How Often do You use Your Favorite Pipe(s)?

[Chasing Embers]

Not true for me. I'd have to package the pipe, drive into the city to post it, pay the postage, etc. How in the world would I be better for all of the cost and inconvenience? A less than stellar pipe isn't going to compound the problem by requiring me to truck it into town and donate or post it to somewhere. Not when I can solve the problem by simply tossing it into the trash. I keep my smoking as simple as possible.

Same. I live ten miles from the post office and hate driving.

 

[monty55]

Any pipe that meets my criteria is a favorite, no levels of most to least. Not passing a pipe cleaner will get them out of my collection faster than anything.

Admittedly, nothing irks me more than getting a pipe that the pipe cleaner won't pass thru. However, I have several pipes that are great smokers where this is the case.
I don't like green briar pipes, and I don't like lakeland ghosted pipes, but if you get a new pipe that the pipe cleaner won't pass thru, I'll happily pay postage to have it shipped to me in Texas.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Not true for me. I'd have to package the pipe, drive into the city to post it, pay the postage, etc. How in the world would I be better for all of the cost and inconvenience? A less than stellar pipe isn't going to compound the problem by requiring me to truck it into town and donate or post it to somewhere. Not when I can solve the problem by simply tossing it into the trash. I keep my smoking as simple as possible.

Alright, I see it like giving someone the opportunity to enjoy something your throwing away. Recycling at its finest. But hey, to each their own. ?‍️

 

[monty55]

Ok Ok. Nevermind. To each his own

 

[Chasing Embers]

However, I have several pipes that are great smokers where this is the case.

Are they straight pipes?

 

[monty55]

Are they straight pipes?

no. sorry, I prefer bent

 

[Chasing Embers]

no. sorry, I prefer bent

Out of five Dunhills, three straight billiards, a zulu, and a full bent, only the full bent passed a pipe cleaner.

 

[monty55]

Out of five Dunhills, three straight billiards, a zulu, and a full bent, only the full bent passed a pipe cleaner.

My goodness. There's really no reason a straight pipe shouldn't pass a pipe cleaner easily. I can see your perspective. I always thought Dunhills had better QC than that. That's too bad.

 

[Woo]

Weekly is good idea…

 

[futureman]

I try assiduously not to play favourites with my boys.
I'm the same with my pipes ?

“I’m thankful for my five children, especially the one that I like.“ -Norm Macdonald

I have a similar sentiment for my pipes.

 

[bullet08]

Every 30 bowls or so. Have 30 some odd pipes and they all take their turn.

 

[Streeper541]

Not true for me. I'd have to package the pipe, drive into the city to post it, pay the postage, etc. How in the world would I be better for all of the cost and inconvenience? A less than stellar pipe isn't going to compound the problem by requiring me to truck it into town and donate or post it to somewhere. Not when I can solve the problem by simply tossing it into the trash. I keep my smoking as simple as possible.

Try to keep in mind Warren, you're talking frontier knowledge to some city boys. They don't think the same way.

I however agree with you 100%. Why pay out of pocket to shuffle off my misfortune to another? File 13 it!

Problem solved. Problem staying solved.

 

[hauntedmyst]

True but I've got a guilt complex and couldn't pass something I find flawed onto the next guy.

If that Dunhill Shell freehand ever becomes junk, please don't post it on here you threw it away or made a planter out of it! I think that would cause me to have an aneurism. My daughter has the giving me an aneurism market cornered.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If that Dunhill Shell freehand

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You talking about the magnum HT XL Shell Briar Collector dublin?

 

[Peter Turbo]

oh man ive been using my 3 favorite and almost only them for a few months now. fortunately i dont have PAD like i have TAD.

 

[Eye-level]

I'm fairly good about smoking each pipe in my rotation (circa 20 pipes). In a months time I have smoked them all some more than others.

 

[hauntedmyst]

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You talking about the magnum HT XL Shell Briar Collector dublin?

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Yes sir! But seriously, my daughter would really like to give me a stroke so keep that one at all costs.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yes sir! But seriously, my daughter would really like to give me a stroke so keep that one at all costs.

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O........kay.

 

[leonardbill1]

I have a "smoked" rack that holds 14 pipes. I'll smoke a few different pipes every day, and the next day they go into the smoked rack. Anything in that rack sits at least a few days before it gets smoked again. The rack fills up after a week or so and then I'll smoke from that group until they need to be cleaned, then the smoke rack becomes the "time to clean" rack. I'll usually go for a different group of pipes the next time through the process. That said, there are a few crown jewels that I only smoke occasionally which I clean and return to the vault the next day.

 

[Searock Fan]

In short... I use them every damn day !