Maybe one More… Then I Gotta go Home!

[J-Evverrett]

Title edited. Please see rule 9. Capitalization! -jpm

I got to drooling a bit over an old sea rock lovat chasingembers showed me when I got my Christmas pipe last year. I liked smoking the first one so much, I grabbed the other too. It his fault really lol.

 

[Old_Newby]

Cool. I am new and wish I had $1000 to just spend in pipes. I already want like 10 that are $50 - $150 much less expenssive ones. Of course I am using cobs until I know the pipe is long term.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

$1000...say it ain't so........!!

 

[Old_Newby]

$1000...say it ain't so........!!

Hey don’t bash my excitement. I am a child to the pipe. I get excited over buying pipe cleaners. ?

 

[goosetime]

A beautiful sea rock! I will post my short shank sea rock billiard when I get home. I love Castellos for their exceptionally wide draw.

I also have a Caminetto bent egg I can post. Also have a Molina horn, my cheapest pipe, but one of my better smokers and feels great in the hand.

 

[LotusEater]

I got to drooling a bit over an old sea rock lovat chasingembers showed me when I got my Christmas pipe last year. I liked smoking the first one so much, I grabbed the other too. It his fault really lol.
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Great looking lovat!
Enjoy

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Hey don’t bash my excitement. I am a child to the pipe. I get excited over buying pipe cleaners. ?

My bad. Enjoy!!

 

[daveinlax]

Looks like a very nice example! I really enjoy “shape collecting”

 

[J-Evverrett]

Cool. I am new and wish I had $1000 to just spend in pipes. I already want like 10 that are $50 - $150 much less expenssive ones. Of course I am using cobs until I know the pipe is long term.

I remember buying my first good pipe. I had been piping for about 12 yrs maybe at the time. It was a silver banded Peterson donegal rocky 606. It was around $100, and I felt buyers remorse after I bought it bc of the price. It smoked so much better than my dr grabow, I eventually let it go and never looked back.

If you do latch onto the pipe, spend a little extra and treat yourself to one good one a year. That’s what I do personally. I just lucked out getting Amazon cards as Christmas tips and got two this year. The difference in price between a decent pipe and a good pipe isn’t that much compared to the increase in performance. The same goes for a good pipe and a great pipe. The jump from greatness to excellence is still a bit wide looking for me though lol.

 

[J-Evverrett]

Looks like a very nice example! I really enjoy “shape collecting”

I guess that could be what I’m up to, yeah. My taste in pipes has kinda settled into longer shanked billiards in the past year or two. So I’ve been looking for better quality lovats, Canadians and lumbermen. What shape/s do you gravitate towards?

 

[mso489]

The pricey ones are treasures, and sometimes the modestly priced pipes smoke as well, which is a fine surprise.

 

[PipeIT]

Oh that one on Pipes2Smoke you grabbed also?

 

[clynch]

Cool. I am new and wish I had $1000 to just spend in pipes. I already want like 10 that are $50 - $150 much less expenssive ones. Of course I am using cobs until I know the pipe is long term.

Cobs are cool. They smoke great.

 

[J-Evverrett]

Oh that one on Pipes2Smoke you grabbed also?

Yeah. And I honestly think I like the old sea rock finish better than the standard. A bit less high maintenance insofar as the rim isn’t smooth and lighter colored.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It his fault really

Nah, if you go meerschaum crazy, that'll be the one I take the fall for.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Cool. I am new and wish I had $1000 to just spend in pipes. I already want like 10 that are $50 - $150 much less expenssive ones. Of course I am using cobs until I know the pipe is long term.

No need for that kind of expense. You can easily get commission work between $200-$500. Sometimes we just get a little silly and drop the big bucks.

 

[cigrmaster]

Great looking pipe. Tough to beat that kind of craggy rustication.

 

[J-Evverrett]

I’ll second the post from chasingembers. There are a lot of great pipes at significantly lower prices. Both hand and factory made. There are numerous pipe carvers that produce great smoking pipes at half the price of Castello. Factory pipes from Peterson and savinelli are great in the $100+ range. And for semi-factory pipes, I’d like to say I love Briarworks pipes at around $100.

 

[goosetime]

I’ll second the post from chasingembers. There are a lot of great pipes at significantly lower prices. Both hand and factory made. There are numerous pipe carvers that produce great smoking pipes at half the price of Castello. Factory pipes from Peterson and savinelli are great in the $100+ range. And for semi-factory pipes, I’d like to say I love Briarworks pipes at around $100.

Do you have any briarworks pipes? I have looked at a few at my local store and none of them were really drilled in a way I like. Some excellent designs tho--I just wasn't sure how they would smoke.

 

[J-Evverrett]

Do you have any briarworks pipes? I have looked at a few at my local store and none of them were really drilled in a way I like. Some excellent designs tho--I just wasn't sure how they would smoke.

I have three at the moment. They smoke well in my experience. They are designed at least by higher end pipe makers, so the design and engineering are really good. The fit is pretty good too. However, the briar is not the most exquisite pieces and the finishing isn’t meticulous. At least not in the blasted lines. That’s how they keep the price down. Hard to beat in that range though, I would recommend them to a friend.