How Do You Store Your Pipes ?

[Heypat]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) - Bob

New guy here, glad to be a part of the site!

I moved from cigars to a pipe about 9 months ago and haven’t looked back.

I started buying and refurbishing estate pipes about 6 months ago and have around 60 estates with vulcanite stems. I have spent a lot of time de oxidizing, sanding and polishing the vulcanite stems. Although I do Enjoy refurbishing pipes, I do not want the vulcanite stems to oxidize again. I clean after smoking and use obsidian oil but am looking for a storage solution that keeps the pipes out of natural light.

i have a couple of old school desktop pipe stands I use for my pipes with acrylic stems but am looking for a solution to keep the vulcanite stems out of the light.

how does everyone store their pipes with vulcanite stems?

I currently store them in cigar boxes but would like a Larger permanent solution.

thanks for your input!

 

[olkofri]

On a rack in a bookcase shelf that never gets sunlight.

 

[jpmcwjr]

On a shelf in the utility room. No sunlight. Seldom lighted anyway. Some in bowls, some in racks, some resting on towels or cloth.

 

[jttnk]

Coat closet, with cabinet. Stands and bottle boxes for tobacco jars.

 

[daveinlax]

Other than a Castello display I have on a bookshelf the collection lives doubled up in pipe boxes on that same bookshelf. I have dreams for a dresser like case with pipe size drawers. ?

 

[pipebaum81]

Great question! I too am continuously interested in how people decide to store their pipes. I have worked a couple of stems back from oxidized oblivion and want to keep them as lustrous as they now are. I keep all my pipes in their pipe socks and then store them underneath the hood of my "open tobaccos" chest.

 

[mso489]

... and I sing them a lullaby every night.

 

[Chasing Embers]

On padded bathroom mats on closet shelves.

 

[Heypat]

Coat closet, with cabinet. Stands and bottle boxes for tobacco jars. View attachment 23102

Nice stash

 

[Heypat]

Other than a Castello display I have on a bookshelf the collection lives doubled up in pipe boxes on that same bookshelf. I have dreams for a dresser like case with pipe size drawers. ?

Yes that’s what I am looking for; a nice dresser with pipe sized drawers.

 

[Heypat]

Great question! I too am continuously interested in how people decide to store their pipes. I have worked a couple of stems back from oxidized oblivion and want to keep them as lustrous as they now are. I keep all my pipes in their pipe socks and then store them underneath the hood of my "open tobaccos" chest.

View attachment 23122

Nice !

 

[Bowie]

I hang my cobs on a loop hook from a pegboard. The briars are in a couple of sturdy vintage cardboard boxes from a bank, with some small bubble wrap on the bottom. I'm not sure what the bank used them for. Maybe checks or file cards, but they are perfect size, 9"x9"x4". I don't want the briars on the loop hooks because the metal may scratch the bowl.

 

[sablebrush52]

With the exception of individually cased pipes, all of my pipes are stored in fitted pipe cases, 15 to 21 to the case.

 

[curl]

I keep my pipes out of sight in the drawer of a bedside table. The pipes are just jumbled in the drawer. No one needs to see how far off the deep end I’ve fallen.

 

[cshubhra]

I keep them in sunglass display cases, which are stored away from light in dressers

 

[autumnfog]

On a rack in a bookcase shelf that never gets sunlight.

That's how I store my pipes as well.

 

[pipebaum81]

With the exception of individually cased pipes, all of my pipes are stored in fitted pipe cases, 15 to 21 to the case.

Sable, fitted pipe cases? Would you be willing to share some more info one this? Are they custom made?

 

[jhowell]

All my pipes are meerschaums stored in their respective cases...

 

[sablebrush52]

Sable, fitted pipe cases? Would you be willing to share some more info one this? Are they custom made?

They’re cases with internal fittings to hold anywhere from 15 to 21 pipes per case. A few years back I bought a half dozen of them on eBay. I’m pretty sure that they were made in China, they were cheap, made cheap, and do the job.

 

[Dandy Pipesmoker]

Classic pipe racks for briars, pipe cases for meerschaum and clay pipes, and cobs everywhere...