How Many Pipes Do You Own?

[ashdigger]

72 Kaywoodies (all pre-1945)

8 Kirstens

10 Falcons

3 Cobs

2 H. Wiebe (Metal Radiator)

2 Ryan Alden

6 Dagners
But I'm going to thin the herd. I'm finding I'm more utilitarian than collector.

 

[huntertrw]

The current census is 82 and growing!

 

[deatobacco]

I just started smoking a pipe in March, so I haven't had a lot of time to accumulate a lot of pipes. So far I have 1 Bjarne, 2 Petersons, 4 Boswells (great pipes!!!), one MM with a custom stem, and one Stokkebye 4th Generation. As soon as I can get back home to visit with my family I'm going to pick up four Dr. Grabow pipes that belonged to my dad. Can't wait to get those Grabow's cleaned up and smoke them. :puffpipe:

 

[sablebrush52]

So I'm up to about 130 of which 83 or so, are Family Era Barlings. I've bought 2 pipes this year. It's been more about buying tobaccos for the past two years. It's time to shed the pipes I'm not smoking.

 

[ahmadothman]

2 Falcons, both extra, one straight with a standard bit and the other bent with a dental bit and 4 bowls to go with them, all smooth.. An Apple, an Algiers, a Dublin and an Istanbul

An Orlik Deluxe L220 Pre-Cadagon

A Peterson Dracula 999

A black Sandblast Stanwell Royal Danish Tapered Billiard

A Pierre Morel Sr. Hand Made 483

 

[jefff]

15 briars and 3 cobs, well over my self imposed limit of 12.
I am managing to live with that.

 

[prndl]

3 Castello billiards

2 Radice apples

3 Savinelli 673's
There is a cob kicker around here somewhere, as well. I seem to only smoke it whenever I drop the tailgate to grill and it usually stays in the truck toolbox.
When I first started, I quickly jumped off to a Heinz 57 assortment of 2 to 3 dozen Pete's, Stanwell's and others. I seem to be much happier smoking a smaller set, tho another Castello or two is not out of the question.

 

[scrooge]

I'm not saying. Some where on hear is a thread with pictures of members collections. Some body needs to pull that one up.

 

[jacks6]

Just three - still workin' on it as I tend to smoke the same pipe over and over.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Just two or three shy of the perfect amount. Not too many to count, but it's somewhere around six dozen.

 

[mso489]

I'm not eager to do a serious census on pipes. I'd guess about 80, but it could be six or eight more or fewer. It's to the place where I don't want more, but of course I do get drawn in, or occasionally gifted, and end up with another. No one needs more than 30 or 40. However, I do smoke nearly all of them in a very slow rotation, and rarely do not like a pipe or wonder why I own it. Most of them, inexpensive factory pipes to some personal treasures, provide pleasing smokes and pair well with specific blends.

 

[fmgee]

12 briars, 1 meer and 2 cobs. Neerup (3) and Rattray's (3) lead the briar count.
Really does not sounds like that many but I have only been smoking for 2 years.

 

[p4ttythep3rf3ct]

Five, in order of appearance: A MM cob, a MM hardwood, a Sav Warden, a Chheda Buckeye, and now a Moonshine Shiner.

 

[mso489]

Twice I've culled the herd and gotten store credit with an online retailer toward pipes and/or tobacco. So I gave up three or four pipes I was smoking less often, to get one I thought I'd smoke more. This worked out okay. That is, I didn't pine for the pipes I'd traded away, and I ended up with pipes I smoke more, and reduced my number of pipes by one or two. Not every one likes to trade away pipes, so this doesn't work for everyone, but on two occasions, it worked well for me.

 

[jefff]

I have done the same. After a moment of regret for the money I spent on the pipe I was trading in, it worked out just fine.
I am pretty set now......for now.

 

[jerwynn]

Pipe Inventory - 50 count
Al Perkowski

Custom
Bentley x3

Smooth Pot "Former Design"

Rusticated Apple "Former Design"

Sandblasted Bent Billiard "Former Design"
Big Ben x5

Big Ben Cambridge Straight Billiard

John Stirling Flamee #003 Brandy

John Stirling Flamee #011 Bent Billiard

Big Ben Saturn Straight Billiard
Boswell

Swirl Wizard
Brebbia

Rusticated Hungarian with Cap
Chacom

Robusto Hungarian
clays

long

short
Design Berlin x14

jle1 Junior Bent Billiard

jle2 Junior Straight Pot

jle3 Junior Brandy

jle4 Junior Bent Apple

jle5 Junior Rhodesian

jle6 Junior Dublinesque

jle7 Junior Canted Egg

jle8 Junior "Diana"

jle9 Bellini Straight

jle10 Bellini Bent

jle11 Black Blast Full Bent

jle12 Black Blast Straight Pot/Billiard

jle13 Magnum Straight Paneled Billiard

jle14 Magnum Bent Paneled Egg
German Fantasy Freehand
IPE Prince
Jobey

Filter Smoke Bent Billiard
Karl Erik

Large bent Egg Smooth
Lorenzo

Natural Hungarian
Missouri Meerschaum x4
Peterson x3

Cork "Blonde" Bent Apple

Kinsale P-lip Ball

POTY 2008 With Sterling Silver
Polinski

Rusticated Rhodesian
Poul Winsløw

Crown Freehand
Rattray's

Highland Bent Bulldog
Savinelli

Tignanello Hungarian
Stanwell x2

Briar Calabash

Danish (Nanna Iverson Design)
Turkish Meerschaum

Meerschaum Calabash

Paneled Dublin
Vauen x3

Barontini

Church Warden Red Blast

Rosewood
For the record, I don't think I'm OCD about this(am I?)... this is copied from a "note" on my computer's desktop where I try to keep track of such things. I have an inventory of tobaccos on a super-fantastic phone app first recommended by Nate here, called mystuff2. Just keeping track. At this point, almost all of my pipes are my favorite ones now!! The ones that weren't, I gave away. Things are feeling kind of settled in the PAD department at the moment... I've been preferring to hoard tobaccos in light of TEOTWAWKI, thanks to our dear friends at the FDA.

 

[lifeon2]

Pretty close to 900 now with 176 kaywoodies the rest are yello bole, wdc, rbc, cpf, medico, grabow, peterson, medico, alpha, etc etc

 

[cigrmaster]

My collection has doubled sine the last time I posted. Pre Trans Barlings, AAA Straight Grain Willmers, more and more artisan pipes. It freaking never ends,please some put a gun to my head.

 

[rigmedic1]

Last count is 109:

84 Briar,

8 Meers,

2 Morta,

1 Cherry,

1 Olivewood

1 Strawberry wood,

7 corncobs

5 Clay

 

[tuold]

lifeon2, my collection mirrors yours in makeup except for quantity. I'm at around 300. Last week I added a couple of WDCs. This week it was two Nordings and a Bjarne. I mostly collect American factory made pipes such as Grabows, LHS, Medico, Marxman, etc, but this week went Danish.