Genre Dedicated Pipes

[shanez]

I'm probably the most backwards person in this concept. While I do find some blends seem to smoke better in a particular pipe and I can see the point of breaking-out Lakelands, I enjoy my pipes as much as my tobaccos.

I like the artistry or classical elegance of a particular pipe and find that admiring the pipe while smoking is part of the experience for me. I wouldn't want to limit that part of the enjoyment.

Sometimes I feel like smoking a particular tobacco and choose a pipe to accompany it and other times I feel like enjoying a particular pipe and pick a blend to go with it. I'm weird that way I guess.

Notwithstanding the above, I do find myself smoking an English or Balkan, a VA or VaPer, an aromatic or (very) mild Lakeland in a rotation for an individual pipe so as to keep it "balanced" for lack of a better term.

 

[ray47]

I don't dedicate specifically. I dedicate not because of the genre, but because a certain pipe will handle a blend better then another pipe. I have a Lee Van Cleef pipe that smokes MacBaren's Vanilla Flake like they were made for each other. On the other hand it smokes certain straight non-aromatic Virginias the same way, but not all straight Virginias.

 

[radrick96]

I dedicate one pipe to try any and every blend in. Just kind of something I do.

I dedicate pipes to these categories:
-Everything (Cigar, Burley, Va, Aros, English, etc)
-Burley(Burley and Kentucky)
-Virginia (straight Virginia’s)
-VaPer(Virginia periques)
-Non-Aromatics (VaBur, VaOr. Etc)
-Aromatics (
-English(Latakia blends)

This gives me 7 pipe blend categories total. Which I have plans to do 3 sets(21 pipes) with a pipe for each of those categories; MM cob, Morgan Bones lightning finish, and LE pipes.

This gives me a set I can travel with(cobs). Not worried about replacing them if broken or lost. A set for regular home use(Bones lightning finish). Lastly a “dress pipe” set(LE pipes). Those will be used for work and dress events.

I’ll be covered in any situation!

 

[Magpiety]

I have Virginia, Burley, and English pipes. Plus a few for lakelands and aromatics. I can see it being useful to commit pipes to lat-heavy blends, lakelands, and aromatics, but for virignias and burleys I don't think it makes much of a difference.

I pretty much use it as an excuse to buy more pipes. "Oh man, I only have an author shape for virginias and burleys, I better get one for englishes STAT"

 

[radrick96]

I have Virginia, Burley, and English pipes. Plus a few for lakelands and aromatics. I can see it being useful to commit pipes to lat-heavy blends, lakelands, and aromatics, but for virignias and burleys I don't think it makes much of a difference.

I pretty much use it as an excuse to buy more pipes. "Oh man, I only have an author shape for virginias and burleys, I better get one for englishes STAT"

Shapes is a whole new mess I’m getting into now as a newb. I’m trying to learn what pipe bowl shapes are best for which blends. (Ie. Deep and skinny for straight Virginia’s, etc)

 

[Chasing Embers]

Shapes is a whole new mess I’m getting into now as a newb. I’m trying to learn what pipe bowl shapes are best for which blends. (Ie. Deep and skinny for straight Virginia’s, etc)

It's mostly subjective, you may find the opposite true. I can find no difference in chamber shapes and one blend tastes the same to me regardless of which pipe I smoke it in. After thirty years of having many different shapes of pipes and chambers, I generally only buy one pipe shape now.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

I’ll smoke Lakeland in a cob, Meer, or my dedicated Dunhill Shell 64’. I’ll smoke English/Balkan in a Meer or one of a handful of briars that match up.
I have a dedicated briar for aros, or otherwise Meer is used. The rest is purely left up to my folly & which of my pipes & blends speaks to me. ️