Difference Between Poker and CherryWoods, if any?

brass

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I was wondering if there are really any differences in shape between pokers and cherrywoods. I suspect that CherryWoods were originally French or American pipes carved from cherry wood but that is just speculation. I see many briar pipes offered as "cherry woods" so it isn't the material, at least not in today's sloppy parlance.

 

jfox520

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Here is what Pipedia has to say.

Cherrywood/Poker

 

puffy

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In days of old some farmers would carve their own pipes out fruit wood.Cherry being one of them.Most of the time these days the term Cherry wood refers to a style of pipe.I guess one could still find a pipe made out of actual Cherry Wood.My experience from many years ago as I remember is that they smoke fairly hot.

 

disinformatique

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Poker

Cherrywood

Chris :puffpipe:

 

cosmicfolklore

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Yep, the cherrywood is a sitter styled poker with a canted angle. As illustrated above. All made from briar. However, yes, in the old days men made their pipes out of fruit trees in the rural South.

 

iamn8

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Also, they're spelled very differently.

 

cynicismandsugar

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Basically, cherrywoods are named in such a way, that you may pass up an amazing Hardcastle sitter pipe on Ebay, because you mistake 'cherrywood' as the material the pipe is made from, and not the shape. Not that it has happened to me. ... or that I'm still stewing over it.

 

Chasing Embers

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And the Danish poker adds to the confusion.
http://www.glpease.com/Pipes/Shapes/DanishPoker.php

 

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@embers Thats artistic interpretation bro, like what Dunhill does with 08, diamond shanked bent rhodesian hehehe :D

 

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I also call canted stems pipes the "cherrywood" shape.

 

andrew

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Cool, I finally found the parker super bruyere cherrywood pipe I have because I was always looking for a poker.

 

mso489

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Good thread guys. So, my Parker poker is a cherrywood. Live and learn. I have a La Rocca poker, a poker through and through. Then I have a hand carved Mountain Laurel poker (Jerry Perry) that, like the Dunhill, has a shank that joins the bowl at the base. It also has a slight variance in the symmetry of the cylindrical bowl that gives it a sort of Japanese spin. I like these pipes for a sort of rusticity with a pronounced elegance, sort of like a courtly old farmer.

 

andrew

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Mso we could always shave off the bottom of the bowl to make it flat, straighten the stem and have pokers.

 

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Here is another variation of the cherrywood. A Rick Black creation was my 1st New Briar pipe.
Unsmoked

After 1 year

Cheers,

Chris

 

brass

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One of my favorite Neerup pokers:

My favorite Neerup CherryWood.

A custom poker by Eric Paulson.

My least expensive poker, a Stanwell Brushed Black for around $50. Smokes as good as most of the above.

Cob pokers - I own one similar to the top.

Over the last year or two, I've developed an appreciation for the humble poker. I'm becoming convinced that they may be the best smoking pipes, on average, of any of the classic shapes. I do believe that one of the many reasons cobs smoke so well is that many are pokers or similar.
Thanks guys. Going forward, the slanted bottom is the key for me. Squared off bottom is the poker, slanted is a cherry. If grows tall, call it a stack.