One, a Walt Cannoy "Wax-Drip" that I enjoy more as a piece of art than I would as a smoker.
Pipes You Don't Smoke?
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I have a rack on my office wall where I mostly smoke and it holds 30 pipes, and generally I move through it regularly so as to rest recently smoked ones. But I find that I do skip some and then they kinda just sit there until I get a new one that requires me to move it to the pipe storage... and once I have enough, I sell them on. I find it interesting how some pipes that I just loved once are now sitting in a box, sad an lonely.
There are a handful of Estate pipes I've bought on a whim that don't get a ton of use.
They get quickly supplanted by nicer pipes.
I plan to take them all up to our camp this summer.
"Camp pipes"
That's my new designation for the orphans.
They get quickly supplanted by nicer pipes.
I plan to take them all up to our camp this summer.
"Camp pipes"
That's my new designation for the orphans.
Yes I have some "vintage" pipes like a gourd calabash and one or two other oddities like a carburettor pipe that I don't use. I should probably put them on eBay for others to get use out of them .also have a brand new Vauen that I just can't bring myself to use. Its just to handsome for my plebian smoking self to mess up
This one was gotten recently just to look at.
I have collected freehand pipes for many years, I have smoked many of them but not a lot, I also collect Petersons but they all get smoked, some more than others but all are on rotation, my early pipes from the 60's never get smoked, they are only for nostalgia, might smoke them on my deathbed. 
I have to admit I have more I haven't smoked than I have/do smoke.
Short version.
7 that I have/do smoke and 10 that I don't/haven't yet smoked.
I have only bought 1 pipe in the last 7 years (received it just last Friday) and that will be in use by the weekend, so that will make 8 smoked and 9 not.
If you're bored or want to read a mini novel, get comfy and read on.
Couple things to understand first...
Other than I am a little different to some, there's never been anywhere near the options down this way that most other people are lucky to have (yes I'm a bit jealous lol).
We have no dedicated pipe stores at all, and only 2 good pipe 'relatable' B&M's that I know of, both in a state I no longer live in, so supporting them is more effort now.
I enjoy my main smokers and honestly, I could easily get by with just the core 4-5 pipes, especially at my current pace, but where's the fun in that?
I did a year or so of researching at the beginning and was comfortable online estate shopping, under $100 range, the higher end is a far tricker place to tred.
The following are all estates bought across perhaps a 6 month window, in no order.
I bought a monster of a sitting poker for a bit of a display piece, meer' lined and stamped "Made in Tanganyika" with a Rhino on the stem, I've misplaced the information I had on it unfortunately.
There's a little hole in the very bottom of the meerschaum lining. It supposedly can be repaired or even smoked as is.
It's a very large bowl/pipe.
The others I bought with full intentions of smoking for that 'different pipes smoke differently' experience, but before I had a chance to even clean them we had to store some stuff and move, their box accidentally ended up inside one of the stored boxes.
By the time everything was back out of storage I had again bought myself a rotation, and forgotten about them to be honest. Before unpacking everything again, we moved again, then moved interstate ...another long story.
They've finally been getting unpacked and a cleaning recently but I doubt they will be smoked now, there's a little age on a couple plus since in my possession they're getting into 8+ years unsmoked. There's an unsmoked Butz Choquin, Palace Rouge, I'm not sure I now wish to marr with a flame.
I need to make myself some storage for my pipes as they currently sit in the cupboard, if I can admire them regularly maybe I'll move on some of the better examples.
Who knows.
Short version.
7 that I have/do smoke and 10 that I don't/haven't yet smoked.
I have only bought 1 pipe in the last 7 years (received it just last Friday) and that will be in use by the weekend, so that will make 8 smoked and 9 not.
If you're bored or want to read a mini novel, get comfy and read on.
Couple things to understand first...
Other than I am a little different to some, there's never been anywhere near the options down this way that most other people are lucky to have (yes I'm a bit jealous lol).
