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What a beautiful pipe.
Thank you. I don't understand why it and several other French pipes I was given weren't sold as firsts. They smoke well, most of them have no issues of any kind.

Here's another example of one from the same factory. It's unsmoked because I've been too picky in deciding what blend to dedicate it to. It's a straight grain on all sides.
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Passing the half way mark of this bowl of year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Delight in my very reliable smooth straight post-1938 pre-Republic Peterson Sterling Canadian 263 with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Couldn't sleep. Sleepy Suzy's happy about it because she wanted wet food.
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Never got back to sleep, so I fed all the cats except for the absent Abner the Eager. I'm half way through this bowl of year 2024 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. Ice waer and bergs is my drink. Watching an episode of Ellery Queen with the ever purring Sleepy Suzy by my side.
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Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am almost half way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Jamaican Estate Reserve, neat, is my drink. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' on her blanket. Tomato the Brave is snoozin' on m'lady's chair. Harry the Hairy is sunning himself by the edge of the back deck. Haven't seen Abner the Eager in two days, but I'm sure he's okay.
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C&D Maestro Pucinni in a Savinelli Estella 315EX. Looks like SmokingPipes finally sold out of this, and upon closer inspection, so did the rest of the online stores! People finally caught on that this is one of the best Kentucky blends out there right now. A shame that it is a limited release, but I am thankful I still have 12 tins!
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Earlier today, I had a bowl of Warped Cloudhopper 2024 in a B.G. Pipes briar sitter, so that being so good, I'm having another round in the same. A neighboring dog (pit bull?) got a little threatening towards our dog visitor, so I have a nice heavy seasoned 2 foot osage orange club out just in case. I had this happen over a year ago and backed it off with a big metal level.
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It's very spring-like here in sunny South Wales, and I'm sat in the garden in a t-shirt for the first time in months. In honour of this tremendous, sunny day, I'm enjoying a Vauen McRooty filled with Peterson Old Dublin, accompanied by a pint of Abbot Reserve ale. Life is good, fellow pipers. Life is good.
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A beautiful color on that ale and nice pipe!
 
@Swede "Walk softly and carry a big stick." Sounds like my neighbourhood except people are the threat. I personally prefer a stout axe handle - light, easy to swing, good grip, and with a signifigant edge to concentrate impact force but also with enough spring to give without breaking easily.

Had a bowl of Sutliff's Ready Rubbed match in my big Lorenzetti this afternoon, this is a tobacco I will certainly miss. I really have to stop posting messages in the "Sutliff tobaccos I once knew" vein. :rolleyes:
 

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A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a black sandblast PSB medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 228/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
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@Swede "Walk softly and carry a big stick." Sounds like my neighbourhood except people are the threat. I personally prefer a stout axe handle - light, easy to swing, good grip, and with a signifigant edge to concentrate impact force but also with enough spring to give without breaking easily.

Had a bowl of Sutliff's Ready Rubbed match in my big Lorenzetti this afternoon, this is a tobacco I will certainly miss. I really have to stop posting messages in the "Sutliff tobaccos I once knew" vein. :rolleyes:
I bet that axe handle is hickory-many are and a good choice. The osage is a very dense wood, so a heavy club that might make you think there was lead in it.
 

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