Who smokes a pipe here?
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Thanks for the harsh words
Kohai999
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Nobody would shun you for starting a new thread. It would likely be encouraged.
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STeven Garsson
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I had many of the pipes you are showing, unfortunately, after 50 years of smoking pipes I was diagnosed with COPD, and in order to quit for my health, I threw all of them away. I couldn't keep them, you see, I would have went back to them. So I've been smoke free now for two months and am breathing just fine. It could have been worse, and it still may as COPD is a progressive disease..Have been enjoying the Briar since 1969, you do the math! here's a family photo of the pipes & one of the stash on hand for ageing
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Congrats on quitting Dave, it's been almost 5 years for me now and I don't miss one bit. The COPD slows way down after you quit smoking almost back to a normal age related lung decline, but other good things start to happen like the risk factors for heart attack and stroke start going down.
It's actually a very good looking poker. My favorite pattern.
Kohai999
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No accounting for taste, I suppose. Polished bent Rhodesian is my preference.
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STeven Garsson
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Bjarne pipe, & VooDoo Queen tobacco !!!!
And Rhodesians aren't my taste and never have been, so there's no accounting for your tastes either, I suppose.
I haven't found a better smoke than a well broken in calabash.
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Unless it's a well broken in meerschaum.
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But for everyday running around, I'll usually have one of my 314 series Peterson's in my shirt pocket.
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Unless it's a well broken in meerschaum.
But for everyday running around, I'll usually have one of my 314 series Peterson's in my shirt pocket.
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How many of you buy in bulk via the internet rather than pipe shops? I generally buy in 5 lb bags and occasionally 1 lb bags to sample something.
5 lbs would cost a small fortune at most pipe shops.
5 lbs would cost a small fortune at most pipe shops.
Kohai999
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I buy from an online seller and put up three or four pounds of tobacco if there is one I like, in case of impending apocalypse.
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Steven Garsson
The tobaks I enjoy just aren't sold in bulk. Eight ounce packs of Esoterica Penzance is about as bulky as I buy and it has been a few years since I bought any of that. Then I jar and cellar it. I just buy 50gm tins a few at a time and cellar them. Doesn't take long to build a cellared stock, just takes a while for the tobak to age, but if you buy a few tins at a time at a rate faster than you smoke in not too many years, you'll have a working cellar. The tobaks I enjoy just aren't sold in bulk.
For me smoking is all about the quality of the smoke and not the pipe. You can do that with many a cheap pipe as so many are just great smokers. Can't say the same about tobaks. So the tobak is paramount. That said, my best smoking briar pipe is a Savinelli 310 poker basket pipe. It had enough fills Sav ground off it's name/stamp. Bought it from a shop in the nude for a couple of ten dollar bills. Cheapest Briar I've ever owned, but the best smoker once I got it broken in.
Couple of drops of olive oil hand rubbed onto the pipe and a good breaking in resulted in a pipe that will never leave my now tiny collection. I've given away almost all of my briars. Just kept three - the Sav Basket, an Erik Nording, and a Randy Wiley. The Sav 310 basket pipe is my best smoking briar. It's also the cheapest briar I've ever bought.
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