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A latakia/perique blend (Calico Frog) in a CAO bent brandy meerschaum.

Pipe Force Episode IV in an Altinay Dublin meerschaum. I got the outline drawn on the block. The Peterson website says the "unique hybrid design combines elements of traditional bent Dublin, Calabash, and Rhodesian archetypes to create a new shape that represents our singular House Style." I've...

A Tennessee dark fired blend called Tinder Box in a Bacchus meerschaum.

Got up early to enjoy the hottest day of the year, with Virginia Burley Blendbase in a Bacchus meerschaum. I hope to see my best friend from high school tonight for dinner.

Predictable Pair in an Altinay Zulu meerschaum. I got the bevel made, and it fits my Pete well, now all I have to do to get ready is draw the shape on the block tomorrow. My saw and files are supposed to get here on Wednesday evening.

Back from the fair, I liked smoking Urban Cowboy at the campsite. I walked through the rabbit and chicken barns, and the kids hadn't gotten all the animals in there yet, as the fair opens tomorrow, but I got a pic of this nice looking rabbit, there was no breed tag up yet, but I hope he's big...

Urban Cowboy in a Peterson Limerick. I'm at the Clackamas County Fair and I'm having Pernod and water in my mom's campsite where she is staying all week. She's got my brother's Airstream trailer, which is very nice. That's my brother and my dad in the picture, he's really getting around for a...

Ashton Guilty Pleasure in an Arasta pink-stemmed meerschaum. I got the stem bent to my liking, using a heat gun and a Styrofoam mold.

Tinder Box in a Charatan's Make Special, while I try to figure out how to bend the stem of my morta pipe kit around a Styrofoam mold.

I won grand champion of the fair with a New Zealand white, the albino guys. My mom saved him from medical experiments she was doing on fallopian tube catheters. They have similar uterus structure to humans. Mostly we had mini lops. I guess you like big rabbits!

HH Pure Virginia in a CAO bent bulldog meerschaum.

MB Virginia no 1 in a CAO bent bulldog meerschaum.

No, I'm not entering my tobacco. It's pretty big in August, as you know, and I've never seen tobacco in the agriculture barn. But I've done pigs and rabbits, I entered a poem once! My sister runs a 4H club and we're there for support. I'll keep my eyes peeled, maybe ask somebody for next year...

PS Luxury Bullseye Flake in a Bacchus meerschaum. I read Pipe Crafting cover to cover. One of the tobacco plants is starting to turn yellow in the bottom leaves. And it is going to get over 100 every day for the next two or three days. The county fair starts today. Rodeo tomorrow!

Peterson Elizabethan Mixture in a Georg Jensen Gigant. I do a zoom meeting with the International Pipe Smoker Lounge, and a German man pronounced Per Georg Jensen's name PER GAY-ORG YENSEN. Apparently his father started the company, and they stopped making pipes in 2002. That dates my pipe a bit.

Wilbur's Blend in a Wilbur billiard.

A latakia/perique blend called Black Frog in a brand new MM Washington Rob Roy, with the shovel in the bowl removed, and pipe mud in the bottom. Still not as cool as @Balisong's hand bent forever stems, but next time I order from Vermont Freehand I'll get some.

Best of Everything in a Scottie Piersel pencil shank pot. This was the leftovers from my first round of blending, to which I added a good amount of latakia when it was done. I hadn't smoked English blends in this pipe, and forgotten my Best of Everything had latakia in it, but dang it it doesn't...

BB Antietam in an Altinay pot meerschaum. I was able to smoke this pipe into a pretty nice color after waxing, the others haven't responded this well yet. I don't know why but these Altinays I bought from @WarneOut love to smoke the same commercial tobaccos over and over again.

@Zippo asked for updates, so here's where I am so far. I modeled this full scale drawing on a Peterson Limerick. This one is bent and about the right size for the block. And my drawing looks like a pipe! So I'm off to a good start.