That's awesome! You'll need to show these pipes that have such good history.
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Hey Pecos! I first started with a pipe last year, after trying my hand at carving a few. At first I thought they just looked cool, but now I am enjoying the complexities of flavor from different tobaccos. Still very new!
Bold choice, make some pipes and then decide if you want to smoke them. I like it!
It actually sounds similar to something I did..
Before I started smoking, I collected them. I had a plastic one from a flea market that had a metal insert that I decided wasn’t up to my standards. So when I was 13-14 y/o I carved a bowl from a black walnut burl, put the stem on from the plastic pipe, and threw the junk bowl away!
Sadly there have been a few casualties (clay is not indestructible as it turns out), but I still have a couples of cobs and a couple of briars from my first days of collecting!
Here’s a pic of the ones still hanging out.
We think with the same mind! I see your pipes and they are lovely. I made a few clay pipes back in high school art class, but for some reason, the teacher wasn’t alright with my firing them in the school kiln. Something about being too young to smoke or some nonsense like that. I particularly like the briar on the right. It has a great sheen to it.
Haha! That sounds about right!
As for that briar, I waxed it a couple of years ago to give it some new life, glad you could tell
Welcome from the Pacific NW. Nice lil starter set there.
My grandfather smoked a pipe and since i had already been smoking cigars for a couple years i gave it a go. Next thing i knew i was buying restoration projects on ebay and flipping them - a few at a time - for more interesting pipes and the rest is history...
My grandfather smoked a pipe and since i had already been smoking cigars for a couple years i gave it a go. Next thing i knew i was buying restoration projects on ebay and flipping them - a few at a time - for more interesting pipes and the rest is history...
Thank you! The four pictured are actually pipes that I no longer smoke, but they have some history with me so I can’t quite let them go.Welcome from the Pacific NW. Nice lil starter set there.
My grandfather smoked a pipe and since i had already been smoking cigars for a couple years i gave it a go. Next thing i knew i was buying restoration projects on ebay and flipping them - a few at a time - for more interesting pipes and the rest is history...
I’ve always wanted to get lucky on an eBay lot, but the bid always seems to favor someone with deeper pockets… I wonder if you’ve been my competition this whole time
I'm cheap, so no threat here. I'm also a poker player, so take that with a grain of salt.I’ve always wanted to get lucky on an eBay lot, but the bid always seems to favor someone with deeper pockets… I wonder if you’ve been my competition this whole time
The way to 'get lucky' is to keep the bids low and often. I lose 90% of the bids i cast and offers i make, but the ones that do come through are always a good deal.
Welcome! 
I have cousins near Binghampton, and once worked and lived near Poughkeepsie.
I was smoking Borkum Riff Cherry in cobs at age 12, with my brothers and friends, among abandoned coal mines, in the woods of Western Pennsylvania.
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I have cousins near Binghampton, and once worked and lived near Poughkeepsie.I was smoking Borkum Riff Cherry in cobs at age 12, with my brothers and friends, among abandoned coal mines, in the woods of Western Pennsylvania.
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I began as a teenager, smoking Swisher Sweets and riding my motorcycle about town. Went into a smoke shop and on a whim bought a pipe and tobacco.
