Pipe Of The Day (POTD)

[Benzadmiral]

Up early and watching Hill Street Blues again: some Granger in my Rigoletto pot-bowl straight pipe. I'd brought out the tobacco last evening and set it onto a saucer to dry a bit, but was too tired and sleepy to think about smoking it. So it sat out overnight on the kitchen counter. No harm done, in fact it might have improved what turned out as a cool 35-minute smoke. Two relights. When I tapped the pipe out at last, there was still a pinch of unburned tobacco. I could have gotten another 5 minutes . . .but there was no point in pushing it.

And I know it was a good smoke for me. I was hungry afterward!

 

[Isaac]

 

[KellyG]

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Nice blast on that one!

 

[KellyG]

This evening, Hearth & Home Marquee Series Magnum Opus in a Savinelli 320 KS Roma; then Rattray Hal O' the Wynd in the Larrysson 2018 B&B BL LE.

 

[8 Track]

2014 Chheda with 2019 HU Old Fredders in the bowl.

 

[KellyG]

This evening I smoked Sutliff Virgina Slices 507-C in a T Cristiano Bosso 60 B4. I haven’t smoked this straight up Virginia for awhile and have forgotten what a nice tobacco it is. Nothing fancy, just a smooth Virginia. I’ll have to check the spreadsheet as I hope I have a fair amount in the cellar.
Next up is Pembroke in a Morta, the DR Franc 2019 LE.
A perfectly lovely evening,BTW.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Saturday morning called for some Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic in my 1980s Peterson 307, which hasn't seen any smoke time in a while. A grand 25-minute smoke as I watched a classic B & W Adventures of Superman from 1954. The Sir Walters do burn easily, and perhaps I'm smoking them a bit too fast, but there's no tongue bite and only a hint of throat dryness after.

 

[Isaac]

 

[RookieGuy]

Carter Hall in a MM Mark Twain with coffee this morning. Oriental Silk on my way to work in a bent MM Legend. And Sutliff Fox and Hound in an unnamed bent egg. This multiple pipe a day thing is pretty agreeable.

 

[Benzadmiral]

A second pipe today: Amphora English Blend in the pipe I reserve for Latakia blends, the Jansen bent apple. Pleasant smoke, though I had trouble keeping it lit -- and the stuff is certainly dry enough to start with.

 

[Tim_McD]

American Smoking Pipes (Mark Tinsky) Coral Bent Bulldog, Cumberland stem (5x), with Pete Stokkebye Proper English

 

[AimlessWanderer]

Erinmore in a cob

 

[Ponycarman]

Peter Stokabye luxury bullseye flake in the 2018 b&b pipe. My first bowl in it.

 

[simon1]

Dunhill Royal Yacht in an early '60s Charatan.

Was about done with the bowl when I noticed the nightly visitor we've been having for the last few days.

It may be Junior...that was born in the pump house last year and Momma had to tell him when it was time to find new digs.

 

[Benzadmiral]

An unexpected pleasure with today's smoke: I loaded the new-to-me Georg Jensen mini-Canadian, which I'm calling "the Captain's pipe" for the 4 gold rings on the stem, with Edgeworth Match. This is the second time in a week that I've smoked Edgeworth by itself. Each time I've gotten a long cool smoke without tongue bite or throat dryness afterward. Today's puffing lasted about 30 minutes, which is a long session for me. I tried relighting the last bit in the bowl, got another couple of minutes, and had very little dottle to tap out. Good stuff.

The only fly in the ointment was that the pipe, which suits me well as to size and proportions, got a little hot -- the feel of the lower bowl in my hand, I mean. It must be rather thin-walled compared to my pot-bowl pipes and some others. I curled a finger around the shank and held it that way. Come cold weather it'll be a lot nicer to hold.

 

[8 Track]

Les Wood Ferndown Reo ** poker, HU Dockworker

 

[Tim_McD]

Mark Tinsky bent apple with a blast finish, loaded with The Country Squire “Bag End”

 

[Benzadmiral]

Up annoyingly early, so I loaded up the Stanwell billiard with a mix of Half & Half plus Granger. The result? A pleasant steady 30-minute smoke, with 5 more after a relight. The scent, probably mostly from the H&H, clings to my beard and robe afterward too.

 

[Tim_McD]

Meerschaum pipe w/acrylic amber stem filled with Samuel Gawith: Grousemoor

 

[KellyG]

Peter Stokabye luxury bullseye flake in the 2018 b&b pipe. My first bowl in it.

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My goodness, is this pipe new to you? Otherwise, you’ve shown amazing restraint. I smoked mine the afternoon it arrived.