A New Castello Vergin

[a3zname]

Hey!
Lately im enjoying the comfort of the Oom paul shape as a clencher, and this on popped online so i grabbed it.
I am amazed at how light this pipe is, only 48 grams, with that bend its like clenching nothing.

I usualy do not like the acrylic as a stem material, but it realy makes little different, here anyway.
This is my first vergin pipe from castello, and i noticed it has a smell i havent detected on any other pipe, the smell is realy good!

here are some pics..

Have a wonderfull day youall

 

[alaskanpiper]

Very nice! Tough to find pipes nicer than good ol’ Castellos. It will be fun to watch the color change on that sucker! Congrats!

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Unstained and unwaxed pipes are... well, they're just plain fun to watch color. My favorite thing is to take a photo when they're new and unsmoked. Take another photo after the first smoke. You'll be amazed at just how much of a difference you'll see. Now sure it won't be much, but it will be noticeable. Next take another photo after 10 smokes and compare, and again at 20 and compare again, and so forth. Other than that, just enjoy smoking it. I've never purchased a Castello, but I hope to have one at some point this year (somewhere in the middle of all the other pipes I'll probably buy haha). I bet that turns out to be a great smoker. Congrats and enjoy the heck out of it!

 

[daveinlax]

If you want the pipe to color evenly I recommend that you handle the warm pipe by the stem. Even with clean hands the you'll uneven dark spots that will never clean up where you hold the pipe. ?

 

[pipecollector34]

Hey!
Lately im enjoying the comfort of the Oom paul shape as a clencher, and this on popped online so i grabbed it.
I am amazed at how light this pipe is, only 48 grams, with that bend its like clenching nothing.

I usualy do not like the acrylic as a stem material, but it realy makes little different, here anyway.
This is my first vergin pipe from castello, and i noticed it has a smell i havent detected on any other pipe, the smell is realy good!

here are some pics..

Have a wonderfull day youall


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I can appreciate the pipe and especially the finish but, the Oom Paul is not on my shape preference chart. I wish you all the best with your new briar. I have a few Castellos and a few others with the naked finish and I love watching them change shades of darkening.
Cheers
Pipe Collector 34 aka Java3

 

[BROBS]

A smell? It was probably stored with pipe tobacco.

 

[Sonorisis]

I've had a few Castello pipes that had an "incense" like smell early in their career. One 55 had such a pronounced smell that I was certain it had been stored in a cabinet at a "head-shop" with incense. But, I later realized it was just a particularly odorous example. The real question is, does this smell come from the wood, or something in the environment at the factory that gets into the wood while it is aging? It made me want to travel to the Castello factory just to sniff around.

 

[BROBS]

That’s interesting. Maybe the resins in the wood are kind of piney?

 

[mso489]

I never could pull the trigger on an Oom-Paul, then my wife gave me one for Christmas a few years ago, and I was an instant convert. That U-turn bend makes it feel weightless, it's true, and many of them have an especially deep bowl. Unfinished (virgin/vergin) pipes are a great experience. My Oom-Paul wasn't unfinished, but I have four or five, and the really old ones look like walnut stain on briar, deep and resonant. To have all this in a Castello is pretty fine.

 

[davidsaulmarshall]

Brilliant looking Oom Paul. All of my Castellos are Vergin and it is an absolute joy to watch both of them colour. I will say that I never bothered to hold the pipe by the stem while smoking. To me, the dark spots that form underneath where your palm and fingers rest makes the pipe 'yours'. Sometimes you can actually make out the faint imprint of your hand across the shank and the bowl; it's delightful.

 

[python]

Nice!

 

[lasabbia]

Beautiful pipe. I’m a big fan of Oom Pauls and natural vergins. What size is that one?

 

[blackpowderpiper]

Beautiful pipe.

 

[a3zname]

Beautiful pipe. I’m a big fan of Oom Pauls and natural vergins. What size is that one?

This one is 53mm hight, 111mm in length and weihhts 48 grams

 

[cigrmaster]

I am sure it will smoke great for you. Congrats on an excellent addition to your collection.

 

[augiebd]

Enjoy the new addition!