What Are You Smoking January 2019

[Houtenziel]

I just tossed a London Broil on the grill and I'm smoking Old Ted's clay chock full of Condor.

That looks really good, should finally get a clay but I'm too picky. Tried for a Peterson soo many times and am always outbid, it's not the 1700's so given the option I prefer a real stem to keep the skin on my lips and prevent grinding notches into my teeth.

Having Cannon Plug in a Viscount, no picture, this page is running real slow and not fully loading everything for some reason.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the one piece clays either.

I think they still sell just the clay bowls and you can have a stem put on, I've done that with a few others and they turned out great, I gave them away to forum friends and just have the Old Ted and one other. They burn really clean and dry.

I've smoked a couple different style clays, and I will say that after the first couple smokes on the one piece clays, they do get a lot more comfortable(no sticking). The glaze tipped ones don't have that problem at all.
One thing I will say, is they are the driest smoking pipe I've ever encountered. It's my personal opinion that they even outperform meerschaum by a significant margin, in dryness, and especially in being flavor neutral. I don't know if it's just me or what, but every Meer I've ever smoked adds a weird sulphur-ey sort of aroma, sort of like the way a spent shell casing smells. I've been meaning to buy one of those German made ebonite stemmed jobbies from Penn Valley Pipes for a while, but I keep getting distracted.

[Tsal]

That looks really good, should finally get a clay but I'm too picky. Tried for a Peterson soo many times and am always outbid, it's not the 1700's so given the option I prefer a real stem to keep the skin on my lips and prevent grinding notches into my teeth.

Having Cannon Plug in a Viscount, no picture, this page is running real slow and not fully loading everything for some reason.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the one piece clays either.

I think they still sell just the clay bowls and you can have a stem put on, I've done that with a few others and they turned out great, I gave them away to forum friends and just have the Old Ted and one other. They burn really clean and dry.

I've smoked a couple different style clays, and I will say that after the first couple smokes on the one piece clays, they do get a lot more comfortable(no sticking). The glaze tipped ones don't have that problem at all.
One thing I will say, is they are the driest smoking pipe I've ever encountered. It's my personal opinion that they even outperform meerschaum by a significant margin, in dryness, and especially in being flavor neutral. I don't know if it's just me or what, but every Meer I've ever smoked adds a weird sulphur-ey sort of aroma, sort of like the way a spent shell casing smells. I've been meaning to buy one of those German made ebonite stemmed jobbies from Penn Valley Pipes for a while, but I keep getting distracted.

I've never heard of Penn Valley but I'd get another clay without thinking twice.
The only meer that I have now is the resin block that Father Tom gave me and that thing smokes fantastic!

[Fr_Tom]

I've never heard of Penn Valley but I'd get another clay without thinking twice.
The only meer that I have now is the resin block that Father Tom gave me and that thing smokes fantastic!

It was well broken in!

[Fr_Tom]

Late posting Picayune in a Weber apple/pot

[simplepipes]

Virginia Scraps w / Three Sails Topper . . . Modified MM Mark Twain . . . Diet Soda.

This batch tastes pretty good consisting of all of the ends of jars and tins that needed cleaned up.

-sp

[Fr_Tom]

Double Down in a Falcon

[Bamarick]

Sugarlands Honey in the Elba Pot.

[Tsal]

I've never heard of Penn Valley but I'd get another clay without thinking twice.
The only meer that I have now is the resin block that Father Tom gave me and that thing smokes fantastic!

It was well broken in!

I'll say..! The chamber was like a chocolate muffin, not that that's a bad thing. Grousemoor really speaks to me in that pipe.

[Fr_Tom]

I've never heard of Penn Valley but I'd get another clay without thinking twice.
The only meer that I have now is the resin block that Father Tom gave me and that thing smokes fantastic!

It was well broken in!

I'll say..! The chamber was like a chocolate muffin, not that that's a bad thing. Grousemoor really speaks to me in that pipe.

Picayune in that pipe was what got me going on Picayune. It was an outrageously good combo for me.

[Fr_Tom]

Picayune in a Medico pot