What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Bruck]

Hittin the aros lately, trying out the various blends from Tobias' inventory reduction. Had some Russ Ouellette (sp?) Snow Drift earlier while flushing the coolant in Maybelline, and now having a bowl of Kentucky Club Mild. I normally smoke English and VA flakes, but it's fun to try some different blends once in a while.

[Haebar]

Puffing F&T Vintage in my Il Duca Rhodesian. It’s going down especially well today. Perhaps because I’m so comfortable inside, while it’s rainy outside. I can smoke inside all year round in San Diego. I open an upstairs south window, and my downstairs north balcony door, and have a gentle draft through the whole house to clear smoke. With a wool sweater, I’m perfectly comfortable.

I think that the Rhodesian might have the loosest definition of all the standard pipe shapes. They’re generally said to have bulldog bowls with round shanks. But neither of my two Rhodesians fit that description. My Il Duca has a broad oval shank, and a single, extremely narrow, groove around the bowl:

Il Duca Smooth Rhodesian (D) | Buy Il Duca Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes

And Dunhill calls my 3117 a Rhodesian, but any piper would immediately identify it as a squat bulldog. It has all of the bulldog characteristics: a diamond shank and two parallel grooves around the bowl.

San Diego has a wonderful climate!

Having a bowl of Davidoff Royalty in a Savinelli 111 KS straight sandblast billiard while waiting for my Mexican leftovers to heat up slowly in the oven. Drinking Red Rose iced tea.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of SG Navy Flake that @Cool Breeze sent me many months ago. Smoking it in a Sunrise Amber Grain Dublin.

[projectsunfire]

Having Seattle Pipe Club Potlatch...my first bowl EVER! Huge thanks again to @pdq_wizzard

[cpmcdill]

Sutliff English Oriental in a Canterbury lovat

[Desertlifter]

GH Revor Plug in my homemade pot/cherrywood hybrid pipe.

[Cool Breeze]

Went nearly 2 days without a smoke (rare for me), as we were out of town Friday and Saturday.
We pulled back in late last night.

I went on the balcony after midnight and enjoyed a bowl of McClelland No. 24 Matured Virginia in a Series III Savinelli. Really hit the spot.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing my once-a-week fill from my jar of FVF. It was cellared Feb. '07, so almost exactly ten yo. I chopped it up first thing this morning, then let it sit while I smoked a fill of F&T Vintage, so it would be dry enough to burn.

And sipping a cup of Nespresso Roma, a medium roast Arabica-Robusta espresso. And the sun has come out too -- life is good!

[Lostmason]

Smoking my second bowl of Captain Black original in my reconditioned DG

[cpmcdill]

Frog Morton's Cellar in a MM cob