Are Any Of You Guys As Traditional As Myself?

[cigrmaster]

I have more Billiards and Dublins and Apples than any other style. The rest of my collection is made up of Rhodesians, Brandy's, I have one Bulldog, one Volcano, one Cherrywood and a few more onesies.
It is kind of weird because my cloths are all silk, my shoes are Lizard and Crocodile Mezlans. I have expensive suits and sport coats. I have killer leather coats one is a yellow leather from Spain that is a total looker.

I just cannot get into tad pol,Ramses, Pokers, free hands and so many others. So are any of you guys like me, got to have traditional pipes but are pretty fancy in other areas?

 

[briarbuck]

Trying to wrap my head around a Yellow leather coat, silk shirts and Crocks...

 

[tradition]

<...my screen name.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

It really depends on what we are calling "traditional." I mean, are we talking peace pipes, "based on clay pipe designs," 100 years back, 50, or if it was around when i started smoking? I have mostly dublins and bulldogs, which are some of the oldest briar production shapes. I have a few various other shapes, but nothing extreme, well, that depends on whether one deems bamboo and pencil thin shanks extreme. I'm not sure if I would deem pokers new or a fad, as they've been around for way longer than I've been alive. I'm just not the biggest fan, but I have one bamboo poker that I just love, because of the proportions and how it smokes.

I have a few silk shirts for summer dress, and I probably have more ties than most men. I think I own one pair of blue jeans. I have a lot of suit coats, but only one winter coat that I will pull out of the attic for the few weeks that it is needed.

I don't think of leather coats as traditional. I think of Fonzie or bikers maybe or 70's hipsters scoring coke in disco bathrooms.

But, do I just go looking for traditional as a category, not really. I just wear what pleases me. And, I just buy pipes that appeal to me.

I bet you are the most stylish traditional guy in a wheelchair... or did you get one of those awesome electric Jazzy deals that can crawl up stairs?

 

[briarbuck]

For the sake of full disclosure I cannot pick out clothes if my life depended on it. Virtually color blind.

Thank God for my wife or I would need Garanimals...

 

[cigrmaster]

Cos, I have seen a lot of your pipes and would consider many to be traditional. I could see you sporting a nice shirt and slacks as you have a wife and wouldn't let you out of the house wearing blue jean cuts offs and muscle shirts.

Briar, how about your pipes, traditional or not so much?

 

[jerseysam]

I'm in the modern camp. I absolutely enjoy the classics.....but first love is the more adventurous/unique artisan carvings. I started down the path of also chasing classic Britwood; stacked up against my zero-sum pool of personal time/DI with my other vices I couldn't make it all work in a "some type of effort" collection sense. So I kept on buying whisky, antique firearms, and fancy-lad pipes foremost. Still buy "classics" as they catch my eye (especially Victorian era), but not where I toss big $'s.

 

[briarbuck]

Cos, I have seen a lot of your pipes and would consider any to be traditional. I could see you sporting a nice shirt and slacks as you have a wife and wouldn't let you out of the house wearing blue jean cuts offs and muscle shirts.

Briar, how about your pipes, traditional or not so much?

I would say that I have both. I have a number of traditional shapes...but also am a big fan of Rad's pipes. So while I value (and own) uber-traditional brands and shapes like Dunhill, Comoy's, Castello etc, I also enjoy many of the artists from the American School of pipe making.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Briar, how about your pipes, traditional or not so much?

I am a forged in fire briar man. I think that the slight aroma that warmed briar adds to the smoke is essential for me. I know some guys can smoke clays, and meerschaums are very traditional, but just not for me. Cobs, well, hopefully by now, people know my opinions on those, ha ha. But, for me... I even get a little picky about the types of briar. None of that underaged or off cut briar for me. I have a few grabows I bought to try out early on, but they just have something off in the aroma that bothers me... princess and the pea... maybe.

Briar is just durable, nice looking, and accentuates the flavors, IMO. It's just what pipes are supposed to be, for me. Anyone else can smoke what pleases them,

And, yep, my wife would look at me cross-eyed if I tried to wear cut offs, ha ha.

 

[jerseysam]

.. just straight nonsense, I dunno. Maybe a more accurate take is I like pipes with some soul and style. I get a bit bored with both billiard and danish-blob infinte repeats no matter how much someone goes on about the refined blast or perfect engineering. Boring.

 

[sandollars]

I, too, am a Briar "til I die" man but I like unusual-functional pipes. Nothing off the wall but an odd Blowfish or pencil is right up my alley.

If Dunhill is a "1" and most of the showcase pieces on PipesArt are "10's, I am about a "4 to 6"

 

[canucklehead]

Almost all of my briar pipes are traditional shapes, mosty billiards and bulldogs.

I don't own a single silk anything. I dress nicely, occasionally in a suit, if going to church or out to dinner, but for every day life I'm usually wearing sweat pants and hoodies. No crocodile shoes, but I wear crocs everyday, so that's close enough, right?

 

[hawky454]

The longer I smoke the more I find myself liking the traditional shapes the best but I also do very much enjoy the more Danish approach as well. But lately, I’m almost always smoking traditional shapes. It’s funny how tastes change. When I first started smoking I hated straight pipes, I always bought bent pipes. I still like bents but nothing beats a straight billiard, Dublin or a Bulldog in my opinion. I really like the pot shape too.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I don't care much for billiards, have a few Dublins. I mostly prefer Artisan's take on traditional shapes with Rhodesians and Bulldogs bring my favorites.

Harris, I've seen you in the yellow leather. Reminded me of a pimp I saw in the combat zone in Boston. In fact, I figured you may have stolen it from him.

I'm very much into dressing up myself. Drifit teeshirts with gym pants are my preferred attire. I do put on a collared Nike or Under Amour shirt to play golf. I consider it a good year whenever I didn't have to wear a tie once. That means nobody I care enough about to go to their funeral died.

 

[Tennessee Dave]

I just buy what I like.

 

[LOREN]

I am a forged in fire briar man. I think that the slight aroma that warmed briar adds to the smoke is essential for me. I know some guys can smoke clays, and meerschaums are very traditional, but just not for me. Cobs, well, hopefully by now, people know my opinions on those, ha ha. But, for me... I even get a little picky about the types of briar. None of that underaged or off cut briar for me. I have a few grabows I bought to try out early on, but they just have something off in the aroma that bothers me... princess and the pea... maybe.

Briar is just durable, nice looking, and accentuates the flavors, IMO. It's just what pipes are supposed to be, for me. Anyone else can smoke what pleases them,

And, yep, my wife would look at me cross-eyed if I tried to wear cut offs, ha ha.

At least your wife doesn't dis- own you when you're out. My wife is like, "I don't know who that bizarrely dressed guy that is, honest." ?

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

in a word, yes... I like traditional shapes, I gravitate to billiards, Bings, Lovats, Canadians etc... weird Danish shapes are not my cup of bouillabaisse

 

[LOREN]

In pipes, only traditional for me. Nothing modern or free-hand.

 

[workman]

Traditional here. Billiards, bent mostly, and bulldogs are my preferred shapes.
I'm not much of a dresser, though. Most of the time I'm in my working gear. When I'm not working, I prefer jeans and flannel shirts.
I hate ties. They make me claustrophobic.
Leather jackets I like.
My wife's hot, so I don't need fancy clothes. I scored her without.

 

[Old School 3319]

I have mostly traditional pipes about 60% briars. only one bulldog and one bent. I wear blue jeans and button down shirts every week day and weekend are bibs. I own a few coats but usually just wear a heavy flannel shirt if its cold