Rhinestone Encrusted Pipes?

[bayareabriar]

Okay, one of you old timers please tell me the history of the rhinestone encrusted pipes I see from time to time. Is this something that was produced, or modified to taste by the owner?

 

[Casual]

It’s because Elvis still lives… somewhere.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

The only rhinestone pipes I’ve ever seen were meant for smoking the ganja, not tobacco.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Okay, one of you old timers please tell me the history of the rhinestone encrusted pipes I see from time to time. Is this something that was produced, or modified to taste by the owner?

They were specially made for these guys...

 

[craig61a]

I don't know about that, but I do have a pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand...
Every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand.

 

[saltedplug]

I would never consent to a rhinestone pipe as I want to smoke a pipe, not a doodad.

 

[sablebrush52]

Okay, one of you old timers please tell me the history of the rhinestone encrusted pipes I see from time to time. Is this something that was produced, or modified to taste by the owner?

There was an attempt to popularize pipe smoking with women in the 1940's and '50's. I've seen ads from that time featuring women smoking pipes with rhinestones set into the bowl. I don't think it was a great success.

 

[bayareabriar]

There was an attempt to popularize pipe smoking with women in the 1940's and '50's. I've seen ads from that time featuring women smoking pipes with rhinestones set into the bowl. I don't think it was a great success.

I assumed they were for ladies but wasn’t sure. Thank you!

 

[B.Lew]

I don't know about that, but I do have a pair of heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers in my hand...
Every other wrangler would say I was mighty grand.

Haha, I’ll meet you in Montana. Just say the word.

 

[condorlover1]

They were very big in Greenwich Village in the early 1970s!

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

One of my ancient aunts (now gone) once told me that for a while in Boston in the '50s, it was a fad among women in places where she worked.

 

[OlJawBone]

I would smoke the fuck out of a rhinestone encrusted pipe. I am a guy but shiny stuff is fun for guys too

 

[bullet08]

Liberace smoked pipes? Did he leave 'em to Elton John? We already know Elvis was into leather.

 

[mso489]

Someone might make a pipe with a subtle nicely set semi-precious or precious gem imbedded, however it would have to be a one-off. It would be obnoxious in factory pipes, whoever was meant to smoke them. It's a mixing of two incongruent mediums, like stuffed animals or pieces of pottery fixed to the outside of a car.

 

[OlJawBone]

Someone might make a pipe with a subtle nicely set semi-precious or precious gem imbedded, however it would have to be a one-off. It would be obnoxious in factory pipes, whoever was meant to smoke them. It's a mixing of two incongruent mediums, like stuffed animals or pieces of pottery fixed to the outside of a car.

You mean like this masterpiece made by a family friend?

 

[OzPiper]

I keep picturing Dolly Parton - big hair, tasselled jacket, Stetson and that rhinestone pipe
I'm doing her a total disservice - Lady most likely is a non-smoker

 

[condorlover1]

Are you saying you would like to 'Service' Dolly Parton?

 

[anotherbob]

Are you saying you would like to 'Service' Dolly Parton?

I don't think that what he said. I think he is saying that when he did she didn't enjoy it. And by reading the context it's mainly because he insisted on smoking his pipe at the same time. Reading comprehension it's important.

 

[DangerStranger]

 

[mso489]

For me, they overdid the rhinestones. Fewer, fewer. Placed, not encrusted.