My First Oom Paul! (Odd Brand)

I've only had one other Oom Paul before. Back in the early 1980s when I first started smoking a pipe, a friend gave me a Kaywoodie Oom Paul pipe. I was just learning about pipe smoking and it gave me fits. The stem was slightly overclocked and I didn't understand the stinger thing, and all it would do is gurgle. So I gave it back. (now I wished I kept it) Anyway, I didn't even know what an Oom Paul shape was then. I've always thought about getting one again, and today I finally did, about 30 years later.

My wife and I decided to go to Jackson (MS) today to do a little shopping, etc. We don't go to Jackson often, as it's about 100 miles away, but when we do, we always go to our favorite B&M, The Country Squire. Well they had a boat load of estate Oom Pauls there, and when I saw the Jansen's N.O. I knew I had to have it! I have a Jansen's Bulldog I bought about 27 years ago when we were in New Orleans on vacation, so I was excited to see another as they're not that common. Fortunately it was the cheapest one too, so I added it to the rest of the tobacco, pipe cleaners, etc. that I was buying. It was pretty much ready to go, but I just had to massage it a little more, and wax it up nice, and now I'm sitting here smoking some Molto Dolce in it and it's a real treat! Big deep bowl, it just seems so different from all my other pipes.

My wife's happy too, as she got some new kind of flake tobacco (Faulkner Flake.... hey it's Mississippi, ok?) and she got a new bamboo wind chime at Home Depot. Sometimes the simple life is so good! 8)

Very nice Lorenzo, papipeguy! They do look real similar, but if I remember right, Jansen didn't actually make the pipes, but was the name of the shop owner, and they had pipes made under their name by either Comoy or GBD. It was a really great old pipe shop though, very old and funky!