Grandpa: One brand pipe, One Brand Tobacco

[wolfscout]

I started out with a Dr Grabow Omega and a cob when I was 19. ( I'm 49 now)

I only bought SWR and sometimes used Jack Daniels on it.

It's only been the last 6 years or so that I've crossed over and smoked other brands from the local drug store. And only 2 years since I started ordering couple brands online.

 

[patiobum]

My Dad schmoked Sir Walter Raleigh in a Dr. Grabow all through my childhood. Later he switched to Half & Half.
He rotated 4 pipes and used a gravity fed tobaccy pouch.

 

[yuri66]

I hate to admit that I am close to "that guy", I have many pipes and a few different tobaccos, but I have my Silvano Dongo pipe and the good old Captain as my always go to baccy and pipe. I try the other blends but usualy wind up in the end back with the Captain... I like the flavor and aroma, it has and I never had a bad comment of anyone who walked into my smoking lounge nor on the street, so yeah I guess I am a bit like "that guy"

 

[harrumphicus]

My grandfather was like this. Burn out a pipe and my grandma would buy him a new one, burning through bulk bags of baccy like it was his job. I guess before he switched to the pipe, he finished over 2 packs of cigarettes each day.
He's still around to talk about it too!

 

[seakayak]

Your grandpa, like my dad, was a pipe smoker. I guess that makes me a pipe collector who smokes.

 

[jpbass]

My Dad claimed he tried "everything" before he settled on PA, but I never saw him with anything else except maybe some SWR. He bought me my first pouch of PA. I didn't like it at first, but it became an acquired taste. I started out with aromatics.

 

[smokey422]

I'm just the opposite. I keep a bunch of different blends here and switch between them all the time. When I first started smoking I did pretty much stick to Carter Hall and Amphora Red and once in a while would stop at the local head shop which carried a few aromatics. When I discovered the internet it opened a whole new world up to me. My wife thinks I'm crazy for having so many different blends here.
Smokey

 

[jeff59]

Dad always smoked SWR. If I would buy him something else to try he would never try it "straight". He would mix it with SWR then smoke it. He liked it that way. I remembere on vacation once he ran out and we drove to five or six stores in the mountains until he found his tobacco of choice.

 

[bostonpipe]

My Dad use to smoke Heine's Blend or Sail Yellow during the week then on the weekend was time to break out the "Three Nuns." I have two or three main stay blends from L.J. Perreti & Gawith that I smoke on a weekly basis but I am always trying different flakes and oriental blends. As for pipes I can become fixated on several during the course of the week, or, I might smoke two or three different pipes a day. Depends on my mood