I added a pipe to my latest tobacco order to make “free shipping”😬. I’ve wanted one of these for several years now, but thought maybe they were overpriced. Behold, the Missouri Meerschaum “Freehand”. I’m glad I grabbed it. I deem it a worthy purchase, it’s a pretty big pipe, and it has a nice Lucite stem.👍🏻 I did my usual new MM pipe prep. I cut out the extra wood of the shank dowel in the bowl, filled the heel voids with “pipemud”, chamfered the tenon and taper drilled the stem airway. It’s smoking wonderfully. I have it loaded with the C&D’s Smokingpipes 25th Anniversary blend “Reserve XXV Dusk”…since it’s closer to dusk than dawn🙂. I will say this is a better blend than I anticipated, the perique is spicy, and there is some definite dark sweetness, so far I’m not getting a lot of the Dark Fired smokiness. Maybe it will peek through later in the bowl. At this point it’s a condiment or I’m, personally, not sussing it out. One thing I did have to do is take the MM sticker off of the bottom of the pipe and flatten and angle the bottom of the pipe so it will sit. It looked like they got halfway and gave up as there was a center ridge that it teetered on. The correct angle was started, but not finished. It’s still a little tippy since my belt sander adjustment. I either need to sand it a bit more or add a couple of slugs of lead under the MM sticker. I’m not sure more sanding will correct it. I am sure a judicious application of a little lead will set it down solidly.🙂
Tonight I am going to try out the C&D SP XXV “Dawn” (It’s gotta be dawn somewhere🙂). I have it drying a bit, preparing to stuff, excuse me, (gently load) it in my 1927 Dunhill shape 40 Lovat. Notice the classy “drying tin”😉. “Excuse me, but do you have any “Grey Poupon”….I can’t even fake it huh?…..yep, I’m a redneck mountainbilly. My little sister cleared her liquor cabinet of several different bottles that she was not enamored with, good for me, I’ll drink dang near anything 🙂 (that’s the redneck mountainbilly in me again). Tonight I have of mix of ~1/3 Pineapple rum and ~2/3 Cruzan aged rum on the rocks to go with my impending smoke.
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Thank you, sir.
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Thank you, sir.
I did my usual new MM pipe prep.
I cut out the extra wood of the shank dowel in the bowl, filled the heel voids with “pipemud”, chamfered the tenon and taper drilled the stem airway. It’s smoking wonderfully.
I have it loaded with the C&D’s Smokingpipes 25th Anniversary blend “Reserve XXV Dusk”…since it’s closer to dusk than dawn🙂. I will say this is a better blend than I anticipated, the perique is spicy, and there is some definite dark sweetness, so far I’m not getting a lot of the Dark Fired smokiness. Maybe it will peek through later in the bowl. At this point it’s a condiment or I’m, personally, not sussing it out.
One thing I did have to do is take the MM sticker off of the bottom of the pipe and flatten and angle the bottom of the pipe so it will sit. It looked like they got halfway and gave up as there was a center ridge that it teetered on. The correct angle was started, but not finished. It’s still a little tippy since my belt sander adjustment. I either need to sand it a bit more or add a couple of slugs of lead under the MM sticker. I’m not sure more sanding will correct it. I am sure a judicious application of a little lead will set it down solidly.🙂
Tonight I have of mix of ~1/3 Pineapple rum and ~2/3 Cruzan aged rum on the rocks to go with my impending smoke.
Rum? I’ll drink to that!
Thank you sir.
Nice combo. I've said it before, I love my Charles Towne...