Naming Pipes
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When I get a new one, I'll set it in the floor and call out names until I find one that it responds to. :
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That's an interesting idea. I name cats by making long lists and matching up the animal with the
seemingly most appropriate name, though sometimes the cats prefer to answer to something else.
A cat I named Garland is much more responsive to Lefty, or Kitty-Kitty -- he likes the T sound.
With pipes, I mainly try to remember the brand and model name, or at least the shape. But I like
your Toadshade naming. I'm expecting a Stanwell Brushed Black Liverpool (from the PC sale) at
any minute, a day early. I'm on a roll with C&D burley forward blends, so that will probably be the
break-in. I'm also getting a Brushed Brown Pot, which has a somewhat conical rather than cylindrical
bowl. I like the wood-finish brims on those pipes. Which shape did you get?
seemingly most appropriate name, though sometimes the cats prefer to answer to something else.
A cat I named Garland is much more responsive to Lefty, or Kitty-Kitty -- he likes the T sound.
With pipes, I mainly try to remember the brand and model name, or at least the shape. But I like
your Toadshade naming. I'm expecting a Stanwell Brushed Black Liverpool (from the PC sale) at
any minute, a day early. I'm on a roll with C&D burley forward blends, so that will probably be the
break-in. I'm also getting a Brushed Brown Pot, which has a somewhat conical rather than cylindrical
bowl. I like the wood-finish brims on those pipes. Which shape did you get?
I usually just call them by make and shape. Like Comoy Volcano, Growley Rhodesian, BBB Dublin, Meer bent billard, etc.
I have one named "Old Uncle Snort" that is a bamboo poker. The name was given it by the artist, Rowley of Growley pipes. I'm keeping the name because it fits the pipe well. I wish more artists would give their work names. When it comes to marketing anything, it's all about buying the "story" and a name helps with that story, IMO.
Frankly, I have a hard time remembering my imaginary friends' names. Giving names to inanimate objects would only confuse things even more.
I have only one pipe I've named, and it's not very nice. After I bought a pear wood pipe from the Ukrainian pipe maker Golden Gate, I started using the pipe for some strong flavored tobaccos I'd started trying. So it became pretty ghosted with strong fruit flavors, and lakeland flavors. But I got this name from reading another post somewhere some months ago, where a guy was calling one of his pipes the "slut pipe", because you could put anything in it and smoke it. It stuck in my mind and so I started calling the little GG pipe my slut pipe, as I was putting just about anything in it that I figured would ghost another pipe.
So funny thing, my stepdaughter came from CA for a visit a couple of weeks ago, and when talking about pipe smoking she wanted to try smoking a pipe. I told her to pick any pipe the she wanted to try. Yeah you guessed it, she picked the slut pipe. When I told her what I called it, she said, that sounds about right. (trust me she's not even close to being that, she 53 and married with 2 adult children) She smoked some Molto Dolce and finished the bowl and said she enjoyed it. We all had a good time puffin away on the porch.
So that's my pipe name story, and I'm sticking to it, but have no plans to name another pipe.
Here's a pic of her smoking the "slut pipe".... :clap:
So funny thing, my stepdaughter came from CA for a visit a couple of weeks ago, and when talking about pipe smoking she wanted to try smoking a pipe. I told her to pick any pipe the she wanted to try. Yeah you guessed it, she picked the slut pipe. When I told her what I called it, she said, that sounds about right. (trust me she's not even close to being that, she 53 and married with 2 adult children) She smoked some Molto Dolce and finished the bowl and said she enjoyed it. We all had a good time puffin away on the porch.
So that's my pipe name story, and I'm sticking to it, but have no plans to name another pipe.
Here's a pic of her smoking the "slut pipe".... :clap:
Toadshade, FYI, my wife is a huge Stanwell fan, and like a certain shape so much that after over 20 years, I decided to find another Stanwell of the same shape that she likes so much. I found one at Mkelaw- Pipes, a sponsor here, that was nicely refurbished, and another on ebay that had a cracked shank, that I fixed with a 410 shotgun shell base. She loves these pipes and smokes them more than anything.
I know that some tobaccos have more nicotine than others, and some make me feel quite unpleasant too, as I am quite nicotine sensitive and have been for years. So I usually stick to low nicotine tobaccos, unless they're something I really like, then I just smoke smaller amounts of them on a full stomach.
Have fun with your Stanwell, whatever you decide to call it, even if it too becomes a "slut pipe"! :roll:
I know that some tobaccos have more nicotine than others, and some make me feel quite unpleasant too, as I am quite nicotine sensitive and have been for years. So I usually stick to low nicotine tobaccos, unless they're something I really like, then I just smoke smaller amounts of them on a full stomach.
Have fun with your Stanwell, whatever you decide to call it, even if it too becomes a "slut pipe"! :roll:
I usually just think, that one, or this one, occasionally by the name brand. One night I was running late for work and I said to SWMBO, "hey babe, can you set me out a flake of the jar labeled Luxury Navy Flake and the pipe you think looks like a nut sack" HAHAHA!! It worked, but I would never call it that myself because who wants to smoke a nut sack!!! :rofl:
I have a cheap churchwarden that I rarely ever use because I have yet to master it enough to prevent it from gurgling. And, it draws like pulling a golfball through a garden hose. I think that I'll name it Aqualung.
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