Do You Beg, Borrow, Or Steal Dunhills?

[peteguy]

I make my own Dunhills.

 

[jmill208]

I own only one. (Estate) I have never smoked it. I bought it.

 

[ssjones]

How gauche. Sirloin is for the ham & eggers if you will (aka Strap-hangers). Gentlemen only dine on filet mignon.

 

[lochinvar]

 

[mikethompson]

I've only ever had one Dunhill. I like to think that I liberated it from a life of squalor and putridity. It has since gone on to its next owner.

 

[3rdguy]

Les Wood was a silversmith at the Dunhill factory, and he was eventually promoted to also being a carver, and eventually went off on his own, with his own pipe brand, Ferndown. Some years ago, a Forums member sent me a block of Semois he'd tried and didn't like, and threw in an unopened tin of Frog Morton Cellar. When I thanked him by message, he asked me how I liked the pipe. Pipe? So I dug back through the packing and sure enough, there was a Ferndown bent billiard! Flabbergasted was I. I hadn't bought it; hadn't begged; hadn't stole. Sometimes generosity catches up to you. I think I prefer it to a Dunhill.

That has to be a porn name.

 

[sablebrush52]

That has to be a porn name.

If this was a porn name, wouldn't it be More Wood?

 

[orlandofurioso]

Begging is undignified. Borrowing is unhygienic. Gentlemen steal.

I'm a gentleman of sorts.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Maybe this is off the topic, but when I go to the 'main' Dunhill website, I see clothing, bags, shoes. accessories, and fragrance, but no pipes. Yes, there is a separate website for Dunhill pipes, but the larger Dunhill seems to want no part of it. This is totally understandable given the current status of smoking in general, but makes it difficult for me to relate current Dunhill to the glorious Dunhill of yore.

Dunhill turned it's back on tobacco users. They haven't produced tobacco since the '80s and the last Dunhill pipes were made in 2011.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Dunhill is the Monte Blanc (fountain pen forum) is the Wolfman (shaving forum). These brands consistantly get bashed, but many seems to want them.

A female friend the other day asked, Monte Blanc is the best, right?

On the shaving forum, men check a web site daily hopeing to be choosen to purchase a razor.

What is it that make use want things made out of unobtainium?

 

[Infantry23]

This lady had a LC Swan Neck in her purse..then this happened.

Is it wrong to sleep with someone for a white dot? Askin' for a friend.

If you're getting white dots after sleeping with someone it might be time to pick new acquaintances ?

 

[Grangerous]

I'm a sophisticated gentleman, so I would choose to "purloin"

“Urban Foraging”

 

[briarbuck]

If this was a porn name, wouldn't it be More Wood?

His stage name is Ed Wood. True story...

 

[3rdguy]

If this was a porn name, wouldn't it be More Wood?

He is just starting out!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Maybe this is off the topic, but when I go to the 'main' Dunhill website, I see clothing, bags, shoes. accessories, and fragrance, but no pipes. Yes, there is a separate website for Dunhill pipes, but the larger Dunhill seems to want no part of it. This is totally understandable given the current status of smoking in general, but makes it difficult for me to relate current Dunhill to the glorious Dunhill of yore.

Yes, and the struggle started years ago, but now it's a fact- accepted or not!

 

[ashdigger]

Shouldn’t that be sirloin then?

Not with all the Vegans running amok

 

[sablebrush52]

Maybe this is off the topic, but when I go to the 'main' Dunhill website, I see clothing, bags, shoes. accessories, and fragrance, but no pipes. Yes, there is a separate website for Dunhill pipes, but the larger Dunhill seems to want no part of it. This is totally understandable given the current status of smoking in general, but makes it difficult for me to relate current Dunhill to the glorious Dunhill of yore.

The pipes and tobaccos were one of Duhill's businesses. They were always a purveyor of luxury goods. In the early '90's, when I used to visit the Dunhill Store in Beverly Hills with my late father-in-law, the place was primarily a clothing store with jewelry and other high end consumables and a tiny showcase for pipes in the corner.
BTW, the people selling those pipes didn't think much of them and were quite candid about it.

 

[maduromadness]

The pipes and tobaccos were one of Duhill's businesses. They were always a purveyor of luxury goods. In the early '90's, when I used to visit the Dunhill Store in Beverly Hills with my late father-in-law, the place was primarily a clothing store with jewelry and other high end consumables and a tiny showcase for pipes in the corner.
BTW, the people selling those pipes didn't think much of them and were quite candid about it.

Heck the people at the tobacconist shop where I bought my only Dunhill didn't even know what the inner tube was. Two of them where my age or younger but even the older gentleman didn't even know. The youngest kid who made the sell even remarked he never thought one would sell. Justified given the tobacco stained oxidation only the finest purveyors of tobacco can achieve.

 

[jguss]

The pipes and tobaccos were one of Duhill's businesses. They were always a purveyor of luxury goods. In the early '90's, when I used to visit the Dunhill Store in Beverly Hills with my late father-in-law, the place was primarily a clothing store with jewelry and other high end consumables and a tiny showcase for pipes in the corner.
BTW, the people selling those pipes didn't think much of them and were quite candid about it.

O tempora, o mores!

I’m sure if you and your father-in-law could have been transported back to the Dunhill shop on 5th Avenue in the 1920s both the quality of the merchandise and the quality of the help would have been very different.

 

[cigrmaster]

My only Dunhill is a 1966 LB Billiard. I bought it because I love the shape and think all billiards should look like it. It is the perfect Billiard to my eye and no other billiard can beat it looks wise.
I have had other Dunhills over the years but sold them off for one reason or another.

I have many billiards in my collection and only Rad Davis and Jack Howell make a billiard that is in Dunhills league. Brian Ruthenberg also makes a good looking pilliard but he also come up short compared to Dunhill. All of my Jack Howell, Rad Davis and Ruthenbergs actually smoke better than the Dunhill but I don't really care as I will never get rid of this Billiard. It just looks too good. I smoke it here and there as I am trying to smoke a ghost out of it. I am using an aromatic to do it. Either Cult Blood Red Moon or Molto Dolce and it is working. The ghost was a nasty Lakeland or Latakia I can't really tell because both are disgusting.

Here is a pic of it.