Pipe Rotation

[jerry]

1. Four in the morning
2. 25 ish — all meerschaums
3. At this point in my life, 25 is good.

 

[PaulRVA]

1. 20-ish
2. 80-ish
3. Another 80 or so ?

 

[Alejo R.]

Three questions and thanks in advance for the responses:

How many pipes are in your regular rotation?

How many pipes do you own?

Regardless of how many pipes you have, how many do you think is enough?

1) About a hundred.
2) About a hundred.
3) B = A + 1.
B = necessary pipes.
A = current collection

 

[BenMN]

1: I tend to actively smoke a handful of pipes. Maybe 5 or less. Every once in a while, after anywhere from 10 to 30 smokes, I'll deep clean one and put her back to rest. Then bring in another

2: about 20, plus 2 cobs. They all get their turn.

3: I feel I'm in a pretty good spot at 20+. Very intentional about purchases at this point. Could probably get by just fine with 5 + 2 cobs.

 

[LeafErikson]

1. 5 pipes (2 briars 3 meers)
2. Around 15 but I will be selling/getting rid of some shortly
3. 4-10 would be enough for me. About half briar half meer.

 

[hall222]

1. I pick a different pipe each morning.
2. 50ish
3. depends on the person.

 

[Winnipeger]

1. 32
2. 32
3. 32

 

[alan73]

1. 3-4
2. 400 but I’m a collector and many are unsmoked
3. 400, just gave away a pipe last night so I have an open slot

 

[woodrow]

1. 6 or so.
2. 50
3. 40 or so

 

[TakeThisCobAndStuffIt]

The answer is 42.

 

[Alejo R.]

The answer is 42.

And a towel

 

[G-beard]

1) Don't really have a rotation. I try to move through all of them equally, but really just pick what strikes me in the moment. My meer is probably the only one that definitively gets a disproportionate number of bowls, but that is just because I want to color it more.

2) 50-60

3) One more than the current number owned.

 

[kbussell]

1) 7 Savinelli
2) 8 The eighth is a MacQueen Morta Wizard (churchwarden)
3) 9+

 

[tobakenist]

Over 200ish

 

[Cloozoe]

I have 33. I regularly (but not equally) smoke about 20 of them. Once I get around to it I'll move the other 13 along.

I like having a nice variety so while I might only "need" a few, functionally speaking, that ain't gonna happen. I'm good with 20-30 give or take. I'm limited by what I want in a pipe--comfortably clenchable, little to no excess (again, from a functional perspective) wood, ebonite stem--so beyond 20-30 I would just find myself with a bunch more bent billiards and dublins not a heck of a lot different from the ones I already have.

 

[King Bulldog]

1- 6
2- 6
3- ∞

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

Rotation - I'd like to think all of my pipes are in the rotation; however, some get smoked way less than others. Some not at all. Realistically, I'd say about 15 get smoked regularly.

Owned - currently sits at 42, but I'm in the process of selling off several.

Enough - I'd say 4 is enough, (1 meerschaum, 1 corn cob, and 2 briars), if you're only calculating what is needed to get by.

 

[Cloozoe]

This thread inspired me to get off my ass; thirteen pipes that didn't work for me have been shipped off leaving a nice round twenty in my pipe drawer.

 

[john19]

1: Now I don't smoke a pipe every day. And when I smoke, I smoke 1 bowl a day (sometimes 2 bowls). So at the moment i use 1-2 pipes.

2: I am newbie in pipe smoking. Started to smoke pipe on November 2021 (2,5 years now). I have this 6 pipes:

Stanwell de luxe 15 rustic (This is my first pipe), for Burley/Kentucky blends.


Savinelli St. Nicholas 2022 320KS for English/Balkan/Latakia blends.


Greek Alexander bend billiard with hygrocool system for Aromatics blends.


Savinelli Alligator 606KS for All Around pipe and for any genre blends.


Greek Alexander bend Dublin for All Around pipe and for any genre blends.


Greek Alexander bend Billiard for All Around pipe and for any genre blends.


In the last three pipes, i smoke any kind of blends.

3: How many pipes i think is enough? There is no answer for this. You will never stop wanting more pipes.

 

[BenMN]

This thread inspired me to get off my ass; thirteen pipes that didn't work for me have been shipped off leaving a nice round twenty in my pipe drawer.

Nice work.
20 seems good

I'm thinking of letting 2 of mine go