What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoked about half a bowl of Newminster 403 (?) lumpy round slices in a small Savinelli billiard

[Pipe Smoker]

Had some PS Proper English earlier.

Now I've just lit a bowl of Sam Gawith Navy Flake in my Rogers Town and Country.


https://i.imgur.com/vNfN6eM.jpg?2

Stout, squat bulldogs are my favorite pipe shape.

Puffing Solani 763, White and Black. Partially rubbed out, but a very dense tobacco — I can get a lot of it (by weight) in my pipe.

[Pipe Smoker]

I gouged out some Hamborger Veermaster — puffing that now in my Luciano stout bulldog. A mild and tasty Virginia. Occasionally I open a tin of HV where it’s possible to extract (with some difficulty) individual flakes. But even then I use the gouging-out technique, which works perfectly well.

[Haebar]

I gouged out some Hamborger Veermaster — puffing that now in my Luciano stout bulldog. A mild and tasty Virginia. Occasionally I open a tin of HV where it’s possible to extract (with some difficulty) individual flakes. But even then I use the gouging-out technique, which works perfectly well.

Gouging-out technique? Please describe. Do you have any pics? Sounds interesting.

[Bruck]

Having some Carter Hall in a cheap no-name briar. Very nice, haven't had this in a while.

[Pipe Smoker]

Gouging-out technique? Please describe. Do you have any pics? Sounds interesting.

No pics, but none needed for my crude gouging-out technique. I just force my thumbnail into the plug of tobacco to get about the right amount out. If my scale tells me I didn't get quite enough, I fish some more bits out of the tin to make the right weight. I say "plug", but it's actually a stack of welded-together flakes.

[Bruck]

Having a cobful of Stokkebye 4th Generation 1931 VA flake. Quite nice. Why smoke a pipe? For me the answer is VA flakes and English blends :)

[Cool Breeze]

On my lunch break with a bowl of MacBaren Virginia No. 1.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani Aged Burley Flake in my silver spigot Caminetto pot:

Caminetto Smooth Red Pot with Silver Spigot | Buy Caminetto Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes (http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/caminetto/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=135687)

Although short, it’s a substantial little pipe at 1.8 oz. When I bought it, I thought it would be a near-perfect pipe for me because it has so many of the characteristics that I like:

* Straight
* Shallow, broad tobacco chamber
* Thick bowl walls that don’t get too hot (I’m a holder)
* Looks good (in my eyes)
* It’s a pot – my second favorite pipe shape, after bulldogs
* Acrylic bit (easy maintenance, and hardness doesn’t bother me)

And it’s a sitter, to boot. I had some issues with this pipe, and put it away for awhile, but it’s going good now.

[Bruck]

Pipe Smoker I got to browsing around that website and came across this beauty :)

https://c647068.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/products/002-662-0017.jpg

Showed it to Mrs. Bruck who commented, that looks like a piece of poop! My sediments exactly.

And for the record, I'm having some C&D Burley Flake #1 (not #2) in a cheap no-name briar, bent square dublin in shape.

[Pipe Smoker]

Pipe Smoker I got to browsing around that website and came across this beauty :)

https://c647068.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/products/002-662-0017.jpg

Showed it to Mrs. Bruck who commented, that looks like a piece of poop! My sediments exactly.

And for the record, I'm having some C&D Burley Flake #1 (not #2) in a cheap no-name briar, bent square dublin in shape.

I don’t like ‘em that rough either.

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoked a bit of Bob's square cut.. Must be a Gawith Hoggarth blend as I recall. Don't really care for it but right now I'm battling a summer cold so the smoke was just therapeutic, trying to ease the congestion a bit. Couldn't tast much of anything anyway right now.

[Branzig]

"Off" today.

Gonna hit the mornimg with some OJK and try to buzz it early....wife has surgery, kid has PT, Dad needs help moving a curio cabinet, and our family mobile blew up yesterday so I have to limp it in to the dealer and do everything with 1 small vehicle until they approve a loaner car....

Gonna be a long couple days. Smoke for me boys.

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[Pipe Smoker]

I was in the mood for a really mild, but tasty, tobacco. Solani 763, White and Black hits that spot perfectly.

[Bruck]

Took the day off today to take care of Mrs. Bruck who's suffering from the flu that's been going around.

And in the meantime, having some homemade flake - peach/latakia blend in a cheap briar. Is good :)

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Hamborger Veermaster with just a touch of Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake. The 639 is such an intense aromatic that I can’t bear it straight. But used as a condiment in a straight Virginia, it makes for an interesting and tasty smoke.

[Lostmason]

Perusing the interwebs with Oriental Blend in a
KB&B Blue Line Bake-Lite 3/4 bent bulldog.
Thinking "Happy Thoughts" for you Branzig and Bruck.:pipe:

[Branzig]

Its 5 somewhere...

Peterson filled with Star Of The Easthttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180614/69a429b1040633c73bbc3b6d57a3b80c.jpg

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[Aguineapig]

Its 5 somewhere...

Peterson filled with Star Of The Easthttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180614/69a429b1040633c73bbc3b6d57a3b80c.jpg

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7% alc boy!! at 2:30! I like your style. good baccy choice also.

[Bruck]

Mrs. Bruck is much better today :)

Having a cobful of some rope I twisted about 4 years ago. Good as ever and still surprisingly strong in the vitamin N department.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake, in my Luciano stout bulldog. I’m appreciating this tobacco more and more. It used to be an occasional smoke for me, but it’s becoming a staple. I know of no other tobacco remotely like it.

[Pipe Smoker]

Yesterday, I opened a 2 yo tin of F&T Cut Virginia Plug, a mild, lightly-topped flake. Puffing some now — this stuff is heavenly. Wonderful tin note too. Thankful that I have lots of tins of it in my inventory.

[Emperor Zurg]

Again puffing on Sam Gawith Navy Flake in a Cherrywood sitter while painting a boat.

[Branzig]

Again puffing on Sam Gawith Navy Flake in a Cherrywood sitter while painting a boat.What boat you painting?

Considering lighting up some Devil's Holiday....but not sure if I want to brave the wind...

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[Emperor Zurg]

What boat you painting?

The little rowboat.

[Emperor Zurg]

MOAR Sam Gawith Navy Flake in the Cherrywood sitter while painting the boat.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani ABF in my Caminetto silver spigot mount stout pot. It’s going down really nice. Really love this meaty tobacco. Sipping a Nespresso “Roma” espresso.

[Emperor Zurg]

Even MOAR Sam Gawith Navy Flake. This time in a Barling Canadian, which is also a sitter. My Cherrywood needed a rest.

[Emperor Zurg]

MOAR Sam Gawith Navy Flake in the Barling Canadian...

While reassembling the boat...

Humid out. Weed wouldn't dry. Only smoked the better part of a small musketball stuffed in the top of the pipe

[Branzig]

Been running my Pete through her paces lately.

Star of the East tonight...yeah with sparkling bitch beer. I'm out of my brews so sipping the missues. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180620/9ce8f38dfc637117e6c2fa03459728eb.jpg

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[Branzig]

Time for my favorite pipe.

My 1940s Custom-Bilt. I hunted long and hard for this boxy billiard. I've had it for about 4 years now and she smokes divine.

Briar Fox is the baccy.

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[BryGuySC]

A little bit of Strang that was gifted to me at least a year ago.
Still bites me a little.

[Pipe Smoker]

The end is near.

The end of my tin of F&T Cut Virginia Plug, that is, and sad about that. Puffing CVP now in my Luciano stout bulldog.

What to open next? I’m thinking Dunhill Navy Rolls. It’s been awhile, and it’ll be a big change from CVP.

[Haebar]

Earlier this morning had a bowl of some homegrown Semois in a Sloth pipe that I won as a door prize at the Columbus pipe show.
https://s25.postimg.cc/f9lelrb3j/Sloth_pipe_09_14_2017_001.jpg

[Pipe Smoker]

I did open tin of Dunhill Navy Rolls this morning. Absolutely regal. Even Queen Elizabeth can’t get better pipe tobacco.

[Cool Breeze]

Was in an English mood today.

