What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

HU Directors Cut in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 Dublin with a black vulcanite stem. Running low on this blend now.

[NeverBend]

I don't know how you get them to burn. If I don't dry out G&H flakes and twists considerably I can't get them to stay lit and the bottom third of the bowl ends up a wet mess.

Drying out some Black Twist Sliced right now for sometime later in the day

I fill very loose at the bottom. With the long GH flakes, I split them length wise, press an end into the bowl and let it fold up into the pipe to about 2/3rd. I press lightly and expect a loose draw (it presses down to about 60%). Then I fold and fill the rest. I get a solid char light, arrange the over-spill, light once or twice more and Bob's your uncle.

To my palate, GH makes the best flakes, very much like they were in the 1970s when I first tried them. Big flavor, more coarse and in your face than Samuel Gawith, but that's how I like 'em.

2015 Dunhill Royal Yacht in a 1960s Castello Epoca (I thought 1970s, Castello loving friend says 1960s), with Cafe du Monde (Chicory) coffee with a dash of cream.

Kudos to the current manufacturer of Royal Yacht (MacBarren?). Different from the original (I first smoked in the late 1960s), but a lovely tobacco in it's own right. Rich, sweet and nice shades and nuance, this is the best Danish made tobacco I've had in a long time.

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking C&D Burley Flake #3 in a 1980s Peterson 314 Full Bend black Sandblast system pipe with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

C&D Star of the East in a 1974 smooth slight bend Tinderbox Aalborg freehand made by Nording with a thin black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Stokkebye #83 Amsterdam in an undated (1970s?) unbranded straight paneled sandblasted Tanshell Dunhill second with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Navy Flake in a 2003 straight grain Karl Erik Ekstravagant A medium bend freehand sitter and black acrylic stem. Few pipes I own pick out flavor nuance as well as this one does.

[NeverBend]

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1962 Barling's Make $6584, smooth oval shank billiard with taper stem (might also be called a short canadian).
Diet Pepsi, no ice, day got cooler and overcast, maybe rain.

Smoking a red streak through the Louisiana Flake that is a little different in each pipe but better than good in all. It's like a control group tobacco to update the nuances of each pipe. I should slow down, smoked more than half the block. Ok, I will....not!

[JimInks]

St. James Flake in a small slight bend black sandblast 2000 D.R. Ardor Urano Ninfea Fatta A Mano author with a silver spigot military bit and a black acrylic stem.

[droy1958]

Just finished smoking Stokkebye #83 Amsterdam in an undated (1970s?) unbranded straight paneled sandblasted Tanshell Dunhill second with a black vulcanite stem.

Hey Jim, do you find that Amsterdam #83 pretty strong in the nicotine department? I had a bowl this morning and I got higher than a Georgia pine....

[Cool Breeze]

Just finished a bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in this little pipe. It's a no name that I picked up at a flea market. I'm not sure what it is made of (I think some kind of fruit wood) but it's not briar.
It is light as a feather and a pretty fair smoker. I enjoy it.