New Pipe Over New Tobacco

[BlackSwampPiper]

In the beginning of my pipe journey, I thought pipes were pipes, some a little better, some not so much. I was wrong. I recently acquired a new estate pipe, my first straight billiard. Previous was big bend freehands, a bent corn cob and a Rossi 1/4 bent Author. This smallish straight billiard is a mediocre smoker, nice ebonite stem, manages to pass a pipe cleaner. But it coaxes new flavors out of the tobacco. Interesting subtle tones. It has made Haunted Bookshop taste interesting and almost fruity. It has made CS Parson’s Blend taste even better. It won’t hold a light well, and that may be where the magic lies, right on the edge of going out. Before you invest in too many tobaccos try a few different shapes figure out how you like to enjoy the tobacco.

TLDR: Try a few different pipe shapes before trying too many tobaccos.

 

[kcghost]

Most of us would tell you to to buy all the tobacco that you can afford because "it will never be more available and more affordable than it is now". But you do have a point.

 

[sablebrush52]

Congratulations on your mediocre smoking wonderful pipe!

At this point in space/time I put tobacco purchases before pipes. A lot of tobaccos blends may be riding off into the sunset before the end of the year, prices and taxes are bound to rise. Ease of access to online orders is the next natural target. I would be focused on stocking up on the available blends I would not want to be without.

Pipes will be around, a great many blends may not.

I'm happy that I bought blends when I did and can enjoy some no longer produced favorites.

 

[JOHN72]

Will you be able to smoke digitally, like Blade Runner.....................This is the future of tobacco

 

[Chasing Embers]

try a few different shapes figure out how you like to enjoy the tobacco.

I chased that idea for a couple of decades but for myself, all well drilled pipes smoke identically.

 

[BlackSwampPiper]

Congratulations on your mediocre smoking wonderful pipe!

At this point in space/time I put tobacco purchases before pipes. A lot of tobaccos blends may be riding off into the sunset before the end of the year, prices and taxes are bound to rise. Ease of access to online orders is the next natural target. I would be focused on stocking up on the available blends I would not want to be without.

Pipes will be around, a great many blends may not.

I'm happy that I bought blends when I did and can enjoy some no longer produced favorites.

Well I tend to agree regarding availability, maybe it opened up the range of a “good smoker” and before the other pipes were just mediocre. The search continues!

 

[BlackSwampPiper]

I chased that idea for a couple of decades but for myself, all well drilled pipes smoke identically.

I agree, I’m questioning my previous pipes as being not so well drilled!

 

[Chasing Embers]

I’m questioning my previous pipes as being not so well drilled!

Many of those out there from the bottom up to the top grades. My prime reason for hating Dunhill.

 

[sandollars]

And while I have IMMENSE respect for the Captain, I happen to have 7 Dunhills, all perfectly drilled. All are perfect smokers, and all are beautiful so.... Maybe it's the luck of the draw (pun intended)......

 

[shanez]

and that may be where the magic lies, right on the edge of going out.

^^^This right here. While there are a few blends that don't make a difference or do better a little hot there's much more (and better) flavor to be had here.

 

[bullet08]

Unless the pipe has gorgeous grains or eyes, and a Peterson, I'll stick with stocking up on tobacco. You can still smoke with one pipe. No tobacco, no smoking.

With a pipe, it has to meet my "wants". Soon, you'll have enough pipes, getting one more won't matter unless you have to have it.

 

[edger]

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Is that @BROBS?

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Oh man, wait til you try corn cob pipes. My briars are dry as a bone right now, but I do have some new flakes to stuff in my perfect flake pipe...

Speaking of which... I should get on that.

Tldr; corn cob pipes = more money for tasty blends..

 

[saltedplug]

I was a perfect dolt when I smoked. Although I could tell that a smaller draw produced a smaller quantity of smoke, and a large draw large smoke, that's where my draw sensitivity ended. So all these guys who want to tell me how their Dunhills smoke perfectly, I must say may hap they do and may hap they don't.

But though I am a smoking cretin, I will rest more contentedly knowing that Alfred's promise made over a century ago is still coming true to the Dunhill elect.

 

[BROBS]

Is that @BROBS?

Where is the man’s pipe ?

 

[sandollars]

I was a perfect dolt when I smoked. Although I could tell that a smaller draw produced a smaller quantity of smoke, and a large draw large smoke, that's where my draw sensitivity ended. So all these guys who want to tell me how their Dunhills smoke perfectly, I must say may hap they do and may hap they don't.

But though I am a smoking cretin, I will rest more contentedly knowing that Alfred's promise made over a century ago is still coming true to the Dunhill elect.

"Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed."

- Alfred Dunhill -


5 of my pipes are from the 40's - 60s
1 is a Dead root from the 70s
Only 1 is a new White Spot Grp 3 Cumberland

Mayhap my perspective may be skewed, but 'tis the truth I speak.

 

[saltedplug]

"Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed."

- Alfred Dunhill -


5 of my pipes are from the 40's - 60s
1 is a Dead root from the 70s
Only 1 is a new White Spot Grp 3 Cumberland

Mayhap my perspective may be skewed, but 'tis the truth I speak.

matters is what you think.

"Give a man a pipe he can smoke, Give a man a book he can read, And his home is bright with a calm delight, Though the room be poor indeed."

- Alfred Dunhill -


5 of my pipes are from the 40's - 60s
1 is a Dead root from the 70s
Only 1 is a new White Spot Grp 3 Cumberland

Mayhap my perspective may be skewed, but 'tis the truth I speak.

What matters is what you think.

 

[Brendan]

Where is the man’s pipe ?

After travelling 1500 miles from home and forgetting your pipes and tobacco, you arrive at the only B&M in town to find the only tobacco left on the shelf is a 15 year old tin of Prince Albert.
You instead choose to sit on their front steps and ponder whether to purchase and smoke it, or perhaps slowly freeze to death..

 

[Servant King]

You can still smoke with one pipe. No tobacco, no smoking.

^^^^^ Gospel truth

 

[HitchensDog]

I've been smoking pipes and cigars for 25 years or so. I collected some expensive pipes over the years. This may sound odd, but I discovered cobs only in the last two or three years. I just avoided them all those years. Picked up a cob on a lark and it just blew me away. I realized that pipe tobacco tastes better for me in cobs. English, vapers, va's, anything. No idea why, but it just does. I thought at first it was a fluke, but nope. It hasn't changed for me. The flavors just shine for me in cobs. I still have three or four briars, but I almost never smoke them. I sold all of my expensive briar pipes and used that money to buy more tobacco. I don't regret it one bit. So to address this thread, for me anyway, the shape or any specific feature of a pipe really didn't make a difference for me. Switching to cobs certainly did.