The Stateliest Pipe Shapes, Canadian Family

[timt]

I find the bulldog to be the single ugliest shape I have yet seen.

Ha! Wasn't there a thread recently about our least favorite shape? I believe everyone knows that the blowfish is the ugliest. Bulldogs are cool.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I like the Peterson brandy/volcano B11, but it's not a generally admired shape

I like the B11. Not generally a bent stem fan (outside of churchwardens) but I do like Peterson's bent shapes. Some of the Sav one's as well, I have a 904 and a 920.

 

[bnichols23]

I find the bulldog to be the single ugliest shape I have yet seen.
Same

Hmmm, I say HMMMMMM..... Y'all's is jes' messed up is what *I* think. :crazy:
B

 

[pepesdad1]

PeterD-Buffalo Spirit has the best, largest collection of Canadian shaped pipes of anyone I have ever seen...he has a couple that Ron of RdPipes made for him...similar to what papipeguy has, made by the same Pipe Carver.

Ron's pipes are, to me, elegant...and PeterD-Buffalo Spirit has the largest collection as I stated above.

I have 3 in my collection...a Comoy Golden Grain, a GBD Virgin and a Yello-bole Canadian...all are excellent smokers.

Forgive an old man who repeats things too often.

 

[timt]

Never thought I was a fan of the Canadian shape but ended up with a couple. They're technically bent billiards I suppose but I consider them Canadians. The first is a Rossi 8812. It just has a little bend right at the tip of the stem. It's another one of those Rossi pipes that I liked so well I got a similar Savinelli. The Savinelli is a 814 KS. The little bend at the end is nice as I clench pretty much all the time.
I'll ask my wife if they make me look stately. She wouldn't lie.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Hmmm, I say HMMMMMM..... Y'all's is jes' messed up is what *I* think. :crazy:

IIRC, Jesse's not a fan either.

 

[bnichols23]

^^^^ Oh, you no fun, falling right over like that.

 

[tulsagentleman]

Alaskanpiper: I find the bulldog to be the single ugliest shape I have yet seen.
And yet, he bought a MM Bully on the first day they were announced.

 

[bnichols23]

Boom. Thanks, Tulsa! }}
Funny thing is, when I was getting my Elba out of the rack a little while ago, I passed over 6 bulls to get to it. I'm Evel Knievel!

B

 

[writingraav]

I agree with the opening comments of this thread completely. Canadians of various stripes are my favorites hands down. I have a Comoy, Ashton, 2 Crawfords and more. I also have a Savenelli Bing's Favorite that I think qualifies.
As for the bulldog, I think its appeal is how comfortably it can be clenched.

 

[Chasing Embers]

As for the bulldog, I think its appeal is how comfortably it can be clenched.

Any well balanced pipe with a nice button is easily clenched.

 

[disinformatique]

I love Canadians and the Canadian pipe shape. Although I dont own one I am in search for a Dunhill Canadian of a particular year.
Cheers,

Chris

 

[bron340]

I personally like the canadian shape...if it is balanced. I have two, a slim prerepublic meer lined Pete', which is quite small, and a Savinelli, which is large and unwieldy and does not lend itself to a pleasant smoke.

The Peterson

 

[augiebd]

I like the Canadian family, I will admit it is a bit about the fact that I am a Canadian but it is more the shape. I like the long stem and what I find to be a classic shape. I have 3 of the Canadian shape (Savinelli KS, Brigham Canadian Sesquicentennial, 1933-37 Frank Medico) and a 1962 Dunhill root briar Lovat. I smoke the Lovat the most and haven’t smoked the Brigham yet.

 

[augiebd]

Correction: long shank. Now I know I’m going to hear about it.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Well, given your correction post is but two minutes after the original, you could have edited it and no one would have been the wiser. So you learned something by your mistake!
It wasn't one everyone would catch, and anyone who'd make a big deal of it is a dick; the context was clear.

 

[husky]

I have a brandy with a long, oval shank.

Is that anything bordering Canadian or just an abomination?