What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[droy1958]

Mac barren modern Virginia in the brindisi briar

Nice pipe...

[Emperor Zurg]

You fill up a bowl of @Bruck 's Nicotania Rustica and hoot that for a spell, and let's see if you can spell or at least hold continence..... Errrrrr.....or at least be able to hit the other bowl. I tried to smoke it straight and had to call in the Merry Maids to clean the head after attempting to empty my bladder while spinning in nondescript circles.....

Bruck sent me a sample of that. I seem to remember it being mostly earthy and vegetal. I don't remember it bothering me though; the little Sav has a bowl about 5/8" in diameter and less than an inch deep. I have to tamp with my pinky. With strong blends, this little bit is enough to last me the better part of an hour so the 'N' never hits me so much. I'm not saying I could smoke a group 6 Dunhill of the stuff. Hell, I don't even own a Dunhill so there you have 2 reasons I couldn't...

I might head home soon to read a book and smoke a bowl Solani 656 by the wood burning stove. Might have to crack a beer as well...

[Pipe Smoker]

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I might head home soon to read a book and smoke a bowl Solani 656 by the wood burning stove. Might have to crack a beer as well...

Sounds like a good plan!

[droy1958]

Bruck sent me a sample of that. I seem to remember it being mostly earthy and vegetal. I don't remember it bothering me though; the little Sav has a bowl about 5/8" in diameter and less than an inch deep. I have to tamp with my pinky. With strong blends, this little bit is enough to last me the better part of an hour so the 'N' never hits me so much. I'm not saying I could smoke a group 6 Dunhill of the stuff. Hell, I don't even own a Dunhill so there you have 2 reasons I couldn't...

I might head home soon to read a book and smoke a bowl Solani 656 by the wood burning stove. Might have to crack a beer as well...

I have one of those little Sav's (I think) plus a couple of little Satin Grains that are perfect for something like that.....

[cpmcdill]

Revelation match in a MM cob

[droy1958]

Bruck sent me a sample of that. I seem to remember it being mostly earthy and vegetal. I don't remember it bothering me though; the little Sav has a bowl about 5/8" in diameter and less than an inch deep. I have to tamp with my pinky. With strong blends, this little bit is enough to last me the better part of an hour so the 'N' never hits me so much. I'm not saying I could smoke a group 6 Dunhill of the stuff. Hell, I don't even own a Dunhill so there you have 2 reasons I couldn't...

I might head home soon to read a book and smoke a bowl Solani 656 by the wood burning stove. Might have to crack a beer as well...

I just remembered the name of the Sav, it's a Kings Guard......

[Emperor Zurg]

I have one of those little Sav's (I think) plus a couple of little Satin Grains that are perfect for something like that.....

You know, when I bought it I was sorely disappointed. P&C or Smokingpipes - can't remember which - had a sale on the Savinelli Elegance series; regular price of $70 bucks marked down to 45 or 50 or something like that. I'd wanted a Sav for a while anyway so I looked at the 313 prince and saw 'no filter', just a slight bend and what looked like rather thick walls. I clicked 'buy'. I had no idea at the time that a prince is usually a pretty small pipe and I never bothered to look at the bowl size for some reason. It showed up and I thought 'damn! I just bought a lady's pipe!' Figured they should have called the shape a 'Princess' rather than a Prince.

F-fwd to now and it's my go-to pipe for all the strong blends. I smoke alone so it doesn't matter if I look like a homo with it. On the rare event I smoke in company I'll be sure to bring something manly like the big ol' MM General... although that one does have a somewhat pink Forever stem...

[BryGuySC]

H&H Larry's Blend in a Savinelli Trevi 320.

[bluenoser]

A bowl of leftovers in this little homemade monstrosity

[cpmcdill]

C&D Engine #99 in a Grabow Golden Duke rusticated pot with "adjustomatic" stem.