What's in your bowl today

[jerseyjetset]

Lane 1Q in my newb cob (still the only pipe I own). Trying to graduate from the Carter Hall into things that are a bit more challenging to pack and keep lit. So far I am not scoring well.

EDIT: took me half the bowl but i got it smoking good now. Tasty!

 

[thedismaltrade]

Odf/dark strong in a cob at the beach with some coffee

All sounds good to me. Enjoy broski

 

[Whtwtrman79]

Odf/dark strong in a cob at the beach with some coffee

All sounds good to me. Enjoy broski

Next up and so to bed thanks to yours truly...... Tastey

 

[javelin377]

Bobs Chocolate Flake. In an old Red Dot that got the wire wheel treatment.

 

[stukibuilt]

Gaslight in a new Dr. G Grand Duke.

that's actually really pretty for a DrG! nice pipe, sir. o)

Thanks! That's the same thing I thought when I found it. Reminded me of the shell blast on a Dunhill (albeit very lose in this comparison). Happy camper, but will be more happy when I build up some cake and don't taste this presmoked bowl treatment anymore. Ha.

 

[SailorAg]

I've got Escudo in my new Erik Nording Signature freehand.

 

[thedismaltrade]

Robert McConnell Scottish Cake in the Baki meer

 

[javajunkie]

i dig this reclaimed medico, a distressed natural look, but it DOES NOT want but to smoke hot and damp. so, just putting a pack or two of CH through it, and doing the bowl shake, see if i can jump start a cake formation and force the thing to submit that way.

may sound stupid, but my peterson and I didn't get along for the first year, and it (finally!) turned into a champ.

 

[smokinghole]

Smoking some remnants of Gawith fvf mixed with remnants of Beacon Extra. Good stuff in my $2 cob from CVS.

 

[Whtwtrman79]

Java ..... What exactly is the bowl shake?

 

[javajunkie]

instead of my usual fastidious swab of the bowl with a couple few pipe cleaners, just cover the bowl opening with your thumb and shake. afterwards, swab out ONLY the stem to draft hole. the ash stays in and adheres to the sides of the chamber.

i am one who usually smokes rather slow and cool, so i don't NEED a lot of cake formation for protection. and my usual swab out leaves little left, but (over a year and counting) what little i have actually built up is even and tight. i might have to ream out one of my pipes in a decade or so at this rate...

 

[thedismaltrade]

instead of my usual fastidious swab of the bowl with a couple few pipe cleaners, just cover the bowl opening with your thumb and shake. afterwards, swab out ONLY the stem to draft hole. the ash stays in and adheres to the sides of the chamber.

i am one who usually smokes rather slow and cool, so i don't NEED a lot of cake formation for protection. and my usual swab out leaves little left, but (over a year and counting) what little i have actually built up is even and tight. i might have to ream out one of my pipes in a decade or so at this rate...

CH with the shake method will definetly work- best combo for cake. On a side note- Peterson is notorious for break-in. I vowed to never buy a new Pete again...

 

[javajunkie]

... On a side note- Peterson is notorious for break-in. I vowed to never buy a new Pete again...

yeah, but they're soooo nice. once you force them to tow the line. eventually.

 

[thedismaltrade]

... On a side note- Peterson is notorious for break-in. I vowed to never buy a new Pete again...

yeah, but they're soooo nice. once you force them to tow the line. eventually.

don't get me wrong- love my Pete's-- especially my system pipes; learned I just buy estates- much easier for me

 

[Whtwtrman79]

Blackwoods flake in a cob thanks to^

 

[thedismaltrade]

Blackwoods flake in a cob thanks to^

i love me some Blackwoods flake. I scored a tin from 2003 last year for next to nothing. Haven't cracked it yet- can't hardly bring myself to do it, but BOY OH BOY will that be sublime

 

[Whtwtrman79]

I enjoyed it, had a nice spicy sweetness to it, almost thought there was some perique, had quite a few relights but never bit or smoked wet

 

[gravel]

... On a side note- Peterson is notorious for break-in. I vowed to never buy a new Pete again...

yeah, but they're soooo nice. once you force them to tow the line. eventually.

I have a Pete bulldog that tasted terrible. I set it aside for a couple of years and the nasty taste seems to be gone. Now to break it in.

 

[rbgtag]

Frog Morton's Cellar in my cob...thanks to Deadman's Point.

 

[javajunkie]

burned the last prelim bowl of key largo on the jaunt home in one of my wee little greek pipes. enough dicking around, a review soon.