Sadik Yanik is a premier Turkish carver of quality meerschaum blocks. He began at 13, in 1978, with his father, Huseyn, who didn't sign the pipes he made and worked for Mergenler.
Neuminster 400 superior navy flake folded and stuffed in a small bowled Pete bent pot. Bought on a whim when I ordered my Nording. Okay but pretty bland. Much prefer PS LNF. Much richer taste.
Started the morning with CS Rivendell in a Don Carlos giant bent dublin. Now onto Hobbits Weed in a Pete straight billiard military mount. With 8 o'clock Columbian Peaks coffee.
Lovely spring day here: 72 degrees and sunny. McConnell Scottish Flake in a Hilson Rainer Barbi. Every time I do a tobacco order I look to add a tin of this but it is rarely available. It's not like it's made by a small operation like Germain, this K&K, so I don't understand the shortages. Distributor not buying enough to meet demand?
Simple man smoke this am. CH in a MM cob with coffee. Heading out later for a motorcycle ride to Jerome with a Ranger buddy for lunch at Haunted Hamburger.
Davidoff Royalty in a London-made Comoy Golden Grain 607. I see it's time to get out the obsidian oil again - part of the joys of vulcanite stems on these older English pipes.