How many pipes have you lost?

didimauw · Jun 21, 2016

Thinking about it today, I've been missing some of my pipes. I've been smoking a pipe for almost 4 years now, and I have 3 pipes that I can't find. That makes it about 1 pipe a year almost. A Dr. Grabow lark, a Capri, and a corn cob. Good thing for PAD huh? How many pipes do you guys lose annually? Lol

orobusto · Jun 21, 2016

So far I have one, a 4 digit Kaywoodie bent bulldog. I've been putting it aside for years because the stem was overclocked. There was a thread about fixing it here a few months ago and it gave me the motivation to try to fix it. Now I can't find it for the life of me.

mso489 · Jun 21, 2016

None, but I mostly smoke at or near home. I have misplaced pipes, and it drives me crazy, but I locate them. I'm the resident "finder" for my wife who tends to mislay things. I even found her hubcap that had spun off out in the neighborhood.

mikestanley · Jun 21, 2016

Two that I can think of. I still believe they are in this house somewhere. Both, oddly enough are Dunhills. If I find them, my Dunhill collection will be two!

Mike S.

Chasing Embers · Jun 21, 2016

None....yet. After 25 years of smoking, I'm surprised.

jpmcwjr · Jun 21, 2016

Lost three pipes I got 50 years ago, one was a cracked Dunny, but of great personal value, the other a black blast bent billiard Pete military mount, and the third was a smooth Barling billiard. Since I resumed a few years ago, none. (that I can recall!)

puffy · Jun 21, 2016

When I moved from Michigan to N.Carolina.I had a box of lower end pipes that got lost. I've never found it.

sparrowhawk · Jun 21, 2016

None, although I've misplaced some. I have a bad habit of falling asleep at my worktable; on waking and learning a prize pipe is missing, I check the floor where I fell asleep, even the round file next to the desk. Invariably it's in one of those two places.

bigpond · Jun 21, 2016

Jeepers. Zero. Totally a first world problem lol

sailortodd · Jun 21, 2016

My first pipe was from Racine and Laramie in Old Town San Diego. I haven't seen it in a while. If it isn't in a box somewhere it got lost over the course of four PCS moves. My second pipe came from a pipe shop in Bahrain. It was a great pocket pipe that I smoked all the time. I had a bad habit of taking it out to the bars while I was stationed there, and it no doubt wound up in someone else's possession after I left it at a bar on a blurry night. I can account for every other pipe I have obtained. Not hard given there are only three briars I still have and a cob I just gave away to a budding piper.

panamacharlie · Jun 21, 2016

Do broken pipes count? Many years ago I used to play a lot of pool. I had a bad habit of keeping a pipe in my left trouser pocket. Every once in a while, as I leaned against the table to take a shot, I would hear SNAP, and think, oh shit not again!

rigmedic1 · Jun 22, 2016

I love to reminisce about the pipes I lost over the years. There was a Pete K&P stamped Churchwarden that was a gift from my late wife, back in the 80's. I lost it in 2005. And I had a meerschaum cheroot holder, that had a carving of a horse at a trot atop it. It was huge, another gift. That one went missing around 1995. There were a couple of 70's vintage Yellowbowls and Dr. Grabow's that I lost back in the 80's too.

Then the ones that got away, like a Missourri Meerschaum bent bulldog, that I gave to my son. He lost it. And a beautiful freehand Edwards from the seventies that cracked right down the bowl in mid-smoke. I tossed it in a dumpster.

Dropped a nice LePeltier bent billiard, all white, with an extra large bowl. Shattered into a million peices. That was a great pipe too, and they don't make that shape anymore.

I still have 110 pipes, however. So don't mourn for me, lol.

derfatdutchman · Jun 22, 2016

It wasn't so much lost as destroyed, I was sitting on the back deck smoking a new MM Legend when for some reason I was called away. I set it on the table and went inside, later it started to rain, it kept rain all the next day. When I realized I left my pipe outside the damage was done.

mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast · Jun 22, 2016

I've never lost a pipe.

crashthegrey · Jun 22, 2016

Since actually smoking a pipe, I've never lost one. However, I used to "dabble" and only periodically smoke a pipe. There was one tiny bowled pipe that I used to keep in my glove box that I have not seen since I decided to pick the pipe up seriously. But, it's only been a year and a half since then, so I have plenty of time to discover that I can lose a pipe.

warren · Jun 22, 2016

I have "lost" a few pipes to the fishing gods, chainsaw, and underfoot. I have never lost a pipe as in, I can't find it.
I know where and under what circumstances I "lost" a pipe. This is why I take only cobs, the "disposables of pipes", fishing, camping, gardening, etc.

smokertruck · Jun 22, 2016

lost one 50 years ago & have never gotten over it - given to me by my father - a very large heavy rhodesian large 2" outer diameter bowl engraved all around with an incredible stem - so good tasting i could taste the tobacco i last smoked in the pipe whether it was erinmore , 3 nuns or london dock - the best burley at the time .- left it at a cousins friend's house called for the pipe " no pipe here " yeh !!! - it still eats away at me.

noquarter · Jun 22, 2016

I've lost 3 (Ser Jacopo,Dunhill and Tracy Mincer). A friend was supposed to bring it home for me but somehow got lost along the way.

samcoffeeman · Jun 22, 2016

One Dr. Grabow Omega I left on a tee box at a golf course. I left a couple at my bar, but they all know me there and I recovered them next time in. Great place, good people, shuffleboard haven as well

Smoking allowed!

markus · Jun 22, 2016

I have only lost one pipe, it was a (MM Country Gentleman) cob, and I lost it somewhere while I was on travel, working in the desert of Arizona.

I don't mourn the loss of the cob quite as much as I do the tortoise shell Forever Stem that was attached to it.

Oh well, easy come, easy go...

How many pipes have you lost?

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