What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Tobias Lutz]

GL Pease Haddo’s Delight in a Holland-Made Glazed Clay Billiard

[AndyCAYP]

Celebrating IPSD a day early with a wonderful bowl of GLP's Sixpence. Really nice blend here, different from anything else of his I've tried.

I also placed an order at Smoking Pipes for some things I can't get through the store. They're offering 10% off, so it was a no-brainer.

[Shemp Jizzle]

Bowl of HH Pure Virginia in the Hulk (black straight stem)

[droy1958]

Some Dubliner in an unnamed Canadian, Some @Cool Breeze Cherry Blend in a King's Guard and some Dunhill Aperitif in a Satin Grain Bent...

[Cool Breeze]

Glad to see you're enjoying that cherry blend. It's 3 different tobaccos and it's better than any of the were on their own.

I just got finished with a bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in an unfinished Savinelli Series III.

[bluenoser]

PS Luxury Twist Flake in the un named pearwood followed by some Kentucky Club pepper's pouch mixture in a mm ozark mountain

[droy1958]

Glad to see you're enjoying that cherry blend. It's 3 different tobaccos and it's better than any of the were on their own.

I just got finished with a bowl of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture in an unfinished Savinelli Series III.

Yessir....it's going down just fine, plus the wifey likes the smell in her snoot.........

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PS Luxury Twist Flake in the un named pearwood followed by some Kentucky Club pepper's pouch mixture in a mm ozark mountain

I sure like the Luxury stuff that PS has.....

Doing some SPC MS River in a Dr. Grabow White Briar Viscount....

[cpmcdill]

Stokkebye English Luxury in a Graysons squat bent bulldog

[Cool Breeze]

Bout to fire up some Royal Yacht in a Savinelli 114KS billiard.

[cpmcdill]

McClelland Yenidje Highlander in a MM General - packed Hanna's air pocket method, which works wonderfully in a pipe with these proportions.

I can't imagine one could use the air pocket method in a lot of pipe shapes (apple, prince, tomato, squat bulldog, small billiard, wide pot), but the MM General is basically a Chimney shape and narrow enough and well suited (especially for the pipe neophyte) to get the wad of tobacco rightly situated to channel all the virtues of the blend and none or few of its vices.

"Air pocket" as a philosophy may confine you. Smoke what you want, pack any way you want, in any pipe you want, and learn yourself by trial and error. You might learn that the elders are right, but you may also learn that you are right, so experiment and fail until you get your own groove and discover your own peak smoking experience.