How Do Y'all Dedicate?

[haparnold]

I'm a person who dedicates pipes to genres of tobacco, but I'm not too fussy about it. Basically my pipes are for Latakia mixtures, or for everything else.

However, when I get a new pipe, I always start it out with straight Virginias or mild VA/Pers. I don't think I've ever started a pipe out as an English pipes. It gets demoted (or promoted, depending on your taste for the smoky stuff) after I've gotten to know it. I guess I do this because it's easier to not have to smoke out a ghost if a pipe goes from something more subtle to something more punchy.

What about y'all? Do you know what a pipe will be dedicated to before you get it, or is it a process of discovery?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

 

[jerseysam]

Latakia blend : Aro (heavy case) : Everything else. A few pipes I stick to a favorite blend.

I honestly do the above more out of the reality of owning a lot of pipes and just keeping everybody in rotation more so than flavor reasons. I'm the bizarro Jim Inks....I smoke 10 Russians in a S. Bang and my general flavor notes are usually either sweet ,smokey, or tobacco-y. I split up over those groups, but as said more for "just because" reasons than anything else.

 

[cigrmaster]

I dedicate every pipe to either a genres or a specific blend. I have Virginia flake pipes, Virginia/Perique,Virginia/Kentucky and Burley.

Some pipes I have specific blends such as a batch of 2007 Stonehaven that I have now dedicated a Jack Howell Billiard to where as before I was using 2 Rad Davis Lovats for that batch. . I have 2 pipes for my 2005-2008 Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky blends. I don't have any English or Lakeland blends so no worries about ghosting from them. There has been times lately where I cannot remember what blend went into which pipe. I finally remembered that my Bruce Weaver Volcano is for Astleys no 44 and nothing else. I have other blend specific pipes but it's getting harder to remember some. I am ok with genres for the most part but sometimes I have to stare at a pipe and try to figure what blend goes with it. I have always dedicated my pipes as that is how I was taught.

 

[bullet08]

Mostly smoke whatever I feel like in whatever pipe. But lately I noticed I usually use Rhodesian/bulldog for English blends. But if a blend has more than 3 different tobacco's, that might be smoked in bulldog. Tall and narrower pipes get Va of all types.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I buy or commission pipes for specific blends or genres.

 

[ashdigger]

Since I really don’t smoke heavy skunk weed (Latakia) blends anymore, I dedicate the pipe nearest my arm to the blend nearest my arm at any given time.

 

[hawky454]

I basically do it the same way you do. Always start out my pipes with something least likely to ghost. I go a step further, I dedicate my pipes to a genre and I dedicate some to specific blends since I smoke a lot of stuff that will ghost (Condor). I also find that dedicating a pipe to a specific blend such as Condor allows for a more intense flavor as the residual flavors play a part in the smoking experience. Some of my pipes will be forever Condor pipes and if I ever run out of Condor (let that day never come) I’ll probably stop smoking my Condor pipes as I don’t think I’d ever be able to exorcise that ghost.

 

[FurCoat]

I do dedicate my pipes to genres. I have a select few dedicated to blends. For me it is driven by bowl size.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I break pipes in with Virginia. If the pipe is a great Virginia smoker, it usually stays dedicated to Virginia. If it lacks at all, then it is relegated to VaOr or VaPer. I'm presently developing a few pipes for blends with DFK and/or blends like Dark Twist. I believe there's a significant benefit to dedicating a pipe to a specific genre if not to a specific blends.

 

[Capt Morgan]

I dedicate this pipe I am smoking right now, to all of you...cheers

 

[jpmcwjr]

I don't. Except on rare occasions. But I don't smoke Lakelands nor heavy aros.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I have to feel it out. Some pipes, tall narrow chamber, just scream Virginia pipe to me, but I'll smoke a burley blend (not OTC), and a VaPer... the delicate flavored blends. A big fat bowl just screams GIVE ME FLAVORS!!! Aromantics... doesn't really matter what I smoke it in, as long as it's not a pipe that I'll ever again smoke a lighter flavored blend in. But, if I do smoke a latakia for a while in an aromatic pipe, then latter on it might take a Virginia. For those it could be Virginia pipe or it could be something else, I'll have a few that I just really like smoking lakelands in. But, once I've done that, all I can smoke in it is strong twists, big and burleys, and lakelands from then on. That stank soaks in to the core of the pipe. But, some I can swap around. Sometimes I enjoy an aromatic just after some latakia. Maybe sometimes, I like a Virginia just after a latakia, making the smoke a light latakia. Some are just for Virginias, just because of my reverence for the pipe, the design, the feel. Some like a bulldog, I can chock that saddle stem in my chaw and sling buckets of fertilizer all day. Some just smoke like a boss, and the boss smokes tough latakia or a stronger burley. Tall narrow, short and squat, deep and wide, cone shaped chambers, straight walled pipe. Lots of choices. The thing that makes cigars different from pipes, is that you're only getting the flavors in the leaf. With pipes your getting the warmed briar flavors, the ghosts of past smokes, and an attitude. It's sometimes not the tobacco that leads me to a pipe, but the pipe that just screams for a certain tobacco. It's a balance. Maybe I want a corny flavor, with a blend of bright and burley in a "yuck yuck" cob. Maybe I want to think... and chose a pipe that I had smoked some Star of the East in, but lets smoke some 7 year old Annie Cake in it now, and blend that crisp Grecian briar with some of those old orientals that have passed through it.... to contemplate. Or maybe I want something strong, like some dry crisp Picayune in a small KBB billiard that will give me a hint of Condor at the bottom of the bowl. A cigar... I pick one out of the humidor, and it's almost just like the one I had before.

 

[highwaycobbery]

I dedicate all my cobs to cosmic, it is my version of a pipe voodoo doll. When I put flame to my cob I know somewhere “Dixie” folklore is thinking about how one day he will mature to real pipe smoker.

 

[trubka2]

I dedicate a pipe if a particular blend really smokes well in it. The trouble is trying to remember those pairings. I usually forget by the next day.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I do somewhat. No english blends in my cobs.. that's my main rule.

 

[musicman]

I have pipes dedicated to Va based blends, pipes dedicated to blends with Latakia, a couple that I only smoke Burley based blends out of, one or two for Aros, and a pipe for strong lakeland blends.

 

[Winterreise]

I dedicate briar to certain genre , Two For Va/Per , 2 For English/Balkan and for the rare time i smoke an aromatic it goes straight in my Cobpipe

 

[ray47]

Cobs are for burley and aromatics.
Briars are for anything.
Meerschaums are generally for aromatics, but occasionally enjoy a straight Virginia in them.

 

[maduromadness]

I'm along the lines of Hoosierpipeguy. I have dedicated Virginia smokers of all bowl sizes. I used to believe the best Virginia smokes came out of narrow bowls; and while true, I've had amazing smokes in wide, short, and in-between bowls. A variety of pipe and bowl dimensions provide different nuances at times that give you a broader flavor profile for any given tobacco.

Over time VaBurOr were born out of those. I only had 2 dedicated to Lat blends that recently I've expanded and specifically bought new pipes for...(cry inside knowing they'd smoke Virginia's better). ?

Aros get the black sheeps of my collection ?