This is a thread for members with quite a few pipes. If you have two pipes to about twenty, you probably don't have this issue. I have about eighty-some pipes, and I'm also one of those who is reluctant to actually count them, though they are all on racks in plain view. Many are pipes I've bought over years, some as long ago as forty or thirty years, most acquired within the last twelve years or so, but also many gift pipes that have special meaning, personal memories or stories as pipes. But here's the gist: I nearly always have in mind pipes that are fine smokers that I haven't smoked in a long time, for no particular reason except that I go on spells of smoking particular brands, shapes, gift pipes, or pipes of particular sizes. So what are a few I need to get back to? Let me name a few, and inspire myself to smoke them again. Here are a few I promise to smoke soon:
1. A Danish Bari, a long discontinued brand, given to me by my late wife's aunt for Christmas, a really touching gift, a nice pipe that still looks new, unless you see the bit starting to chew through;
2. A Savinelli Prince of Wales, I don't think they make anymore, prince shape of course, that I bought when I was buying several pipes and didn't smoke it for over a year;
3. A Vuillard, a handsome French pipe, bent apple with a faux bone ferrule; and
4. A extra large (Group 5 or 6) Iwan Ries house pipe, or bought as such, but that lacks the Iwan Ries stamp, suspected by me of being an Italian pipe, but perhaps not a Sav product.
I could go on, but you get the idea. What are your wallflower pipes that are all dressed up with no place to go ... not the ones you don't like, but the ones that just don't get smoked as often, that you'd like to fire up soon?
1. A Danish Bari, a long discontinued brand, given to me by my late wife's aunt for Christmas, a really touching gift, a nice pipe that still looks new, unless you see the bit starting to chew through;
2. A Savinelli Prince of Wales, I don't think they make anymore, prince shape of course, that I bought when I was buying several pipes and didn't smoke it for over a year;
3. A Vuillard, a handsome French pipe, bent apple with a faux bone ferrule; and
4. A extra large (Group 5 or 6) Iwan Ries house pipe, or bought as such, but that lacks the Iwan Ries stamp, suspected by me of being an Italian pipe, but perhaps not a Sav product.
I could go on, but you get the idea. What are your wallflower pipes that are all dressed up with no place to go ... not the ones you don't like, but the ones that just don't get smoked as often, that you'd like to fire up soon?