Be careful you don't lose your tamper in that one.
Pipe Of The Day (POTD)
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Half a bowl in that tree trunk is, what, 1/4 ounce?
That is a gorgeous pipe. Where did you find that?
Found it on the big auction site. I can’t remember what I paid for it, but it wasn’t much.
No name meerschaum bent bulldog with Samual Gawith Grousemoor
Time to see what the fuss is about. 
5100 gifted to me from a good friend
This evening smoking GL Pease Cumberland 20th Anniversary in a T.Cristiano Bosso 60 B4, then EGR in a ‘49 Dunhill Shell LB F/T.
A half bowl of Half & Half in my small London Briar. This is several times now I have had a great smoke with this combination: a good 25-minute smoke with one relight. Perhaps I packed it a little more firmly than I usually do, or the bowl and amount of leaf were in perfect proportion . . . or I am learning to sip this blend. A good way to start the morning.
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Stanwell church warden with The County Squire’s Old Toby
Smoking Newminster 403 Superior Round Slices in an Abe Herbaugh.
This morning I tried my hand at the folding technique with Mac Baren's Vanilla flake tobacco in an estate pipe simply stamped "Made in London England" and "567" on the bottom.
Using the folding technique is still a "work in progress". I think next time I have to try perhaps half a flake instead of stuffing a whole flake into the bowl.
Tim
Using the folding technique is still a "work in progress". I think next time I have to try perhaps half a flake instead of stuffing a whole flake into the bowl.
Tim
Good morning!
I like the Peterson 15’s for those quick smokes.
I like the Peterson 15’s for those quick smokes.
A three-quarter bowl of Carter Hall in a My Own Blend (Stanwell?) billiard. A good 30-minute evening smoke.
University Flake in a Ropp Vintage Stout Billiard. One hour plus of pleasure.
GLP Gaslight, MKM meer.
I've had my inaugural smoke of the Sutliff Edgeworth, this in my new-to-me Rigoletto pot pipe. Very nice stuff. I intended to do only about a half bowl, but when I had it packed it was close to full. It gave me a solid 20 minutes' worth of sipping and puffing as I sat on my step with my current book. No tongue bite, not even when I relit for another 10 minutes.
It seems a rather, shall we say, polite blend. It doesn't intrude, it doesn't call attention to itself or grandstand, even in the pouch (whereas Granger, for instance, smells practically edible); but it is smooth. I'll try it again soon in one of the older pipes. My impression is that, unlike Half & Half (which seems to work best in a small chamber), it would do well in a slightly larger bowl like this pot, or those of my Colossal and Savinelli billiards.
It seems a rather, shall we say, polite blend. It doesn't intrude, it doesn't call attention to itself or grandstand, even in the pouch (whereas Granger, for instance, smells practically edible); but it is smooth. I'll try it again soon in one of the older pipes. My impression is that, unlike Half & Half (which seems to work best in a small chamber), it would do well in a slightly larger bowl like this pot, or those of my Colossal and Savinelli billiards.
The Sutliff ERR match is not bad. I prefer LLRR to it, but I may be a minority view. The latter better approaches PA on the spectrum ... and I am rationing what I have left of PA, so speak as to substitutes. Smooth is a good word for all three of those.
All these blends behave differently depending on your consumption rates. I can see where a single bowl or two of some OTCs are not going to satisfy as much as some others. But at 5-7 (or more) bowls a day, a lighter if smoother blend sometimes wears a little better by evening.
I'm glad to see Grainger getting some love. It is often treated as the red-headed stepchild among the current OTC offerings.
This evening: Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices in the Larrysson 2018 B&B BL LE; then, PS #52 Proper English in a GBD Prehistoric 9448 Billiard w/Perspex stem.
1963 Dunhill, 2014 Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake.
A morning pipe: No. 307 Peterson loaded with Sir Walter Aromatic.
