Here's the almost new Carey Rusticated Volcano I won for $12.50 plus shipping on eBay last Sunday. It came nicely cleaned and polished, but I ran a pipe cleaner with overproof rum through it, just for grins. It smokes like a dream, like my other six Carey's. My two other pipes are a Duncan Hill Aerosphere (sold by Carey) and a beautiful Charatan sandblasted and canted Yacht (or Zulu), a gift from a special friend..... (I apologize for the lack of creativity!!!)
@motie2 You seem to be finding several very nice Carey Pipes. I was always under the assumption they mainly did conservative looking straight pipes. Think you're getting such a good deal on them because not as many people realize what nice smoking pipes Carey magic inch pipes can be.
Some of you guys need to learn how to resize your photos before posting! Smoking some Comoy's Cask No 5 Bullet Rye Select in my Stanwell HCA (courtesy of This Pipe Life). Read the review at pappyjoesblog.com.
I have a paranoia of posting pictures that throw off the browser for other posters. It's taken me a bit to get into a good system, but now I send photos to my desktop from my iPhone, since I can resize them there.
Tonight for Halloween, I'm having a bowl of Samuel Gawith's Kendal Plug in my Missouri Meerschaum cob. My wife and I carved pumpkins last night, and I chose to take my picture with her pumpkin, rather than my sad, deformed one.
Just wanted to add my Big Ben Fantasia to the Daily Briar Photoshoot after repairs. Smokes like a dream and looks better than ever. Went from a flat matte finish to a nice semi-gloss.
@motie2 By the way - the Pumpkin Spice Kahlua aint as bad as it sounds especially when mixed in with coffee or pumpkin spice tea. Next time I'm putting it in a blender with half and half and ice cubes and making a pumpkin milk shake out of it.
@ghostsofpompeii -- Ghost, almost any potable is good with coffee. My favorites are black spiced rum and Sir Monkey Banana Milk (I just found it in the Stop N Shop). Any tw of those go together, as all three go together and their damn good individually I'm just being a curmungeon about the whole Pumpkin Spice thing.
Brace yourselves, boys, and move over Kim Kardashian. THIS is gonna break the internet! Note that Rossi Rubino prince. Silky smooth. Smokey red finish. Perfectly balanced in the clench. Substantial but not heavy. I think I'm in love.
@mseddon -- Please don't take offense, and accept this in good humor as it is intended, but Dude!!!! You look like John Oliver and Steve Mnuchin had a baby.
@mseddon -- No, thank you, sir, for taking it in the spirit I intended it. However, I will be a while trying to get the picture of @ghostsofpompeii becoming fountainsofpompeii out of my head....
Sorry, I have not figured out how to resize pics yet.I just made the tamper/cleaning rod/hemp wick/pick, pipe tool on my lathe. I thought I would give it a try this evening. I made the tamper because I wanted a "reverse calabash" chamber cleaner for my Al Pacia Curvy, the pipe in the pic. Those are cotton, rifle cleaning patches gripped in the end. The tool is turned from a piece of my mom's plum tree, some black walnut scrap from a tobacco drying bowl I turned on the lathe, and a small briar waste piece from a previous pipe block. The tamper end is a "Maltese Cross" stamped chrome bolt cover. Harley guys (and others I suppose) use them to cover "unsightly" bolt heads. I saw someone mention hemp/beeswax wick for pipe lighting. I found some hemp twine and I used my beeswax "meerschaum bath" to infuse the twine with beeswax and incorporated it into the tool. I have a stainless steel pick/needle that I made that will store in the center of the tamper, ultimately it will have a 3D printed skull for a handle. There is a small stainless steel tube through the center of the tool. I will have to post another pic when I get the pick finished. The hemp wick works surprisingly well, gets right down in the bowl for relights. Kind of a pain to relight the wick, but all in all it works great, especially when using a torch lighter. By the way, I really like the reverse calabash idea, chubby nose-warmers. I love "Exotic Orange", the room note is awesome, for us aromatic lovers anyway. Yes, I use softie bits, I gnaw the hell out of bits otherwise. I remove them and clean under them after my smoke. I rub a bit of regular Chapstick on the bit to polish it and protect it. I don't store my pipes with the bits in place.
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A cup of Earl Grey, A Dunhill Duke Street Billiard, and Sam Gawith's Bracken Flake (won from the Texas Pipe Show)
Posted this on instagram yesterday, but thought I'd share it here. C&D's Bow Legged Bear, a heavy latakia blend, with my Peterson 999.
Smoking some Comoy's Cask No 5 Bullet Rye Select in my Stanwell HCA (courtesy of This Pipe Life). Read the review at pappyjoesblog.com.
Tonight for Halloween, I'm having a bowl of Samuel Gawith's Kendal Plug in my Missouri Meerschaum cob. My wife and I carved pumpkins last night, and I chose to take my picture with her pumpkin, rather than my sad, deformed one.
Just wanted to add my Big Ben Fantasia to the Daily Briar Photoshoot after repairs. Smokes like a dream and looks better than ever. Went from a flat matte finish to a nice semi-gloss.
@motie2 By the way - the Pumpkin Spice Kahlua aint as bad as it sounds especially when mixed in with coffee or pumpkin spice tea. Next time I'm putting it in a blender with half and half and ice cubes and making a pumpkin milk shake out of it.
I'm just being a curmungeon about the whole Pumpkin Spice thing.
However, I will be a while trying to get the picture of @ghostsofpompeii becoming fountainsofpompeii out of my head....
The hemp wick works surprisingly well, gets right down in the bowl for relights. Kind of a pain to relight the wick, but all in all it works great, especially when using a torch lighter. By the way, I really like the reverse calabash idea, chubby nose-warmers. I love "Exotic Orange", the room note is awesome, for us aromatic lovers anyway.
Yes, I use softie bits, I gnaw the hell out of bits otherwise. I remove them and clean under them after my smoke. I rub a bit of regular Chapstick on the bit to polish it and protect it. I don't store my pipes with the bits in place.