I've made it easier for myself to remember by having multiple pipes from a small number of carvers.
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When I first started smoking in the early 80s Erinmore was one of the first blends I tried.
If you remotely like it, I’d say keep an eye out for an older vintage tin, hopefully you won’t have to take out a bank loan! LOL
All I can say is back then, it did have a really nice fruity pineapple flavor going on, I’ll never forget it, it’s why they are listed in my signature.
And some shapes blur the line between one shape and another.
Right. I just never cared to know or remember what the pipe maker called it. I just know I like the more traditional shapes, whatever they're called.
I've found myself leaning more in that direction recently. Looking over my IMPS, they remind me nothing of the wild shapes I liked decades ago.
This was the last one they had. I hung onto it once I knew what it was.When I first started smoking in the early 80s Erinmore was one of the first blends I tried.
If you remotely like it, I’d say keep an eye out for an older vintage tin, hopefully you won’t have to take out a bank loan! LOL
All I can say is back then, it did have a really nice fruity pineapple flavor going on, I’ll never forget it, it’s why they are listed in my signature.
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Don't feel bad, I somehow was accepted as a mod, and I know next to nothing. ?. Seriously. Haha I just like to smoke. Don't care much for details.
I've said before in this forum that I own about 75 pipes. All this talk about who owns how many made me wonder. How many do I have? Just did a count and it's 87. (Isn't that fascinating?) I would say about half of them, I can remember where, when and how much they cost.... all the way back to 1963. As to shapes, if it isn't a free hand, no problem. I think every serious pipe smoker should know the standard shape names, it's just basic. What this thread shows well is the wide variety of pipe smokers there are. There's the guy who knows it all (me) and then there's all of you....
I keep it simple. All my briars are Peterson, and their shapes are either calabash or Dublin. I don't know what my other ones are.
I have two JACOB pipes, both #10 but one is smooth and the other rusticated. When I tried to find out about them online, I only found information about a "Jacob" shape clay pipe, made by many companies over the 19th century (mostly) that were an old man's face with a long straight beard.
That didn't exactly help me much.
That didn't exactly help me much.
I got a old boy lighter with the shape chart on it to refresh my memory as needs be. I didn’t even know you had to clean a pipe till about ten years ago lol. I just smoked one dr grabow till it tasted foul, and bought a new one from Walgreens. Went through about two a year at that rate.
When I first got into pipe smoking seriously, I bought and sold so many different pipes, I spent bezillions on pipe tobacco that I didn't end up liking at all. After so many years I've got a handful of pipes that I smoke. I've got a lot of the two tobacco blends that I like the most, but these days I'm happy if I can remember which end to lite.
I think every new pipe smoker that finds this forum feels the same way. I was amazed at the variety of pipe shapes and how much so many members knew about them all. I only have 36 pipes so its easy to remember the manufacturer, but still might not be able to tell the difference between a pot, an egg and a billiard, lol. I just love to smoke them.
For what it's worth.... I never throw out a tobacco I don't care for. I save them and every now and then I do a little mixing to see what I can come up with. Sometimes two bad tobaccos blended can end up making one good tobacco.
Maybe this will help.
I'm at home babysitting 3 grandkids with nothing else to do.... and isn't that just a little sad?
Not at all. As much as I love my micrometers and digital comparators at work, I'd take the kids over that any day.
This business about so many forum members not knowing about the basic shape names of pipes got me thinking. I just did a Google search on "pipes shapes chart" and came us with a quite a few. Seems to me that knowing the names of at least the most popular shapes would make discussing things on this forum much easier.
I didn't look at every shape chart I found, but of the ones I did take a gander at I noticed the following.
Quite a few of them not only list the standard shapes but they have other shapes that I assume are exclusive to their company. Some of those names would never come up unless you were buying from the company.
It's amazing how they omit some shapes that, to me at least, are basic. I didn't see one that listed the "Woodstock" for example. A popular and classic shape.
Bottom line is, none are perfect. I learned my shapes back in the '60s from Weber's Guide to Pipes, and it has served me well. Every pipe smoker should have a copy in his library.
I didn't look at every shape chart I found, but of the ones I did take a gander at I noticed the following.
Quite a few of them not only list the standard shapes but they have other shapes that I assume are exclusive to their company. Some of those names would never come up unless you were buying from the company.
It's amazing how they omit some shapes that, to me at least, are basic. I didn't see one that listed the "Woodstock" for example. A popular and classic shape.
Bottom line is, none are perfect. I learned my shapes back in the '60s from Weber's Guide to Pipes, and it has served me well. Every pipe smoker should have a copy in his library.
That name rarely if ever comes up, most just call it a zulu or yacht. This is often the gold standard for traditional shapes.
The bad thing about the books is that smoking is too subjective to the individual to have rules or guidelines.
Or a pipe chart stored on his HDD! —Or I guess that's old fashioned now that HDs are being replaced by solid state memory.