Had a bowl of McClelland Rose of Latakia from 2007 in my meer. Great tobacco. It's a Syrian Lat blend, so even if McClelland was still around, that one would be gone.
Also a bowl of Sutliff No. 5 in the same pipe.

[Cool Breeze]

Still in an English mood.
Having a bowl of Nightcap in an old banded Dr. Grabow Berwyck.

[Pipe Smoker]

Was in an English mood today.

Had a bowl of McClelland Rose of Latakia from 2007 in my meer. Great tobacco. It's a Syrian Lat blend, so even if McClelland was still around, that one would be gone.
Also a bowl of Sutliff No. 5 in the same pipe.

You put me into that mood too. Just opened my jar of Solani 779, English Luxury Mixture and filled my Kirsten Mariner. Going down nicely, it is.

[Bruck]

Been running my Pete through her paces lately.

Star of the East tonight...yeah with sparkling bitch beer. I'm out of my brews so sipping the missues. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180620/9ce8f38dfc637117e6c2fa03459728eb.jpg

And when you run out of clean undies do you wear hers? :)

[Cool Breeze]

Having a bowl of Samuel Gawith Cabbie's Mixture in my meer.

[Emperor Zurg]

And when you run out of clean undies do you wear hers? :)

No, he doesn't wait till he runs out...
:p

[Emperor Zurg]

A tightly wadded musketball of Five Brothers in a rusticated Savinelli billard.
Very nutty, pretty woody, white peppery and a little cardboardy. Burns well.

[Pipe Smoker]

My first two fills today seemed a bit harsh, so I reached for my jar of Solani 763, White and Black. 763 is my go-to mild tobacco. It proved to be a good choice — going down nicely in my Caminetto silver spigot pot.

[bluenoser]

Used a bowl of pipa vanilla in my freehand pickaxe to get me through the monday conference call.

[Emperor Zurg]

Enjoying a relaxing bowl of SG Navy Flake along with a glass of chardonnay. Nice to be not working on anything for the evening, although I hear half a dozen projects calling my name... might need another fill of chardonnay to drown them out

[Branzig]

And when you run out of clean undies do you wear hers? :)



No, he doesn't wait till he runs out...
:p

She works graveyards...sometimes I get lonely!


And as a side note, screw off both of ya lol



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[Pipe Smoker]

I recently bought six Solani tobaccos that I hadn’t tried before — one tin of each. They’re all aromatics, and I’m not an aro guy, so that explains why I hadn’t tried them. I just opened the first of them, Solani 113, Sweet Mystery:

“A wonderful Virginia blend consisting of red sweet and broad bright Virginias, Virginia Flake, and sweet black Cavendish with a pinch of black currant treated with Bacardi and CocoCream. Mystic sweet taste with a fantastic room aroma--outstanding. Wild Cut/Cross Cut/Broken Flake.”

By golly, it’s pretty good — kind of like smoking a piña colada. Certainly a good choice for social situations.

[Pipe Smoker]

Dunhill pipe for only $4,695! As a VIP Silver member, I can buy it for just $3,990.75. :)

“Gold-plated accent band?” For that price it ought to be solid 18-caret gold.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/dunhill/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=286836

Puffing Dunhill Navy Rolls in my somewhat less expensive Luciano stout bulldog.

[Emperor Zurg]

Drying out a fill of 1792 flake for a trip thru my Savinelli sandblast

[Emperor Zurg]

Dunhill pipe for only $4,695! As a VIP Silver member, I can buy it for just $3,990.75. :)

“Gold-plated accent band?” For that price it ought to be solid 18-caret gold.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/dunhill/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=286836.

Well, I'd buy it but the chamber's a little too big...

[AlanS]

Well, I'd buy it but the chamber's a little too big...
No, your chamber would be to big. I’d hope they’d kiss ya or at least give ya a reach around.

[Emperor Zurg]

No, your chamber would be to big. I’d hope they’d kiss ya or at least give ya a reach around.

I figure that pipe comes with a year subscription to a 24 hr pipewench: a pretty little 20 something to fill and clean your pipe and rub your shoulders while you smoke.

"Pipewench! Full Virginia Flake, please"

Random but last night I burned 3/4 bowl of 1792 but dumped the last of it and switched to a few coins of G&H Sweet Rum Twist amid complaints that the 1792 reeked of burning plastic. Having no pipewench, I loaded it myself and have yet to clean the pipe...

[Pipe Smoker]

Another fill of Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Kirsten Mariner. This stuff is actually pretty tasty. And fairly zippy for an aromatic.

[Emperor Zurg]

Another fill of Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Kirsten Mariner. This stuff is actually pretty tasty. And fairly zippy for an aromatic.

I love a tasty, full flavored aromatic.
Trouble is, there is no such thing.
:D

[Bruck]

A little late but checking in for yesterday's smoke - a nice briarful of Penzance while kayaking on the Occoquan river (tributary to the Potomac). Lovely smoke but I'd have to say smoking a pipe while kayaking is a bit tedious - I'll stick with cigars next time. Chew would be the most convenient of course, being surrounded by a massive spittoon :)

[Bruck]

I love a tasty, full flavored aromatic.
Trouble is, there is no such thing.
:D

:)

But you can usually redeem them by adding some blending Latakia and Perique.

[Emperor Zurg]

:)

But you can usually redeem them by adding some blending Latakia and Perique.

I do like lat in an aro (think Frog Morton's Cellar) but perique??

Too muggy for a smoke tonight, it would just finish wet and bitey and a cigar doesn't sound good either.
I'm self-medicating with Stilton, braunschweiger and Beaujolais instead

[Pipe Smoker]

I love a tasty, full flavored aromatic.
Trouble is, there is no such thing.
:D

I’m not an aro guy, but I’ve gotta say that Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, that I’ve been smoking the last few days has a lot of flavor. It’s just flat out tasty. Puffing it now in my Caminetto pot with silver spigot mount.

[Emperor Zurg]

Gawith Hoggarth Brown Twist Sliced.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

[Branzig]

Thinking about lighting up a quick bowl of SG Navy Flake. Probably smoke it in my little Cap pipe that smokes flake so well.

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[Emperor Zurg]

Thinking about lighting up a quick bowl of SG Navy Flake. Probably smoke it in my little Cap pipe that smokes flake so well.

Doitdoitdoitdoit!
SG Navy flake is goot stuff

[Branzig]

Doitdoitdoitdoit!
SG Navy flake is goot stuffOh. I did do it. While working in the garden.

It was pretty excellent

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[Bruck]

I do like lat in an aro (think Frog Morton's Cellar) but perique??

Too muggy for a smoke tonight, it would just finish wet and bitey and a cigar doesn't sound good either.
I'm self-medicating with Stilton, braunschweiger and Beaujolais instead

Yes sometimes perique will turn an aro around. If nothing else, it increases the vitamin N content.

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"Stilton?"
"No."

[Aguineapig]

Pease montgomery 11' in a square shank cob mod and some well dried granger in a smll kaywoodie military mount this morning. searching for land in the middle of nowhere. needed these smokes!

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Luciano squat bulldog. I can’t remember an aromatic that I liked as much as this one. In fact, I don’t like most of them at all. 113 actually tastes like its wonderful aroma. Not usually the case in my limited experience with aros.

And I still have four more Solani aros to open from my recent let’s-try-some-aros purchase.

[Emperor Zurg]

The last out of a tin of Drew Estate 7th Ave Blonde - 'bout half of it was crumbs and shake.
This was good for an aro when it was fresh but this last bowl was bo...ring.
Tasted like a cob full of smoldering nothing. Smoking it was an exercise in pointlessness.
But at least it gurgled and left a mess of moisture in the bowl.

[Bruck]

The weather finally cooled off here in NoVA and it's Saturday :) :) :)

Just finished off a lovely bowl of D&R Picayune on the back deck, paired with black coffee made with a percolator, the way I like it, and Mrs. Bruck is in the kitchen making huevos rancheros (the Mexican breakfast, not barfing :)). Doesn't get much better than this!

[Haebar]

Smoking a bowl of Nording Hunter Series "Labrador" in a Dr. Grabow Grand Duke billiard.
https://s25.postimg.cc/tnjgd7blb/Dr_Grabow_Grand_Duke.jpg

[Pipe Smoker]

My first four fills today were solid fare: F&T Vintage, a straight Virginia flake. For my last fill, some dessert: Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, an aromatic.

