A bad Pipe Lasts Forever

[Briar Lee]

This morning as the rooster crows to announce another day, I sit and apply grape seed oil and obsidian oil to my 70 plus year old Marxman Jumbo B. The pipe is an excellent smoker but made of a lower grade of Algerian briar, and a lower grade of vulcanite that oxidizes easily. It’s a bad pipe, as pipes go, but it’s a sound and useable one.

But since somehow it escaped being just smoked to death, now that it’s found a good home where it’s going to be kept clean, polished, rotated and loved this bad pipe could last practically forever, if after I’m gone somebody else puts it in a big rotation of other pipes and takes care of it.

What else do we own so durable and ever lasting, as a briar pipe?

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[Grangerous]

It’s a nice looking pipe! Wood can last forever! We had an Egyptian wood carving in the family. My ex-wife’s grandmother would let school children touch. It was unearthed by a soldier in the desert and brought home. It was a burial piece, painted and amazing to hold. I would just stare at it in awe because it was well over 2000 years old and so well preserved. Yeah, our lifetimes are short in the grand scheme of things. Our pipes will be here long after we’re gone. Even my Cobs!

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Good quality kitchen knives.
Unless some garlic crusher or speed peeler user gets hold of them, surely they will last for centuries.

 

[jewman22]

Shotguns bud, got me some over 100yrs old that still lock up tight.

 

[mso489]

A briar pipe lasts longer than a can of Barbasol shaving soup, which is a long damn time. I hope that's an old U.S. factory pipe; it sure looks like one. They're like middle price U.S. cars from the 1950's, nothing fancy, but more adorable by the hour after a certain age.

About those old shotguns, just be sure you feed them black powder if that's their required diet. Otherwise you'll blow away that Damascus steel barrel and possibly yourself.

 

[alaskanpiper]

What else do we own so durable and ever lasting, as a briar pipe?

A passionate hatred for tobacco taxes.

 

[hauntedmyst]

I got one of those Lee, it's this McCrainies. I got it in a package deal. I keep it because its a good smoker even though I am not a fan of the style. It's been in a flood, left out in Chicago winters and been cared for less than any pipe I own but it just keeps punching away. I recently refinished it to be less offensive on the eyes.

 

[strave19]

Sorry Briar Lee, I think that old Marxman is ugly as sin!

Haunted - I really like the look and shape of that one though, even moreso after the makeover.

I have some no name beaters that will probably outlast me as well!

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Olympic sized Barbell Plates never lose value no matter how old they are.

 

[telescopes]

Sorry Briar Lee, I think that old Marxman is ugly as sin!

Haunted - I really like the look and shape of that one though, even moreso after the makeover.

I have some no name beaters that will probably outlast me as well!

Marxman did make some ugly pipes.

 

[OzPiper]

Good quality kitchen knives.
Unless some garlic crusher or speed peeler user gets hold of them, surely they will last for centuries.

I can't see either of my sons wanting my pipes, unless it's a keepsake.

But I can see them "discussing" who gets which of my Japanese kitchen knives. Perhaps not so much my pocket knives.

 

[OzPiper]

Sorry Briar Lee, I think that old Marxman is ugly as sin!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
In this case, I have to agree with you 100%

 

[Servant King]

Good quality kitchen knives.
Unless some garlic crusher or speed peeler user gets hold of them, surely they will last for centuries.

Or Lorena Bobbitt...

What, too soon? ?

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Or Lorena Bobbitt...

What, too soon? ?

Good knives could be ruined by a butcher cutting meat off the bone, or using a glass cutting board, but Lorena managed to avoid both of these surfaces for cutting so the at least the knife wasn't in any danger.

 

[telescopes]

Sorry Briar Lee, I think that old Marxman is ugly as sin!

Haunted - I really like the look and shape of that one though, even moreso after the makeover.

I have some no name beaters that will probably outlast me as well!

Marxman did make some ugly pipes.

 

[Waning Embers]

"A Bad Pipe Lasts Forever"

 

[mikethompson]

A bad pipe can physically last forever, but I don't make a habit of keeping bad pipes on my rack.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

Or Lorena Bobbitt...

What, too soon? ?

I'd forgotten all about that, and had to look her up on Google.
Ouch ! I won't be inviting her to lunch.

 

[kcghost]

A pipe will just live forever If it gets any kind of care at all. It will just about last as long as the guy who own stays it out of the ground.
Lorena Bobbit might be interesting to go on a date with but if wouldn't take any clothing aff around her.