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07-30-2018, 09:54 AM
#17591
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Puffing Escudo in my Radice Rhodesian.
Radice Rubino Rhodesian | Buy Radice Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes
I haven’t smoked this pipe in years — probably because I prefer shallower chambers, and I’m not a big fan of Rhodesians. And it was stuck in the back of my pipe drawer. But it has pretty grain from all angles (the reason I bought it), and its finish is a match for either of my two bought-new Dunhills (Bruyere and Amber Root). The circumferential groves are crisp to the eyes, but smooth to the touch.
The Radice has a small defect, though. You can’t see it in the photos, but there’s a slight gap between the bottom of the shank and the bit. If I twist the bit 180°, the gap is still at the bottom of the shank, so the problem is certainly that the shank face isn’t quite perpendicular to the mortise axis. I just pretend that I don’t notice.
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07-30-2018, 10:33 PM
#17592
I wanted to pick up a pipe for the first time in months. I had a bag of something, definitely Gawith from the cut of it, but I had apparently lost the label.
Turns out it was some Bob's Chocolate Flake. Always a happy surprise.
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08-03-2018, 01:55 PM
#17593
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Smoking my new Mark Tinsky Brandy for the first time today.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/n...duct_id=262439
I opened a 4 yo tin of Capstan Medium for the occasion. That’s going surprisingly well, considering that the pipe has had no break-in. The pipe handles nicely, and it’s a solid sitter.
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08-03-2018, 10:52 PM
#17594
Royal Bum
Having bowl number 2 of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture, this one in my rusticated Nording Canadian.
Check out my Youtube channel, Razorback Piper Guy if you like that sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDM...i44pRZ4AP-_1OA
If heaven has no cigars, I shall not go there. - Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
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08-04-2018, 12:56 AM
#17595
PA in a cob. I found I had a bit of it left kicking around and just want to finish the last few bowls off.
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08-04-2018, 12:09 PM
#17596
Advisor to Bum Wanabees
Happily puffing 4 yo Capstan Medium in my venerable Kirsten Mariner. Capstan is the only flake Virginia that I like that’s still available in the compact-storing rectangular 50g tins. I’ll be buying a lot more of it.
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08-04-2018, 10:29 PM
#17597
Ruler Of The Galaxy
incinerated a bowl of G&H Rum Flake and a bowl of MacBaren vanilla flake, each in its respective cob whilst boating up, then back down the river. Upper 90s and muggy and blistering hot sun today - perfect day to be on the water. Kept having to stow the pipe to take a swim. I must say the rum flake puts up with the strain of intermittent smoking and subsequent relighting much better than the MacB vanilla flake.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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08-05-2018, 09:58 AM
#17598
Royal Bum
SG Full Virginia Flake in my unfinished Savinelli Series III.
And my morning coffee.
Check out my Youtube channel, Razorback Piper Guy if you like that sort of thing.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDM...i44pRZ4AP-_1OA
If heaven has no cigars, I shall not go there. - Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices, have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln
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08-05-2018, 01:01 PM
#17599
PA in a Dr. Grabow Lark that my wife picked out as a surprise the other day.
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08-05-2018, 11:31 PM
#17600
A flake and a half of PS LTF. I do not like this as much as some of the other PS flakes. I think what I have jarred up may end up sitting for quite a while.
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