Favorite pipe shape ?

[mluyckx]

Ok, since Bob started a thread on favorite pipe makers, I'm starting one on favorite shapes. Which is a lot harder I think because it depends on the tobacco and the mood. Or at least I've noticed that personally.
I did find one thread closely related here, but it was more about the smoking quality. So here goes:
If you had to pick one shape, what would it be ?
Mine ? Probably a bent rhodesian or bulldog like my Peterson 999.

 

[cburke111]

Zulu or horn shape is by far my favorite but i haven't got one in my collection yet hopefully a good estate will come along!! :mrgreen:

 

[baronsamedi]

I tend to favor egg or apple shaped bowls. My 2 panel kaywoodie and my new Pete are both apple shapes and my favorite cob is a bent egg.

 

[philobeddoe]

Most of my pipes are bent, my favorites are full bent apples.

 

[riptide]

I really like Bulldog pipes with a Diamond shanks and Full Bent pipes.

 

[unclearthur]

Rhodesians and bent bulldogs are some of my favorite shapes. Tough I smoke and make some "interesting" shapes as well.

 

[jchaplick]

I like the look of so many if im looking at them to buy. Te interesting thing is that i never like the look of bulldogs...but as i smoke pipes straight bulldogs always seem to be my favorite look. I dont know, its weird to me

 

[unclearthur]

To be totally honest (yeah right) . The best shape there is, is the one with a big hole in the fat end for tobacco and a small hole in the skinny part to draw the smoke through.

 

[olderthandirt]

Full bent.

Apple, egg, billiard no matter. As long as it's very bent!

 

[nsfisher]

+1 unclearther
totally agree, i like an assortment for diff baccy's.

 

[pstlpkr]

The best shape there is, is the one with a big hole in the fat end for tobacco and a small hole in the skinny part to draw the smoke through.

+1

Well said Arthur...

I have my favorite pipes...

But each one is a completely different shape than any of the others.

Basically from: :: to :puffpipe:

 

[batdemon]

I think they are all great in one respect or another. I tend to favor bents of most any shape but I have a couple of Canadians that I love. Many times it depends on the individual pipe to some degree because I think you can find a shape that might not usually appeal to you but maybe the grain or some other feature really makes it stand out. ::

 

[mluyckx]

Uncle Arthur

Rhodesians and bent bulldogs are some of my favorite shapes

Will you make some ? Or one is enough honestly ;-) an uncle Arthur in that 999 shape. Sold ! ;-)

 

[unclearthur]

OKAY!!!! Can DO!!

 

[recoilrob]

Cherrywood or Bent Poker, it's the shape I saw at a friends house that started me on collecting pipes. He had come from a garage sale with a long double sided 24 pipe rack. Most were common, a couple of Savinellis, but there was a Dunhill 20 Cherrywood that caught my eye.

 

[mluyckx]

"Be careful what you ask for" is what my momma used to say... I may be adding two uncle arthurs to my collection now.
need to sell off some more of my classical music to fund PAD budget :rofl:

 

[unclearthur]

BWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHahahahahaha! :twisted:

 

[riptide]

Make an 80s style and I will be all over it.

 

[juni]

Zulu! Anything straight! But I am also getting really interested in calabashes because of their smoking capabilities.

 

[vroomfondel]

I'll vote for Rhodesians as well, with the Peterson 999 shape in particular and if possible, a chubby pre-republic one.
mmmmhhhhh, curvy :worship: