one year

[fshu2]

the other day i finished smoking some Dunhill Royal Yacht mix and thought about how my tastes have changes from aromatic to what i smoke now. i then realized that it was just about my one year pipe smoking anniversary and damn it has been a good year. i got into pipes when all of my friends were smoking gas station cigars and they just didnt do it for me so i looked for a more classy and fitting smoke for my self and stumbled on a pipe and it was one of my best decisions. i was thinking that a lot of you would have interesting stories about how you got into pipe smoking too and was interested in hearing them.

 

[admin]

As far as tastes changing, I think that is a fairly common story fshu2. It's also pretty cool that your 1-year anniversary post is also your 100th post.

I think pipe smoking is the classiest form of tobacco enjoyment.
I have two people to credit for my start in 1998. My then neighbor Sam. He invited to his house and he had a humidor with cigars and a pipe rack full of pipes. He gave me my first cigar and got me started. I thought his pipes looked pretty cool too and was considering trying pipe smoking as well.
Then I bought Tad Gage's book, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cigars". In the original printing, there was a chapter on pipes. The basic message was that if you like cigars, you should try pipes too, and here is all the info you need to get started.
That was the final push that sent me to the local tobacconist to buy my first two pipes and tobacco.

 

[pstlpkr]

What a coinky-dinky!

Way to go Fshu2!!

:clap:

 

[triprolo]

My grandfather smoked a pipe and every Christmas we'd go down to the basement an open presents while he smoked his pipe and watched. I always wanted to do that when I got older.
Well, now I'm older.
I moved to a town and met a friend who smokes a pipe and asked him to teach me. I went to the local Briar and Bean and bought a cheap tobacco with a corn cob and we went camping and he taught me all about smoking a pipe. It's been almost two years now and I love it. That corn cob still smokes mighty nice, one of my favorites out of the six pipes I have.
Now I'm wanting to get into pipe restoration and make a few of my own. Great hobby.

 

[ace57]

I would smoke a pipe off and on for years, and one day put out My last nail picked up My pipe and never looked back. I think I still have a half of pack of nails in My jeep, I'll give them to someone on the street, I don't need them anymore.

 

[admin]

Great stories guys.

 

[collin]

Nice one Baskerville,.....and I could watch that kid run away from that fish all day! :rofl:

 

[bubbadreier]

Congrats on making a year!

 

[fshu2]

thanks yall and i love hearing every ones stories on how they got into pipe smoking.

 

[wallbright]

Congratulations my friend. It is funny how our tastes progress. When I first started smoking I only smoked aromatics but terrible ones at that. Then the more I got into pipes the more I started smoking english and va/pers. Now I am back to aromatics mostly. It is a weird cycle haha.
I got into pipe smoking shortly after turning 18. I saw a basket full of pipes at the local B&M and was always interested in looking at them but never buying. This was around the time I started smoking cigars but when the cigars started getting too expensive for me I decided to buy a pipe. By pure dumb luck my first pipe was a good one. I had no idea what to look for but chose a Savinelli Bent Bob's. It was awfully small but for $16 it didn't matter to me as I didn't want to spend $50+ and hate the hobby. Since then I have been told that you need to buy a good quality first pipe or you will hate it and looking back I sure was lucky that the one I picked was a Sav with all the right aspects of a good smoker. However, I was unlucky and I guess the B&M owner thought I was going to smoke pot in it so he gave me those mesh things to put in the bottom. I used them for a while and having no experience smoking a pipe always burned my tongue. I then went back to cigars as pipes just didn't do it for me. It wasn't until I went off to college that I decided to try the pipe again. I smoked for a while then put it down again as I still had no idea what I was doing. I then stumbled upon this website while browsing the internet one day with my girlfriend and she said it would be sexy if I smoked a pipe. I then decided to pick it up again and picked up some PA from the local Walmart per a suggestion on here. I slowly realized that I would need a bigger pipe so I ordered a new Savinelli from a vendor. When I got it though it had a flaw in the bowl so I sent it back for a different shape which was actually larger. Once I got the pipe I decided I wanted to try nicer tobacco. I then looked on here for the closets B&M near where I am going to school. Turns out that Kevin had posted an article about the B&M and I decided to go based on the positive things the article had to say. I went to the B&M to pickup some tobacco and immediately hit it off with the owner. I since have fought with PAD and TAD until I now have pounds and pounds of pipe tobacco and about 30 pipes (which I am trying to thin down as I don't smoke them nearly often enough to warrant 30 haha). I also have become a honorary member of the pipe club up there (since I do not live there full time and it is 50 minutes from my house up there they do not make me pay the club dues so I am not an official member). It has been a great experience and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Sorry for the short novel haha.

 

[fshu2]

thanks yall and i love hearing every ones stories on how they got into pipe smoking.

 

[logandow]

When I was in the 3rd grade I thought it would be cool to own a pipe, so one day while I was at an antique store and I bought one. I liked the smell of the bowl so I decided I would try smoking when I became 18.(I did not smoke until it was legal)