First Estate Pipe - Observation and Question

[flake]

Hi all. I got my first estate pipe, a Pre-1980 (somewhere between the 50s and 70s) Comoy billiard. (I have 12 other pipes, all Italian of different makers and shapes and I purchased them all new within the last year or so.) It is in good condition, and well made, but has been used for sure...some dings, scrathes, rim darkening. It smoke absolutely fantastic. I am thrilled.
But as I was smoking it last night I was wondering if it might smoke so well because it has had so many bowls over the years? Perhaps it is a well made pipe, and different in construction and brand than my current pipes, but it just smokes so well and different I was wondering it it could be because it is so broken in? Thoughts?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, it being well broken in could make the difference. And what it was smoked with primarily.
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[mso489]

It's a circular logic, but well-smoked pipes are smoked a lot because they smoke well. The pipes that aren't so good tend to drop out of sight.

 

[madox07]

Hmmm I guess that a well made pipe will smoke grand regardless of new or estate. If anything should be an experience for the worse is a pipe that is not very well cleaned, or ghosted. But the overall smoking capacity of the pipe should be the same over an extended period of time. I have smoked some house hold names that I have received or bought as new, and once we had a good start, we had a good experience all the time. I tend to dedicate a few pipes to particular blends, and there you may have a point. As the scent of the blend creeps in the pipe, not like a ghost but sort of differently, I guess that particular pipe acts so much better with that particular blend than others.