Butz Choquin - Whats your opinion?

[piperl12]

A BC was my first Meer lined pipe and I got a nice little bent apple. I really like the pipe, nice and light but do have trouble with the stem staying tight about once a year I have to make some adjustments. Great pipe though smokes nice.

 

[rymw]

Redbeard, Beautiful pipe you have...Loads of character! Is she a setter?
Piperl12, I too have problems with my Ropp's and BBB's stems cos they are just too old so now and then I apply some nail polish to the inside of the shanks, LOL.

 

[blueeyedogre]

I have a couple BC's and a Rattray made by BC. All of them are keepers in my book.

 

[rymw]

I didn't know BC made Rattray pipes. Be great if we can get to see some pix of your collection

 

[cortezattic]

As I said in my above post, I thought my BC D'Accord was a pretty nice pipe.

I found that removing the lacquer coating improved the smoke immensely.

Here's the new look -- and I might add that it colors quickly and beautifully once the lacquer is gone, though that does expose the fills.

 

[rymw]

The grain on that beauty almost resemble burl walnut! And what fills?..I can't see any, LOL.

Congrats on having such a beautiful BC.

 

[olewaylon]

They have a really unique BC at my BM shop right now. Its a Cobra that really looks like a horn/Cobra. Its a bit pricey but beautiful pipe. Bought in 1985 and never smoked.

 

[rymw]

My first Butz Choquin, an estate of course. She was pretty clean although I left some of the charring around the inside rim bevel since I'm going to be smoking her quite regularly I reckon. She's a Camargue 1597 with an acrylic shank insert...nicely made even if there are a number of small fills on her. I like pipes that can sit on the table without relying on a pipe rest (and they don't all have to be pokers), especially when I'm smoking and working at the same time.

 

[mso489]

Since my last post, I have bought a BC straight billiard blast Rocaille 1601, and after removing the

stinger (which is easily removable) I find it another excellent pipe. It has classic English lines, but

the snappy execution typical of French pipes at an amazing price. This was was on a half-price sale

at Iwan Ries -- MSRP $115, usually sold at $92, discounted to $57. It's a brown blast, not black,

and has a silver-colored fairly wide band and a faux Cumberland stem.

 

[rymw]

What a good deal. Do share a photo of your Rocaille if possible, mso

 

[skapunk1]

Got this one in a recent pipe lot, its a 1642 Capitan 70. Only smoked it once after cleaning it, only because it intruiged me. Not too bad.

 

[algenib]

My first pipe was a BC, and it smokes much, much hotter than any other of my pipes, and always gives me a gurgle too. There's quite a bit of sentimental value in that pipe, but I don't smoke it at all anymore, and I don't think I'd buy another BC.

 

[bryanf]

When I went to France late last November, the pipe shop had close to 1,000 BC pipes. They were having some kind of show. I wanted to get a pipe there, for a souvenir, but I had the impression from holding the pipes and checking them out that they were cheap and overpriced. About the same quality as a $20 basket pipe in the US, so I passed and only bought some tobacco.