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Absolutely.
I threaten to cut off mine's book money, and not another word is said. :wink:
Churchwarden Mortification
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I have 5 of them and smoke them infrequently. When I smoke them it is at home but only because they do not travel well. As far as how you look, I would not worry tto much.
My experience is you will get more bad looks just because you are smoking in public. You are no longer in the politically correct crowd. I get your point though.
My experience is you will get more bad looks just because you are smoking in public. You are no longer in the politically correct crowd. I get your point though.
Having a bowl of frog Morton cellar in my churchwarden while watching Black Sails. Very liberating. I only wish I had a tin of black frigate and this would be a perfect moment.
I hear you johnbarleycorn. I have an Alden with a churchwarden stem, I smoke the pipe all the time but may have only used the long stem once. I think he made it because he thought the pipe was too small, but I like small pipes. I also am a clencher so the longer stem seems less natural.
carver, you just had to post the picture of the Auenland Gilg! :evil: I sometimes dream of this pipe at night, in the hazy minutes just before I fall asleep... :crazy: I must man up and save some money for it.
Great pipes and beautiful stand, my compliments.
Churchwardens definitely lend themselves to a relaxed smoke, not puffing on the go. A slow walk in the park at best. I have a Savinelli and expect a Cobbit Dwarf to arrive soon, and I fully intend to smoke them in the park, because there is pretty much no alternative for me.
And I don't give a damn about what others might think. There are many weirdos in Moscow, I really don't make any difference.
Great pipes and beautiful stand, my compliments.
Churchwardens definitely lend themselves to a relaxed smoke, not puffing on the go. A slow walk in the park at best. I have a Savinelli and expect a Cobbit Dwarf to arrive soon, and I fully intend to smoke them in the park, because there is pretty much no alternative for me.
And I don't give a damn about what others might think. There are many weirdos in Moscow, I really don't make any difference.
I'm almost 50, and I'm already too old to care what I look like to others, so long as I'm happy with it.
I've got one of those "cobbit" stems, like the one in Chasingembers' photo, and I use it mostly with my General MM because you may as well settle down for a long smoke when you have something so unwieldy in your hand. When I see myself clenching it in the mirror (can't walk too far that way), I nearly drop it, but that's because I burst out laughing! With a face like mine, you have to be able to laugh at yourself anyway.
The theory with a churchwarden is that the length cools the smoke down, and I've seen somebody comment somewhere that it should be at least 9 inches long. My MM stem, made by the Log Cabin people, who struck out on their own and unfortunately struck out altogether (last I heard) is only 8", and I have to puff so hard just to get the smoke to my mouth that the cooling effect is marginal at best. Therefore, I don't think they are of any value to the smoking experience, but they are good as a comic prop.
I've got one of those "cobbit" stems, like the one in Chasingembers' photo, and I use it mostly with my General MM because you may as well settle down for a long smoke when you have something so unwieldy in your hand. When I see myself clenching it in the mirror (can't walk too far that way), I nearly drop it, but that's because I burst out laughing! With a face like mine, you have to be able to laugh at yourself anyway.
The theory with a churchwarden is that the length cools the smoke down, and I've seen somebody comment somewhere that it should be at least 9 inches long. My MM stem, made by the Log Cabin people, who struck out on their own and unfortunately struck out altogether (last I heard) is only 8", and I have to puff so hard just to get the smoke to my mouth that the cooling effect is marginal at best. Therefore, I don't think they are of any value to the smoking experience, but they are good as a comic prop.
Oh what it must be like to be so gorgeous that smoking a churchwarden would make them look... strange. I can't even imagine.
My black socks and sandals sends the message that I don't really give a f... what someone thinks about me. :
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But, oh, to be so beautiful...
My black socks and sandals sends the message that I don't really give a f... what someone thinks about me. :
:But, oh, to be so beautiful...
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