What Are You Smoking Pages.

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful porterhouse steak dinner with sweet corn and mashed potatoes, plus a slice of pecan pie for dessert. Now smoking McClelland No. 2010 Classic Virginia in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth octagonal paneled billiard meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Have enough left for one more bowl.

 

[user 2027]

Day of P.S. Bullseye, Capstan Blue and Wilkes 191. Not a bad day for a Monday.

 

[DrT999]

Commodore Flake in a Brigham Prince

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking MacBaren Burley London Blend in a smooth medium bend 2011 Rinaldo Collection Fiammata Silver Line 7 Odea 4 flame grain bulldog with a silver band and a tortoise shell acrylic saddle stem. Watching Double Indemnity starring Edward G. Robinson, and a few other actors, lol.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of Park Lane Connoisseur in a 1970's straight rusticated black Savinelli Estella 915 KS billiard with a flared top and pearl brown acrylic saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty navel navel orange and am now smoking year 2014 Capstan Blue in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend tapered black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R Raccoon’s Accent in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Greetings from Greece, here in Athens we have sun with few clouds and 58 °F.

Mysmokingshop Gentlemans Choice.

 

[user 4351]

Just finished a bowl of gold Cavendish, though what it is beyond that I couldn't say. I mean to go to the shop tomorrow and inquire a little more about the blends offered, so that I might be able to speak more intelligently about my preferences in tobacco.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty Jazz apple and am part way through this bowl of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite stem. I'll likely finish my smoking day with this bowl. Reading Giddins' book on Bing and am down the home stretch, headed for home on this tome. I'll likely place first tomorrow, though.

 

[PeterD]

...SG 1792 Flake (rubbed) in a '10 gp.6 Dunhill "Oxford" shell panel billiard...fresh coffee...

 

[JimInks]

Never got to sleep, so I'm up and smoking W.O. Larsen Black Diamond in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer with a black ferrule and vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Watching Wanted: Dead or Alive.

 

[Brewdude]

'13 LBF in my Jesse Jones blasted apple w/bamboo.


Cheers,

RR

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of SWRA in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash with a black acrylic stem. Listening to Ford Theatre's 1948 radio production of Ellery Queen's The Adventure of the Bad Boy. If you want to hear it, go here: https://archive.org/details/ElleryQueen/Ellery_Queen_The_Bad_Boy_Ford_Theater_48_01_04.mp3

 

[BloodWood]

John Calich ~ Fribourg & Treyer Wingate

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a couple of ham, egg and cheese biscuits, and am now smoking year 2011 Villiger Virginia No. 444 in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera and a black acrylic tapered stem. Simply Apple is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2014 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. Watching The Stranger starring Orson Welles and EGR.

 

[Zanaspus]

Holiday match in a cob

 

[Corncobcon]

Smoking C&D Old Joe Krantz in a Rossi Vittoria (8811) rusticated billiard. Coffee on the side.

 

[user 4351]

Bought two ounces at the toby shop, and tried a bowl of each.

The first is what the shop owner recommended and called an "aromatic," named "Autumn Evening." It is indeed aromatic, but I don't care for it. It smells and tastes a bit cloying, like musty, wet tree leaves. I'll try some experiments with this one to see if I can redeem the flavor above something reminiscent of sucking on a muddy boot.

The second I bought purely on a whim. It is called "Celtic Gold." A slightly minty aroma, with a crisp, solid taste that is not at all unpleasant. A bit like peppermint Irish creme in black coffee. I neglected to recognize the mint aroma would translate to a sharp burn, but it is muted by the underlying natural tobacco flavor. While it is certainly a potent smoke, it's bold without being overpowering. I may be biased by my Scots-Irish and English heritage, but I like it best of all the tobacco I've tried from this particular vendor.

Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to speak at length with the shop owner, as he had other customers waiting, and he runs a one-man operation. Otherwise I would have liked to find out more about his products. We did get a chance to discuss cleaning methods and pipe rotation, but only for a moment.