What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Pipe Smoker]

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.

[Hardheaded]

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.

[Pipe Smoker]

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.

[Cool Breeze]

Having bowl number 2 of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture, this one in my rusticated Nording Canadian.

[Hardheaded]

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.

[Pipe Smoker]

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.

[Emperor Zurg]

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.

[Cool Breeze]

SG Full Virginia Flake in my unfinished Savinelli Series III.
And my morning coffee.

[Hardheaded]

PA in a Dr. Grabow Lark that my wife picked out as a surprise the other day.

[Hardheaded]

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.