What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

[JimInks]

Now smoking Svendborg: Danish Mixture in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer with a black vulcanite stem. A bottle of 7-Up is my drink. Listening to the Mets-Nationals game as I clean a few pipes.

[NeverBend]

Louisiana Flake in the Imperial 2 point, dried, folded n stuffed.

Much better IMO.
The drying really cuts down the Lakeland and the pepper and lets the fruity flavors come through that I was enjoying so much before.
The bowl still starts out pretty peppery but it settles down before too long and becomes very tasty.

Glad that it was better Bill

I fill/pack pretty loose (and tamp a little tighter as needed). It is a very fruity tobacco .

Late last night...

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1930s Barling's Make Ye Olde Wood pencil shank, smooth, taper billiard with a dash of cheap sake (but all sake is good!).

[AlanS]

Lynn just discovered most of the guys he went to high school with were pipers!

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl to go of Sutliff Hot Chocolate in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem.

[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.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking C&D Kickin’ Chicken in an early 1930s smooth straight Super Grain Kaywoodie Synchrostem Canadian 5129 with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

C&D Bijou in a 1984 three quarter bend medium brown Ascorti KS Business Dublin with a black acrylic stem. A bottle of Cheerwine is my drink.

[Haebar]

Smoking a bowl of Milan Lucky Leaf in a Sunrise Dublin with a saddle stem.

[NeverBend]

2015 Gawith Hoggarth Louisiana Flake in a 1984 Ser Jacopo Renaissance #306, sandblasted taper billiard. With coffee light.

Just received this pipe today from Smoking Pipes after @SirMotoyoshi alerted me that it was for sale and it was bought in seconds. Than you Andrew!

Big billiard, beautiful balance and easy in the mouth. Even with a loose stuff it took about 7-8 grms of tobacco and I've been smokng it for almost 3 hours with no end in sight.

I rarely smoke flakes in anything other than thick walled smooth pipes that retain a little more heat than rough surface pipes. The retained heat warms the VA flakes, bringing out the sugars and making them smoke sweeter. This pipe has the dimensions to be a flake smoker but the sandblasting disburses the heat slightly faster and that mutes the sweetness and increases the 'nuttiness'. I will smoke more flakes in this one, it's smoking superbly, but I'll stick with the smooths for most of my VA smokes. This pipe might well pair well with Royal Yacht, so that will be next for this bruiser.