What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Haebar]

Smoking a bowl of Peter Stokkebye Sweet Vanilla in a Comoy's Guildhall.

[Lostmason]

Sitting here smoking a bowl of Suliff Highlander paired with Jhonny Walker Red and coke,,I'm getting a bit buzzed but this works !!!
I think I've found a true Ah-Ha here.

[Bruck]

Marlin Flake in a purple briar (dyed it myself ).

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 Bulldog with a sterling silver band. Next is King Charles Smoking Mixture in a black pebble finish straight 2003 Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano lovat.

[cpmcdill]

Rattray's Red Rapparee in a MM cob

[JimInks]

GQ No. 2 Dutch Halfzware in a 1970s smooth medium bend Stanwell Rego 969-48 Design Choice 837 sitter with a vulcanite stem and ferrule.

[Alligator Gar]

Reiner's Long Golden Flake in a pre-Republic Peterson Bulldog. She's a candidate for a resto, just need to stop smoking it long enough to do some work on it.

[JimInks]

Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem.

[coffeecup]

This evening I am half way thru a bowl of SG FVF in my extra large Savinelli 320. I was digging thru my stash and spotted one pipeful of this tobacco in my baggie; it's humidity level was just perfect and no drying was necessary. I decided to use Neill Archer Roan's Chamber Geometry Technique. I do not use this process often for the simple reason that I am too lazy to prepare and smoke the tobacco in the required ways to extract this delicious flavor profile. My extra large 320 has the needed chamber geometry for this process. I crumbled 1/3 of the FVF into the bottom of the bowl and folded and stuffed the required amount to fill the bowl. I have been using this technique since 2010 and initially I was skeptical but after several years of using it-I am a believer. The essence of this technique is to extract a maximum flavor profile from your tobacco derived from the unburned part of the tobacco. The concept here is that you actually obtain your tobacco flavors from the part of your unburned part of the tobacco in your bowl. Neills's process consists of the Combustion, Distillation and Condensation Zones. Neill wants the Combustion Zone to be in the middle and as small as possible in the middle of the bowl; I have never been able to do this and instead I only light a small section on the inside side of the bowl. Enough said about the process, this evening my FVF is absolutely delicious and I am topping it off with a large ice cold mug of "Guinness Draught" brew and this has been a great pipe event.

[JimInks]

SG Cabbie’s Mixture in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author. A cup of Maxwell House, neat, is my drink.