My whole collection in photos

[smoker49]

I don't have a huge pipe collection yet, so this won't take long. I hope you enjoy the photos (even though I am a total hack with a camera).
Here we go...

This Peterson is my very first pipe.

Lonestar did an amazing job on the restoration of this pipe.

And a group shot as I was setting up the shoot. Let me just say, when Erik Nording makes a pipe, he REALLY makes a pipe. Compare the size of Nording's pipes to my Petersons. Wow!

Off work tomorrow with a fresh tin of Escudo and a date with some virgin briar. TGIF indeed.

 

[ghost]

"Hack with a camera"? :?: Those are some great pictures, and a great collection. Well done!

 

[photoman13]

Look like pretty damn good photos to me! Great collection you have there.

 

[garyovich]

Awesome photos, that first peterson spigot is gorgeous, well they all are but the others had already gotten some love and i didn't want to leave the Petes out.

 

[gnatjulio]

Wow, nice collection. Your photos look like catalog photos.

 

[jah76]

Nice. I never get tired of looking at that Cavicchi.

 

[sjpipesmoker]

I'd rather have a few great pipes then a lot of crap pipes (like i do)
I have been thinking about selling off my pipes that I don't smoke or don't like and getting ones I will...
Great collection!!

 

[captainprophesy]

Those are some really beautiful pipes... wow :clap:
I really like the Gourd calabash... always wanted one.

 

[smoker49]

I just had a nightcap of some two year old Orlik through that Nording Calabash. Epic. I have had some great smokes through my Petes and MMcobs, but nothing compares to the chimney-like draft of a craftsman made pipe. I only packed that massive bowl half-way, and relit once midway through the bowl, and that was because I stopped smoking to look at the grain and I zoned out. Ha ha.

 

[cigrmaster]

Those are all great looking pipes. Your collection is off to a great start. The pics are amazing, they look like a pro took them. I wish I could take photos like that.

 

[smoker49]

You would laugh if you saw my "studio" setup. One desk lamp, one piece of leather and one piece of black posterboard. I was moving stuff around for a good hour and a half trying to get the right angles. Then just as I would get ready to take the shot, the pipe would fall over. The big pile of tobacco is for balancing the pipe, and also cushioning the fall so you don't ding your rims.

 

[tbradsim1]

Beautiful pipes, great pictures, you"re not starting the race , you"ve won it. The old cajun

 

[igloo]

Daaaammmmnnn those are nice pipes .

 

[fnord]

Well said, Brad.
Lovely collection, mate.

 

[ejames]

Nice collection! And as others said,wish I could take pics that nice!

 

[crk69]

Very impressive set of pipes... enjoy breaking them in...

 

[sixmp]

Nice collection, i wish i was as good a hack at pictures as you are :rofl:

 

[deleon]

Thats an insane colletion!

 

[smoker49]

Thanks everyone.

 

[kelp]

Splendid collection smoker49!! Great photographer as well.