Best and Worst Pipes

[rigmedic1]

Best smoking pipe: A toss up, really, between my recently purchased Peterson Plato, a 30 year old Nording Freehand, and a 30 plus year old Edwards basket billiard. I have owned over a hundred pipes over the years, and still have 60 or so, so it's difficult to decide. The worst I still have is a Butz Choquin D'Accord, in a sort of calabash shape. It smokes so hot I only smoke it during the winter when the temp is below 40 degrees. Some of my pipes are particular too: my Pete Emerald 264 and Shortcut to Mushrooms are sublime together, and Penzance just sings in my Barne semi-rusticated calabash.

 

[shawn]

Off topic a bit... had a boss I did not like so much when I was younger. When she wasn't around I would pour a bit on milk on her office carpet. Just a little here and there. You now that ofter a few days it start to smell like a bad pipe in there.

 

[sirsmokesalot]

Best pipe....A Nording freehand from years ago.

Worst pipe...A corn cob that must have been grown in a field with to much horse manure! :mrgreen:

 

[zanthal]

Best:
LJ Peretti, like it so much I'm getting a custom stem to replace this one.

Worst:
Wouldn't smoke it if I still had a tree and a swiss army knife to carve my own pipe from. Rosewood is awful pipe material.
F.E.S.S. Churchwarden, would be awesome if it were pearwood or briar.

 

[nobail]

And last but not least, you know that Polish pipe carver whose stuff you see all the time, is it Worobiec? That pipe is freakin amazing.

Glad to hear this as I have two in the post somewhere. Type 102 and type 144 are on order. I'm hoping for this week or the next. Henryk Worobiec is the full name.
Best is hard to decide: Vauen Rhody is the best, and my new Peterson XL90 is very good. I also love my Strambach calabash.

Worst: Hilson freehand.

 

[adam12]

Glad to hear this as I have two in the post somewhere. Type 102 and type 144 are on order. I'm hoping for this week or the next. Henryk Worobiec is the full name.

In my opinion, it is the best "bang for your buck" you can get. I have enjoyed the one I have way beyond what I expected

 

[cajunguy]

The best smoker I have is my Savinelli Autograph. Smoking it is bliss. The worst was a Savinelli Oscar. It was beautiful to look at, but had some serious issues. I've since parted ways with it.

 

[igloo]

Cockney of London for flakes . Nording Signiture for ARO .GBD for English blends .Corn Cob for the trash can alongside a LHS Sterncrst . Apologys too the corn cob lovers ahead of time , they just are not for me as much as I have tried to add them into the fold .

 

[smokey422]

Best is definitely my Jan Zeman Latitude 41 North Cape, it is a superb smoker and thrives on smoking. Worst is a pipe that was gifted to me, an A.N.D. meer that has a very hard draw even after being bored out. I wish I had my IMP meer back, now that was a fine smoking pipe.
Smokey

 

[mluyckx]

Best: my Sav 616 or Pete Harp 999

Worst: a chacom I got rid of faster than it took to get it mailed to me. It was worse than sucking on a thick milkshake :rofl:

 

[juni]

Almost any of my Stanwells are my best smokers (even the Royal Danish ones). My worst one is a Peterson "outdoor" nose warmer. It always smokes hot. I am going to strip the laquer finish off of it and re-finish (or even leave as bare briar).
(Whoa! Over a thousand posts here! Better slow down)

 

[bigvan]

Juni, I hope you take pix before and after you strip your Peterson nose warmer. I'd be interested in seeing that.

 

[ulrich]

Worst is easily some medico brylon pipe that I bought for $2 out of a pawnshop. Smoked it once, put it down and never picked it up again.
The best smoker I have is a Paradis Pipes quarter-bent apple. $25 on ebay. Smokes like a dream

 

[marmal4de]

My best smoking Pipe is a beaten the hell up Peterson Donegal Rocky 14s, and I honestly don't have a terrible pipe because I tend to donate them to my little brother.