We have no dedicated pipe stores at all, and only 2 good pipe 'relatable' B&M's that I know of, both in a state I no longer live in, so supporting them is more effort now.
I enjoy my main smokers and honestly, I could easily get by with just the core 4-5 pipes, especially at my current pace, but where's the fun in that?
I did a year or so of researching at the beginning and was comfortable online estate shopping, under $100 range, the higher end is a far tricker place to tred.
The following are all estates bought across perhaps a 6 month window, in no order.
I bought a monster of a sitting poker for a bit of a display piece, meer' lined and stamped "Made in Tanganyika" with a Rhino on the stem, I've misplaced the information I had on it unfortunately.
There's a little hole in the very bottom of the meerschaum lining. It supposedly can be repaired or even smoked as is.
It's a very large bowl/pipe.
The others I bought with full intentions of smoking for that 'different pipes smoke differently' experience, but before I had a chance to even clean them we had to store some stuff and move, their box accidentally ended up inside one of the stored boxes.
By the time everything was back out of storage I had again bought myself a rotation, and forgotten about them to be honest. Before unpacking everything again, we moved again, then moved interstate ...another long story.
They've finally been getting unpacked and a cleaning recently but I doubt they will be smoked now, there's a little age on a couple plus since in my possession they're getting into 8+ years unsmoked. There's an unsmoked Butz Choquin, Palace Rouge, I'm not sure I now wish to marr with a flame.
I need to make myself some storage for my pipes as they currently sit in the cupboard, if I can admire them regularly maybe I'll move on some of the better examples.
Who knows.
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However you enjoy your pipes, enjoy your pipes!
MM MacArthur and MM Ozark Mini. For opposite reasons. :D
Well, I have smoked both and might still, but the moment never seems to be correct...
Well, I have smoked both and might still, but the moment never seems to be correct...
I thought I just had to have a Savinelli Miele 642, but I have not smoked it but maybe four or five times in a year. The stem is too fat or something, it doesn't sit just right in my mouth, and it builds up moisture quickly. It came with the honey dipper tamper, too. It's a pretty pipe, but it's just on display for now. 
I have a brandy Baki Meer that I've smoked once. Nothing wrong with it at all it just looked a lot smaller in the photo when I purchased it. It's feckin' hooge!
It's ok if I want to smoke a 50g tin in one bowlful or if I have the urge to feel like a hobbit holding a bucket with a didgeridoo stuck in the side of it. Man alive.
It's ok if I want to smoke a 50g tin in one bowlful or if I have the urge to feel like a hobbit holding a bucket with a didgeridoo stuck in the side of it. Man alive.
You're probably afraid that they might taste a little Goofy.
Mostly I have culled pipes I don't smoke, traded them for store credit for something I will smoke. I don't own any as collector pieces. The really nice, higher priced pipes I own, I smoked regularly, if not as regularly as I should. I try to break myself of the habit of "saving" them.
I don't build cake, so I don't ream my pipes, just keeping that thin carbon layer in the chamber, and it works well for me. The chamber stays more or less its original size, making for longer smokes.
I don't build cake, so I don't ream my pipes, just keeping that thin carbon layer in the chamber, and it works well for me. The chamber stays more or less its original size, making for longer smokes.
To be honest, from all the pipes i have bought over the years, I've never encountered a 'bad smoker' pipe. I'm just not familiar with that term, at least for now. 
I do have a couple that I find more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing than the others, but I still take a different pipe for every new smoke I have. Once i get to the end, I start again from the beginning. That way I never get enough, or get tired of one or more pipes. Cheers!
I do have a couple that I find more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing than the others, but I still take a different pipe for every new smoke I have. Once i get to the end, I start again from the beginning. That way I never get enough, or get tired of one or more pipes. Cheers!
Is this the May version of the Pipes You Don't Smoke thread (PYDS)?