A Celebratory Smoke

[fishnbanjo]

The Pipemaker behind the M Pipes brand is Marinko Neralić of Croatia. I chose this Nautilus Morta with tortoise shell stem to celebrate smoking my way through my pipe collection. Keeping it smokey with some nearly 11 y/o sugar flecked Esoterica Stonehaven is practically a celebration of its own but a rather fitting tobacco for this beautiful pipe, regards.

banjo

 

[jndyer]

Congratulations on completing the journey and thank you for sharing each step of your path. I for one have thoroughly enjoyed the pictorial journey.

 

[balkisobrains]

Yeah banjo, that was awesome. Do you have pics of your all of your pipes in their stands (or whatever)? Also, do you have your "selfies" accessible online in one spot somewhere? :puffpipe:

 

[fishnbanjo]

I don't have enough racks for them all which is why I did this the way I did to get them together so to speak. I've managed to get 11 different groups together in racks or permanent receptacles, the 12th group are in a drawer (the bamboo shank group) not exactly how I plan to keep them. I have an empty curio cabinet where many were racked and will revisit what exactly goes back and I have a large 3 tier humidor cabinet that is Glass on 3 sides I need to see how many pipes will fit and still allow me to take what I want w/o disturbing the others, plus i do have spare racks to fill and I'm sure to still have pipes w/o permanent homes. As far as the selfies are concerned they are all on Flickr but not in a folder as yet that will be one project that I need to do. As you can expect this was fun but it was more work than I expected as well but now I've identified some that need repair/restoration and some I have no desire to keep, too large for me, getting them into permanent homes was my intent and that is what my plan is, regards.

banjo