Any Negatives to Estate Pipes?
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I never regretted buying any of the estate pipes that I own, and use.
Once sanitized/refurbished I could care less if it was old, or new. It's a pipe....just an object of utility.
Actually...I prefer purchasing estate-pipes because I could more easily afford the prices a good or great estate-pipe.
Old or new pipes....it doesn't matter to me one bit. A pipe is a pipe.
Once sanitized/refurbished I could care less if it was old, or new. It's a pipe....just an object of utility.
Actually...I prefer purchasing estate-pipes because I could more easily afford the prices a good or great estate-pipe.
Old or new pipes....it doesn't matter to me one bit. A pipe is a pipe.
Well, I used to be of the mind that I didn’t want to spend money on somebody else’s sloppy seconds, but now my 2 favorite pipes are restored Kirsten estate pipes. ?
Forgot the negative part. I'm sure there are few. I just don't feel good about smoking another person's pipe. Just a personal thing. But if they provide complete medical history of the person going back 15 yrs before stop using the pipe, I might consider it.
I know it's no grosser then going to a restaurant and using the silverware in fact it's kind of less gross then that. But there for me is also the irrational ick factor.
I don’t personally have the desire to restore estates or deal with fussy issues on pipes. That being said, three of my 6 pipes were estates, just realllllly clean ones.
Commoner.... ?
Not a problem with estates, some 40 or more. Almost all were at least cleaned before I got them. I then flush it out, ream if necessary, and let sit a week.
I am also fond of new pipes, mostly commissioned.
I am also fond of new pipes, mostly commissioned.
Just smoke a hot bowl of Hunted Bookshop. Nothing could survive that crap. It kills COVID, cures bad hair and makes you appreciate good tobacco.
all this coronavirus crap made me less concerned with germ propaganda and virus-theory - technically a virus isn't alive it only activates upon contraction and lives within organisms - Yea... my foot - I'll stick to Louis Pasteur and bacteria and actual germs like botulism and tetanus - everything else is a scam - The one thing I DO NOT worry about is an estate pipe once given a thorough once over. OCD, SUPERSTITION and FEAR is the disease of today - that's what the mind-thieves want of you - they also hate tobacco
I’ll hold a seance for my 100 year old pipes.....or maybe use a ouija board....
The only pipes I've bought to smoke mostly over the past few years have been estates or commissions.
After you corned the market on that one shape via estates. Of course you had to buy new. No estates left.
One upside of estate pipes is that they bring a historical dimension you may not get with new pipes. I have an estate Thompson Cigar house pipe that is stamped "West Germany." One downside is that I don't build cake and don't own a reamer; I wipe the bowl clean with a paper towel after scooping out the ash, so the chamber diameter has no discernible decrease in size. Dealing with someone else's cake and reaming does not appeal to me. The estate pipes I have were not caked, and I didn't have to ream them. With normal soaking and washing of stems, sanitation is routine, like dishwashing.
well I'd say when the majority obtain 'estate' pipes - that's all been done by the vendor - if you get it at a flea market or estate sales/carboot, or antique shops/goodwill then maybe you'd need to some reamin' but at that I'd expect to be buying pipes for $4 a piece.
I purchased pipes that were so caked I couldn’t put a pencil in them. I simple ream the cake, give it three runs through my kosher salt and 190 proof soak, a stack of pipe cleaners, a stem clean up and after it all dries, I fire that bad boy up and enjoy.
I just obtained a gourd calabash and cleaned it just like a briar. A little elbow grease and patience is highly rewarding.
BUT, this is why Baskin Robbins makes more than vanilla. To each his own.
I’ll finally add, there isn’t a right way or a wrong way to buy pipes, just lesson learned, trials crossed and stories to be told.
I wonder if the people's whose concern about "estate" pipes is that the pipe has in someone else's mouth have ever been out to a restaurant...
Sometimes they taste weird... that only adds to the problem of knowing that it spent time hanging out of somebody else's mouth.
But we use silverware at restaurants with no regard.. bottom line, I'm pro estate pipes.
But we use silverware at restaurants with no regard.. bottom line, I'm pro estate pipes.
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