly, restricting the sale of premium tobacco products isn't going to curtail youth consumption of tobacco at all. Kids are smoking cigarettes like they always have, and they're smoking e-cigarettes. Those products need to be addressed.

Also, please don't turn this into a political debate. All political parties need to hear us loud and clear right now.

[NeverBend]

I'm currently smoking MY RIGHTS AS AN AMERICAN.

Ahem.

If you haven't already, please voice your opinion re: FDA tobacco regulation using this link...

CLICK ME!!! (http://www.capwiz.com/cigarrights/issues/alert/?alertid=62606471&type=CO)

Now that the FDA has handed over their proposed regulations to the OMB, it's important that we give the gov't one last push as a group concerning our thoughts on the matter. They need to understand that premium tobacco - handmade cigars, pipe tobaccos, and snuffs that aren't homogenized nor chemically altered - are different from cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and gas station "cigars". They need to understand that stopping people like us from buying premium tobacco does nothing to curtail youth consumption of tobacco. Children aren't consuming the tobaccos we enjoy, these tobaccos aren't marketed towards or appealing to children, and the whole idea that new rules & regulations on premium tobacco will stamp out youth smoking is preposterous.

Frankly, restricting the sale of premium tobacco products isn't going to curtail youth consumption of tobacco at all. Kids are smoking cigarettes like they always have, and they're smoking e-cigarettes. Those products need to be addressed.

Also, please don't turn this into a political debate. All political parties need to hear us loud and clear right now.

Well said Andy.

If anyone can explain this proposal tome, please do. It is so loosely written (and clearly not by anyone who understands the tobacco industry) and loose application of the law can be expected.
https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2014/04/25/2014-09491/deeming-tobacco-products-to-be-subject-to-the-federal-food-drug-and-cosmetic-act-as-amended-by-the

2015 Brave New World in a 1950s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood #252 Fossil (sandblast) with bot tea that will soon be cool.

[Lostmason]

F&T Golden Mixture in a Monterey

[NeverBend]

2015 Cromwell in a 2014 custom made Mark Tinsky Blast taper poker with handmade vulcanite stem. Tea's cold so I added some seltzer.

[JimInks]

Newminster Superior Navy Flake in a 1980s Peterson 314 Full Bend black Sandblast system pipe.

[JimInks]

Ramsgate in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl.

[Lostmason]

PS Lux Navy Flake in a Wiley Rodesian

[Lostmason]

Just started a bowl of Mac Barren Symphony in my DG Savoy

[Lostmason]

Now enjoying PS Black Coffee in a MM Cob

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking Lane 125th Anniversary in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.

[JimInks]

2012 Rolando’s Own in a slight bent 1970's Caminetto 103 Business KS billiard with a fumed rim.

Murphy Anderson was one of the great comic book inkers of all time. We used to spend a lot of time together at conventions and on the phone. At my 1985 AcmeCon, we had a dinner for our guests at my apartment on Simpson Street. Murphy had fun telling us how he used to play in that house, and all throughout that neighborhood as he lived nearby when he was a kid. There's lots of stories I could tell about him. He was the first professional I ever showed a portfolio to. Murphy was gentle in his criticism, and generous with advice, all of which was practical and helpful. A sweet man, a great fan of comics, an important presence in the business for decades, and my friend for over thirty years. RIP Murph.

[Will46r]

Solani 656 in my MM shop cob :)

[AndyCAYP]

If anyone can explain this proposal tome, please do. It is so loosely written (and clearly not by anyone who understands the tobacco industry) and loose application of the law can be expected.

Pete, loose application is exactly why it was written that way. This is the ninth time the FDA has attempted to grab a hold of premium cigars, and they are basically acting like a rabid dog looking to bite. They're relentless, and they want unimpeded access to make the next generation completely smoke-free.

The gist is this: the FDA wants to regulate cigars the same way they do beef or any other consumable. For the safety of the kids, of course. To the best of my knowledge, premium cigar tobacco, pipe tobacco, nasal snuff, chew, etc., would be lumped in with e-cigarettes, dry cured cigarillos, chemically-flavored gas station blunts, etc. Basically there would be cigarettes, and then everything else.

Let's say you want to market a cigar. Your farm would be inspected by an FDA agent (which you're paying for), and your crops would be inspected by an FDA agent (which you're paying for), and then you would harvest your crop and blend your cigar. Each individual leaf of your new blend - one wrapper, one/two binder(s), and let's say two or three filler tobaccos - would need to be submitted to the FDA with the finished product and a pre-market application, plus a check for $55,000 or more. Per size. Want to make a robusto, corona, belicoso, and churchill? You're submitting four applications. This is obviously immediately going to put smaller boutique brands out of business.

And that's just to get in the door. Concerning the last 40,000 applications sent to the FDA for tobacco-related products that they currently oversee, less than 40 have been reviewed and only one has been approved. Obviously they aren't in a hurry to allow new products to reach market. Oh, and this is retroactive also. Any cigar released to market after February 15, 2007 (check that date, I may be off a few days) will be pulled from the shelves to be submitted. This is obviously immediately going to put even more smaller and/or newer brands out of business.

On top of this, the most noticeable regulations are: promotional materials, giveaways, and samples of tobacco, would be illegal; the minimum price of a cigar would be $10, regardless of size, weight, or makeup; packaging would become restrictive (which I honestly am not worried about - but it's proposed to make these products less appealing to children which is an argument I can't stand behind); there could potentially be expensive permits needed to sell tobacco products; the minimum age to purchase tobacco could raise to 21; there could potentially be no more cigar bars and/or smoking lounges nationwide; it would be nearly impossible to release special edition, small batch, limited, seasonal, etc. cigars; and, obviously, a gigantic list of further restrictions.

