Lets See Your High End Collections

[cshubhra]

Another 360 straight grain with bamboo

 

[cshubhra]

A modern factory pipe. Beautiful briar, some good Birdseye

 

[cshubhra]

A few more …

 

[cshubhra]

Stopping at the 10th post. Last but not the least - A favorite pipe though it is no longer there - Exceptional while it lasted

 

[LotusEater]

A foot long commission

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I wouldn’t be able to pick that one up for fear of snapping the shank.
Amazing piece.

 

[cshubhra]

I wouldn’t be able to pick that one up for fear of snapping the shank.
Amazing piece.

It has a reinforced metal tube. Extremely strong.

 

[Alejo R.]

I guess this is a bit unusual. It also has a nice story.

 

[TN Jed]

I was not quite sure about the definition of “high end” so I chose to post some of my most cherished pipes.

First up - I have been smoking this single pipe since 24th May and incidentally currently the 200th bowl. The one I have been smoking so much is of course a very special pipe made of translucent meerschaum

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I've been dying to see this elusive pipe since I first starting seeing your post in WAYS. I'm very curious about how its translucent? I'd love to see a pic if you can capture the translucence.

 

[cshubhra]

I've been dying to see this elusive pipe since I first starting seeing your post in WAYS. I'm very curious about how its translucent? I'd love to see a pic if you can capture the translucence.

Hard to photograph translucency in the pipe. It is more evident when it has colored. If you look very closely into the picture of the shank, you might be able to see that some of the color is beneath the surface

 

[OzPiper]

A Sasieni Specially Selected One Dot tapered stem Bulldog with “fish”

 

[kola]

My most expensive pipe ever owned. I rarely smoked it so I sold it. I lost money on it too.

 

[TexJake]

A couple more Chonowitsch pipe photos:

 

[TexJake]

And here are some of my favorite S.Bang examples:

 

[jon11]

I think this clearly makes my point that PM has the best collections of high end pipes on the internet.
There used to be a private site invitation only called the Common Sewers. It was one of the many rooms that was part of smokersforum.uk.

The Common Serves was a site where all high end pipes could be discussed without having to apologize for having that kind of money invested in pipes. I was a piker to those guys. My Rad Davis and other American artisan pipes smoked great and not once was I felt out.

There were some amazing pieces of work that you would never see anywhere else. There were a lot of heavy hitters from the pipe world and the conversations were very cool. I learned much of what I know now from those guys just as I learned a bunch of cool stuff from this thread.

I was a member of the common sewers from 2010 until the passing of Ed Anderson. Loved that place. Great discussions and very informative.

 

[sablebrush52]

I wouldn’t be able to pick that one up for fear of snapping the shank.
Amazing piece.

Scottie put a lot of time and effort into developing her method of reinforcing her pencil shanks with surgical steel, including dropping pipes onto concrete from a 16 to 20 foot height. The only one that snapped was one where the pipe landed squarely on the slot end of the stem, and that only happened once. The sheath extends well past the juncture between the shank and the bowl.
I own 6 of her pipes and they are all excellent smokers.

 

[OzPiper]

Tom Eltang smooth Cutty

 

[OzPiper]

Tom Eltang (tribute to Gert Holbek) sandblasted Polonius

 

[OzPiper]

S Bang

 

[JimInks]

Guess I'll join in. Here are some Ardors. I'll post the rest later today as I didn't photograph a couple of them.



This is a two dot



This is #68/100 Sherlock Holmes.

 

[OzPiper]

A Loewe & Co cased pair