What Are You Smoking Pages.

[Charley Scanlan]

Old Dark-Fired/Penny-Farthing mix in Calich.
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I really like that pipe, it reminds me of Italian briars I like, though I see he was a Canadian carver. Go figure.

 

[RudyN]

Boswell Railroad Station in a Peterson 302.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

I wonder: have you tried buffing some of the pieces that have taken up color? Is it just in the wax, or is the wax helping the meer to retain the particles?

@Book, thanks for your interest. The way I understand it is the color you see is in the meerschaum, the wax helps bring the color to the surface, exaggerating the color that you could see before.

When I smoke the pipes more and more, the brown color shows when it is hot, then when it cools the pipe turns more white, which is it's natural color. Here is a picture of a pipe I've smoked several times after waxing, just smoked it in fact and let it cool. I buffed it with a microfiber towel.

Here is what it looked like just after waxing.

I don't pretend to know why the brown becomes white again, but the man I emailed at Meerschaum Market said this is natural for meerschaums after waxing. I smoke it as often as I can to make it turn white again! Which is the polar opposite of the patina effect. Anyway, that's my experience, and thanks again for your curiosity. I'm fairly curious about it myself.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

HH Pure Virginia in a Scottie Piersel pencil shank pot. I rubbed out the flake this time, I like how it packs better than folding it. I also buffed this pipe and a few others today with a Dremel tool and the polishing compound that comes with it, the pipes look shiny and great!

 

[Balisong]

Last pipe of the day GLP Charring Cross in a Rob Roy.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

Russ' Ice Cream Sundae in a CAO Eagle perched on Nest meerschaum. Rediscovering "Preludio" in A Minor by Agustín Barrios.

 

[JimInks]

Had a very busy day, so I took a forum break. I finished work for the day, fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger, and then went outside to feed all the ferals. I'm nearing the last quarter of this bowl of year 2020 Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a smooth straight brown circa WW2 Trapwell mountain laurel patent apple with a nickel band and a black tapered vulcanite stem. I'll end the day with this smoke.

 

[D.L.Ruth]

Starting the week with some Sutliff Sunset Rum in a Peterson.

 

[Swede]

Half way through this bowl of year year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a smooth straight brown circa WW2 Trapwell mountain laurel patent apple with a nickel band and a black tapered vulcanite stem. I'll end the day with this smoke.
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Jim, so instead of briar, this pipe is made from mountain laurel root from the USA and do you notice any difference compared to briar?

 

[Swede]

The last of Carter Hall from @Haebar in a Kaywoodie Super Grain 07 billiard. With coffee and water. I intend to compare this to Granger, but haven’t reached a conclusion. I may grab that next.

 

[Balisong]

Good Morning!
I started this cool rainy day with GLP Charring Cross in an MM Washington Rob Roy and coffee.

 

[EZONSLOW]

Good morning,
Poul Winslow bent apple with Parsons blend and a mug of coffee. I just got back from pain mgmt, they are just legal drug pushers at this point...

 

[Ranger107]

Good morning all. More of Zippos gifted GH Seasonal Reserve in a Butz Choquin magnum bent brandy with a big mug of coffee. I like this blend but not so much for a morning smoke. Think I will save it for afternoon pipes with tea.

 

[Ranger107]

Wrote the above a couple of hours ago but didn't post it. Mind was somewhere else, lol. Just fired up a bowl of Hobbits Weed in a Bjarne bent billiard with more Costa Rican coffee. Had to move to the front patio, already 90 out back. Gonna be a scorcher today, probably 100+. Just read will be 116 down in PHX. Pity those folks.

 

[Idlefellow]

Peterson D1S and Orlik Golden Sliced...

 

[EZONSLOW]

Smoking a Pete strand with Sweet virginia and another mug of coffee.

 

[Charley Scanlan]

CD Habana Daydream in a CAO Mark Twain meerschaum.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of early 2000s 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 in the military mount style.

 

[JimInks]

Jim, so instead of briar, this pipe is made from mountain laurel root from the USA and do you notice any difference compared to briar?

It's as sturdy as briar, a tad lighter in weight, and very serviceable. But, I have found that Edgeworth Match doesn't smoke quite as well in it as it does in briar. I have an LHS WWII era Mountain Laurel, too, though I have not smoked it.