What's in your bowl today

[Drexell]

Moretti: Cornell & Diehl Folklore

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Nice pipe. That's Morta?

 

[Drexell]

Haunted Bookshop in Radice

 

[kcmontie]

Been smoking the pipe last week or so

 

[ak2000]

Nice pipe. That's Morta?

Looks like "young" Morta

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in a Castello four square panel

 

[Drexell]

Emp in N. Monier tulip

 

[Alwayslit]

Good morning and Happy Friday gentlemen. I'm starting the day off with ice coffee and WCCSO in a Abe Herbaugh.

 

[Alwayslit]

It's nice to have a Friday off. Enjoying some HOTW in a Tupitsyn.

 

[Alwayslit]

WCC Glass slipper in a IMP

 

[Drexell]

Nightcap in a Radice

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in a Radice Hawkbill

 

[Séamas]

Nightcap in a Radice

Is that Peterson Nightcap? How's that compare to the old Dunhill?

 

[Drexell]

Never had Peterson. The only Nightcap I have or have tried is Dunhill from 2017 or before.

 

[Drexell]

Bayou Morning in Radice

 

[BloodWood]

Chheda Buckeye: G. L. Pease Union Square

 

[BloodWood]

Nice pipe. That's Morta?

Yes, sir, and thank you.

 

[BloodWood]

Looks like "young" Morta

Not necessarily.
Morta (bog oak) gets its color from the presence of iron in the water supply.
The iron reacts with the tannins in the oak's wood fibers (e.g. artificially antiqueing a cedar fence with an iron sulfate wash) turning them brownish/black.
Age both hardens and leaches out the wood's natural chemicals. This makes it less attractive to bacteria and fungal attack (aka: rot)
Without carbon dating the approximate age is unknown. I've got 6k year old brown morta turning blanks.
For woodworkers, brown morta is more difficult to locate compared to dark gray.
I find the brown more appealing.

 

[Drexell]

Dark Birdseye in Radice

 

[OneStrangeOne]

Bayou Morning in an Il Ceppo Brandy

 

[Alwayslit]

A rather cool morning. Enjoying some KBV Starry Knights in a IMP.