Let's See Your Most Embarassing / Worst Pipe

[mikethompson]

The title is pretty self explanatory. Lets see those pipes you have kept at the back of your drawer, bottom of the bin. Whatever reason you haven't tossed it, lets hear that too.

Here is a pre-War Ropp that I love the shape of, but is in such bad shape I don't have the skills to tackle it. It is the height of hubris that I bought this mess thinking I could save it.

This is a safe space guys, no judegements!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Prior to finally finding themselves in the trash, these were mine. Visually unattractive, couldn't pass a pipe cleaner, and the draw wasn't open enough.

 

[augiebd]

Prior to finally finding themselves in the trash, these were mine. Visually unattractive, couldn't pass a pipe cleaner, and the draw wasn't open enough.

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In the trash? Not plant holders?

 

[scloyd]

This is my worst pipe and it sits in a drawer, never seeing daylight. A Casillero which was one of my first pipes, a P&C "free pipe" special. It has a hard time passing a pipe cleaner even with the stem removed. I have to eye-ball down the shank to hit the draft hole. The only reason it's not in the garbage dump is I'm saving it for an art project.

 

[Chasing Embers]

In the trash? Not plant holders?

Started that way, but winter weather destroyed the stummels.

 

[mikethompson]

Prior to finally finding themselves in the trash

I somehow knew this pipe would make it in

This is my worst pipe and it sits in a drawer, never seeing daylight

it actually doesn't look that bad Scott, but looks can be deceiving I guess

 

[agnosticpipe]

 

[olkofri]

Cobs.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cobs.

Cob-a-phobia?

 

[danimalia]

To be fair I adore this pipe as a smoker but boy is it one ugly putty-filled nightmare! It was my first briar and I had no idea just how bad those putty-fills would look once the pipe began to color

 

[Chasing Embers]

To be fair I adore this pipe as a smoker but boy is it one ugly putty-filled nightmare! It was my first briar and I had no idea just how bad those putty-fills would look once the pipe began to colorView attachment 27888View attachment 27891

I've had that happen. For some reason on a Weber I had, the fills started turning pink.

 

[cshubhra]

I smoke all my pipes - except three. There are reasons why I don’t smoke them, but I like them all

1. Van Roy Ajustomatic Magic Cake - I bought this pipe (circa 1940s) unsmoked and have smoked a fair amount. I have officially retired this finally, because of the restricted draw from the stinger. This is officially retired, but stays in my collection as a piece of history

2. I bought a MM Miniature Cob as a mean to have short smokes. I have never enjoyed a single smoke out of it. It’s not officially retired, but I have not smoked it for a long time. This pipe bought very early during my pipe smoking days, put me off Cobs for a long time. In fact only this week I have decided to give Cobs another try and have added a MM Legend to my current tobacco order, which is in transit.
3. I have a falcon with two bowls - Meerschaum and Briar. I almost exclusively smoke the Meerschaum bowl as it classed up the falcon pipe a bit. The briar bowl does not get smoked

I just remembered I have a fourth.
4. I have a Peterson which I have almost destroyed practicing restoration. Almost never gets smoked

 

[olkofri]

Cob-a-phobia?

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They just look too bumpkinish!

BTW, I finally got to smoke my no-longer-brand-new Reverse Cob-labash 2018 Special Edition.

The chamber is large, but packed with fine ribbon, it didn't last as long as I was afraid of. 'Twas still a two-day smoke, though.

 

[Chasing Embers]

They just look too bumpkinish!

There are many non smokers that say the same about pipes in general.

 

[Bowie]

In fact only this week I have decided to give Cobs another try and have added a MM Legend to my current tobacco order, which is in transit.

I like my MM Legends, including the cheap plastic stems. They smoke really well in my opinion.

 

[didimauw]

I like my MM Legends, including the cheap plastic stems. They smoke really well in my opinion.

My legend is my favorite pipe to date. It keeps cracking, and I keep filling the cracks with wood putty.

Learned from the late great fishnbanjo.

As for a worst pipe, I have none. Just sold all the pipes I didn't smoke.

 

[olkofri]

There are many non smokers that say the same about pipes in general.

That's it. I'm switching to cigars! ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

That's it. I'm switching to cigars! ?

 

[alaskanpiper]

The ugliest/most embarrassing pipe I have came in a set of two that my dad passed on. The first is an awesome grabow eldorado Ajustomatic that I restored from the grave (it was horrible) and now looks and smoked great. However the other one he gave me, was not even worth restoring. Super ugly, super effed up, I guess “spot” “carved” Thin Bite. It looks like it was attacked by a wolverine with melon baller claws, and the stem fits about as well as a turd in a bowl of milk.

 

[mortonbriar]

On the top of the heap we have my VERY first pipe. It was a nice July Sunday afternoon 2009, and I was on the back porch of our little apartment in Winnipeg, CA. Wafting down from my upstairs neighbour's came the incredible aroma of what was probably 1-Q. I ran upstairs to take a puff and then decided I needed a pipe of my own IMMEDIATELY. All I had on hand that I figured would work was a lump of soapstone I had been carving from, and a few hand tools and a drill. Old mother Necessity and I made a pipe within the hour (or maybe two) and I went back upstairs to beg a pinch of leaf. I am not embarrassed by the pipe because I know the context under which it was made, but I would certainly be too shy to smoke it in public, it remains forever a shelf display.

The middle pipe is Ukranian pearwood, and it is the first pipe I purchased. I did not know what I was doing while shopping online for it, and the pictures made it look very "classy" to my untrained eye...

On the bottom, at a whopping 9.5" is what some of you will recognise as a pipe from R.Santia. It smokes like a dream and is my absolute favourite pipe to smoke Bob's Choc Flake in, but this outrageous facial appendage is smoked exclusively in private.

Isaac.