This is my ultimate goal but they are way out of my price range. Anyone care to post pics of the ones they own so I can seeth with envy.
Meerschaum Calabash Pipe
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Pioneer Sherlock Holmes Style Calabash Gourd Solid Meerschaum Bowl Cup Ebonite | eBay
The Vulcanite hand cut stem has a very high polish. I’ve cleaned the gourd & pipe stem thoroughly inside and out. The Bowl Cup is a smoked older bowl with a few very minor dings. It’s a beautiful smaller hand size calabash you can carry it anywhere easily around the house in hand.
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Reminds me I should probably smoke this pipe more often... What I need is a proper calabash pipe stand so I can actually set it down when I'm smoking it:
I'll try to take better pictures when I get a chance, she's a real shapely one this.
I'll try to take better pictures when I get a chance, she's a real shapely one this.
This is a Kaywoodie with a 4-hole stinger. The 3-hole stinger replaced the 4-hole in the early 1950s. This version was listed in the 1955 Kaywoodie catalogue.
Unfortunately my price range is like $50 lolPioneer Sherlock Holmes Style Calabash Gourd Solid Meerschaum Bowl Cup Ebonite | eBay
The Vulcanite hand cut stem has a very high polish. I’ve cleaned the gourd & pipe stem thoroughly inside and out. The Bowl Cup is a smoked older bowl with a few very minor dings. It’s a beautiful smaller hand size calabash you can carry it anywhere easily around the house in hand.www.ebay.com
But the Sherlock Holmes fan in me is mesmerized.Meh, don't feel bad. They look weird anyways
Basil smoked a calabash for the movies. I rather suppose Doyle's Holmes had a variety of pipes common to the times.
And, what is this fascinating desire so many have to emulate movie smokers?
And, what is this fascinating desire so many have to emulate movie smokers?
An Austrian gourd calabash
I use it for Peterson’s Irish Flake
The air chamber ameliorates the nic hit well
I use it for Peterson’s Irish Flake
The air chamber ameliorates the nic hit well
Peterson’s Irish Flake is a bit strong for a whimp like meSo it improves it? (Sorry I had to Google that word)
The air space in the gourd “dilutes” the smoke so I don’t get “hit”
Also the meer bowl is quite shallow/small so it’s a shorter smoke
I see! I can see how that could be useful! I just wasn't sure if you meant improve as increase or decrease.Peterson’s Irish Flake is a bit strong for a whimp like me
The air space in the gourd “dilutes” the smoke so I don’t get “hit”
Also the meer bowl is quite shallow/small so it’s a shorter smoke
more laughing at my own vocabulary here.
Sherlock Holmes related to stage, film and television, yes. A clay pipe (Old Domions can be had for under $50) is more literary Holmes, but unlike him, you probably shouldn't smoke it until it turns black-- and sour-- and then just keep smoking it like that. If you do get a clay pipe, once it starts to turn brown, bury it in the coals of a fireplace and the tobacco juices will bake out of it. Once it's clean, dip the stem tip in some sort of melted wax or your lips will stick to it.
A long-stemmed cherrywood (look on eBay for Ropp pipes, you'll want the kind with a long slightly-angled stem, as opposed to the sitter with a vertical shank and bent mouthpiece) is proper for Holmes in a bad mood. These always have some of the bark left on because they tend to crack easily. Don't go Holmes' way and light it with a coal plucked from a fireplace with tongs.
Keep an eye on eBay and Etsy, though. You never know what you'll dig up. The Pioneer calabashes are the easiest to find; they always have a black ferrule and black military-mount stem, and never any shank band of metal or etc. I have a couple of these that need a new meerschaum bowl, and I just don't smoke them enough to want to spend $100 on one. PM me and we can talk about me selling one of them if you want. These are from the 1960s or 1970s.
A long-stemmed cherrywood (look on eBay for Ropp pipes, you'll want the kind with a long slightly-angled stem, as opposed to the sitter with a vertical shank and bent mouthpiece) is proper for Holmes in a bad mood. These always have some of the bark left on because they tend to crack easily. Don't go Holmes' way and light it with a coal plucked from a fireplace with tongs.
Keep an eye on eBay and Etsy, though. You never know what you'll dig up. The Pioneer calabashes are the easiest to find; they always have a black ferrule and black military-mount stem, and never any shank band of metal or etc. I have a couple of these that need a new meerschaum bowl, and I just don't smoke them enough to want to spend $100 on one. PM me and we can talk about me selling one of them if you want. These are from the 1960s or 1970s.
@jonasclark Nothing wrong with lighting the pipe with an ember & tongs; I've had my clay lit from the blacksmith's forge at re-enactments several times! Here's my favourite lighter!
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The clay pipe idea seems pretty good to me. Just read through a few stories and seen that it is in fact a clay pipe.
@El Capitán I recommend you get a clay; they're cheap enough and collecting them can become a hobby in its own right!
I've seen the designs carved into them. They do look nice. Yall are always full of advice.