What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Emperor Zurg]

McClelland 2015 in a Barling Canadian.
I like this pipe for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it's a sitter. It's just a plain Canadian with a flat on the bottom... which makes it sit upright, as a pipe should, instead of tipping over and dumping ash all over the place the minute you set it down. I've a good mind to take all my other straight pipes to the belt sander to make them behave nicely on a flat surface like this one does. I like pokers and cherrywoods too. Because they sit. What kind of a damn fool designs a pipe that dumps over when you set it down anyway?!? Yep, think I will. I'll get a garnet belt and make every pipe a sitter.

[Cool Breeze]

Hand some H&H Chatham Manor in a London made Ben Wade apple earlier today.

Now on the patio enjoying some Esoterica Dorchester in an old banded Dr. Grabow billiard.

[restomod]

Officially a Stanwell whore, breaking in another one with some Watch City Simply Red.

[Pipe Smoker]

Officially a Stanwell whore, breaking in another one with some Watch City Simply Red.

I like the pipe AND the lighter. I have several JetLine Pipe-G lighters in my drawer. They don’t last forever, but neither do the expensive electric lighters. The JetLine Pipe-G lighters are inexpensive, and ergonomic.

Pipe-G — Jetline Lighters

[restomod]

I like the pipe AND the lighter. I have several JetLine Pipe-G lighters in my drawer. They don’t last forever, but neither do the expensive electric lighters. The JetLine Pipe-G lighters are inexpensive, and ergonomic.

Pipe-G — Jetline Lighters

Yeah I really like it too! It's my go to now because the tamper is built in, I didn't realize I would like that part as much as I do.

[Emperor Zurg]

Yeah I really like it too! It's my go to now because the tamper is built in, I didn't realize I would like that part as much as I do.

I think I have the same pipe. Not totally sure, I'll have to look but I think it's a Stanwell Rhodesian with brushed finish.

Whatcha need a tamper for? You got fat pinkeys or something? Chapstick tube works too.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 333, Festival, in my ancient Mariner. The only aromatic I’ve found that I like. And I like it a lot. Plenty of good tobacco flavor, and the lightly applied plum flavoring is tasty.

[Brimy]

Weather is starting to chill here in Upstate NY so my cigar output decreases and pipe output increases. Scotty's Butternut Burley in the Stanwell.

That is a very handsome pipe!

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 660, Silver Flake, in my Tinsky billiard. I LOVE this tobacco! Maybe it’s the “dark-fired Kentucky”. I didn’t know what “dark-fired” meant, so I asked Kay at SmokingPipes, who directed me to this info:

“Kentucky fire-cured tobacco is Stalk-Cured under controlled humidity in barns with a series of gentle smoldering hardwood fires throughout. Considerable care is taken to achieve proper yellowing; firing requires considerable skill so as not to "burn" the tobacco or cause tobacco rot through too high humidity. The resulting tobacco possesses a powerful smoky note reminiscent of smoked meats and provides a rich "smoky & sweet note" in tobacco products. Fire-Cured Tobacco is much less pungent than Latakia, a sun-cured & smoke-cured tobacco produced in the mid-east with a unique fuel source.”

I’m not a big fan of Latakia, but I sure like dark-fired Kentucky.

[Bruck]

Good morning y'all, happy Saturday. Haven't had a pipe in a while so I thought I'd fire one up as I work up the motivation to do Saturday things, which is to say honey-dos mainly

Enough of that - working on 2nd cobful of Penzance.