After I clean my pipe I’m going to steam a big mess of red beets, which will be the main part of my supper.

[Cool Breeze]

Milan 250 Cavendish, which is a Vaper with unflavored cavendish, in my new Nording Canadian.

[Pipe Smoker]

My jar of Solani ABF was nearly empty. I took what there was, then added enough Wessex Classic Virginia for a complete fill, and chopped both up a bit. About 1/3 ABF, 2/3 CV. Didn’t think this mix would be all that good, but wanted to use the last of the ABF. But by golly, it’s quite tasty. In my Luciano squat bulldog.

[Pipe Smoker]

I opened a 2 yo tin of Solani 633, Virginia with Perique, a day or two ago. Puffing that now in my dear old Kirsten Mariner. Very fine tobacco, but I probably won’t buy more of it. One of its attractions for me was that it came in the compact-storing rectangular 50g tins. But now, like all STG flakes that I know of, it comes in the bulky round Escudo-sized tins. I’ll get Dunhill Navy Rolls instead. Also Escudo-sized tins, but a slightly better vaper than 633. But I still have LOTS of the 633 in rectangular tins in stock.

[Cool Breeze]

Had a bowl of a mixture of C&D Autumn Evening and Prince Albert with my morning coffee.

About to light up a pre-lunch bowl of 12 year old McClelland Guillotine Slices. I think I have enough for one more bowl. It's great stuff.

[Pipe Smoker]

Last fill of the day: Solani 763, White & Black. The mildest tobacco that I know of, yet flavorful.

[Bruck]

Esoterica Dorchester in a birch while awaiting the arrival of sister and brother in law of Bruck (SABILOB) from Detroit :)

[BryGuySC]

I turn 40 today, so I'm opening something special!
I'll be smoking some soon!

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o163/bcsssj/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180716_091152_zpstscghnnk.jpg (http://s120.photobucket.com/user/bcsssj/media/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180716_091152_zpstscghnnk.jpg.html)

[Pipe Smoker]

^^^^^^

Happy birthday! Let us know how that fill went.

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Puffing a fill of Hamborger Veermaster in my Caminetto red pot:

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/caminetto/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=135687

This mild and tasty Virginia has been “Currently out of stock” FOR-EV-ER at SmokingPipes. I do have 4-7/8 tins remaining in my stock.

Tuning up for lunch, which will feature King Oscar “Tiny Tots” bristling sardines on German-baked pumpernickel with mustard, black pepper, and LOTS of raw onion.

[BryGuySC]

Wow!
That 3 Oaks Syrian is amazing!
I wish I had so much more of it!

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 633, Virginia with Perique, in my trusty Kirsten Mariner. SmokingPipes says 633 is "the Champagne of Virginias". I don’t like Champagne (much prefer Hess Chardonnay for a white), but 633 is certainly good tobacco.

[Bruck]

Sister and BIL are in town, going to take them for a drive in the mountains later on, but before that I'll cook up some bacon and eggs, and more importantly, prior to that I'm burning up some lovely Newminster #6 vanilla delight in a cheap briar.

[Bruck]

Cobful of Carter Hall :)

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing 3 yo F&T Special Brown Flake in my Luciano stout bulldog. Good tobacco! SmokingPipes says that it’s flavored with rum. Could be. Whatever it’s flavored with is tasty. The fragile flakes rub out more easily than any other flake that I know of.

[Cool Breeze]

I'm having a cigar to finish the evening, but I had a few bowls today.

I had a bowl of SG Navy Flake, a bowl of Dunhill Ready Rubbed and a bowl out of a catch all jar that gets the remnants when a tin is nearly empty.

[Pipe Smoker]

Smoking my Caminetto pot with silver spigot mount today. I started with F&T Special Brown Flake, one of my favorite tobaccos, but it was just so-so. Now puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake. It’s going great!

BTW — despite the clowning, this is a very entertaining rendition of “The Orange Blossom Special”:

https://youtu.be/eCAFfX_va_I

[Emperor Zurg]

burned a nice bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake yesterday on a boat trip

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Luciano squat bulldog. An aromatic that even I like. A delectable aroma, and it tastes like it smells.

[Cool Breeze]

McClelland 2015 Virgina/Perique flake in an unfinished Savinelli series III.
Mighty good.

[Emperor Zurg]

Burned a MM Diplomat full of Peter Stokkebye Navy Flake today on another boat trip.
Good thing the Diplomat has thick walls, this is one of my first cobs and it's all wallered out from smoking it too fast. Makes for a rather large but shallow, pot type pipe though and the walls are still thick enough to smoke cool.
IMO, a cob isn't the best for smoking a virginia. Seems straight Va is more flavorful in a briar but hey, I'm not bringing a good pipe on a river trip.

[Pipe Smoker]

I just opened a 2 yo tin of Escudo — now puffing a 2nd fill in my Luciano stout bulldog. I had kind of forgotten just how good this stuff is. Dunhill Navy Rolls is a more regal tobacco, but Escudo has its own appeal — more Perique than Navy Rolls.

Edit: I noticed this $900 pipe in SmokingPipes’ American estates last night:

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/united-states/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=280340

Not my kind of pipe, but it has the most impressive ring grain that I’ve ever seen.

[bluenoser]

peterson wild atlantic while waiting for the grill to heat up.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180728/bc09e992d3272ca4b35008013b480806.jpg

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[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Escudo in my Radice Rhodesian.

Radice Rubino Rhodesian | Buy Radice Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes (http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/radice/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=83615)

I haven’t smoked this pipe in years — probably because I prefer shallower chambers, and I’m not a big fan of Rhodesians. And it was stuck in the back of my pipe drawer. But it has pretty grain from all angles (the reason I bought it), and its finish is a match for either of my two bought-new Dunhills (Bruyere and Amber Root). The circumferential groves are crisp to the eyes, but smooth to the touch.

The Radice has a small defect, though. You can’t see it in the photos, but there’s a slight gap between the bottom of the shank and the bit. If I twist the bit 180°, the gap is still at the bottom of the shank, so the problem is certainly that the shank face isn’t quite perpendicular to the mortise axis. I just pretend that I don’t notice.

[Hardheaded]

I wanted to pick up a pipe for the first time in months. I had a bag of something, definitely Gawith from the cut of it, but I had apparently lost the label.

Turns out it was some Bob's Chocolate Flake. Always a happy surprise.

[Pipe Smoker]

Smoking my new Mark Tinsky Brandy for the first time today.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/mark-tinsky/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=262439

I opened a 4 yo tin of Capstan Medium for the occasion. That’s going surprisingly well, considering that the pipe has had no break-in. The pipe handles nicely, and it’s a solid sitter.

[Cool Breeze]

Having bowl number 2 of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture, this one in my rusticated Nording Canadian.

[Hardheaded]

PA in a cob. I found I had a bit of it left kicking around and just want to finish the last few bowls off.

[Pipe Smoker]

Happily puffing 4 yo Capstan Medium in my venerable Kirsten Mariner. Capstan is the only flake Virginia that I like that’s still available in the compact-storing rectangular 50g tins. I’ll be buying a lot more of it.

[Emperor Zurg]

incinerated a bowl of G&H Rum Flake and a bowl of MacBaren vanilla flake, each in its respective cob whilst boating up, then back down the river. Upper 90s and muggy and blistering hot sun today - perfect day to be on the water. Kept having to stow the pipe to take a swim. I must say the rum flake puts up with the strain of intermittent smoking and subsequent relighting much better than the MacB vanilla flake.

[Cool Breeze]

SG Full Virginia Flake in my unfinished Savinelli Series III.
And my morning coffee.

[Hardheaded]

PA in a Dr. Grabow Lark that my wife picked out as a surprise the other day.

[Hardheaded]

A flake and a half of PS LTF. I do not like this as much as some of the other PS flakes. I think what I have jarred up may end up sitting for quite a while.

[BryGuySC]

Had a little fresh Marlin Flake in an old Grabow this morning.

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A flake and a half of PS LTF. I do not like this as much as some of the other PS flakes. I think what I have jarred up may end up sitting for quite a while.

How old is it?
I've got some with which I had the same experience. It has been aging in the cellar a couple years now.

