Jay here, started a couple years ago with a nice rusticated basket billiard and a tin of Dunhill Standard Mixture Mellow. After a few smokes, I snapped the stem carelessly knocking the pipe over the bathroom wastebasket. Not knowing it could be repaired, I tossed it and set the tobacco aside.
This spring, I tried again with another basket pipe, a sort of 1/8th bent Canadian. It's marked Italy on the rubber stem and identical in dimension to the Savinelli 812. I count at least 10 fills, easy to see why it became a basket pipe. I've dug out the fills and I'm looking to borrow a friend's bead blaster to make it my own. Stay tuned.
I've been enjoying a variety of different tobaccos, favorites thus far being Lane BLWB, Butternut Burley, PS Luxury Bullseye Flake, P&C Trout Stream, Sutliff Great Outdoors, EGR, and my local B&M's 965 match.
I've grown my pipe collection pretty quickly in the last few months--
3 MM cobs (Washington, Legend and the new Huck Finn),
Saddle stem Barling 5229 apple
The aforementioned basket Canadian
A big Barclay-Rex Canadian with two visible pits
Canadian signed by trad sports outfitter Orvis
Savinelli Milano 803KS
Antique Shell 506 (no Savinelli signature, a second?)
Big Marxman imported briar billiard with numerous cracks inside the chamber that smokes super hot, hoping to cake this one a bit and take it slow.
Sasieni Four Dot Walnut Wingate with a burnout and crack on the bottom of the bowl. Purchased in a dim room and with no experience- remind me to take a pen light next time I shop for estates.
All are in heavy rotation except the Sasieni at this point. I may try filling the bottom of that one with some mud at some point, but it does get an occasional smoke.
I sent a letter to Zippo explaining I had begun smoking pipes and wished to continue using my lighter and asked if they would kindly provide a pipe insert for my lighter. Received a package in the mail a couple weeks later and couldn't be happier.
Enjoying the hell out of this. Good stuff all around.
This spring, I tried again with another basket pipe, a sort of 1/8th bent Canadian. It's marked Italy on the rubber stem and identical in dimension to the Savinelli 812. I count at least 10 fills, easy to see why it became a basket pipe. I've dug out the fills and I'm looking to borrow a friend's bead blaster to make it my own. Stay tuned.
I've been enjoying a variety of different tobaccos, favorites thus far being Lane BLWB, Butternut Burley, PS Luxury Bullseye Flake, P&C Trout Stream, Sutliff Great Outdoors, EGR, and my local B&M's 965 match.
I've grown my pipe collection pretty quickly in the last few months--
3 MM cobs (Washington, Legend and the new Huck Finn),
Saddle stem Barling 5229 apple
The aforementioned basket Canadian
A big Barclay-Rex Canadian with two visible pits
Canadian signed by trad sports outfitter Orvis
Savinelli Milano 803KS
Antique Shell 506 (no Savinelli signature, a second?)
Big Marxman imported briar billiard with numerous cracks inside the chamber that smokes super hot, hoping to cake this one a bit and take it slow.
Sasieni Four Dot Walnut Wingate with a burnout and crack on the bottom of the bowl. Purchased in a dim room and with no experience- remind me to take a pen light next time I shop for estates.
All are in heavy rotation except the Sasieni at this point. I may try filling the bottom of that one with some mud at some point, but it does get an occasional smoke.
I sent a letter to Zippo explaining I had begun smoking pipes and wished to continue using my lighter and asked if they would kindly provide a pipe insert for my lighter. Received a package in the mail a couple weeks later and couldn't be happier.
Enjoying the hell out of this. Good stuff all around.
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