Matching Pipe Shape to Personality

[judcole]

The pipes you are drawn to may reflect your personality but, I would venture to say, if you deliberately tried to match pipe to personality you would fail. You would match pipes to how you want to be perceived, not how you actually are - which, come to think of it, would say something about your personality! :P

 

[gamecockpiper]

It's all taste I'd say-I'm considered a bit of an "old soul" and happen to prefer the looks of traditional shapes, especially the billiard, but that's just me. Another friend of mine is the same but likes freehands and other more unique styles. Seems less personality and more preference to me.

 

[lostandfound]

I really like bent Danish shapes, and straight English ones- specifically, Lovats and saddle-bit billiards. Classically shaped bulldogs are also starting to grow on me. And, I don't know what it is... but I'm pretty sure once my collection becomes more defined, that I'll possess sand-blasted pipes exclusively... maybe have a couple smooth ones for good measure.

 

[fitzy]

I like all kinds of shapes and finishes. So I don't know what that says about me although I mostly prefer bent as they tend to be more comfortable clenched.
I'm with wyfbane. I have been dreaming of a spigot Peterson but can't spend the money on it.

 

[salewis]

I think that when you were able to smoke your pipe in public places the issue of matching your pipe to your personality was fairly important considering your weight, height, age and so forth. However, since smoking your pipe in public places is becoming more difficult each year I personally do not think that pipe shape to fit your personality is as important as in the past. I am rather eclectic when choosing a pipe configuration and my preference is half bents with a group 4 or 5 size. The only shape I usually try to stay away from is the billiard shape which may seem odd since it is the most popular shape.

 

[homeatsea]

I love the prince shape. Although I'm certainly not prince-like. But damn that shape is nice to my eyes. Especially with a nice banding.

 

[foggymountain]

I am a freestyle.

 

[weezell]

My pipes are definitely a reflection of my personality. They are all old and cheap, just like me...+1

 

[rigmedic1]

I had never given it much thought until I was smoking a Royalton bent bulldog, and my mother said that it looked nice on me. Here lately, I have been putting a lot of miles on my Pete Grafton Rhodesian. Maybe I should get a blue pipe, since the blue brings out my eyes.

 

[zekest]

Entirely possible that just like the change from mild mannered Clark Kent into Superman by stripping off his glasses and suit to his Underoos, when we switch from a churchwarden to a thick diamond shank bulldog, we could change from a church mouse to a hard guy in a wife-beater.

 

[sablebrush52]

Well, if pipe shapes are supposed to relate to one's personality then I would have to conclude that I have multiple personality disorder because I have a wide variety of shapes, sizes and styles in my motley collection.

 

[wnghanglow]

Well I suppose I like my items cheap and I love a good bargain, if these are personality traits then it can be said that my cobs are an extension of my personality. Even though I have nicer pipes my most expensive being a meerschaum I find myself smoking my cobs more than anything. Like others on this thread have said I don't believe a pipe style can match a personality. If it could I believe dunhill would have made a "pipe for the bold man" or a "pipe for an intellectual" come to think of it, I don't really know any of dunhill's advertisements maybe they do. In any such way smoke what you like my friend, leave the worrying to others.

 

[pjhicks]

I cannot enjoy a pipe that is longer than 6 and a half inches in length. Also, while I enjoy large bowl capacity, I do not like bowls the size of golf club heads. If this says something about me psychologically, so be it! Short and built for business is my pipe ideal and just so happens to be my body type Smoke what you like and don't sweat the small stuff.

 

[pipestud]

I was told that a pipe is an extension of your personality.

A pipe in your mouth tells the world who you are.

I hope you were told wrong, zekest. Otherwise, I may need professional help. Just yesterday I was smoking an admittedly less than spectacular looking pipe and my lunch partner said, "No offense, but that pipe looks like the south end of a north bound bull."
Pipestud

 

[flyguy]

When I browse through pipes on the internet I tend to gravitate to the ones that catch my eye; sorta like the way a certain woman can catch a man's eye. 8)

Like that certain woman, the pipe that catches my eye is usually too expensive!

 

[reepicheep]

I have to say I think there might be something to the pipe-personality connection. Im a very traditional guy and I like very traditional styles of pipes. My 2 Favroit pipes both spoke to me the first time I saw them. My First Pipe, which I think will always be my farvorite pipe struck me as a thing of simple beauty, and I made me want to smoke a pipe even though I had never tried one. I love it's simple flowing lines and how it feels in my hand. It just seems to fit me.

 

[mso489]

I occasionally glance in the mirror to see how I look with a specific pipe. I have a really big bowled pipe

that just looks too big. Most of my pipes look okay, I suppose. But it occurs to me that since pipe smoking

has become such restricted activity, even if I found a pipe that made me look in some magical way like

Clark Gable or someone, I couldn't smoke it in public; I'd have to carry it around in my mouth empty. So

I don't worry much about matching my pipe to my personality. When I was in NYC and wanted to buy some

tobacco at Nat Sherman's on 42nd, I took along a little bent billiard made by a N.C. carver with a light stain

and bright orange stem. No one commented on it, but no one looked embarrassed by it either. A took a pipe

by the same carver, a bent ball made of Mountain Laurel, to the local pipe show. These experiences made me

realize how infrequently I smoke my pipes in public view.

 

[ssjones]

"No offense, but that pipe looks like the south end of a north bound bull."

That one almost slipped past me!

 

[sparrowhawk]

I like both straight and bent tips, but above all, I've noticed, I like simplicity and something with a classic air. Then again, I have a couple of the Dracula series from Peterson, which are quite colorful, but that's because I like gothic things.

 

[snagstangl]

If I smoke anything over five inches long I feel inadequate But in all reality, I usually check myself out in the mirror while driving and smoking. I havent smoked anything yet that doesnt look like some weird thing poking out of my gob. I enjoy the pipe but it ain't cause it makes me look pretty.