[Hardheaded]

Had a little fresh Marlin Flake in an old Grabow this morning.

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How old is it?
I've got some with which I had the same experience. It has been aging in the cellar a couple years now.

I think 6 months or so. They were the flakes left over that I did not manage to fit into the jars when I bought it. I have some left of each of them that I have been working off of. So far I prefer LNF and LBF to the LTF. We will see what a year or more of age will do.

[Cool Breeze]

Mcclelland 2015 Virginia/Perique Flake in my Rogers Town & Country Rhodesian.

[Bruck]

Just had a bowl of Milan King's Ransom, which is a mild English, quite nice. This must be a rare on as it has no review by JimInks on TobaccoReviews.com :)

[Emperor Zurg]

Got a cobload of SPC Mississippi River smoldering while out on the river today. Seemed appropriate.
Also have a backup cob loaded with G&H Louisiana Flake which I might get to later.

[Scott W.]

Tilbury in a DE tradesman pipe

[Hardheaded]

Some 5100 Red Cake. I did not like this much when I first tried it. Of course I like it now that its discontinued and mine is almost gone.

[Hardheaded]

Some Carter Hall in my Dr. Grabow Lark. I have some Bob's Choclate flake drying for later.

Oh, AlanS, I'm good on the Gurkhas. I hear Tony could use some, especially the nice 60+ rg ones.

[Bruck]

Just finished off a couple cobfuls of Milan Chartwell - nice smooth flavor. Technically an English but the Latakia was subtle. No bite, no gurgle - good stuff :)

[Pipe Smoker]

I opened a 4 yo tin of Dunhill Flake yesterday, puffing that now in my ancient Kirsten Mariner. Very fine tobacco, it is. No topping on this stuff.

[Pipe Smoker]

Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake, is intensely aromatic. I can’t stand it straight, but a mixture of 85% Dunhill Flake and 15% TMF is very tasty. Puffing that now in my ancient Kirsten Mariner.

[Emperor Zurg]

Working on a bowl of Happy Bogie in a small Savinelli billiard

[Pipe Smoker]

My jar of Wessex Classic Virginia went empty, so I opened another 50g tin and refilled the jar. I always have some of this tobacco at the ready. Mostly rubbed out red Virginia with a bit of perique.

Forgot to mention — smoking it now in my Radice Rhodesian.

[Cool Breeze]

PS Luxury Bullseye Flake in my sandblasted Savinelli Bing's Favorite.

[BryGuySC]

I also had a little PS bullseye flake.

Also jarred up a few loose jars I had hogging up space on the shelf. Don't want them to dry out, especially the 3Oaks!

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[Emperor Zurg]

Another bowl of Happy Bogie in the Savinelli

[Hardheaded]

A bowl of G&H Kendal Kentucky.

[Emperor Zurg]

MOAR Happy Bogie in the Savinelli

[Cool Breeze]

Felt so congested yesterday I didn't smoke a thing. That's pretty uncommon for me.

Sinuses are much clearer today, so I'm enjoying some FVF on my lunch break.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake, in my aluminum stem Kirsten Mariner. For some reason ABF is usually better in my conventional briars, but it’s going down quite nicely today.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug in my dear old Kirsten Mariner. Lots of rich flavor, both from the excellent tobacco and the delicious flavoring. TobaccoReviews has it as “Flavoring: None Detected”. I laugh.

Of all the F&T tobaccos, this is the one that’s most frequently “Currently Out of Stock” at SmokingPipes.

[BryGuySC]

Some Dorchester in a Grabow Starfire.

[Haebar]

I think 6 months or so. They were the flakes left over that I did not manage to fit into the jars when I bought it. I have some left of each of them that I have been working off of. So far I prefer LNF and LBF to the LTF. We will see what a year or more of age will do.


LTF, due to the toppings/casings added, is considered by some to be an aromatic. It is not mentioned in the company's product description. That may be the reason for the disappointment.

[Haebar]

We had the Knoxville Pipe Club Meeting last week last week and I got to try some new blends. The first one was a blend developed by Smoky's Tobacco and Cigars; it is called "Smoky's Flake and Perique". Dave was trying to fill a niche vacated by the closing of McClelland and came up with this blend. It is great! So good that I bought a pound of it. The production of the blend is labor intensive - one of the components, Virginia Flakes, is rubbed out by hand by store employees.

Another new one that I tried was Russ Oullette's Acadian Gold - this is a unique blend where they give some Virginia tobacco the same treatment that they use for making Perique, only they don't ferment and press it quite as long due to the high sugar content of the Virginia. This was a good smoke, very different and interesting in flavor. Being a limited edition at PipesandCigars.com, I ordered five tins of it for the cellar.

[BryGuySC]

Some more Dorchester, still in that Grabow Starfire.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my old Kirsten Mariner. An aromatic that I kinda like. Occasionally.

[BryGuySC]

Hanging out with a friend who is leaving the state.
Drinking homebrew, and smoking 3 Oaks Syrian and Esoterica Dorchester.

[Emperor Zurg]

Burning up a bowl of Sweet Rum Twist (G&H of course) in a gourd calabash.

[Hardheaded]

PS LNF in a cob. I think I like the LBF the most with this being second. I will of course have to smoke more to be sure. You know, for science.

[Cool Breeze]

Well school is back in full swing.
So, I'm enjoying my first bowl at nearly 11:00 p.m.
It's Dunhill Elizabethan in my Savinelli Punto Oro Mr. G.

[Hardheaded]

A bowl of Dunhill Nightcap in a Capri pot that I picked up at a semi-local pipe shop last summer. My first try of Nightcap, or any english blend really.

[Emperor Zurg]

Burning a bowl the Mayor's Chocolate Flake in a Rattray's cherrywood.

[Cool Breeze]

Having a cup of coffee and a bowl of a 50/50 mix of C&D Autumn Evening and Prince Albert.

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoked a decent size bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake in a sanblasted bent billiard last evening while reading a book.

[Pipe Smoker]

I’ve been off the board for awhile — busy cramming for an important test. No fun.

Earlier today I opened a tin of Dunhill Navy Rolls — very fine tobacco. Now puffing a fill of Wessex Classic Virginia in my Caminetto pot.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/caminetto/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=135687

This vaper is bearing up well in comparison to the NR. It’s less expensive too, but hard to find “in stock”. But five tins are on the UPS truck for delivery today. :)

[BryGuySC]

Tested out my recently-refinished Mastercraft Handmade with some Sutliff Voodoo Queen.

[Cool Breeze]

Had a couple bowls of Prince Albert today in the truck to and from school.
Had a bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture when I got home.

Now enjoying some SG Cabbie's Mixture, which will probably be my last bowl of the day.

[BryGuySC]

McClelland 3 Oaks Syrian in my Savinelli Trevi 320.
Such a special tobacco! I have one more tin in the cellar, and will miss it greatly.

[Cool Breeze]

McClelland 3 Oaks Syrian in my Savinelli Trevi 320.
Such a special tobacco! I have one more tin in the cellar, and will miss it greatly.

I know what you mean.
My favorite tobacco ever is McClelland Red and Black.
I only have 3 tins. I'll open them on special occasions and savor them slowly.

[Aguineapig]

Newminster 400 navy flake in a Kaywoodie. first smoke in a while. been super busy, freaking out, etc. nasal snuff has been giving my nose a work out but needed to get back into the pipe to ground me a bit!

[Lostmason]

Smoking an unmarked virginia bulk in my Medico Guardsman bulldog

[Lostmason]

Just finished a bowl of Nightcap (match) in a Yello-Bole bulldog

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoked the remainder of a bowl of H&H Anniversary Flake (that I began earlier today) in a Rattray's Cherrywood. Then still had half my gose left so I smoked a small musketball of War Horse in a Frennch made Canadian

[Lostmason]

Started the month with Captain Black original in my Tally Ho
Going to continue the good feelings with some
PS Black Coffee in a Stanwell Brushed Brown Dublin

[Pipe Smoker]

I’m not an aromatic guy, but some time ago I ordered five Solani aromatics that I’d never tried. The first of those, Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, I didn’t like. A week ago I opened the next one: Solani 127, Green Label. SmokingPipes says:

“A mixture of broad and very ripe Virginias and double fermented black Cavendish, Solani Green Label has a wonderful sweetness with a touch of apple flavor. Wild Cut.”

