First Churchwarden

[cragdhack]

Hello everyone,

After receiving a kind monetary gift from a family member, I decided that I should get a centerpiece for my pipe rack.
I've been eyeing it for a while, but it did cost at least twice as much as my other pipes:

The Vauen Auenland Gilg

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At least to my eyes, the wood grain is phenomenal, though it doesn't jump out much.
Bit difficult to find a proper stand for it while setting it down on the table, might have to make one myself.

So far, I've had a few puffs and I am quite pleased, though I have to get used to Churchwarden ergonomics. I'll be pairing it with virginia blends, currently Ashton's Gold Rush.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Get you some nice wizard robes...

 

[Puffaluffaguss]

Ya I wish I wasn't 15 when these pipes first came out. I mean I was smokeing just not pipes. Now the price for a new one on ebay is $229 which isn't bad but still more then when they first came out. They are really really nice though.

 

[sandollars]

Good on you! Now go smoke the crap out of it!!!!

 

[mso489]

I enjoy my churchwardens. I find them best when seated in a chair with arms, so I can rest one elbow on an arm and sip from the long stem effortlessly. Trying to navigate them around our rather cluttered house is not easy. But in a chair, pondering great thoughts, a churchwarden is ideal.

 

[Donb1972]

I enjoy my churchwardens. I find them best when seated in a chair with arms, so I can rest one elbow on an arm and sip from the long stem effortlessly. Trying to navigate them around our rather cluttered house is not easy. But in a chair, pondering great thoughts, a churchwarden is ideal.

Agreed. I only have one churchwarden, a Ropp cutty, but nothing is quite so relaxing as sipping from a churchwarden while you sit in a cozy chair and read.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I used to have three of the Auenland pipes, the Friddo, Hugg, and the Doran. The wide open draw on those is great. ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Bit difficult to find a proper stand for it while setting it down on the table, might have to make one myself.

If it came with the original box, there should be holes to punch out to turn the box into a stand.

 

[cragdhack]

If it came with the original box, there should be holes to punch out to turn the box into a stand.

Ooooh. Thanks for the hint! Shit, that's a good tip. I'll forward it if I can get my neighbor to get one as well.

 

[olkofri]

Auenlands are the best. I want another one myself.

 

[clynch]

That is one NICE pipe.

 

[Jacob74]

Love it! Now I want to read LOTR again,

 

[OSOBUCO]

Hello everyone,

After receiving a kind monetary gift from a family member, I decided that I should get a centerpiece for my pipe rack.
I've been eyeing it for a while, but it did cost at least twice as much as my other pipes:

The Vauen Auenland Gilg

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At least to my eyes, the wood grain is phenomenal, though it doesn't jump out much.
Bit difficult to find a proper stand for it while setting it down on the table, might have to make one myself.

So far, I've had a few puffs and I am quite pleased, though I have to get used to Churchwarden ergonomics. I'll be pairing it with virginia blends, currently Ashton's Gold Rush.

Congrats! I have the Eron smooth and it's beautiful! I also have a few other churchwardens and I really enjoy smoking them

 

[brian64]

Bit difficult to find a proper stand for it while setting it down on the table, might have to make one myself.

I picked up an Auenland recently as well...the Eron.

I figured I had to have at least one churchwarden, and the only one I had was barely a real pipe...a misguided and ignorant purchase made early on in my pipe smoking journey that turned out to be almost unsmokable: a MacQueen...really just a novelty.

But it did include this nifty stand which now works well for the Vauen: