What Is In Your Pipe? - December 2019.

Just got home from a fabulous birthday dinner with m'lady, mother-in-law and a long time friend. As great a time as I had, I was also happy to get home and have a smoke, which is year 2016 Anniversary Kake in a smooth 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Suzy and Molly were happy to see us return as well on this cold and rainy night.

Now smoking early 1970s MacBaren Burley London Blend in a 1981 Ascorti Black Billiard Business with a military bit and pearl gray acrylic tapered stem.

Happy December .... Peretti no. 8 Slice (‘17) in a J. Everett cutty egg with an ebonite stem.

Now smoking Wilke #44 in a smooth medium bend post-WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock Killarney 9BC with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Phone chatting about my day and my friend's day.

BlackHouse in a 2007 Peterson St. Patrick’s Day bent billiard with a vulcanite stem.

Skandinavik Vanilla.

Not far from finishing this bowl of Peretti Coffee Blend in a 1979 smooth slight bend H. Jones Ltd. Easy Loader 391 Dublin with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

Not far from finishing this bowl of Ken Byron Ventures The English Fragrant in a full bend black pebble finish 2001 Rinaldo Lithos YY8 Titania Silver Line egg with a black acrylic tapered stem.

Amphora Burley in a Missouri Meerschaum Mark Twain cob.

Now smoking 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. Listening to this podcast of which I am one of the interviewees. http://pipeandtamper.com/2019-west-coast-pipe-show?fbclid=IwAR1l7T4UroG_7jZWo5IbubbykiUIt78hgM80SlECem3g1qiHSQ5Ou3k_lgI

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Burlier Morning Pipe in a straight sandblasted pre-transition Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver band and a black ebonite military bit tapered stem.

Solani ABF in a shop pot.

Moe’s Confetti in a sandblasted Urbino bent apple with an acrylic stem.

JimInks wrote:Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Burlier Morning Pipe in a straight sandblasted pre-transition Barling Exel 249 Fossil T.V.F. black billiard with a silver band and a black ebonite military bit tapered stem.

I like that blend a lot. The Lakeland with the English/Balkan style backend goes very well together. Someone should've thought of it sooner.

Enjoyed a tasty lunch and a nap, and am now smoking Sutliff Walnut Match in an early smooth Radice Tiger Eye G medium bend bulldog with a bamboo-style carving on the shank with a two dot black acrylic stem.

Now smoking Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight 1960s Lane era Charatan black with burgundy undertone sandblasted billiard 420 with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Working and listening to The Beatles White Album 50th Anniversary.

Proryv (2006) movie, Height 776 in Chechnya-Airborne 6th Company’s last stand.
90 men against hundreds of enemies and when ammo are out nothing left than bayonets-knives-shovels to fight against them. With no reinforcements coming when the terrorists launch their final attack the remaining paratroopers light a candle and charge.



I am smoking Savinelli Armonia in a Stanwell, Greek Liqueur Eoliki beside me.

Just finished smoking Watch City VaBur Test Sample in a 2019 straight smooth brown Merchant Service “Bing” with a nickel band and black vulcanite tapered stem.

Now smoking Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 Dublin with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

A couple of minutes or so away from smoking C&D Burley Ribbon Cut in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter with a silver pearl gray acrylic saddle stem.

Several bowls today, and all of last week, along with more cigars than I usually smoke.

Currently, Exotic Passion / Sutliff Virginia slices mixed in a Baraccini Churchwarden that smokes decent at best but is my aro pipe.

Good call on mixing Jason, exotic passion is just too much when smoked plain. The subtleness of V.S. really helps tone it down.

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, mushrooms and white chili dinner, and am half way through this bowl of Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 Peretti's M.T. Natural made in Holland straight smooth brown Algerian briar billiard with a black acrylic tapered stem.

A quarter of the way through this bowl of Watch City Rouxgaroux in a 1970's straight rusticated black Savinelli Estella 915 KS billiard with a flared top and pearl brown acrylic saddle stem. Going back to work now.

Bengal Slices White in a shop pot.

Happy Brown Bogie in the little pot.