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An English blend (Smoky Man) in a CAO Bekler meerschaum.

An English blend (Big and Bold) in a CAO Bekler meerschaum. Oh no! I severed the airway with the saw. It doesn't seem to be a big hole, I may be able to epoxy the gap. I'm shaping the rest of the pipe before I get to that problem. Damn.

A Virginia/Burley blend (Sunday Afternoon) in a CAO bent brandy meerschaum.

MB Virginia no 1 in a CAO bent bulldog meerschaum. In carving my first pipe, I removed as much wood as I could with a carcass saw. The bog oak cuts pretty easily, and it's already light enough to clench comfortably. I'm excited to move to the next step, rounding off the stummel and shank.

MB Three Nuns in a Bacchus meerschaum.

This is the book that got me interested in pipes. We were on a family vacation in British Columbia to see a relative's wedding, and my dad found this book at a bookstore. Knowing I liked smoking cigars, he offered to buy it for me. I read it on the way home and went and bought a pipe as soon as...

I'm smoking an English blend (Smaug) in a Savinelli Manzoni. I got the tools for carving this evening. From left to right and top to bottom, a crosscut carcass saw, a 10" half round rasp, an 8" cabinet rasp (second), a 10" half round fine file, a chain-saw file, a cork dowel I made that fits...

GH Black Twist in a Nording rusticated apple. Doing a second round of roasting so I have something to give my other sister when she comes to dinner tonight, these beans are Kenyan.

Virginia Black Twist in a Savinelli Miele.

A Tennessee/cigar leaf blend called Smoky Match #2 in a Hanseatic rough top horn. This blended well, and it's very potent.

A Tennessee/perique blend called Smoky Match in a GBD Oxford pot. An attempt at Rattray's Hal o' the Wynd, not a bad smoke at all, but missing the citrus topping that I remember from Hal o' the Wynd.

Ptarmigan Hiding in a CAO bent brandy meerschaum. I'm going to roast 8 oz of Colombian beans for me and 8 oz for my sister, after she worked so hard making that blackberry jam. Yum!

Tennessee Smyrna Bright in a Bacchus meerschaum. After less than three weeks of smoking it every day, the pipe is getting some light brown in the shank.

Typhoonish in a Bacchus meerschaum. Congrats @Zippo on your English women's team! When I was ten years old, I was in Dublin when they beat Italy in the World Cup, which was being held in San Francisco that year. The Irish were selling shirts that said, "We beat Italian *** on American grass!"...

Red with Dark Fired in a Charatan's Make Executive. My friend from high school and I ended up downtown for dinner and beer, it was really good catching up with him. After we parted I walked around and ended up at the library, a nice well lit place for a smoke. Even though I gave this pipe a...

Babyish Bottoms in a Rob Vacher Bamboo poker.

PS Natural in a Dunhill Dress Black pot.

Virginia One Sucker in an Altinay squat Dublin meerschaum.

Virginia Solent Mixture in an Altinay squat Dublin meerschaum.

Virginia Maryland Black Cavendish (Sultan's Blend), in an AKB Sultan meerschaum.