Anyone else feel wierd about smoking an estate pipe?

[okiescout]

Good point, @orobusto. I guess we may be smoking with a few ghosts when we enjoy our estate pipes. I'm personally glad it creeps some people out, as it will keep the prices lower that way.
Exactly! Too each his own, and personally - thank you to everyone, who for whatever reasons, does not compete in the estate pipe market. I mean that sincerely. It is tough enough with those already willing to buy them.
When I fist started buying better quality estates that were relatively inexpensive. With many people, like myself, being educated by quality information shared by various members here on the forum and elsewhere, they are getting more competitive to bid on. Ahhhh....the good old days :wink:

 

[uneek]

I know what you mean, okie, I got outbid on a very nice estate pipe tonight. It was heartbreaking...

 

[hierophant]

Assuming it's been cleaned properly what's the big deal? Do take your own drinking glasses and cutlery to restaurants?

 

[aldecaker]

Well, since you put it that way, it makes perfect sense. I'm cured!

 

[pipesmoker30]

I'm not sure if anyone still reads this, or if anyone cares anymore. I found this article interesting. I agree but also disagree. I would and have used a pipe that was passed down to me within my family but I know it was kept clean and I know where it's been. On the othe other hand I couldn't bring myself to buy an estate pipe from eBay, you have no idea what that person has, if they have passed away what's the cause or anything. No I'm not scared of death we all have to go sometime and of truth be told we are all waiting for it and that's the only certainty we have in life so what's the be scared of but that's for a different day. Yes and no. A pipe passed down within the family yes I would but a random pipe no I wouldn't. for these who bang on about using cutlery and glasses that's a slight difference. 1) metal ie cutlery is sterilisable item. 2) glasses and cutley are washed in heat. Abit of difference than a flimsy pipe cleaner and wood that cannot be sterilised.

 

[olkofri]

Not afraid of death. But I'm terrified of things that make my life miserable by making me ill without killing me.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Abit of difference than a flimsy pipe cleaner and wood that cannot be sterilised.

Never heard of a pipe retort have you?

 

[aldecaker]

I have a shitload of estate pipes now. Smoke 'em all the time, in fact.

 

[ashdigger]

I smoke estate pipes all the time. As a matter of fact I'd take a pipe out of someone's cold dead hand, clean it, and smoke the embalming fluid out of it.

 

[aldecaker]

You too? I've transcended estate pipes and moved on to casket pipes.

 

[brian64]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTdO-w3xnpw

 

[timt]

I just picked up my first estate a little while back and have smoked it several times with no issues. Except for the constant low grade fever and vague sense of impending doom, I'm fine and love my new old pipe.

 

[olkofri]

You prolly got that fever from me, timt. I was down with influenza last week. Anybody wanna buy one of my pipes? :twisted:

 

[jpmcwjr]

OK, the resurrection of this thread made me waste ten minutes re-reading every post, including my own, which is pretty pathetic. (both my posts and the fact I reread the thread.).
So, some feel weird about the subject; that is clear.
But, surely, many of you may have had an estate f***, i.e., making it with a widow.

 

[ashdigger]

John, sloppy seconds keep it real.

 

[timt]

You prolly got that fever from me, timt. I was down with influenza last week.

Nah, I was kidding about being sick with a fever. The nightmares and the sudden ability to speak several foreign languages though...weird.

 

[pappymac]

I have purchased 15 more estate pipes in the two years since this thread originally started and ended. 7 of them are in my regular rotation. I did a deep cleaning on them all involving salt/alcohol soak, reaming the cake out and a retort.
My health has not been harmed in smoking these pipes.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I was struck down dead, several times from smoking estate pipes. They're dangerous, and you guys need to stop it. How many more of us will continually subjected to our own deaths over and over because of this... evil trend. ::

 

[condorlover1]

Estate Pipes = Dead Dudes Pipe!

 

[crashthegrey]

Don't worry, we'll save all the new White Spots for you, and keep the estate Dunhills. :nana: