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Post by Darin on Jan 31, 2024 6:27:15 GMT -5
5 Brothers in an MM Country Gent with black coffee to drink.
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Post by william on Jan 31, 2024 6:39:44 GMT -5
Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Rattray's pipe. Coffee brewing....  |
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Post by coalsmoke on Jan 31, 2024 6:57:30 GMT -5
Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Rattray's pipe. Coffee brewing.... This is an excellent tobacco and one of my favorites with a deep, rich flavor. I would just like to see it in stock more often. |
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Post by coalsmoke on Jan 31, 2024 7:47:10 GMT -5
Good Morning Again! It's 35°, still cloudy, and damp. I'm finishing up a bowl of Straight Grain Flake in the Don Carlos and next will be a bowl of Limerick Flake. Time to sip more coffee and check the headline news.
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Post by Goldbrick on Jan 31, 2024 8:56:09 GMT -5
A fresh round of S.W.R.A. in the mountain Laurel pipe, with my first coffee of the day.
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Post by isett2860 on Jan 31, 2024 9:25:25 GMT -5
Mastro de Paja With KBV Ravens Eyes.
Completely forgot I had purchased this several years ago.
The date on the package is February 2020.
It is still good and fresh in that sealed Mylar envelope.
We’ll see what I think of it
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Post by Silver on Jan 31, 2024 11:04:33 GMT -5
Good morning! Started the day with a couple bowls of Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob and coffee. Gonna be making a run for provisions at an Asian market in a little while. Later, I'm going to the Red Wings game with my BIL and nephew.
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Post by Gypo on Jan 31, 2024 11:07:49 GMT -5
About to head out with some Old Gowrie in a 1965 Dunnie 104:  Another sweet pipe! |
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Post by Gypo on Jan 31, 2024 11:09:00 GMT -5
Plum Pudding in psb blast B42 Pete with coffee.
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Post by just ol ed on Jan 31, 2024 11:36:51 GMT -5
Greets & happy HumpDay for those affected. Abingdon in Castello "Castello" grade smooth bent dublin, CokeOriginal by side, brunch soon
42, overcast now, rain/snow mix later as temps drop
Ed-slow moving as usual
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Post by Silver on Jan 31, 2024 15:18:34 GMT -5
Had a couple more bowls of Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob while out and about. Now, Friar's Bayou in the same.
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Post by turbocat on Jan 31, 2024 15:28:11 GMT -5
 I’m smoking Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia in a St. Claude cutty. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Jan 31, 2024 15:53:19 GMT -5
Carter Hall in the Silver Axe, lemon tea on the side.
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Post by just ol ed on Jan 31, 2024 16:49:02 GMT -5
Hope this finds all of you well, I just continue along. Is 10Russians in IL Ceppo full bent blast, CokeOriginal to side
39, overcast, starting to darken
Ed
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Post by william on Jan 31, 2024 18:08:09 GMT -5
Warm afternoon here. Having a bit of Wessex Brown Virginia Flake in a Pete.  |
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Post by don on Jan 31, 2024 18:38:57 GMT -5
Sutliff VaPer Crumble Cake in a Pioneer gourd meerschaum calabash. Drinking a churro stout from Cerveceria Colorado.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jan 31, 2024 18:46:19 GMT -5
In honor of the arrival of my new Dr. Grabow Royalton Pear, I am smoking my entire Dr. Grabow Royalton collection tonight: C&D Palmetto Balkan for the first smoke in the new Pear, 2014 McC Beacon in the Billiard, and 2018 Rattray's Black Mallory in the Apple.  |
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Post by username on Jan 31, 2024 19:22:28 GMT -5
Unknown age Kentucky Club in a cob.
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Post by turbocat on Jan 31, 2024 21:52:24 GMT -5
2011 Mac Baren London Burley Blend in a cob.
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Post by just ol ed on Jan 31, 2024 22:59:23 GMT -5
Soon to the chats, Abingdon & the cobs
Ed
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Post by Silver on Jan 31, 2024 23:05:05 GMT -5
Friar's Bayou in the Wednesday cob.
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Post by urbino on Jan 31, 2024 23:39:43 GMT -5
Chelsea Morning in an Ashton Old Church poker:  |
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Post by lizardonarock on Feb 1, 2024 0:06:01 GMT -5
Piccadilly in a Capitello.
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Post by turbocat on Feb 1, 2024 0:41:40 GMT -5
Piccadilly in a Capitello. That’s a pleasantly melodic pipe and tobacco combination  |
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Post by turbocat on Feb 1, 2024 0:47:04 GMT -5
 Key Largo in a Georgetown belge. |
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Post by Silver on Feb 1, 2024 0:50:23 GMT -5
Last smoke of the day. Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob.
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Post by urbino on Feb 1, 2024 0:51:00 GMT -5
I’m smoking Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia in a St. Claude cutty. I meant to ask this earlier. Does anyone know the origins of the cutty shape? What was the forward cant designed to do? It's not for convenience of lighting or tamping, that's for sure. |
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Post by turbocat on Feb 1, 2024 3:07:26 GMT -5
I’m smoking Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia in a St. Claude cutty. I meant to ask this earlier. Does anyone know the origins of the cutty shape? What was the forward cant designed to do? It's not for convenience of lighting or tamping, that's for sure. I have a book on early clay pipes (not handy at the moment or I would post a pic or two) It shows the gradual modification of the chillum, a common pipe style used by American Indians, eventually ending up as a cutty. Originally just a tapered tube, then a bowl being formed. The forward cant of the bowl was a practical thing, in that they formed the pipe around a wire and drew it out before drying to create the vent. Vertical and shaped bowls required extra steps in manufacturing an item that was very cheap and disposable. Initially what was done for practical manufacturing became a style. The book also suggests a more accurate I believe reason on the spur than the explanation usually given, which is that it’s there to strengthen the bend in the shape. I never thought that was correct when I heard it and simply smoking a clay quickly shows what it’s there for- as a stop for your fingers from sliding to the bowl when smoking. Again, later retained as a style on pipes that you could handle the bowl of when smoking. |
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Post by coalsmoke on Feb 1, 2024 5:14:04 GMT -5
Thank you for your participation! The January thread is now closed, so please post in the February thread.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 3, 2024 17:06:40 GMT -5
Erinmore Flake in a Comoy Golden Matt Canadian.
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