Another Couple of Questions

[HeadMisfit]

Is it any strange reason the Irish seconds have options that aren't avaliable on normal Pete pipes?

Haven't seen a bent bulldog in 80s with a plip .. since the first Sherlock Holmes pipes came out. Or 80s bent bulldog with actual saddle stem since maybe 90?

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Is it any strange reason the Irish seconds have options that aren't avaliable on normal Pete pipes?

Haven't seen a bent bulldog in 80s with a plip .. since the first Sherlock Holmes pipes came out. Or 80s bent bulldog with actual saddle stem since maybe 90?

Then you haven't looked - readily available but only in certain models because . . . the fishtail is the predominant mouthpiece on the 80s across the range. Eight of them with P lips on SP right now, but not cheap. Yep, some saddles out there as well at various places, just not as common.

Irish seconds are production pipes that fail some aspect of quality control - if it is on an Irish Second (since 2019) it is on the same "normal" Peterson pipes, by definition, lol.

 

[OzPiper]

I have seen Petersons all over but i can't understand why some companies put such a high price on them. It's like most things i suppose, your buying the brand.

A large part of pricing is asking what the market is willing to pay.
There are brands that are great value and punch above their price bracket.
Then there are Dunhills. I am a fan and have several.

Brands like Peterson and Savinelli have multiple lines at different price brackets
It's a matter of finding your preferred shape, then finding it in your preferred price bracket.
Or getting one of their seconds.

The other option is finding an estate

 

[Sgetz]

I idiotically got a pipe cleaner broken off in my vulcanite p-lip a while back. I ordered a Peterson acrylic p-lip replacement. Couldn't stand it, made me sad every time I smoked it (it's one of my first pipes and I'm emotionally attached to it. ) I finally got the guts to take a drill bit to the original stem and cleared it. The result altered the draw to redirect the smoke slightly more back, less straight upwards to the roof of the mouth. I actually like it better now.

I suggest using caution with any pipe cleaner in a p-lip, and don't expect a replacement stem to work like the original.

Where did you get the replacement stem please?

 

[Chris T]

Smoking Pipes. I don't know if they're still in stock.

 

[OzPiper]

Where did you get the replacement stem please?

The Danish Pipe Shop has replacement Peterson stems

 

[mortonbriar]

Irish you a merry christmas!

 

[mortonbriar]

For peterson pipes I have all P lip bents, but my one straight billiard is a fishtail.

I think the p lip is great, but it will either work for you or not...

 

[Sgetz]

The Danish Pipe Shop has replacement Peterson stems

Thanks

 

[OzPiper]

Thanks

Look under Accessories - Repair and Service

They did an excellent job making me a new stem to replace a hopelessly oxidised one for an old Stanwell pipe

Old vulcanite stem


New acrylic stem

I told them what I wanted and they delivered

 

[JBob]

I may be onto something. I only started pipe smoking a bit over three weeks ago, as I give up cigs.
I definitely over did things. Bowl after bowl - drawing enough to blow 8 thick smoke rings, then hitting it again immediately.
Never understood how anyone got more than 10-15 minutes out of a whole bowl of tobacco.
I think I fried my whole month. And now waiting just 2 or 3 days isn't enough to recover before returning to the pipe.
Maybe I just need to hang it up for a week or so?

 

[InWithBothFeet]

Keep in mind that you're not trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose...

 

[HeadMisfit]

Keep in mind that you're not trying to suck a golf ball through a garden hose...

I thought it was 2 golf balls through a garden hose back in college