5 cob, 7 brier. Out of the 7, 3 are the same pipe savinelli Tundra 111 ex.
How Many Pipes do you Have?
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Somewhere between 100 and 200 for me. Only about 60 are in good smokable condition with another 25 or so waiting for a restore and a smoke. The rest is stock I built up when I was restoring and selling.
Little over 30 Peterson and some MM cobs. 5 or so Morgan bones for backup.
I have my 36 count rack full of nothing but American made artisan pipes. I have 2 artisan pipes that won't fit in either rack I have. My other rack is a 15 count rack that sits empty waiting for new pipes to put in it. I also have 3 Meers, but I don't count them as I rarely if ever smoke them.
I recently did a culling of around 60 pipes which gives me all kinds of room now.
I recently did a culling of around 60 pipes which gives me all kinds of room now.
13 of them, if you count the two that are en route.
Wow...that question just frightened me. The answer? I do not know how many I have total. I know there are three meers I smoke almost exclusively.
94. One cob (I don't like them), 2 meerschaum, 5 churchwardens and the rest mostly British, Italian, American and some Danish briars. I've only ever sold a handful since I started buying pipes in the 70's.
84. I swore to stop buying pipes when my pipe racks got full. Now I have pipes lying on a book shelf so I am on the hunt for another rack, and then I swear, no more pipes.
Looks like 19 in smoking rotation.
1 of those is a cob.
1 of those is a meer.
Of the 17 briars,
1 is basket,
1 is drugstore,
9 are mid-range factory
2 are "workshop" (artisan with assistants)
4 are artisan.
Outside of smoking rotation, I have:
(a) a couple of interest-pieces [a tyrolian I rarely smoke, and an artisan's early crappy work he gave me for fun]
(b) 8 or so drug store pipes that I may give away to acquaintances who want to learn...
(c) about 15 remaining pipes for sale, most of them artisan, that I picked up at an estate auction.
1 of those is a cob.
1 of those is a meer.
Of the 17 briars,
1 is basket,
1 is drugstore,
9 are mid-range factory
2 are "workshop" (artisan with assistants)
4 are artisan.
Outside of smoking rotation, I have:
(a) a couple of interest-pieces [a tyrolian I rarely smoke, and an artisan's early crappy work he gave me for fun]
(b) 8 or so drug store pipes that I may give away to acquaintances who want to learn...
(c) about 15 remaining pipes for sale, most of them artisan, that I picked up at an estate auction.
Not counting cobs and clays, I have 55 pipes (briar, meerschaum & pear root).
In October I smoked all 55 of them just so I could say I do smoke them all.
In October I smoked all 55 of them just so I could say I do smoke them all.
I have 30 to 40 of which I smoke them all.
57, with 6 yet to arrive.
I smoke most of them but tend to gravitate to about 10.
I smoke most of them but tend to gravitate to about 10.
me too. Very important no one reads that as me 2. I have ten pipes. 9 in the regular rotation and one special occasion one. I could technically say 12 but that one pipe is unsmokable which is fine cause it was really super cheap and I knew it was probably going be a bad smoker, and then I could say I have two falcons but I have one falcon just two stems and two bowls.
I sense that a lot of members, like me, prefer not to take a disciplined count very often. Now and then, I bolster up my courage and actually move from rack to rack, finding a few pipes hiding or double-racked, and ferreting out the cobs on the bookshelf, etc. The number of pipes I have isn't something I'm particularly proud to determine. Though I like them all. The ones that fall out of favor get culled and traded off. As time goes on, fewer fall into that category. For members who have decidedly more pipes than they smoke or want, now is a good time to recycle them, sell or trade them off. The estate (used) market is good right now, and that may or may not remain true.
Over the past 60 years of smoking, I've collected 105 pipes, mostly briars, but a few meerschaums, cobs, clays, "The Pipe" and gourd calabashes. They are all technically in the rotation.
Update. I just ordered another 15 pipe stand.
I own 4 briars, 1 meer and 1 clay but rarely smoke them. I primarily smoke cobs and have 8 of those in my rotation, with another dozen or so unsmoked cobs for backups.
