Confession Time... I Don't Like...

[jpmcwjr]

Try washing your Turkish meers in hot water a few times....(Flushing out the chamber and airway.)

 

[Chasing Embers]

Try washing your Turkish meers in hot water a few times....(Flushing out the chamber and airway.)

I know what he's talking about. That odd chalky smell and taste when they start to warm up. It's just quality of the material.

 

[badbeard]

Try washing your Turkish meers in hot water a few times....(Flushing out the chamber and airway.)

I generally don't like the water flush method on my pipes, but I admittedly have done this a few times. If anything it makes the problem worse(or at least persist). The airway funk and cake that everyone seems to want to prevent in Turkish meerschaum is exactly what I tend to let happen to make them smoke well. Maybe I live in opposite land, but the more I codger them, and neglect them, the less I notice the weird smell and I-just-licked-a-rock taste.

 

[jpberg]

I don’t like Sutliff.
Somebody had to say it.

 

[edger]

Now I have that song stuck in my head again.

I prefer a pipe stuck in my head. In the proper orifice, of course.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don’t like Sutliff.
Somebody had to say it.

Do you like Mac Baren or Hearth & Home? ?

 

[jpberg]

Do you like Mac Baren or Hearth & Home? ?

No.

 

[cigrmaster]

One of the things I really like about a Dunhill is that no one makes a Billiard as well as they do. Their Billiard is the epitome of what a pipe should look like. Their 60's LB to my eye is the finest looking billiard that has ever been made. Others will disagree but that is ok. I know what I like and I love a great classic billiard better than any other shape.

 

[jhowell]

"Spiders and snakes"

 

[anotherbob]

Disliking stuff is my specialty. I try not to show it, but since this thread is all about disliking, here goes: Neerup, too much bling and curly swirly. Also they're front heavy. Winsløv, most of them look cheap and amateurishly designed.
Peder Jeppesen, Suhr, Nørding etc. All these danish craftsmen fail to make designs that look balanced to me.
Tom Eltang. His simpler pipes look stupid and his more elaborate pieces, although beautiful works of art, are simply not pipes. Sculptures maybe.
Anne Julie. Most of her recent pipes look like handmade chocolate bars.
Dagner. Don't like them.
There are soooo many, I can't come up with them all. Dunhills are classy, but too expensive of course.
Cobs. Ugly.
Castello goddammit. There are some nice ones, but they are few and far between, and very very expensive, when you hit the higher grades.
Hawkbills and eskimos. Acorns and tomatos.
I'm gonna take a break now...

wonderful. I agree so much about the Danish pipes. I always imagine the high end ones sitting in a den or office displayed proudly and maybe a bowl of captain black got smoked in it once.

 

[anotherbob]

Turkish Meerschaum. Of the 5 or 6 I have owned, they all smell funny when they warm up, and add a weird mineral-ey taste to everything. African Meers don't seem to have this problem for me.

I also don't like people who mislead others with absolute statements like, "Meers are impervious to ghosting", "They never gurgle", or even "They will make you as badass as Lee Van Cleef". I am even Dutch, and nobody has ever mistaken me for a hatchet-faced badass.

I think meers ghost just less permanently then briar.

 

[anotherbob]

I don’t like Sutliff.
Somebody had to say it.

I just assumed that was the consensus.

 

[anotherbob]

"Spiders and snakes"

first time in this post I have to say no. Snakes and spiders are awesome and eat things that aren't so awesome. Except that one that was trying to live on my face the other day, that spider sucks.

 

[pappymac]

And i don't like pipes that look like a dick.

Perhaps impolite to enquire, but I do wonder if if we're discussing the real deal "dick" or something just "dick-like." This then may place me by you in one or both categories, but to catch your meaning I assay so bold.

Yes. Both.
I saw a pipe on-line recently called a "jellyfish" and it looked like it had been circumcised.

 

[pappymac]

Well, since someone brought up Sutliff... and, knowing that I will be pilloried for saying this,

I don't like McClelland. (except for Master Penman which I can no longer get.)

 

[saltedplug]

On what basis do you reject blends so varied and so many as blended by an entire House, McClelland or Sutliff? You decide. But I have a hard time understanding this.

When I was young my pipe mentor told me that McClelland bites, and I steered clear of them for several years. Irrational.

 

[jhowell]

first time in this post I have to say no. Snakes and spiders are awesome and eat things that aren't so awesome. Except that one that was trying to live on my face the other day, that spider sucks.

OK OK I will amend to read: Pit Vipers and Venomous Spiders...

 

[Jwebb90]

In addition to my previously stated Savinelli Alligator finish I would like to add the poker shape. It's not that I dislike every poker but just the vast majority of them.

 

[Chasing Embers]

OK OK I will amend to read: Pit Vipers and Venomous Spiders...

All spiders are venomous, most aren't harmful to humans. Love them myself.

 

[jhowell]

All spiders are venomous, most aren't harmful to humans. Love them myself.

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Been bit by a timber rattler and a brown recluse... neither was fun. The tarantula however only drew blood...