Due to the fact the bowl is about a group 2 size the real estate is quite small and one must keep away from the silver cap or fingers will get burned, it did smoke very well once I found a good finger hold point. Ethiopian Yirgagcheffe Chelbessa in the PRM.
Late start today with my first bowl of what feels like a 'Royal" day ! Some Royal Yacht in one of my father's Petersons he bought when in London after WWII a blasted Premier 150s strait bulldog. This pipes almost black from smoking all these years and I remember when it was a much lighter brown! It's got some GREAT briar and is a London Made Pete.:twisted:
The last unsmoked pipe in my racks has now been smoked, I loaded the Ardor Urano with bamboo shank with Luxury Bullseye Flake just prior to ivIG and got half a bowl in with some Ethiopian Yirgagcheffe Chelbessa topped with a double Cuban espresso under my belt prior to leaving. Have now returned and finished it with a PRM filled with another round of that fabulous Ethiopian on its stead.
Cloudy day, hard to decide which tobacco, finally came to a mixture of Borkum Riff and H&H in a Stanwell Poker for the first smoke with black hot coffee.