What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Peretti’s D-9575 in a three quarter bend smooth 1985 Dunhill Chestnut 5202 with a cumberland stem.

[NeverBend]

I remember back in 1971 ish saving 20 cents from my lunch money to hit the DQ after school and getting a cherry sundae a few times a week...

I was nicely surprised by the accommodations and value. They're updated nicely and the staff was nice too.

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1940s Barling Ye Olde Wood #1372, pencil shank, small, taper billiard smooth.

Smoking this tobacco in my flake pipes to compare, excellent in all so far. This pipe was a reclamation project, badly charred in the tobacco chamber but with careful smoking it's doing fine. The # is mismarked, the 1372 is normally a chubby billiard saddle. I overpaid at $64 but this fine smoker has made it a good buy.

[Cool Breeze]

In an English mood this evening so I'm smoking some Drew Estate Meat Pie in a MM Country Gentleman.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of 2012 Rolando’s Own in a 2002 black short shank grain relief straight Caminetto 6.L.17 tomato and a black acrylic stem. Starting to run low on this tin.

[Cool Breeze]

I enjoyed that first bowl of Meat Pie immensely so I packed another.

[Emperor Zurg]

2015 Gawith & Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1964 Barling #4956 smooth poker taper with Diet Coke (decaf).

This pipe has not been a good smoker but this tobacco is tasting good in every pipe. 15 months has made an excellent tobacco outstanding.

I picked up a fair amount of that but I don't care at all for the Lakeland scent in it. It was all I could taste. I jarred it up in a quart mason jar and put the lid disk on upside down so it doesn't seal. I've found that if I let a Lakeland scented tobacco slowly dry out and then rehydrate it, it takes a lot of that perfumey scent away. I've also got jars of Rum Flake and Bob's Chocolate Flake stored the same way. I check on them every couple of months to see how they're progressing.

Oh, almost forgot: I had a very small quantity of left-in-the-pipe Sam Gawith Chocolate Flake in a MM freehand this afternoon. Very nice blend with no Lakeland scent whatsoever that I can detect, but the mostly smoked, then over night sit didn't do it any favors... wasn't horrible, just wasn't very good.

[JimInks]

FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author. Starting to run low on my open stash.

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania War Horse Ready Cut in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

Now smoking Smoker’s Pride Natural in a 2002 smooth Rinaldo Silver Line 3 EGER 05 paneled horn. One of my favorite pipes. Watching a documentary about The Montreal Expos. In a clip where they showed men working on building the stadium, a guy is smoking a Bing.

[JimInks]

Peretti’s Original in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem.