Perfect Pipe Collection. Less than 20 pipes.
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I'm certainly getting there too. I've concluded that couple Falcon stems with half a dozen bowls for different blend types and my Country Gentleman cobs for when I want to take a pipe out in weather conditions that I wouldn't want to expose my Falcons to is really all I need. My pipe chase is pretty much done at this point, I just need to get around to selling the briars I'm no longer using.
Been enjoying pipes for a little over a year now, but I'm not quite at 20 pipes yet. Though that seems like a good number to shoot for, I think 20 is just going to be a waypoint for me to some yet to be determined number. Rather than thinking of it as collecting, I prefer to think of it as keeping the wheels of industry turning.
I have about the same number and it's more than enough for me. I had PAD for a while, but then I realized I wasn't going to smoke most of them and sold the majority off.
The whole reason I bought my first pipe, a Legend cob, was to smoke it, not to collect pipes. I stopped seeing them as collectibles and started looking at them as something that allows me to enjoy tobacco. After that, culling the herd was easy. It's nice when the ones you didn't like much are gone and all of those you have left are favorites.
The whole reason I bought my first pipe, a Legend cob, was to smoke it, not to collect pipes. I stopped seeing them as collectibles and started looking at them as something that allows me to enjoy tobacco. After that, culling the herd was easy. It's nice when the ones you didn't like much are gone and all of those you have left are favorites.
Going on 14 years now as a pipe smoker, and over that time I've owned about 80 pipes, and the most at one time was about 50. Which was way to many for me. The last few years I've culled the collection. Some I got rid of because I just didn't smoke them, or they were bad smokers for me. Others I got rid of to allow me to purchase a different pipe.
Currently I have 34 pipes, 20 meers, 11 briars, 3 cobs in my collection. I'm pretty comfortable with my collection at the moment. I'm sure at some point I'll either get rid of a pipe or two that doesn't get picked up to often or just add a new pipe if something catches my eye, but at the moment I'm not looking.
Currently I have 34 pipes, 20 meers, 11 briars, 3 cobs in my collection. I'm pretty comfortable with my collection at the moment. I'm sure at some point I'll either get rid of a pipe or two that doesn't get picked up to often or just add a new pipe if something catches my eye, but at the moment I'm not looking.
I have not reached my 1 year anniversary with this adventure and I currently sit at a collection of 13 pipes. I know I would like to purchase a Falcon pipe and a Meerschaum to round out my collection. I would like to say the number 15-20 pipes sounds like a good collection size. However; with being not yet a year in and almost to 15 pipes. I might be a bit of a pipe hoarder.. lol .
While I have some pipes that I bought when new to the hobby that rarely get smoked and are ones I wouldn't miss if they were gone, there are also dozens more that I drool over and want.
I am of the personality that when I dive into a hobby, whether it be guns, fountain pens, or pipes, I don't exercise restraint but go all out. So I don't think having 20 would be the way for me.
To make it make sense in my mind, I just call myself a "collector". lol
I am of the personality that when I dive into a hobby, whether it be guns, fountain pens, or pipes, I don't exercise restraint but go all out. So I don't think having 20 would be the way for me.
To make it make sense in my mind, I just call myself a "collector". lol
Dwayne (@Chasing Embers)
Good to know it took 200-300 pipes for you to settle on your favourite
Me - I’m still quite some way off 300.
I reckon I’ll keep on looking
Nearly 35 years of shopping to end where I should've started.Dwayne (@Chasing Embers)
Good to know it took 200-300 pipes for you to settle on your favourite
Me - I’m still quite some way off 300.
I reckon I’ll keep on looking
Not at all, it was disappointing gullibility chasing the notion that one pipe smoked any differently than another.It’s the journey, not the destination
My collection has shrunk from over 100 to now 60, but really, only about 20-couple get smoked with any regularity.
I have around 100 pipes and only smoked maybe 10 of them. I'm as much of a collector as I am a smoker. I would never cull unless absolutely necessary.