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[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of year 2014 MacBaren Three Nuns in the first pipe Trever Talbot made when he went to France many years ago. It's a smooth straight Algerian briar Lumberman with a long shank and a black vulcanite saddle stem, unbranded. Watching the Reds-Brewers game. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Balisong]

I traded the Morgan for a Rob Roy and stayed with the GLP Kensington. Oh, got a fresh glass of Red Moscato too! The chicken on the barbeque smells delicious!

 

[Charley Scanlan]

Wilke Peanut Butter in a Mastro Geppetto rusticated Dublin.

HH Pure Virginia in an Altinay squat Dublin meerschaum.

Citadel in a Peterson Flame Grain Dublin.

I like Dublins, you get a pretty good variety of bowls with that shape.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking Peretti Blend W in a straight black sandblasted circa 1950s Comoy’s Peterson’s made for Peterson, Ltd. in Wisconsin billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2002 Reiner Long Golden Flake in a smooth dark brown quarter bend 1950s Comoy’s Blue Riband 187 yachtsman with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

Typhoonish in an SMS churchwarden meerschaum.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

MB Virginia no 1 in a CAO bent bulldog meerschaum. This pipe is also turning back to white after I smoke it more.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

CD Habana Daydream in a CAO Mark Twain meerschaum. Wrapping up my pipe zoom.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Sutliff Presbyterian in a straight dark brown and tan rusticated Peterson 2023 Saint Patrick’s Day 264 Canadian with an Irish flag colored ferrule and tapered black acrylic stem. Listening to the Braves-Rays game on the XM because our local Fox channel is blacked out in a rights dispute with Direct TV and AT&T. Boneheads.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

MB Black Ambrosia in an AKB Sultan meerschaum.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

1918 in a CAO billiard, a burley/burley Cavendish blend.

Loaded up PS Peaches and Cream in a CAO Bekler man meerschaum to go pick up a pizza

 

[Swede]

Cascadia Trailhead in a CAO bent brandy meerschaum.View attachment 11032

Charlie, do you have any hunches on why the mortise part has colored like that?

 

[EricC1]

Working on some C&D Opening Night that I charred just before dinner. 1962 Tanshell EK

 

[Balisong]

It's a lovely evening for GLP Charring Cross in an MM Pride.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I just finished smoking year 2016 Newminister 400 Superior Navy Flake in a straight smooth brown year 1948 Parker Super Bruyere patent 23 88/F bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2016 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a straight smooth brown post-1964 Parker Super Bruyere 88/F group 3 bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Getting ready to clean a few pipes before I go to work.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

Charlie, do you have any hunches on why the mortise part has colored like that?

I puff most my pipes pretty fast, at least that's how they always colored. If I wax it, and you @Swede of all people might object to that, since you like the color it is now, but if I wax it I bet there will be coloring on the bottom of the bowl as well. My plan is to smoke all the meerschaums I've waxed as often as I can for a few weeks or maybe a couple months just to see what happens, then move on to that CAO and the others I haven't done yet.

I've wondered if using the breath method wouldn't change the way meers color, because you have smoke going both ways, but I haven't been doing that long enough to know. All my pipes get a little to a lot of color in the mortise and that's about it. My AKB Sultan developed a spot near his ear that's only gotten darker, kind of a mystery to me. I've had that CAO probably ten years now.

 

[JimInks]

Off to work with a bowl of year 2020 D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[RudyN]

Boswell Military Force in a Peterson Dracula (999 shape).

 

[Charley Scanlan]

HH Pure Virginia in a CAO bent bulldog meerschaum.