I’ve smoked it in several different pipes, and enjoyed it. The tobacco is quite good, and the flavoring is tasty and not overbearing.

I’m thinking that I might order more of the 127. But not until I’ve tried the three remaining aromatics.

[Emperor Zurg]

“A mixture of broad and very ripe Virginias and double fermented black Cavendish, Solani Green Label has a wonderful sweetness with a touch of apple flavor. Wild Cut.”

I’ve smoked it in several different pipes, and enjoyed it. The tobacco is quite good, and the flavoring is tasty and not overbearing.

I’m thinking that I might order more of the 127. But not until I’ve tried the three remaining aromatics.

That actually sounds pretty good. I usually avoid black Cavendish since IMO it tastes like lightly sweet, warm air but sometimes I find it in a condiment percentage in a particular blend and then it doesn't dilute the flavor too much.

Managed to burn a bowl of G&H Rum Flake tonight by the campfire and a couple small bowls of Esoterica Margate later in the night.

[BryGuySC]

Morning smoke: Sutliff Voodoo Queen in an M&T Dundee that I've partially restored.
It smokes great, but I think I want to lighten it up a little more. Started out jet black, with a lot of little fills that were showing as white dots.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o163/bcsssj/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180903_091705_zpsh3zxhxko.jpg (http://s120.photobucket.com/user/bcsssj/media/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180903_091705_zpsh3zxhxko.jpg.html)

[BryGuySC]

A little Sutliff Sunrise Smoke while the dog played around in the yard.
This is sweeter than I remembered. Bordering somewhere between aromatic and very light English.

[Pipe Smoker]

Morning smoke: Sutliff Voodoo Queen in an M&T Dundee that I've partially restored.
It smokes great, but I think I want to lighten it up a little more. Started out jet black, with a lot of little fills that were showing as white dots.

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o163/bcsssj/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180903_091705_zpsh3zxhxko.jpg (http://s120.photobucket.com/user/bcsssj/media/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20180903_091705_zpsh3zxhxko.jpg.html)

I like your dog too. Here’s a wonderful dog story:

“Five-pound toy poodle named Pickles dies while protecting his family from a BEAR that broke into their home…”

Dog dies while protecting his family from a bear that broke into their home | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6124103/Dog-dies-protecting-family-bear-broke-home.html)

I didn’t know you, Pickles, but rest in peace, Braveheart.

[BryGuySC]

I like your dog too. Here’s a wonderful dog story:

“Five-pound toy poodle named Pickles dies while protecting his family from a BEAR that broke into their home…”

Dog dies while protecting his family from a bear that broke into their home | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6124103/Dog-dies-protecting-family-bear-broke-home.html)

I didn’t know you, Pickles, but rest in peace, Braveheart.

She was the bravest pickle!

[Pipe Smoker]

I just finished a fill of Dunhill Navy Rolls in my old Kirsten Mariner. Now puffing a fill of Wessex Classic Virginia, another vaper of red Virginia and Perique.

I’m about ready to declare WCV my single favorite tobacco. Ready rubbed, with a few clumps and no flavoring, it’s just plain good. I discovered WCV about a year ago. If I’d discovered it sooner my cellar would be filled with it. Hard to find in stock nowadays.

[Emperor Zurg]

I’m about ready to declare WCV my single favorite tobacco... Hard to find in stock nowadays.

Ain't that the truth. I've seen you mention it several times so I was going to try that and a few others you mentioned but haven't been able to find any of them in stock.

[BryGuySC]

Ain't that the truth. I've seen you mention it several times so I was going to try that and a few others you mentioned but haven't been able to find any of them in stock.

Same!

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 127, Green Label in my Luciano squat bulldog. This stuff is, without a doubt, the tastiest and most satisfying aromatic that I’ve ever smoked. See my comments about it above (09-02-2018).

[bluenoser]

Enjoyed a bowl of 1q in a mm cob with a bamboo shank while grilling some burgers. Been a while since I lit a pipe and was not disappointed

[BryGuySC]

I like your dog too.

NON-TOBACCO-RELATED POST (sorry, not sorry)

Meant to mention on last response; he is a great dog! Possibly 100% American Pitt Bull.
He is a rescue, about 2 years old. Poor guy was neglected when we got him.
You could see his spine sticking out of his back. He has multiple scars and abrasions along one side of his body, some the size of your thumb.
Most of the scars now have white hair around them, making them stand out against his brindle coat. Obviously, the big ones will never have hair.
He is the sweetest, gentlest good boy! Great with little kids, and loves to snuggle!
He is still learning how to play, but he is really smart, and picks up tricks and training very quickly (except for when he is being exceptionally stubborn!).

Here are a couple pics:

This is the day he came home. Happiest dog ever!
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Some of his scars:
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Snuggles:
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Chillin:
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[Emperor Zurg]

LOL!!! Love the last pic.
He thinks he's people :p

[Pipe Smoker]

I opened a 4 yo tin of F&T Vintage yesterday — puffing a fill of that now. A medium Virginia with a bit of flavoring, the tin note is scrumptious. It’s the prettiest flake that I know of — light, medium, and darker bits of tobacco. Like all F&T flakes, there are two side-by-side stacks of perfectly rectangular flakes that separate easily. For me, at least, moisture is just right.

[Lostmason]

Smoking a bowl of a burley forward mix in an unfinished Sav straight Billiard.
Work called on account of rain so I figured i'ld start the weekend smokes.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 127, Green Label, in my old Kirsten Mariner. I’m enjoying this tobacco more than any other aromatic that I can recall. It’s a bit fluffy — I can’t get as much into my pipe (by weight) as I can with most other tobaccos.

I always weigh the tobacco charge on my Ohaus Scout Pro digital balance. It reads directly to 0.1 gram resolution, and I can interpolate to 0.05 grams. I can get 2.1 grams of most tobaccos into the Kirsten, but only 1.8 grams of the Solani 127.

[Emperor Zurg]

Puffing Solani 127, Green Label, in my old Kirsten Mariner. I’m enjoying this tobacco more than any other aromatic that I can recall.

I've got nothing against aromatics per se, I just avoid them because so many of them suck.
However, there's nothing quite like a good aromatic when you find one that works for you.
...and unlike flavored cigars, you never have to suffer a 'sweetened cap' :puke:

I might have to try this one you speak highly of.

Speaking of cigars, I do believe I'll head toward that side this afternoon.
Failing that, I also have a jar of Happy Bogie calling my name for either chaw or smoke.

[Aguineapig]

I've got nothing against aromatics per se, I just avoid them because so many of them suck.
However, there's nothing quite like a good aromatic when you find one that works for you.
...and unlike flavored cigars, you never have to suffer a 'sweetened cap' :puke:

I might have to try this one you speak highly of.

Speaking of cigars, I do believe I'll head toward that side this afternoon.
Failing that, I also have a jar of Happy Bogie calling my name for either chaw or smoke.

sweetened caps are the literal, absolute, worst thing I have ever come across.... worse than pumpkin beer, even...

[GWBowman]

a little C&D Big n' Burley for the first bowl in this Savinelli Series iii 320 KS Author

https://i.imgur.com/c9bybf5.jpg

and a little Blantons

[Haebar]

About to light up my first bowl of GH #25 Mixture in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard. Drinking some iced tea that I made from an assortment of different tea bags that I had lying around in the kitchen cabinet - Earl Grey, Constant Comment, Mint, etc. Just trying to get rid of them, so I made some iced tea with them. It's not bad. Long day at work chained to my desk trying to get out five reports by the end of the day, which I did. I'd much rather work outside, which I do 50% of the time.

[Emperor Zurg]

Got a bowl of Happy Bogie smouldering along in my Savinelli billiard.
Smoking and driving, running errands.

[Aguineapig]

G&H best brown #2 in my oldest cob. life is pretty ok I guess. stupid strong tea on the side. sitting outside with a crossman trying to thin the herd of squirrels destroying the popcorn crop.

[Haebar]

Started an early morning at 4:00 with a bowl of GH Kendal Flake in an Albert John apple.

