What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

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Originally Posted by Pugsley

First pipe of the day is Balkan Sasieni in a MM Legend. Though not one of MM's better pipes, this one has served me long and well, but I think this will be it's last smoke. The shank is cracked halfway from the stem to the bowl, a result of inserting a Forever stem a bit too forcefully, and the end in the bowl is almost completely burned away. I have many more of these but this was the one I reached for most. It will be sad to see it go.

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Sounds like it's just getting broken in if the bit of birch shank pokin' into the bowl is burnt away! The cracked shanks are a pickle though. I usually pry apart, and fill with wood glue, and cross my fingers.

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Originally Posted by Aguineapig

Sounds like it's just getting broken in if the bit of birch shank pokin' into the bowl is burnt away! The cracked shanks are a pickle though. I usually pry apart, and fill with wood glue, and cross my fingers.

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Well, it's a cob and I buy them in bags of 10, (rejects), and there are plenty more here to take it's place. If it was a briar I might have taken more heroic measures to save it, but the bowl was wobbly on what was left of the end of the shank, and with the crack too, it was just time to put it down.

Half way through this bowl of G&H Sweet Rum Twist in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my evening drink.

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STCoP Dobie’s Four Square Virginia in a 2016 PSF POY quarter bend black sandblasted Vermont Freehand egg with an aluminum band and amber tortoise saddle stem.

Orlik Golden Sliced in a bent Dr. Grabow

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 with a black acrylic stem.

MacBaren Navy Flake in a 1981 Ascorti Black Billiard Business with a military bit and pearl gray acrylic stem.

I had some Dunhill Ready Rubbed in a Savinelli Champagne bulldog.

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