Shapes/Categories

[jpmcwjr]

Right. I should have said when walking about. And having to wear a deer stalker would add too much gear!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It amazes me when folks get hung up on what to call a shape... we are a categorizing, pigeonholing, animal. Personally, I could care less. But, I think of the whole category of dublins as being any pipe that is a bent cone. Then under the dublin category, there are sub categories, yachts, bent dublins, calabashes, horns, zulu, woodstock, etc, etc... When one shape becomes another is clearly in the eyes of the beholder.
The calabash could also be in the bulldog family, because of the cap, making a double cone, but that would have to be in the eye of the beholder also.

 

[luigi]

Now I know the difference between Calabash and Dublin. ?

 

[cigrmaster]

The reason my Rad is called a Calabash is because that is what Rad called it, I had no say in the matter.

 

[mso489]

From these later posts I learn that it was Jeremy Brett, not Basil Rathbone, who used the gourd Calabash pipe to depict Holmes. I should remember that because I was something of a fan of the Jeremy Brett rendition, though most actors bring something new to the part.