[Cool Breeze]

Had a bowl of McClelland 2015 Virginia/Perique flake in a Savinelli Roma 114KS earlier.

Now enjoying a bowl of Dunhill Navy Rolls in my unfinished Savinelli Series III.

[BryGuySC]

Working my way through about 8 different aromatic samples, trying to find something to mix together for a holiday smoke.
So far, all disappointing. I know I'm not an aromatic smoker, but I still try every once and a while. It always comes back to bite me (pun intended).
I'll post a short review of each, when I get through them.

I'll probably just going to open a nice virginia for the holidays.

[Pipe Smoker]

^^^^^^
I’m not a fan of holiday blends either.

[Emperor Zurg]

^^^^^^
I’m not a fan of holiday blends either.

Same here.

Biggest thing I have against them is the "ZOMG THE HOLIDAY BLEND IS HERE QUICK ORDER SOME BEFORE IT'S SOLD OUT IN THE NEXT 20 SECONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Homey don't play that game

[Pipe Smoker]

Not enough F&T Vintage in my tin for a fill so I added some Hamborger Veermaster. Quite good! Wish that I’d tried this while I had more Vintage. Will remember next time.

[Emperor Zurg]

Having a cobful of G&H Rum Flake while sitting by a campfire.
Also having a few beerz

[Pipe Smoker]

I just opened a 2-1/2 yo tin of Escudo — puffing that now in my old aluminum Kirsten Mariner. One nice thing about the Kirsten — I never draw in a bit of tobacco, or bitter ash, no matter how far down I smoke the charge.

[Aguineapig]

Having a cobful of G&H Rum Flake while sitting by a campfire.
Also having a few beerz

what kind of brewskidoos?

[Emperor Zurg]

what kind of brewskidoos?

Had a Rochester Mills Milkshake Stout and a Bell's Oberon.
Both went well in different ways with this bowl

I never used to like beer paired with tobacco but come to find out this was because I was drinking sh!t beer :)

[Cool Breeze]

Having my first bowl of the day late today.
Just pulled back into town in time to watch the Cowboys game.
Now enjoying a bowl of Peterson Irish Flake in my unfinished Savinelli Series III

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing F&T Blackjack in my Caminetto pot with silver spigot mount. It’s said to be a red Virginia, but strawberry blonde is closer to the mark. No topping, but tasty — a bit acidic. Dry out of the tin — almost like straw. Consequently it comes in the largest 50g tin I’ve ever seen (to accommodate its bulk). The same diameter as an Escudo tin, but at least 25% taller.

[BryGuySC]

I was up a little early today.
I actually had time for a tiny smoke this morning, in my mini-sized Dorm, Jr. (ignore the slobber. I was also drinking coffee.) :tongue:
Smoking an English Kake I made a few years ago. When it is gone, it is gone forever; most of the ingredients were McClelland tobaccos.

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I also found a leftover sample of Penzance, with a few years age on it. A very different English. Drier, woodier, with a nice incense fragrance from the orientals.
I think I like them both equally well, but will never have more either (well, maybe the Penzance, but I'm not bending over backwards to get any).

[Aguineapig]

SG lakeland dark in a Jeantet prince. This stuff is stout, careful puffing and a few minutes puts ya in a great mood!

[Bruck]

Having a lovely cob of Haebar Navy Flake which I jarred in Feb, 2017 so it must be close to 2 years old. Great stuff! :)

[Haebar]

Having a lovely cob of Haebar Navy Flake which I jarred in Feb, 2017 so it must be close to 2 years old. Great stuff! :)

I'm glad that it has improved with age. I haven't tried any recently. Need to get busy making some more. Thanks.

[BryGuySC]

I'm glad that it has improved with age. I haven't tried any recently. Need to get busy making some more. Thanks.

Thanks for the reminder! I saw it in my cellar the other day, told myself to pull it out, but didn't. Now I have to root around and find it.

- - - Updated - - -

On the way to work, smoking some 2015 Sixpence, in a mid-30s Kaywoodie Thorn Oom Paul, nestled in a slightly unkempt beard.

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[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake in my Luciano squat bulldog. This is a singular tobacco — I know of no other that’s remotely like it. I don’t smoke a lot of ABF, but sometimes I just crave it, so nearly always have some in a jar, ready to go.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 131, Red Label in my old Kirsten Mariner. Here’s what SmokingPipes says of it.

“For Solani's Red Label, a touch of Single malt Scotch has been added to selected bright and red Virginias from the "Old Belt", ripe Burleys and mellow, sweet black Cavendish for a "Tropical Aroma--delicious. Wild Cut.”

131 is the third of the five Solani aromatics that I ordered some time ago. I liked the second, 127, Green Label, but I like this one even better. The topping of 127 was fruity whereas the topping of 131 is savory — and I like savory.

[Cool Breeze]

Got bored and cracked open a tin of McClelland No. 27 Matured Virginia.
I've been hoarding my McClelland stuff, but thought I'd enjoy one.

Life is short.

[Pipe Smoker]

A while back I bought this Mark Tinsky brandy from the American Estates section of SmokingPipes:

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/mark-tinsky/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=262439

Its condition was “5/5, Unsmoked”. The light band with thin dark stripes is palm wood. This pipe suits me better than any Tinsky pipe I’ve seen: straight; standard pipe shape; right size. It’s a sitter, too. I was lucky to find it for a good price as an estate pipe. The link is for the original offering — not the one I purchased it from. I used that link because it it has the third (top) view.

I first smoked the Tinsky several weeks ago and found it had an issue: the draw was a bit tight, and if I drew in a crumb of tobacco it became REALLY tight, and was hard to clear with a pipe cleaner. I figured that I was going to have to widen the draft with a 1.5 mm round needle file. But I had other things to do, so didn’t start that project until last week. When I did, I discovered that some detritus was firmly lodged in the draft, near the end of the bit. I was able to push it out with a straightened paper clip, after which the draw was free and easy. Very glad about that!

Now puffing some Escudo in the Tinsky, and it’s going down very well. I like this pipe!

[Pipe Smoker]

Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake, is an unusual tobacco. There may be other aromatic flakes, but I don’t know of them. It’s too intensely aromatic for me to enjoy straight, but a little bit mixed with a straight Virginia or Vaper can be tasty — and a nice change up for me. Doing that now: 75% Escudo, 25% TMF, in my old Kirsten Mariner.

[Bruck]

Enjoying a bowl of Stokkeby's 4th Generation 1931 in a cheap briar.

[GWBowman]

C&D Bijou in a small Dr. Grabow with a cup (or 3) of Folgers. Taste like sanity.

[Pipe Smoker]

I just popped the lid of a 4 yo tin of Capstan Medium (blue tin label) — puffing that now in my Caminetto red pot with silver spigot mount:

Caminetto Smooth Red Pot with Silver Spigot | Buy Caminetto Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes (http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/caminetto/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=135687)

BTW — I recently saw this Jess Chonowitsch pot for an eye watering $4,500 on SmokingPipes:

Jess Chonowitsch Sandblasted Pot with Horn | Buy Jess Chonowitsch Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes (http://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/chonowitsch/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=277836)

The Chonowitsch is certainly a beautiful pipe, but for smoking, I wouldn’t trade my Caminetto for it, even though it cost me about 10% as much as the Chonowitsch (some years ago). And the Chonowitsch isn’t very pot-like, IMO.

[BryGuySC]

Some 2015 P.S. Lux. Bullseye Flake in a meer.

[Haebar]

I've been smoking the heck out of some GH Sweet Whisky twist in the last 24 hours in several pipes. Chief among them is a no-name French billiard that is shaped like a Dunhill LB billiard. That's why I bought it for $8.50, because of the shape. When I was deep cleaning it, I discovered that the stem was glued to the shank! Fortunately it passes a pipe cleaner through to the bowl without any trouble so I'm going to add it to the pack.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Hamborger Veermaster in my newish Mark Tinsky straight brandy. I’m really liking this pipe.

And feeling lucky that I scored 20 tins of HV a couple of months ago. Hard to find this tobacco in stock.

