Recently I decided it was time for another pipe to add to my collection. I went to my local pipe shop with an open mind, but I was leaning towards an estate. This pipe shop has over 2000 pipes so usually this process isn't quick for me. I decided to start in the estate cabinets and I found three Comoy's pipes priced at 50.00! The guys at the pipe shop explained that a customer sold his collection of a few dozen Comoy's and that they were slowly being cleaned and sold. I couldn't resist this beautiful wide chamber billiard and I left the store with my first English pipe and a couple oz of Dunhill EMP. Ive smoked the thing twice and im floored by how well it smokes. Even aromatics smoke dry as a bone! I don't get it. There's not even any cake buildup at the moment. Are these 60's ers Comoy's pipes really that exceptional? If so I may have to go get another! Anybody else have a Comoy's that smokes like a dream?
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As near as I can tell, the "old" Comoys are quite revered. There seems to be a big disagreement whether the ones made since the move back to France (from U.K.) are as good, or good at all. But this trove of cleaned up estate pipes sounds like a sure bet. Give them a reasonable going over and buy a few more, and I think you will get an incredible value. You might get the shop to call you when they put new ones up for sale, to get a first (or early) look at them. Sounds like the catbird seat for estate Comoys.
Billkay, you have no idea. Jon's Pipe Shop in Champaign Il is like the pipe Mecca. Excellent house blends, bulks, tins, and a lounge. I don't want to be an advertiser here, but there's no such thing as a quick trip to Jon's.
I have never smoked a Comoy, but know plenty of guys who swear by them. It does not surprise me that your pipe smokes dry as many of the old great houses produced great smoking pipes. My Barlings have a wide shank opening which accounts for the dry smokes they are. I have smoked older British pipes where the shank dimension was too narrow and the pipe smoked wet.
If you love how this one smokes and fro 50.00, you should go back to your b/m and buy as many as you can. Congrats on finding something you really love.
If you love how this one smokes and fro 50.00, you should go back to your b/m and buy as many as you can. Congrats on finding something you really love.
billkqy,
Not sure what you mean, could you clarify this for me. Are you saying that the Danes came up with the larger shank dimensions?
Jon's sounds wonderful!
We have a number of Comoys fans here, check out this thread:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/show-off-your-comoys-pipe-here?replies=40#post-930803
We have a number of Comoys fans here, check out this thread:
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/show-off-your-comoys-pipe-here?replies=40#post-930803
Gotcha. 3mm being roughly equivalent to 3/32", that's still pretty narrow to me. When I have to increase the airway diameter on a troublesome pipe, 5/32" seems to be the magic number. Bear in mind, I would not do that to a Comoys, I would just sell it off instead of tampering with it. On a Grabow or a basket-level pipe, though, I tweak and tune until they're exactly how I like them.
3mm is in fact narrow. I typically ream my stummels to a 5/32 and I use a tapered bit in the stem to bring it from a 5/32 to a 1/8 at the end near the fishtail. However, I wouldn't dare change anything on a pipe made by a company that's been making pipes for almost 200 years like Comoy's. Surely they know magic ratios of bowl diameter to draft hole diameter.
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