Are You More a "Pipe Guy" or A "Tobacco Guy"?

[LikeDadDid]

I'm new, so it's hard to say, but since several of my pipes are my older brother's (@Jerry144) POS rejects, I will have to say I am probably shaping up to be a tobacco guy. And okay, honesty requires me to say he gave me a Nording and a Savinelli, both of which are very nice, but I just think he could have done better, you know?

 

[crawdad]

Tobacco guy here

 

[RookieGuy]

Without tobacco, you can use a pipe to blow bubbles, hold paper against the wind, or display it as a trophy.

You can also use it to point at stuff during a lecture you're giving. Or tap it pensively.

I'm kind of neither or both at this point. I've only recently started smoking a pipe, about a year ago. So I'm still learning cadence and drying while picking up a pipe here and a couple tins there.

 

[karam]

Tobacco, though I like my pipes and want to add a couple of shapes to my collection: a bulldog and a Sav 904

 

[OzPiper]

A nice range of responses as would be expected in a forum.
I love my pipes and enjoy "the quickening of the pulse" when one comes along that "rings my bell"
I also love having new blends to try. What I find very enjoyable still is deciding on which tobacco to smoke and which pipe(s) I'll use on the day.
Along with what I'll drink while I'm smoking.
I only smoke on the weekends or when I'm having a day off, so I really want to maximise each experience. A smoke for me is not "something to do" but something to which conscious thought is given.
Sorry for the long-winded response. Put me in the 50:50 camp ?

 

[samuelgawith01]

50/50.
Can't smoke one without the other.I also love pipes for the "object" aspect.I guess I could smoke my mixtures from an empty pop can,but it wouldn't be the same.

 

[saltedplug]

Lots of great replies. If you like, read Python's in a response he wrote in an article in 2011.

I quit three years ago but if I still smoked I would probably pickup from where I left off, 70% pipe and 30% tobacco. I have become fascinated with and addicted to pipes, but that only so long as I had DF in the bowl.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I gave my answer in an article that I wrote quite awhile ago:

Pipes or Tobacco - What's Your Passion?

I can appreciate your preferences, but lots of tobaccos is like the men who have a stock pile of shaving soaps in the shave forums.

Just to disagree respectfully, anyone using a pipe to smoke tobacco is a pipe smoker, IMHO.

 

[Jaylotw]

You can also use it to point at stuff during a lecture you're giving. Or tap it pensively.

This is true. Pipes are wonderful gesturing tools. I’ve used them as props while storytelling (“and this is how the Edmund Fitzgerald split apart!” while separating the pipe and stem) and to point aggressively at the kids on my lawn, making sure they knew precisely what direction I’d like them to fuck off to.

Another point, I find when I see a picture of a pipe, I think “hmm, nice pipe”. Yet show me a picture of someone’s well stocked cellar, and the beast of jealousy rears it’s head and I salivate.

 

[anotherbob]

I can appreciate your preferences, but lots of tobaccos is like the men who have a stock pile of shaving soaps in the shave forums.

Just to disagree respectfully, anyone using a pipe to smoke tobacco is a pipe smoker, IMHO.

hey nothing wrong with knowing you won't have to buy shaving soap for at least another couple years.

 

[GCW]

Started as a cigar smoker but inherited my grandfather's pipes and the rest is history. I did have to adjust to the fact that most pipe tobaccos (that i've encountered) are mild when compared to cigars. I'm still working out nuances and retrohaling to find the myriad and depth of flavors pipe blends claim to have. Wondering if that experience is unique to myself or perhaps others have found this to be the case as well?

 

[renfield]

I get more enjoyment out of the tobacco part of the equation. Whether it’s enjoying an old favorite or trying new, or new to me, blends I find a broader range of experiences than I get from the pipes.

In the past I’ve dabbled in pipe collecting but that itch has stayed scratched for quite a while. I now have an adequate variety of pipes to keep me satisfied.

 

[FurCoat]

Tobacco by far.

 

[LongHairDontCare]

Tobacco. At the end of the day, if need be, I could build a suitable pipe out of all kinds of stuff. I’d have a hell of a lot more trouble trying to produce my own Perique

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Tobacco, hands down. I might own 12-15 pipes, and most of those are cobs. I probably have over 100 “open” blends in the closet though.

 

[jewman22]

I tend to find the pipe more interesting, shape, fit, finish, colour, stem materials, how they differ in their interaction with different tobaccos. They are neat little bits of wood and plastic for sure.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Started as a cigar smoker but inherited my grandfather's pipes and the rest is history. I did have to adjust to the fact that most pipe tobaccos (that i've encountered) are mild when compared to cigars. I'm still working out nuances and retrohaling to find the myriad and depth of flavors pipe blends claim to have. Wondering if that experience is unique to myself or perhaps others have found this to be the case as well?

I came from cigars to pipes as well. Initially just because the tobacco is so much less expensive, but I became enamored with the huge diversity of tastes.

 

[Casual]

Just as soon as my most recent unnecessary pipe comes in the mail, I’ll be a tobacco guy.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

hey nothing wrong with knowing you won't have to buy shaving soap for at least another couple years.

Reminds me of the saying, “a man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure”. ?

 

[anotherbob]

Reminds me of the saying, “a man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never quite sure”. ?

I don't have a watch I keep meaning to get one. Since they're pretty damn useful. Though while I have a stock of shaving soap it's one type. Proraso red which just is one of the few that gives me a comfortable shave, why because the most manly thing about me is my ability to grow a stupid beard. Seriously would take less then a year to get a zztop beard. Takes one month before people start asking how long did it take to grow that thing and then look at me like I am full of it when I say a month. Honestly one of my friends put it really well. If I was the only man you knew you'd think it was called five o'clock shadow because that's how long it takes from a morning shave before I have it. Now aftershaves that could be troublesome but I keep that simple, how sexy do I want to smell? How's that for things you never wanted to know?