How many pipes do you need?
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I currently have 7 briars (with another one on the way), one meerschaum, and plenty of cobs (cheap and easy, not too hard to throw away and replace). At max I smoke 2-3 bowls a day for any given week. I try to dedicate 2 briars to aros, 2 for Va/Per & VA, and the other 3 to English blends. The aro and VA pipes end up getting mixed some of the time but I do try to keep the Latakia pipes separate. Beyond that there's really no method to my madness, I try to smoke every pipe before I start the lineup over again. Sometimes I'll smoke 2-3 bowls in a row out of the same pipe but not usually more than that before letting it rest and moving on to the next. If I've already smoked all of the pipes dedicated to one blend and they haven't had much time to rest I'll smoke the Meer or a cob to give them more time. I also turn to the Meerschaum on the odd day that I have the time and plan on smoking 5+ bowls. I plan on expanding my pipe rotation over time, not necessarily out of need but because I enjoy collecting them.
To the point of your question though, if you smoke one bowl a day I'd say 2-3 pipes. If you smoke multiple bowls a day then you might consider at least 7 pipes, one for every day.
Happy puffing!
To the point of your question though, if you smoke one bowl a day I'd say 2-3 pipes. If you smoke multiple bowls a day then you might consider at least 7 pipes, one for every day.
Happy puffing!
To an extent. There's always been a collectors market; it's just more visible now. Both "types" of smokers have always existed.
I gotta disagree. When I'm smoking Motzek Strang, I don't want to taste Latakia. I have pipes that are dedicated to English, and Balkan/Oriental blends, and pipes that are dedicated to Virginias, Va/Pers, and Va/Burs. I also have a couple of pipes that I use for St Bruno, which has a very decided taste to it. If you don't care about tasting what you are currently smoking, devoid of the ghosts of smoking past, then one pipe will do it.
Sometimes I want a long smoke. Other times I want a short smoke. I like a wider bowl for more complex blends where I can pick out the various flavors.
If you smoke only a few blends you don't need a lot of pipes. If you smoke a wide range of blends, you will need a wider range of pipes to experience those flavors.
I actually throw pipes away from time to time just to clear clutter. There is such a thing as too many.
"And nobody 'needs' to rest a pipe for a week because it has been smoked once."
Well said that man :clap:
Regards,
Jay.
Well said that man :clap:
Regards,
Jay.
Okay, the answer is 42. But on the overly-earnest side, thinking how many could I get away with, the first answer is one, or maybe even none. But if I were actually rotating pipes and resting them, I guess about five to eight might do it. I think with five to eight, I'd take more days off to let things thoroughly dry out, but that's just me. More pipes are a kind of prompt to pack another bowl ... if you have 42 pipes to smoke.
Back in the early days, the real men only owned one pipe. Now days the spoiled Gluttons and Consumer Whores that have more sh!t that they know what to do with, because they've been brainwashed by Corporate America, that has daily convinced them that what they currently have is not sufficient to keep up with their peers........lol
In that line, the answer is that you need 0 pipes because smoking is a luxury and not a necessity. :mrgreen:
Oh, serious responses. Ok. I don't think you need very many, even if you subscribe to the rotation idea. As was said, in the old days folks often only had one pipe, may two - the second being the nice Sunday pipe. I used to have around 80 pipes, I'm down to 20 something and that is more than I actually need really, even when I get three bowls a day in.
Over the years I went from over a hundred down to 21 pipes in three pipe racks along with Missouri Meerschaum cobs in strategic locations across the property. I smoke the cobs far more than anything else. After my initial heavy foray into pipes, I downsized significantly, and am down to a manageable number. Same with the tobacco.
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