[Bruck]

Hiked in the mountains today (White Oak Canyon for you northern Virgins) with Mrs. Bruck, and while doing so:
1) had a lovely time
2) smoked a few mini meerfuls of something from Haebar, I think it was his VaPer, I could get up and look at the jar but I'm too lazy. Anyway it was excellent.
3) saw a rattlesnake. nearly stepped on it but Mrs. Bruck was at my six and saw it first and hollered at me to get back
4) had to cut the hike somewhat short bcs Mrs. Bruck's left boot and its sole became legally separated :)

[Emperor Zurg]

4) had to cut the hike somewhat short bcs Mrs. Bruck's left boot and its sole became legally separated :)

I hate it when an otherwise good boot sells its sole.

I boated up river yesterday with my daughter and one of her friends. Burned a wallered out, MM Diplomat full of SG, Mayor's Chocolate Flake on the way. It's a small boat with a tiller engine. That places me at the stern so even the foulest smoke doesn't bother anyone... except in the event of a tailwind. Even then, chocolate flake smells really nice.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing F&T Blackjack in my Caminetto straight pot. Blackjack is a light-red ready rubbed Virginia — no flavoring added, just good tobacco flavor. Kind of fluffy, it comes in a larger than usual 50g tin.

[Bruck]

D&R Picayune - bracing! :)

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Hamborger Veermaster in my Luciano squat bulldog. I generally like tapered bits on bulldogs, but the saddle bit is just right for this one.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/italy/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=246536

[Cool Breeze]

Had a couple bowls of Prince Albert earlier today while behind the wheel.

Now I'm on the balcony with a bowl of Sam Gawith Cabbie's Mixture in an unfinished Savinelli Series III.

[Haebar]

D&R Picayune - bracing! :)

What a coincidence! I had my first bowl of Picayune yesterday and loved it. But halfway through my second bowl I started feeling a little weird and nauseous - the stuff is strong! Still I love the flavor and burning characteristics. Smoked it in an E.A. Carey straight billiard with the "Magic Inch" at work.

[Haebar]

Smoking a bowl of Red Ox Twist in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard. This is pretty good tobacco for smoking.
https://i.postimg.cc/Zn7VX5D3/Comoy_s_Guildhall_billiard.jpg

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoking a bowl of Red Ox Twist in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard. This is pretty good tobacco for smoking.
Want!

Where do you get this Red Ox Twist?

[Haebar]

Want!

Where do you get this Red Ox Twist?

We can buy it most any decent "tobacco store" here in East Tennessee. PM me your address and I'll send you some. Just so you know, it is marketed as chewing tobacco.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco, Germany) in my Mark Tinsky straight brandy. Many years ago I smoked a ton of Patriot Flake, but when my B&M stopped carrying it I quit smoking it, because B&Ms were the only places I bought pipe tobacco in those pre-Internet days. I pretty much forgot about Patriot Flake.

But a couple of months ago I came upon an empty tin of Patriot Flake that I’d used to keep paper clips handy, and that brought the tobacco to mind. SmokingPipes listed it, but “out of stock”, of course. But ten days ago it was briefly available, and I snagged five 50g tins. They arrived yesterday, and I’m puffing PF now.

It’s good stuff — lots of flavor, all natural, no topping. Like Hamborger Veermaster, another Dan tobacco, there’s a single irregular stack of flakes that don’t separate easily. Here’s what SmokingPipes says of it:

“A Dan Tobacco tribute to the brave men and women, who fought for freedom, Patriot Flake features U.S. Virginia grades and Virginia tobaccos from Mysore with additional fermentation under pressure. It is press aged, sliced thin and kept in flake form. Easily rubbed out. This blend has an excellent cool burn with a satisfyingly rich, but smooth flavor. Medium Strength.”

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipe-tobacco/dan-tobacco/Patriot-Flake-50g/product_id/8997

BTW — my tins don’t have the ugly German tobacco warning on the bottom half of the tin label.

[Haebar]

About to light up a bowl of Captain Black Cherry in this Country Gentleman.
https://i.postimg.cc/Xq2G7Y5t/MM_Country_Gentleman.jpg

[Aguineapig]

a bowl of lane virginia slices for breakfast, and then a half bowl of newminster 400 for afternoon. comparing these two, the lane tastes more like OGS ad the newminster clearly a macbaren product. both are good. liked the lane better initially, but the newminster has grown on me a bit.

[Emperor Zurg]

a bowl of lane virginia slices for breakfast, and then a half bowl of newminster 400 for afternoon. comparing these two, the lane tastes more like OGS ad the newminster clearly a macbaren product. both are good. liked the lane better initially, but the newminster has grown on me a bit.

Interestingly enough, I just laid out a flake of Peter Stokkebye, Luxury Navy. Figured I'd have a glass of white wine and some Va tonight.

[Cool Breeze]

Penzance in a sandblasted Savinelli Bing's Favorite, along with a cup of coffee.

[Haebar]

Just finished up a bowl of some homemade Virginia/Dark Fired rope in an Ashton Brindle billiard.
https://i.postimg.cc/vH0PnnyW/Ashton_Brindle.jpg

[Emperor Zurg]

Drying out a bowls worth of McClelland 2015.
Got a glass of chardonnay waiting to accompany it...

[Emperor Zurg]

We can buy it most any decent "tobacco store" here in East Tennessee. PM me your address and I'll send you some. Just so you know, it is marketed as chewing tobacco.

Actually, I was hoping to score half a pound of it to squirrel away in a mason jar. That'd prolly last me 20 years.
I've got nothing against a good chaw once in a while if it doesn't smoke well. I don't make a habit of it because oral cancer doesn't sound like fun to me, but time to time I'll chew a bit of a G&H rope.

Any idea where to get it online?

... or feel like being a straw buyer? :D

[Haebar]

Just finished two bowls of Daughters & Ryan Rimboche A.B. in a Dr. Grabow Hillcrest.
https://i.postimg.cc/jdxJQfmN/Hillcrest_001.jpg

[Haebar]

Actually, I was hoping to score half a pound of it to squirrel away in a mason jar. That'd prolly last me 20 years.
I've got nothing against a good chaw once in a while if it doesn't smoke well. I don't make a habit of it because oral cancer doesn't sound like fun to me, but time to time I'll chew a bit of a G&H rope.

Any idea where to get it online?

... or feel like being a straw buyer? :D

I couldn't find it online; I don't know if businesses ship chewing tobacco across state lines anymore. I can send you a package to see if you like it. Then if you want more, I can send you however much you want. This is old-fashioned twist tobacco without any sweeteners added.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Capstan Medium (blue tin label) in my old Kirsten. Quite decent tobacco, and it’s nearly always in stock at SmokingPipes. Unusual nowadays!

And sipping Nespresso Roma coffee. Life is good!

[Pipe Smoker]

I just opened a 3 yo tin of Solani 633, Virginia with Perique. Puffing that now in my Caminetto pot.

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/caminetto/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=135687

A very fine Virginia.

[Bruck]

What a coincidence! I had my first bowl of Picayune yesterday and loved it. But halfway through my second bowl I started feeling a little weird and nauseous - the stuff is strong! Still I love the flavor and burning characteristics. Smoked it in an E.A. Carey straight billiard with the "Magic Inch" at work.

Yes, it has a healthy dose of Perique which of course is quite high in Vitamin N :)

[Cool Breeze]

Had a bowl of McClelland 27 in an unfinished Savinelli Series III when I first got home tonight.

Going back to the basics now with what will probably be my last bowl of the evening.
Prince Albert in an old banded Dr. Grabow billiard. Doesn't say a model, just Dr. Grabow.

[Emperor Zurg]

Went with a bit of Samuel Gawith Navy Flake last night in a small Stanwell Rhodesian

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 656, ABF, in my Luciano squat bulldog. This stuff seems so hearty to me — like good pot roast.

[Haebar]

Last night I smoked a couple of bowls of Walnut in a Sunrise Dublin. I have today off from work!
https://i.postimg.cc/HnSnv0rW/Sunrise_Dublin.jpg

[Pipe Smoker]

First fill of the day — Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco) in my Tinsky straight brandy. I’ve heard that many pipe smokers like to start the day with a milder tobacco and work up. I’m the opposite; I like a hearty tobacco to start with, and Patriot Flake fills that bill.

[BryGuySC]

Had some Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulleye Flake from 2015 in a Savinelli I picked up at the Richmond pipe show.

