Recommend Pirate “Styled” Pipes

[Dshift]

For some reason, ever since I picked up pipes I’ve been wanting a “Pirate” pipe. I did some research on what pipes they were smoking and I got disappointed at the historical reality of them smoking white or red clay pipes.

The next obvious step was for me to type Pirate Pipe on eBay and I saw a bunch of pipe in the form of a pirate… absolutely not what I wanted…

I guess the best way to explain what I looking for is a pipe that a pirate or even a captain from Pirates of the Caribbean would have smoked in the fictional past…
I finally managed to acquire a pipe that scratched the right spot and now at least I can give an example of what I mean by a “Pirate Pipe”.

Big Ben Barbados

 

[ziv]

What's pirate about this pipe?

 

[Dshift]

What's pirate about this pipe?

That’s the point- this is what my brain perceives as a piraty pipe , since I am not interested in a white clay pipe or one that is the shape of Davy Jones

 

[Chasing Embers]

That’s the point- this is what my brain perceives as a piraty pipe , since I am not interested in a white clay pipe or one that is the shape of Davy Jones

New World piracy ended somewhere in the 1830s and the briar pipe came about in the mid 1850s. Gouda clays are about as close as you can get excluding meerschaum skulls, ships, and, pirate faces.

 

[troutface]

Were cobs around yet ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Were cobs around yet ?

Though commercially marketed in the 1860s I could see them being around earlier but they were more of a farming community implement. I suppose that stone pipes could have found their way aboard ships, possibly even meerschaum ones.

 

[OzPiper]

Pre-briars, clay and earthenware pipes were ubiquitous.

But bring pirates, I suppose they could have captured some wealthy ships and meerschaum and porcelain pipes could have been amongst the booty

 

[khiddy]

I’ve been reading the Aubrey/Maturin series of British Navy sea novels by Patrick O’Brian. They 20-volume series is set during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, a few decades after the height of the age of the Caribbean pirates, but even then the jolly tars only smoked clays (and a lot of chewing tobacco and, for the officers, taking of nasal snuff).

So avast, me hearty, but you’re not going to find an authentic “pirate pipe” if you’re looking at something other than a clay.

 

[BingBong]

Depends on the imagination, clearly. For me, a number of the Eldritch creations have "yarrrr!" written all over them.

Eldritch Pipes - https://eldritchpipes.com/

 

[pappymac]

If you are looking for a "pirate pipe" but don't want a clay, I would suggest looking at the clay pipes of the "pirate" era and finding a briar in that shape.

That would mean looking at and buying a Cutty shaped briar.

 

[Sig]

Depends on the imagination, clearly. For me, a number of the Eldritch creations have "yarrrr!" written all over them.

Eldritch Pipes - https://eldritchpipes.com/

Some of those can double as a weapon or a cheese grater.
Being a clean rim guy, these make me cringe.

Yea, be a clean rim guy......because nobody else is gonna clean your rim for you.

 

[BingBong]

Some of those can double as a weapon or a cheese grater.
Being a clean rim guy, these make me cringe.

Yea, be a clean rim guy......because nobody else is gonna clean your rim for you.

I cannot imagine any pirate being a clean anything guy! Grubby is their signature appearance.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

That’s the point- this is what my brain perceives as a piraty pipe , since I am not interested in a white clay pipe or one that is the shape of Davy Jones

I've read/heard somewhere that naval seamen prefer short straight pipes, because they are easy to lunt (thus freeing up the hands for deck work) but more importantly can be smoked upside down to avoid sea/rain water for killing the embers.

 

[shanez]

I just cover one eye and drunk some rum when I smoke my pipe. Piratey every time.

 

[Chasing Embers]

https://www.smokingpipes.com/smokingpipesblog/single.cfm/post/the-monte-cristi-pipe-wreck#:~:text=Dubbed%20the%20%22Pipe%20Wreck%22%20because%20of%20its,and%20fire%2C%20leading%20to%20the%20ship's%20demise.

 

[blueeyedogre]

To me a "pirate" pipe would be along the same lines aa a sailor's pipe. Something easy to clench so both hands are free to work the sails, smaller bowl for shorter smokes, something to handle the harsh rope tobaccos that pirates would obviously be drawn to......
I give you the Tom Eltang Rustic Cutty...... Wavy like a rolling sea and rough as the reef that will rip the bottom off your boat.

 

[Dshift]

To me a "pirate" pipe would be along the same lines aa a sailor's pipe. Something easy to clench so both hands are free to work the sails, smaller bowl for shorter smokes, something to handle the harsh rope tobaccos that pirates would obviously be drawn to......
I give you the Tom Eltang Rustic Cutty...... Wavy like a rolling sea and rough as the reef that will rip the bottom off your boat.
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This absolutely the kind of recommendation I was looking for!! You story sold me completely. The only thing we have to clarify is how the whole “I Give You” part would happen

 

[blueeyedogre]

This absolutely the kind of recommendation I was looking for!! You story sold me completely. The only thing we have to clarify is how the whole “I Give You” part would happen

Perhaps I should have said "I show you from afar"?

 

[blueeyedogre]

This absolutely the kind of recommendation I was looking for!! You story sold me completely. The only thing we have to clarify is how the whole “I Give You” part would happen

Here is a Pirate's Pipe!!

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/winslow/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=681477

 

[Dshift]

Here is a Pirate's Pipe!!

https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/winslow/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=681477

Alright yet another home run!