Proper Pipe Storage.

[tschiraldi]

I just keep mine wherever I am smoking and when I am done I put them in the cabinet. I will tell you be sure to put your ashtray and tobacco up one of my dogs ate some of my tobacco and it cost me $700 at the vet to save the dog

Must have been an English blend!

 

[Lawyer66]

I keep mine in my SmokingPipes bag?‍

 

[pruss]

I got tired of using the method pictured above, so I opted for something different. A Bass Pro opened up near my house and had pistol cases for $5 each...

You can get 5-8 pipes in each case. Works out pretty well vis a vis sunlight reduction.

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Oh brother, while I admire your dedication to preservation, I wonder if your OC is catching up to your D.

???

— Pat

 

[telescopes]

It would be nice to see some type of separator you could put in a drawer so pipes could rest without getting banged around when not in use for long periods of time.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It would be nice to see some type of separator you could put in a drawer so pipes could rest without getting banged around when not in use for long periods of time.

I keep mine on padded bathroom mats on closet shelves. No movement there.

 

[sablebrush52]

Two words: non-lubricated condoms.

I think this is more like 2 1/2 words.

 

[craig61a]

Well, I read the article, even though I'm not living a "dapper life" I figured that I'd be able to get the gist of it.

Basically, the author(s) of this little screed are thick as planks. Clueless about what they're writing about. The whole thing is mostly a waste of perfectly good 1's and 0's.

 

[Sgetz]

I clean my pipes using the hot water flush plus alcohol on pipe cleaners. I find that after this they have a mild ash tray smell. I store them on a rack in my study. After a few days there is no smell of ash tray. So I feel an open environment allows volatile agents to disperse.
So do this!!

 

[sablebrush52]

It would be nice to see some type of separator you could put in a drawer so pipes could rest without getting banged around when not in use for long periods of time.

Or, you could buy or make some proper pipe cases like this one:

 

[timelord]

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Then there is this time-tested method of storage...

(Don't freak. My "nice" pipes are not in this image.)

that's pretty much how mine are stored too.

 

[saltedplug]

Well, I read the article, even though I'm not living a "dapper life" I figured that I'd be able to get the gist of it.

Basically, the author(s) of this little screed are thick as planks. Clueless about what they're writing about. The whole thing is mostly a waste of perfectly good 1's and 0's.

I just love the binary retort! To leave the words out of it and pick on their binary expression goes to the ultimate level.

When I programmed in Assembler we regularly accounted for the correctness of our code by checking its hexidecimal representation. Examining a dump of 1's and 0's is incomprehensible.

 

[timelord]

I just love the binary retort! To leave the words out of it and pick on their binary expression goes to the ultimate level.

When I programmed in Assembler we regularly accounted for the correctness of our code by checking its hexidecimal representation. Examining a dump of 1's and 0's is incomprehensible.

That brings back happy(?) memories of going through mainframe dumps on 'music paper' in the middle of the night; usually with a set of coloured highlighters and a couple of IBM reference cards... ...odd thing is it was usually someone elses c**p code I was called in to sort out (still, I did paid overtime for it)

 

[telescopes]

Or, you could buy or make some proper pipe cases like this one:
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That is perfect. An art supply store maybe?

 

[sablebrush52]

That is perfect. An art supply store maybe?

A bunch of these showed up on eBay a few years ago and I bought them. You could check with an art supply about artist's equipment cases. There used to be compartmented cases for sale.

 

[mso489]

I've run the experiment for forty years on some of my pipes, and various shorter periods of time for the rest of my pipes. I can attest that the forty year pipes have been stored either on racks or in drawers the whole time, indoors with normal central heating and air conditioning. My area in North Carolina is temperate, semi-tropical, and somewhat humid, but nothing like further south. To date I have experienced no deterioration of briar or stem materials. That said, pipe smokers have many superstitions and obsessive compulsive notions about keeping and smoking pipes, and for some of them, that is much of the pleasure. So leave them alone, and nod approvingly if they seem to need that, and then just put your pipes on a rack and let them be.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I can understand the concern given what a pipe can cost today. I doubt anything I do can’t compare to where estate pipes have endured. I do keep the Peterson in the shipping box but not the cool little green bag.

 

[username]

Just in a rack on top of the desk. Meerschaums go in the cases if it has one.

 

[cigrmaster]

I have two pipe racks. One is a Savinelli Burlwould rack that holds 36 pipes. It is beautiful and it has holes on each side, three on each side. It is a real piece of work. My other rack holds 15 pipes and has some nice stained My 15 count rack is glass on the front. My goal is to gave only 51 pipes. If I am going to buy a new pipe, one has to go. Right now I have some nice room to add some pipes. It will be fun adding them. Right now my 15 count wrack is empty so I have plenty of room for additions. At one point I had around 90 something pipes I have been moving pipes at a very high rate.

 

[jhowell]

well now that we're on this one - wood is VERY stable-
I currently have in my possession a very OLD VERY VALUABLE PIECE OF WOOD - when I say very, it's estimated value is six figures -if this interest or intrigues you - PM me - it bores many so I don't get into it often
I rarely worry about it -I don't have a controlled environment like endowed museums
the last thing I'd worry about is a stinky pipe following a smoke
I leave it in a room I don't typically hangout in to air out - considering the cold garage

I'm interested. Guessing it's a musical instrument...

 

[jhowell]

All of my current pipes are meerschaum. They came in cases so that's where I store them...