[AlanS]

Had some Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulleye Flake from 2015 in a Savinelli I picked up at the Richmond pipe show.

Keep yer baccy dry down there fella!

[BryGuySC]

Keep yer baccy dry down there fella!

Trying!

[Haebar]

Smoked a bowl of Five Brothers in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard this morning before going to work. I'm off work now and just finished a little bowl of some bright Virginia that I stoved in the oven overnight.
https://i.postimg.cc/Zn7VX5D3/Comoy-s-Guildhall-billiard.jpg

[Haebar]

Had some Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulleye Flake from 2015 in a Savinelli I picked up at the Richmond pipe show.

Please post pics of your new Savinelli. How was the Richmond Pipe Show? Did you do the Sutliff factory tour? I really wanted to make that one, but just couldn't swing it.

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoked a bowl of Five Brothers in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard this morning before going to work. I'm off work now and just finished a little bowl of some bright Virginia that I stoved IN THE OVEN overnight.

Now wait... you 'stove' it in an oven... but then what is tobacco that you fry on the stove? Ovened tobacco???

[Haebar]

Now wait... you 'stove' it in an oven... but then what is tobacco that you fry on the stove? Ovened tobacco???

:rofl: It turned out pretty good - sweet and mellow. It will be good for blending but don't think I'll smoke it straight.

[Emperor Zurg]

:rofl: It turned out pretty good - sweet and mellow. It will be good for blending but don't think I'll smoke it straight.

Probably could use a pinch of latakia or perique to give it a little complexity.
First I'd try adding some red va though... just because I usually like red va in things :pipe:

Speaking of Virginias, I had a bowl of Sam Gawith, Navy Flake last night in a Canadian

[Haebar]

Last night I smoked a couple of bowls of Walnut in various pipes. This morning I have already had a bowl of some homemade English Crumble Cake in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard and a couple of bowls of Five Brothers in a Dunhill billiard.

[Cool Breeze]

On the balcony studying Constitutional Law, smoking C&D Autumn Evening in a Molina (not sure what the shape is) and drinking coffee.
Beautiful fall morning in Arkansas. About 55 degrees and drizzling rain.
I'd be happier in the woods (modern gun antlerless hunt started today) but I guess I'll live.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing F&T Blackjack in my Kirsten Mariner. No topping, but a zesty flavor from the tobacco itself.

My B&M is Liberty Tobacco, here in San Diego. It’s a unique place – lots of guys sitting around smoking, mostly cigars. Talking, and watching sports on the TV screens. Drinking coffee from the store coffee pot (supported by contributions). A table for card players. Literature supporting conservative candidates, and advice about California ballot propositions.

Not too long ago, I was there when a big black guy, one of the regulars, entered. “Where are the white women?”, he demanded. That got a big laugh. Not only were no white women present, no women of any sort were present. As I said, it’s a unique place, especially nowadays.

[Emperor Zurg]

I'm cutting firewood and stacking it in the wood shed today. Beautiful, sunny day so of course I've got my Missouri Meerschaum, General loaded up with Virginia flake for a few puffs every now and again when I could use a break. Peter Stokkebye provided the flake.

[Emperor Zurg]

Now, time to relax a bit with Sweet Rum Twist in a gourd calabash and a glass of milkshake stout.

[GWBowman]

On the balcony studying Constitutional Law, smoking C&D Autumn Evening in a Molina (not sure what the shape is) and drinking coffee.
Beautiful fall morning in Arkansas. About 55 degrees and drizzling rain.
I'd be happier in the woods (modern gun antlerless hunt started today) but I guess I'll live.

Law School? I'd say it's a good topic, but a little of the path most traveled.

Tambolaka in a new Morgan Bones Stubby 20
https://i.imgur.com/k3siFo1.jpg

[Cool Breeze]

Law School? I'd say it's a good topic, but a little of the path most traveled.

Yep. Nearly midway through my 2nd year.
I go part time, so it'll take 4.

[Haebar]

My wake-up bowl is Five Brothers in a Dunhill Shell apple (bottom one in the picture).
https://i.postimg.cc/jdJPd598/Ashton-and-Dunhills-001.jpg

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing my second fill of Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco) in my Kirsten. So glad that this delicious Virginia is back in my cellar, after a long absence.

[Cool Breeze]

Autumn Evening in an old banded Dr Grabow.
It even tastes good on an Autumn morning. Imagine that.

[Brimy]

Tambolaka in a new Morgan Bones Stubby 20
https://i.imgur.com/k3siFo1.jpg

That's a really cool looking pipe!

Do you find it a different smoke in the stubby vs a "traditional" size pipe?

[Haebar]

Just smoked a bowl of Five Brothers in a Dunhill apple.
https://i.postimg.cc/rs2c1fVR/Dunhill-Apple-002.jpg

[Bruck]

C&D Big 'n Burley :)

[Cool Breeze]

Now having some McClelland No. 27 matured Virginia in my unfinshed Savinelli Series III.

[BryGuySC]

Smoked some Sutliff Crumble Kake English #1 in a Savinelli Trevi 320KS.
I really like it. It has a lot of tangy, sour oriental notes.
It will be on market in November. I might need to pick some up.

[BryGuySC]

Please post pics of your new Savinelli. How was the Richmond Pipe Show? Did you do the Sutliff factory tour? I really wanted to make that one, but just couldn't swing it.

It's the closest one. A Savinelli Tundra Brownblast 315.


http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o163/bcsssj/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20181011_092618_zpslhlxonr5.jpg (http://s120.photobucket.com/user/bcsssj/media/Cigar%20Stuff/IMG_20181011_092618_zpslhlxonr5.jpg.html)

The tour was great! Also got to meet and chat with JimInks, Russ O, Karl MacAlister (SP?), and a few other members of other forums.
The pipe show was also great.

[Haebar]

Smoking some more Five Brothers in a Dr. Grabow billiard. (That's not Five Brothers in the picture though.)
https://i.postimg.cc/V6ZmKZXP/Dr-Grabow-Royal-Duke.jpg

[Emperor Zurg]

Smoking some more Five Brothers in a Dr. Grabow billiard. (That's not Five Brothers in the picture though.)

What? You mean that's not the extremely HTF, 5 Brothers flake? :D

Fixin to burn a few coins of Sweet Rum Twist in the gourd tonight.
My gourd is getting pretty gunked up inside. Anyone have any magic treatment to clean it out?
I was planning on bending a small bottle brush into a J and using Everclear as a solvent. Souns like a PIA tho...

[Haebar]

What? You mean that's not the extremely HTF, 5 Brothers flake? :D

Fixin to burn a few coins of Sweet Rum Twist in the gourd tonight.
My gourd is getting pretty gunked up inside. Anyone have any magic treatment to clean it out?
I was planning on bending a small bottle brush into a J and using Everclear as a solvent. Souns like a PIA tho...

No, that tobacco in the picture is from my last failed attempt to make a flake. No more trying to make a flake unless I decide to get a hydraulic press, and I don't know if I want to take it to that level.

Be careful using Everclear on that gourd - it might ruin it. I've not cleaned mine yet either, but it seems like it might damage it. I know it will ruin a Cherry wood pipe; dries it out so much it cracks and splits.

https://i.postimg.cc/GtqVdGbJ/Clean-Meerschaum-Calabash.jpg

From Carl Ehwa's The Book of Pipes and Tobacco

[Emperor Zurg]

Be careful using Everclear on that gourd - it might ruin it. I've not cleaned mine yet either, but it seems like it might damage it. I know it will ruin a Cherry wood pipe; dries it out so much it cracks and splits.

From Carl Ehwa's The Book of Pipes and Tobacco

Well I considered just using rum too. That article mentions 'spirits' but doesn't go into any more detail.

What's wrong with that flake? It looks just like G&H Louisana Flake. Can't be all that bad.
If I ever decided to make flake I'd weld up some bolt-together contraption so I could clamp it up and then 'stove' (lol) it in the oven while it's under pressure. It's not something I plan on doing tho. There are so many wonderful flakes out there already that I can't see the point... that and I already have decent stockpiles of all my favorites so why re-invent the wheel? I don't even have the time to try the ones that are already out there.