You also don't really see a lot of aromatic smokers talk about high end pipes. It's interesting... does an aromatic smoker maybe think that they are just as likely to not taste their tobacco in a $700 pipe as they are not taste it in a bucket pipe?
I've gotten some aromatic ghosted mid range factory pipe on the estate market, but never a high end nor an artisan made. It would be interesting to know whether there are any serious pipe collectors that only smoke aromatics. I'm sure there must be... somewhere.
One if the worst things about budget season is missing good shit-posting because I can't break away from meetings until late afternoon. To your question, I'm your Huckleberry here. I own 200+ or so pipes, all over the spectrum but at least a third would go $600+ (and many $1,000+). Artisan and Victorian era Britwood.
And I smoke aro's and latakia out of all them. Not high end Latakia either, 10 Russians. I would smoke 15 Russians if they made it, which I would assume to be vodka wrappers and Cyprian shake and stems. I just smoked Sutliff Vanilla Custard out of a $1,500 Tao last night. Tonight I'll probably smoke Sleepy Hollow in a Yeti. Devils Holiday, Exotic Mixture, Warhorse Green, all the Silems. Love it. And if folks get hung up on that, I like it even more ?.
In cigars, wine, bourbon, knives, and guns.....I'm a first class snob. With pipes I'm basically Rodney Dangerfield from Back to School. I'm good with that, there's only so many things you can be snooty about.
Also, I didn't read all the shit-posting....but from OP isn't the 'less of good tobacco' a crop price/subsidy deal and not a "lets truck this HQ leaf into Mix 79' situation? I don't think aromatics are using up some limited high-test supply.
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