Beaters - Show Em Here, Talk About Em Here

[telescopes]

Have a beater? You like it because it smokes nicely.

Post it here.

I would begin, but I don't currently have any.

Perhaps you have a few hundred lying around in a tool shed or barn or the pockets of your car doors.

THIS would be a fine place to show them off.

 

[coming to_falling too]

 

[didimauw]

I would begin, but I don't currently have any.

Perhaps you have a few hundred lying around in a tool shed or barn or the pockets of your car doors.

THIS would be a fine place to show them off.

Or bowls in the shop.

 

[Briar Tuck]

This leather wrapped Kiko is a beater. The leather is well worn but intact, with tight seams, the crumbling meerschaum lining is surely held in place only by the cake that I dare not ream. It's a nice smoker though and a perfect woods pipe.

 

[BarrelProof]

I would begin, but I don't currently have any.

You don’t have to spike the football!

 

[bullet08]

No beaters. All pipes are used and cared for, even cobs. Don't really baby them, but don't kick 'em around either.

 

[Lumbridge]

This Missouri Pride cob has been my "beater" for a while. I smoked it so much the bottom of the cob deteriorated from the moisture, so I glued a worn down buffalo nickel to the bottom. It worked.

The other is a new acquisition, an El Morjane Algerian briar I got for $10 on the Bay. It has a big crack in the rear of the bowl (and the seller made it right for me), but I'm going to smoke it until it falls apart just to see how long it lasts and how well it smokes in that condition.

I'm with @bullet08 though that I don't abuse any of my pipes or leave them totally uncleaned. However, it's nice to have one or two that I don't mind getting dinged up and wouldn't be too sad if an unfortunate fate befell them.

 

[warren]

Any of my cobs I suppose. They go fishing, chainsawing, into the wood shop and are generally treated like crap. They're priced right, I buy 'em by the page..

 

[Grangerous]

Not necessarily a beater, but I have a brass military mount, Danish made Stanwell —- that accepts those cheap plastic Missouri Meerscham plastic stems.

Because of this, Ive drawer kept it’s actual stem and I smoke the hell out of it, replacing the MM plastic stems as needed.

It’s a great smoking briar and I can disassemble it while smoking to get at the mortise with a pipe cleaner. It also fits folded in a shirt pocket. So it attains “beater” status even though it’s really not.

 

[canucklehead]

My Medico VFQ squat bulldog qualifies as it is definitely well beaten. It was beat up when I got it and since then I've smoked it more times in more places than any other pipe I own. It's small enough to carry in a pocket, and it was my van console and dog walking pipe for years.




Also everything in this picture:

 

[yanoJL]

Any of my cobs I suppose. They go fishing, chainsawing, into the wood shop and are generally treated like crap. They're priced right, I buy 'em by the page..

Same. That's what my cobs are for.

Not just as beaters for use outdoors or during recreation, but also if I'm trying a new tobacco that I'm not too sure about.

 

[greysmoke]

Mine is a made in Italy "Imported Briar" no name. I picked it up at an estate sale in 1987 or 88; it was missing a stem. I kept it for a few years and finally had a stem made by Mark Tinsky. I soon realized there was a fissure in the bowl that allowed a small amount of smoke to seep out. Once a cake was built up, the problem diminished. It's the pipe I choose while cutting the lawn, etc. I finally sent it off to Reborn Pipes for a complete refurb, including a fix of the bowl fissure. I posted it for sale at an auction site. No one wants to buy it! (It's a perfectly good pipe; I just need fewer of them.)



Good to know it's a Genuine Sandblast, and not one of those fake sandblasts. The sitter bottom is a nice feature though.



Note the bowl walls are not only thin but irregular in thickness. It's not hard to see why the bowl integrity was poor -- plus the fact that no one put their brand name on it. But it's a nice shape, it's small and super lightweight.

 

[agnosticpipe]

Here's my two beater pipes photographed on my beater work top. The top pipe is a no name bulldog imported briar sterling that smokes amazingly well, and the bottom one is a small lovat from Peretti that is an easy pipe to clench when I'm doing something else. Other than cleaning, they're as I bought them.

 

[rmbittner]

As a couple of others have commented, I don’t own any pipes I’d call “beaters.” I take care of all of them equally, from the basket pipes to the handmade pipes. If I’m in a situation where a pipe is likely to get lost or damaged, then I’m not smoking a pipe.

 

[mso489]

Work horse pipes that work well tend to earn elevated status with me. Cobs may start as beaters but, as they used to say of ship crew members, they soon become "permanent party." If they last a decade or more, they become revered.

 

[canucklehead]

Work horse pipes that work well tend to earn elevated status with me. Cobs may start as beaters but, as they used to say of ship crew members, they soon become "permanent party." If they last a decade or more, they become revered.

If they make it to 100 years do they become self aware?

Tsukumogami - Wikipedia

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[ThermionicScott]

Work horse pipes that work well tend to earn elevated status with me. Cobs may start as beaters but, as they used to say of ship crew members, they soon become "permanent party." If they last a decade or more, they become revered.

That resonates with me. When I bought my first couple of pipes, a Dr Grabow Omega and a Missouri Meerschaum cob, they were my only smokers and I wasn't super-careful with them. They went along to college parties, camping trips, you name it. Now that they've been with me for so long, I treat them much better.

I have another cob or two that I'm not very attached to (yet), but the funny thing is that if I really wanted a designated "beater" I might have to buy another pipe for that role!

 

[Zamora]

I bought this Bruken estate from a local antique shop, only $30 and fully restored. I haven't smoked it yet but it was too good a deal to pass up and I think it will be perfect for when I feel comfortable enough to smoke something other than my MM, it clenches well so I look forward to going lunting with it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I guess that would apply to most if not all of mine.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Pictured are my two remaining "beaters" in my collection.
- First is a straight billiard Marbury 291 (made in France).
- Second is a bent brandy basket pipe (made in Czech Republic), which is the first pipe I bought back in 2011.



All my corn cobs are "beaters" aswell. No need for a picture as they're your typical cobs.