Let's See Those Beat Up Old Faithfuls!

[Mr.Mike]

Hi guys! New to the forum, and rather then start posting tons of pics of shiny pipes, I'll share my beat up old grabow I smoke every morning on my way to work. It's reamed uneven, it's finish has been gone since the dinosaurs, and there's a divit in the stem that fits my tooth perfectly! Comfy like an old pair of shoes.

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title

 

[jojoc]

good topic!
I'd post mine, but I smoke too infrequently and have too many pipes for any of them to fall into this category, other than my very first pipe (a basket pipe) that I burned out and tossed years ago.

 

[supperthyme]

Shield your eyes, this one is truly disgusting.

 

[Mr.Mike]

Shield your eyes, this one is truly disgusting.
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That has seen some miles!

 

[supperthyme]

That has seen some miles!

Definitely. As disgusting as it is, I reckon I'll continue to reach for it until it burns through completely.
How long have you used that Grabow?

 

[Mr.Mike]

Definitely. As disgusting as it is, I reckon I'll continue to reach for it until it burns through completely.
How long have you used it that Grabow?

About 7 years. I once lost it in the snow on my property playing with my dog. Searching 3 acres for a grabow is not fun. The snow melted and a few months later I stumbled upon it, dusted it off and loaded it up. I couldn't get rid of it if I wanted to lol

 

[sandollars]

Umm, I don't have any beat up pipes.... I take care of mine.

 

[logs]

Hard-smoked relic pipes are my favorite type. That old cob is pretty cool, not disgusting

 

[supperthyme]

Searching 3 acres for a grabow is not fun.

Good Lord, you must really love that thing to have gone through the trouble of looking.

 

[olkofri]

Shield your eyes, this one is truly disgusting.
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Yeah, but they are mandatory unfortunately. ?

Oh, you meant the pipe?? I thought you were referring to the warning label. ?

 

[sandollars]

Yeah, but they are mandatory unfortunately. ?

Oh, you meant the pipe?? I thought you were referring to the warning label. ?

LOL! I thought he was referring to the Popsicle flavored tobacco he had there

 

[olkofri]

LOL! I thought he was referring to the Popsicle flavored tobacco he had there

Hmm? I didn't see any English blends on that photo. ?

 

[supperthyme]

Yeah, but they are mandatory unfortunately. ?

Oh, you meant the pipe?? I thought you were referring to the warning label. ?

That too, I'm just grateful we don't have those graphic labels featuring photographs of rotting teeth.

 

[weezell]

Shield your eyes, this one is truly disgusting.

That's not disgusting,that's something that is loved! I like it! Here's mine. A beat up old meer I call the FrankenMeer. Hole patched in it probably 90 years ago and someone at one point tried to saw the bowl in half and quit...

 

[agnosticpipe]

I picked up this old no name bulldog a few years back because it was super cheap, and I just felt sorry for it. I cleaned it up and gave it try. I really liked the way it smoked, and I reach for it fairly often, so I have no desire to get rid of it.

 

[rogers]

An old Gefapip. Banged up, chewed up, still smokin'.

 

[derhammer]

A beat up Grabow Golden Duke is one of first pipes I got ever since starting to smoke pipes.
I broke the stem intentionally as it couldn't be separated from the shank then shortened it to save it from completely unusable. Now the stem is so loose that it falls apart every time I try to position it on the lips while smoking.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I never leave them beat up. Nasty habit of restoring here.

 

[sablebrush52]

You mean this old thing?

 

[alaskanpiper]

I’m a habitual cleaner. I had a nice broken in cob that was getting very ugly-pretty, but I gave it away to a potential convert saturday night. Along with some sample bags of HH pure VA, Nightcap, Firestorm, Solani ABF, and Molto Dolce. And an old grabow riviera I restored.