What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

Listing this a few minutes early: Synjeco Oxenfisl Twist in a 1980 Stanwell 668 medium bend with a ferrule, half black sandblasted, half brown smooth, rough top. Have enough left for another bowl or two.

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Sergeant Miller’s Inker’s Mixture in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter.

[Haebar]

Having a bowl of PipesandCigars.com MATCH Baby's Bottom 1938 in a Missouri Meerschaum.

[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.

[NeverBend]

Was going to ask what Blood Meridian (aside from a CM novel) was until I thought the better of myself and used the forum's search function.

Note to newbies: the search function is there, and it works. It saved me from the humiliation of asking a question that was answered very thoroughly in its own thread, and instead gave me the opportunity to humiliate myself with this inane post.

Also: red rooibos + more Kendal Kentucky.

Hi Andy,

Good tip on the search but the question would have been fine to ask.

The book is better than the tobacco, no matter how good it might ever get.

Pete

2015 (newest fresh) Blood Meridian in a 1940s Barling Ye Olde Wood #1372, long taper billiard with Diet Coke on a pleasant and still night after some heavy rain.

[JimInks]

FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author.

[AndyCAYP]

Hi Andy,

Good tip on the search but the question would have been fine to ask.

The book is better than the tobacco, no matter how good it might ever get.

Pete

2015 (newest fresh) Blood Meridian in a 1940s Barling Ye Olde Wood #1372, long taper billiard with Diet Coke on a pleasant and still night after some heavy rain.

I'm sure it's very good! You yourself said that you hit a bit of a blender's streak anyway, so there's something positive happening with the blend. Always remember that you're your worst critic.

No smoking for me right now. A few of our big pipe customers have consistently bugged me about Boswell's Christmas Cookie. Seems like every year around winter they want it, but Boswell's is about four hours away so it's not exactly a quick ride, especially in NW-Central-SE and then back PA snow.

So, as a surprise I've been putting together something I'm calling "Holiday Season-themed Chocolate Chip Biscuit" (the name is a work in progress). It's a kitchen sink blend containing multiple burleys, cavs, VAs, and a smidge of Maryland leaf, as well as dark and milk chocolate, a bit of Madagascar vanilla, and a touch of butterscotch because who doesn't love butterscotch?

My wife is a bit annoyed that I have, well, 14 pounds of tobacco poured out on the dining room table. The house smells quite nice, though.

This stuff needs a bit of drying out before it can be completely mixed. Then, of course, I have to get my hands dirty actually mixing it. Should be fun. My final taste-testing will be tomorrow while I'm in the workshop sawing down boards for a pipe cabinet I'm building. I can always add a touch more flavoring, so I've been pretty lighthanded with it... Too much and I can certainly cut it by adding more tobacco but then the blend is thrown out of whack and, other problems aside, the quantity of the blend grows and grows until I'm sitting on 40 pounds of something we'll never sell out of.

Ahem. Anyway.

I'm not big on aros but an afternoon spent tasting a few bowls won't hurt me.

[NeverBend]

I'm sure it's very good! You yourself said that you hit a bit of a blender's streak anyway, so there's something positive happening with the blend. Always remember that you're your worst critic.

No smoking for me right now. A few of our big pipe customers have consistently bugged me about Boswell's Christmas Cookie. Seems like every year around winter they want it, but Boswell's is about four hours away so it's not exactly a quick ride, especially in NW-Central-SE and then back PA snow.

So, as a surprise I've been putting together something I'm calling "Holiday Season-themed Chocolate Chip Biscuit" (the name is a work in progress). It's a kitchen sink blend containing multiple burleys, cavs, VAs, and a smidge of Maryland leaf, as well as dark and milk chocolate, a bit of Madagascar vanilla, and a touch of butterscotch because who doesn't love butterscotch?

My wife is a bit annoyed that I have, well, 14 pounds of tobacco poured out on the dining room table. The house smells quite nice, though.

This stuff needs a bit of drying out before it can be completely mixed. Then, of course, I have to get my hands dirty actually mixing it. Should be fun. My final taste-testing will be tomorrow while I'm in the workshop sawing down boards for a pipe cabinet I'm building. I can always add a touch more flavoring, so I've been pretty lighthanded with it... Too much and I can certainly cut it by adding more tobacco but then the blend is thrown out of whack and, other problems aside, the quantity of the blend grows and grows until I'm sitting on 40 pounds of something we'll never sell out of.

Ahem. Anyway.

I'm not big on aros but an afternoon spent tasting a few bowls won't hurt me.

Evening Andy,

If I'm blending for myself, then my opinion matters but otherwise I'm low palate on the totem pole.

I don't blend much with aros. My non-aro mixtures change in, sometimes pretty radically, over time and often aren't stable for a year.

Good luck with the tobacco on the table .

Pete

[JimInks]

2011 Villiger Maryland No. 333 in an early smooth Radice Tiger Eye G medium bend pipe with a bamboo-style carving on the shank.

[JimInks]

HoW Revelation in a black pebble finish straight 2003 Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano lovat.