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How to Best use my Pipe Budget?
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Not really off the subject ... if you decide not to keep smoking your pipe(s), keep them. So many people on Forums are coming back to pipe smoking, and if you have lost or discarded or sold your pipes, you have to start all over. At least keep six or ten pipes and some tins of tobacco in the back of the closet. If you hear the siren call again, you won't have to start all over. I've had a long hiatus or two in pipe smoking, but I saved my pipes. I have the first one I ever bought, a Tinder Box St. Ives, probably by Comoy, and it still looks good and smokes well, and is forty something years old.
This is quite literally (minus a few aspects) my experience. i can attest its a good route in.
I now have 2 new Briars (Inc a 673), 2 estate briars and 2 cobs.
I'd go for the savinelli and a cob to rotate.
@HighlandRogue This is your answer, right here. ^^^^
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Buy a pipe that you like the looks of.
If you like it's looks, you'll likely smoke it more often
That builds cake as well as helping develop slower puffing and enjoyment,
which should be your goal.
You can't read the brand stamped on your briar when your pipe's in your chops.
Savinelli or Roma, it's just not that much of a difference except in what you'll pay for it.
Get the pipe you want.
If you like it's looks, you'll likely smoke it more often
That builds cake as well as helping develop slower puffing and enjoyment,
which should be your goal.
You can't read the brand stamped on your briar when your pipe's in your chops.
Savinelli or Roma, it's just not that much of a difference except in what you'll pay for it.
Get the pipe you want.
My first pipe was a Savinelli Linea Pui 5 Apple. It retailed for 155.00 back in 1998 or so and it showed me how a good pipe should smoke. I now had a baseline so that when I did buy a shit pipe, I knew it and would get rid of them.
I would buy your pipe from Smokingpipes. I would call them and ask them to go over the pipe you are interested in. Ask them to make sure it was drilled perfectly. Make them see what the fit and finish are like on the pipe. Don't buy your first pipe from anyone else is my opinion. No I bought my Savinelli from a friend who owned a cigar shop and lounge and he carried a few very nice pipes. I was lucky my buddy was able to show me how to pack, and smoke the pipe. My second pipe I bought from him was a high grade (C) Winslow that retailed for over 500.00. I smoked it for years and finally moved it out when I went to all Ebonite(vulcanite) stems.
Because of that Savinelli, I knew the second pipe I bought a George Jensen was a piece of shit and I threw it in the trash. Maybe the 4th pipe I bought I think it was in Moms on Madison ave in NYC. It was a beautiful Nording Dublin with killer grain. It had only an 1/8th of a bent and as I learned later that it was drilled wrong and the pipe wouldn't pass a pipe cleaner so I had coopersark sell it for me along with something else I can't remember. I learned fast because of my Savinelli and Winslow as those were great smokers. Now I learned that if a fluffy pipe cleaner didn't pass easily, never buy it.
I learned quickly and I had fun chasing grain for a few years. I got some hellacious pipes off the back of a trunk and was buying Formers and Barbi's and other high end Danish pipes for half of the cost of the wholesale price of the pipe. I traded Cuban cigars that I doubled the price of and made a killing. Pus we had Agide from Italy who was whoring out 4K Collection grade Castello's for 200-250. Hamlin was going insane when I rubbed those numbers in his face. The great grey market Castello scam was in full force.
You know what I learned from chasing grain, is that you cannot smoke grain, I say bullshit when people try to tell me straight grain pipes smoke better. Maybe if they shoved them up their asses , they got a special flavor.
I would buy your pipe from Smokingpipes. I would call them and ask them to go over the pipe you are interested in. Ask them to make sure it was drilled perfectly. Make them see what the fit and finish are like on the pipe. Don't buy your first pipe from anyone else is my opinion. No I bought my Savinelli from a friend who owned a cigar shop and lounge and he carried a few very nice pipes. I was lucky my buddy was able to show me how to pack, and smoke the pipe. My second pipe I bought from him was a high grade (C) Winslow that retailed for over 500.00. I smoked it for years and finally moved it out when I went to all Ebonite(vulcanite) stems.
Because of that Savinelli, I knew the second pipe I bought a George Jensen was a piece of shit and I threw it in the trash. Maybe the 4th pipe I bought I think it was in Moms on Madison ave in NYC. It was a beautiful Nording Dublin with killer grain. It had only an 1/8th of a bent and as I learned later that it was drilled wrong and the pipe wouldn't pass a pipe cleaner so I had coopersark sell it for me along with something else I can't remember. I learned fast because of my Savinelli and Winslow as those were great smokers. Now I learned that if a fluffy pipe cleaner didn't pass easily, never buy it.
I learned quickly and I had fun chasing grain for a few years. I got some hellacious pipes off the back of a trunk and was buying Formers and Barbi's and other high end Danish pipes for half of the cost of the wholesale price of the pipe. I traded Cuban cigars that I doubled the price of and made a killing. Pus we had Agide from Italy who was whoring out 4K Collection grade Castello's for 200-250. Hamlin was going insane when I rubbed those numbers in his face. The great grey market Castello scam was in full force.
You know what I learned from chasing grain, is that you cannot smoke grain, I say bullshit when people try to tell me straight grain pipes smoke better. Maybe if they shoved them up their asses , they got a special flavor.
I bought a Sampler that had 4 different tobaccos and a cob pipe. I also purchased a good looking (not extravagant savanelli. Two pipe rotation. The savanelli was my pride and joy. I liked its look and feel in the hand. The cob was a shockingly good smoker. Many samplers come with a cob. I got mine from Boswells. I still have both pipes and enjoy them to this day. When I was on a pipe hiatus (twice) I never got rid of them. Don't go nuts on a first pipe but do get something you like. Happy smoking.
Obviously, you are getting a lot of answers ranging from "buy a few inexpensive pipes, because all decent pipes smoke the same," to "buy one good pipe that really catches your fancy and that you'll love to own." I fall into the latter category. To me, a pipe is more than just a vehicle for burning tobacco. If you take good care of it, a "good" pipe is easy to resell as an estate if your tastes change.
Smokingpipes.com is a good place to find unsmoked estates and to research pipes in your price range. You can return the pipe for the same price as you paid for it, as long as you haven't smoked it and you do so within a month. Buying estates on eBay is a bit of a crap shoot, especially if they've been smoked. You could end up spending a lot of time trying to clean up the pipe and never be happy with it—and you usually can't return it. Smokingpipes really preps their pre-smoked estates. You pay a bit more but you know what you're getting because they're well described.
Finally, unless you have your heart set on Savinelli, why not see what else is available in your price range. You might find something you like more. And looking for a pipe online is an adventure in itself! Good luck.
Smokingpipes.com is a good place to find unsmoked estates and to research pipes in your price range. You can return the pipe for the same price as you paid for it, as long as you haven't smoked it and you do so within a month. Buying estates on eBay is a bit of a crap shoot, especially if they've been smoked. You could end up spending a lot of time trying to clean up the pipe and never be happy with it—and you usually can't return it. Smokingpipes really preps their pre-smoked estates. You pay a bit more but you know what you're getting because they're well described.
Finally, unless you have your heart set on Savinelli, why not see what else is available in your price range. You might find something you like more. And looking for a pipe online is an adventure in itself! Good luck.