Hard time smoking new pipe!

[damnyak]

So I finally got the nerve to drop more than $20 on a pipe and bought myself my first new pipe, a Savinelli Sport rustic Calabash?. Its really a beaut.

Thing is I am hesitant to actually smoke it. I have only owned estates. Its funny, I don't want to wreck its beauty. Didn't think I would be this way, I am sure it it was a cob pipe I could. Anyone else have this problem with their first "new" pipe?
I have a new Boswell Nosewarmer coming my way...oh gosh!

 

[markw4mms]

Just smoke it, and enjoy! :D

 

[damnyak]

Oh I am sure I will, I am just amazed that I a hesitant. when I got it I wasn't. but when I got home. Bam. lol

 

[PeriqueMyInterest]

One day it will look like it was smoked and cared for well and it will be even more beautiful

 

[spyder71]

I can't wait to smoke them, it just bugs me til I fire it up and see how she smokes. I have instant gratification issues

 

[martiniman]

+1

I have instant gratification issues

 

[tbradsim1]

It"s like a new car, doesn"t drive good till you get the first scratch, FIRE HER UP. The old cajun

 

[sjpipesmoker]

I'm with you damnyak...I have over 30 new pipes, but I still smoke my estates...It's like I dont want to get them dirty??

 

[damnyak]

over 30 pipes, that's amazing. I am glad not to be the only one, I think I am waiting for a special smoke, like on a canoe trip or something.

 

[shaintiques]

Its not a pipe until you smoke it. Just a lump of wood

 

[damnyak]

Its not a pipe until you smoke it. Just a lump of wood

ahaha, a gosh darn pretty lump of wood!

 

[nsfisher]

I have over 60 pipes and not one is unsmoked. A well cared for smoked pipe is more attractive than an unsmoked one.