Peterson Pipe of the Year 2025

[craig61a]

Got an email, noticed they dropped a little early...

I was on the fence about these. I chose a Rua PSB.In my haste to check out, I didn't notice the chamber diameter. 0.42" - kinda ridiculous. There's a silver cap sand blast which I didn't notice earlier. I'll just let it go...

I don't like buying bent Petes sight unseen. Many times in my experience the draft ho!e is on the back wall of the chamber. Then I just send them back. $15 for the opportunity of being upset with what I got and mailing it back...

 

[Mez]

I about crapped my pants when I had seen they dropped early and 30 min had already passed. Luckily I was able to snag a terracotta I wanted.

 

[Merton]

I wish that Peterson would make a POY of the" Pipe smoker's of Ireland " sandblasted spigot JAP pipe with the canted bowl. It would sell out in a heartbeat.

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

It was unusual that they dropped early.at about 5.30 there was not a terra cotta left.how many was in there in beginning?One heritage was pretty decent, there were 4 ruas but I do not wanna spent 300+ bucks for one.Oom paul is my favorite shape but already got several mostly older comoys, castello and GBDs and ShaMrock.PoY seems to have very thin walls comparing to older oom pauls i have.I think if you want an oom paul - the Ropp heritage is a lot better deal- thicker walls, nicer sandblast,made from very old briar bowl from the past and i paid like 70$ for it like 2 years ago...also at the most pipe shows you can buy old oom pauls from 40-100$ old comoys,Josts, Petes.I do not like Peterson rustication plus it makes walls even thiner..some sandblasted ones were nice some are horrible...but at the end good thing is that Peterson brings those old shapes back.You guys enjoy

 

[Sobrbiker]

It was unusual that they dropped early.

Quite a few were gone by the time I looked at a little after 14:00EST

 

[anotherbob]

I love them. And have yet to have any issues with Petersons aside from their green dye fading the way it does.

 

[filmguerilla]

Skipped this year. Not a huge fan of the Hungarian shape and the chamber size was a bit strange. Still holding out hope they will do an A4 or B47/57 one of these years. Love those old giant Dublins.

 

[dogparkpiper]

Good thing they don’t have fishtail stems. I was about to buy myself another expensive Peterson

 

[Sobrbiker]

Good thing they don’t have fishtail stems. I was about to buy myself another expensive Peterson

The vulcanite p-lip is about what has me pulling the trigger on a rusticated natural, even though I’m not the biggest fan of the shape.

 

[didimauw]

The vulcanite p-lip is about what has me pulling the trigger on a rusticated natural, even though I’m not the biggest fan of the shape.

My vulcanite plip on my spigot, is much sharper than my acrylic. Thinner, but noticeably sharper.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

My vulcanite plip on my spigot, is much sharper than my acrylic. Thinner, but noticeably sharper.

For better or worse, I am equally attracted to both styles.

 

[Capstanblues]

Love the shape, but I want a fishtale bit. So I passed this time around.

 

[Waning Embers]

I didn't notice the chamber diameter. 0.42"

That's more of an ornament than a pipe.

 

[Sobrbiker]

I wish that Peterson would make a POY of the" Pipe smoker's of Ireland " sandblasted spigot JAP pipe with the canted bowl. It would sell out in a heartbeat.

I’d almost think the JAP would be perfect with stems they made for the Short Army line, a spigot would do just fine

 

[Waning Embers]

I wish that Peterson would make a POY of the" Pipe smoker's of Ireland " sandblasted spigot JAP pipe with the canted bowl. It would sell out in a heartbeat.

They did do a JAP for the 2017 POY but it wasn't a spigot.


Correction, it looks like they made an amber stemmed spigot.

 

[georged]

I wish that Peterson would make a POY of the" Pipe smoker's of Ireland " sandblasted spigot JAP pipe with the canted bowl. It would sell out in a heartbeat.

Smooth spigot FTW ---

 

[Nevaditude]

I too admire the JAP 2017. Would LOVE it in a p-lip. That amber stem is a thing of beauty.
I was fortunate enough to get a Natural Rusticated as well. 804/1000.



Just saw the email that it has shipped.

 

[craig61a]

I saw some photos of pipes on another site where the stummels had pits, poor stain, improperly bent stem, and what appeared to be a significant crack…

I’m a fan of the Oom Paul shape, and while this is example is a more sinuous design, I thought it looked pretty good.

I wasn’t totally sold on it at first. But I got the email, went to the site, and there was no queue, and a ton of pipes available. I selected a pipe and quickly checked out so it wouldn’t get bought out from under me.

Peterson has been talking up their quality control in recent years. It baffles me how some of these pipes could’ve made it out the door with the issues I mentioned earlier. They promoted that whole Pete Geek thing over the last few years, now I suppose they figure the Geeks will buy whatever they churn out.

Here’s the Rua 02BB I purchased. It’s a nice looking pipe; I’ll see what I think of it once I have it in hand.

 

[craig61a]

Fat fingers

 

[ssjones]

I would have been interested, vulcanite stem and P-lip. But no system chimney on a full bent, that makes no sense. They've been doing a good job getting the aluminum chimney on new releases, seems odd they would skip a pipe shape crying out for one. I'll stick to my 02.