Anyone else like Longchamp pipes?
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I bought a pair of Longchamp leather wrapped pipes last year on EBay to give to Dad for Christmas. Well one was rougher than it looked in the pictures so I gave him the good one and kept the ugly one. I smoked it a few times but I didn't really care for it. At the time I was mostly smoking aromatics and they just didn't get along with it. Recently I've picked up a couple of flakes and I started smoking them in the Longchamp because it has a smaller bowl. The Longchamp works really well with the flake(McCelland old dark fired)
This isn't the first time I've found something that works well when I smoke it in a different way. I really like this little pipe now!
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No experience with them. But out of curiosity, was it McClelland old dark fired or Mac Baren old dark fired? If it is McClelland I've never heard of it and will have to give it a try
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Not that I like Longchamps, but:
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No experience with them. But out of curiosity, was it McClelland old dark fired or Mac Baren old dark fired? If it is McClelland I've never heard of it and will have to give it a try
Sorry it's Mac Baren. I got my Mac's confused with my Mc's
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I have 2 one regular leather and a pony fur love em both
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I had one that came in an ebay lot. I cleaned it up and gave it to a good friend who works with leather and smokes a pipe. Never puffed it myself, but it's a handsome pipe IMO.
For whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking...
A.A. Milne
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Longchamps is/was the racetrack near Paris. I used to work for a restaurant company of that name. Are the pipes any good or junk? If similar to the restaurant company they put a romantic name on a pile of dung.
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Longchamp pipes were originally created to "cover" a lot of sins. How those pipes came about is a very good story.
http://pipedia.org/wiki/Longchamp
Now these probably aren't Longchamp, but I've no doubt the quality is as good or better. These pipes, a special purchase from Germany, are older than dirt but brand new and only $45:
http://www.jamesislandpiper.com/store.php?seller=JamesIslandPiper&Tsearch=leather%20covered&pd=4893583
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I have a couple of Longchamps. They are OK smokers, but not great. They have a removable stinger that looks like a drill bit. The original Longchamp pipes used leather to cover some major flaws in the briar, but later ones were made by Butz Choquin though so quality actually went up in time. My bulldog is a pretty good flake pipe, too.
This one is a billiard I picked up. It looks like the one Elvis had.
The bulldog lost its leather. It was in piss poor shape when I got it on the bay for $5. I had Jason Gone do a rustication/restore on it and it came out looking pretty good.
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