Pipes: post your pics

[Murdamook]

I am charging my camera currently and will try to post pics soon. I started smoking a pipe about a year ago and, as it is for knives, I love seeing pictures of peoples' pipes. So, lets see those pipes. Also, I'll be coming upon some money soon when I get the excess that remains of my student loan after bills, tuition, and books are paid: so I'm also doing this so I can see the variety of styles out there in order to help make my decision. So, if you could post the make/model, that'd be great too.

 

[Paul Z]

You can go as deep into this as you want, but let me start off by saying you can spend $5 on a good cob pipe (missouri meerchaum) and it will smoke as well as 99% of briar pipes.

that said, i prefer briar. Fancy briar!

heres a bit of my collection, feel free to email me with questions or random pipe stuff. ill even forward you to a pipe forum! p.zapdos@gmail.com

anyway.. pic!

Luciano pipes: (my favorite)

Vauen:

Petersen:

Two petersen and a cob:

Neerup "snake pipe":

lots of tobacco (i have a few cases like this haha):

i also smoke cigars >.>


tried to show one of each of a few different styles, a short chubby one, long straight rhodesian, bent billiard, a pocket pipe, and a funky apple sitter. There are *tons* of pipes, i love smokingpipes.com for a place to buy, ive met the owners in person and theyre fantastic people :]

 

[Murdamook]

Nice pipes. I believe I am partial to the billiard designs. The one I currently smoke is a billiard and I like the feel of it.

 

[nelamvr6]

GGorgeous!

I used to smoke a pipe, had a few, not as nice a collection as Paul Z.

Seeing that Peterson makes me want to take it up again...

 

[Paul Z]

I love my peterson, the luciano's are about the same $ and smoke nicer though, and their quality is a bit more consistant as they only make a few hundred of each pipe rather than thousands

 

[ron_m80]

The first knife shop I visited as a kid, also sold pipes and Tobacco, I really miss the smell of that shop. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[yablanowitz]

I quit smoking many years ago, but I still have a pipe or two laying around. Way back in the late 70's, I was stationed in Hawaii and found a tobacco shop that sold meerchaum block pipe carving kits. Being the goofball I've always been, I bought one and proceeded to carve this.

 

[nelamvr6]

I love my peterson, the luciano's are about the same $ and smoke nicer though, and their quality is a bit more consistant as they only make a few hundred of each pipe rather than thousands

But Petersons are so easy for newbies to smoke...

Now I'm really talking myself into starting the hunt!

 

[stitchawl]

I quit smoking many years ago, but I still have a pipe or two laying around. Way back in the late 70's, I was stationed in Hawaii and found a tobacco shop that sold meerchaum block pipe carving kits. Being the goofball I've always been, I bought one and proceeded to carve this.

I bought one of those kits too! But instead of carving it, I just rounded off the edges so it would be more comfortable to hold, and smoked it that way for years! LOL!

Stitchawl

 

[Murdamook]

I've found my next pipe. It's a Viking from Denmark high polish with a pot bowl and a straight mouth piece. The thing is beautiful. When I get it, I will post pictures.

 

[Mongo]

I quit smoking many years ago, but I still have a pipe or two laying around. Way back in the late 70's, I was stationed in Hawaii and found a tobacco shop that sold meerchaum block pipe carving kits. Being the goofball I've always been, I bought one and proceeded to carve this.

Yab... that pipe so totally ROCKS! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
If you ever consider selling it... please PM me.

 

[mugwump867]

I'm also a pipe smoker but most of my money goes toward cellaring tobacco in advance of rising prices and taxes so my pipes tend to be cheap but good smokers.

Here's an inexpensive Mario Grandi. They can be found for a song on eBay and ship quickly out of Italy.

Savinelli Churchwarden

Peterson Bulldog

Savinelli Natural. Great pipe at a low price and colors itself as you handle and smoke it.

 

[yablanowitz]

Yab... that pipe so totally ROCKS! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
If you ever consider selling it... please PM me.

Thank you. If I thought there was any chance I could duplicate it, I'd consider selling it, but subsequent attempts did not turn out nearly as well. The one thing I didn't show in the pictures is where I carved a bit too deep and went into the hole leading to the stem. There is a small blob of epoxy covering the hole, and I smoked it that way for several years so I guess it doesn't hurt anything, but it is a tad ugly.

 

[crunky]

Sorry no pics here.
How do you guys carry your pipes, more specifically how do you travel with them? Trips into the woods? Across country?

 

[Kohai999]

From the left, Peterson Claddagh Walnut stain #408 Fishtail, Mark Tinsky 28th Christmas pipe in Pristine finish, S&R blasted bent apple

From the left, Jobey Bent Brandy, Peterson Supreme Bent Bulldog with a gold band-decent price on ebay, Sigma briar billiard, the only billiard that I have ever owned, purchased in the '80's.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

 

[hung-solo]

i dont think it would be wise for me to take a pic of my pipe lol.

 

[jshort05]

i just so happend to give mine a bath today

 

[CWL]

I didn't know there were so many tobacco pipe smokers here, cool!

Here's a cavalier from my collection, it is a Mario Grandi as well.

 

[Rugger]

Very Nice gents. I worked in a pipe shop/tobacconist shop for a couple of years while I was in college. I wound up w/ a Savanelli, a Peterson army mount & a couple of nice "seconds" that we got from the pipe reps as freebies. Gave most of them to my (then) GF's father- he was a retired Army colonel & a big pipe guy. Held onto a couple & still have my grandfather's pipes (nothing of any real note- mostly drugstore stuff). Still occasionally tempted to pick up some proper tobacco & sit out on the porch w/ a medicinal ale.

 

[CWL]

Sorry no pics here.
How do you guys carry your pipes, more specifically how do you travel with them? Trips into the woods? Across country?

Pipes travel easily, remember soldiers, farmers and sailors just kept them in their jacket pockets for the past 400 years. I sometimes will pull the stem from the briar and drop them into my bag or pocket for traveling on an airplane. You can also get zippered pipe carriers for your pipes as well, and I've heard of soldiers using Otter Boxes when taking their pipes to Afghanistan.