Needless to say, a lot cigar manufacturers would close shop, a lot of small business tobacconists would close shop, and tens of thousands of people both here in the US and in South American countries would be jobless overnight.

The FDA had already announced that we're basically down to outcomes. Option one, which is our worst nightmare, is where they gain oversight over premium tobacco products. Option two is to exempt cigars from oversight. The OMB right now is basically the last step in this process. From what I've been able to understand, Congress can't necessarily stop the OMB from making whatever decision they're going to make, and there are no easy avenues for a legal hold on temporarily stopping any immediate changes due to new regulations, so their decision is final. We could see regulations take effect as soon as 30 days after the announcement of their decision.

Now, I have no idea where pipe tobacco falls in this. I haven't heard any concrete answers regarding that, and my biggest issue with this whole debacle has been the cigar industry leaving other forms of premium tobacco in the dust. But, I don't think it's a stretch to say that if cigars fall, everything else will too. As far as I'm concerned, the entire premium tobacco industry should have banded together to fight this. Any time that I've written to, spoken on the phone with, or confronted in person, an elected official regarding this - whether on the local or national level - I have made it very clear that I wanted ALL premium tobacco to be exempt. It's left a bad taste in my mouth, honestly, because I can't draw a line between these products.

[JimInks]

Now smoking the best durn tobacco made today: Strang in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin. This is for Murphy.

[Bruck]

Don't know why but the sky's ablaze with fireworks.

What kind of mushrooms were on your pizza? :)

[Bruck]

Having some homemade flake in a homemade pipe :)
The flake is based on VA Gold Cherry plus some VA bright, burley, and assorted other tasty leaves. It's really quite nice IIDSSM.
The pipe is a ball of birch I bored out, and to which I attached a neck and stem. It burns well, but the draw is a little loose. Smaller hole in the tube next time. This pipe took several bowls to break in, even after charring the innards with a blowtorch. Real nice now though!

[cpmcdill]

C&D Exclusive in a Graysons bent bulldog

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of The Smoker Wise Guys in a black pebble finish straight 2003 Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano lovat.

[JimInks]

A minute or two away from smoking FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author.

[pdq_wizzard]

Having a bowl of BCA in a bier

sent from my bag phone

[fastnbulbous]

A Cigar...

But who else feels a sense of calm and that everything is right in the world when JimInks is on the front page of the pipe smoking forum??

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of St. James Flake in a very early Ascorti straight New Dear KS billiard with a smooth shank.

[JimInks]

Just finished work and this bowl of 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.

[JimInks]

Smoker’s Pride Mellow in a smooth three quarter bend 1979 Ben Wade Golden Matt freehand sitter.

[GWBowman]

Pete, loose application is exactly why it was written that way. This is the ninth time the FDA has attempted to grab a hold of premium cigars, and they are basically acting like a rabid dog looking to bite. They're relentless, and they want unimpeded access to make the next generation completely smoke-free.

IMHO, it really isn't about a particular form of tobacco. It's not about tobacco at all. From the day the government first regulated a legal product, because they know better than everyone else, nothing is safe. WE THE PEOPLE messed up by not squashing it and telling the government to stick to what is actually their job. Now look at all the lead way some agencies have. They pass "Regulations" on their own, instead of passsing/ammending the law. Tobacco, sweets, salty food...nothing is safe. We'll have to start disguising our tobacco as marijuana.

Peter Stokkebye 701 Virginia in a Dr. G
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[JimInks]

Smoker’s Pride Rich Taste in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand.

[Bruck]

Smoker’s Pride Rich Taste in a 1970s medium bend smooth Ben Wade Golden Walnut freehand.

Jim - I was initially taken aback that someone of your esteem would be puffing a bargain basement blend, but I see there are some decent reviews of it on tobaccoreviews.com, including yours. Can't judge a book by its cover!

[JimInks]

Amphora Brown in a 1990s slight bend black Sasieni 4 Dot Ruff Root Dark 4 Dublin.

[Alligator Gar]

Just polished off a bowl of Pinkerton Burley mixed with SG Commonwealth in the SPD Peterson. Burned fast and hot; my burley is too dry, I think. Off to buff some cigar stands I made of spalted Live Oak and Cherry Laurel.

http://i.imgur.com/uMZMUM6.jpg

[JimInks]

Hal O' the Wind in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend tomato military mount with an aluminum accent, horn ferrule, and cumberland p-lip stem.

[JimInks]

Jim - I was initially taken aback that someone of your esteem would be puffing a bargain basement blend, but I see there are some decent reviews of it on tobaccoreviews.com, including yours. Can't judge a book by its cover!

I didn't hold out much hope for it when a friend offered to send me some (he sent 6 ounces). He loves it and wanted me to, also. I think it's decent for a lawn mower, uncomplicated smoke. Nothing world shaking, but fit for when you just want to smoke something pleasant without giving it much thought. I think a blend like that has some merit, especially at that price. Btw, I actually prefer and recommend the Smoker's Pride Mellow over the Rich Taste. It is a pretty fair VaBur with no topping. Not much nuance, but again, it's a good work smoke at a bargain price, so I bought a bag of it for those instances.

[NeverBend]

2015 Red Ronnett's Sonnett in a 1961 Barliing's Make #5179 saddle billiard with warm tea on an overcast and gloomy afternoon. Still, better outside than in.

Congrats to the KC Royals and the Toronto Bluejays on a great season but that's as far as it goes...

Mets in 6.
Yankees take the American League East in 2016.