In case I'm not the only one who received a pipe for Christmas (I hope I'm not), this thread is to share the ones you received. In my case, my best friend got me a Ser Jacopo rusticated churchwarden. And yes, I know my desk is messy as all hell.
Share Your Gifted Pipes
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. That’s a great pipe!
I have some fairly talented pipes but I wouldn't call any of them gifted...
Secret Santa 23 on this forum is so far the only source of a gift pipe I’ve experienced.
Greywoodie Crag billiard
Greywoodie Crag billiard
Tomorrow I will know what's inside this! Excited as heck!!
Finally got to open it! I've had some bowls and it smokes great!
No actual pipes BUT I did unwrap this Martin Wess leather 4 pipe bag -
The Hüseyin Ege "unicorn" meer (real block meerschaum) I smoke 99% of the time was a gift last Christmas from my wife. She bought it new from eBay, I am assuming direct from that carver's shop?
This year she got me another gift, a Royal Meerschaum Exclusive standard embossed dragon (bent apple, composite meerschaum). Seems like a decent pipe for $50 (with "bubble pouch" zipper case). It's smaller, but the chamber seems to have close to the small end of average size dimensions though according to the approximate specs listed on their website (0.7" diameter, 1.4" depth). Included pics in thumbnails next to my good meer for reference, as well as what each looks like compared to my briars in the rack. I'm sure this one will smoke fine, if nothing else can be a workhorse pipe. I'll try it out later, I just cleaned the stem (had bunch of dust still from where they cut/drilled it).
This year she got me another gift, a Royal Meerschaum Exclusive standard embossed dragon (bent apple, composite meerschaum). Seems like a decent pipe for $50 (with "bubble pouch" zipper case). It's smaller, but the chamber seems to have close to the small end of average size dimensions though according to the approximate specs listed on their website (0.7" diameter, 1.4" depth). Included pics in thumbnails next to my good meer for reference, as well as what each looks like compared to my briars in the rack. I'm sure this one will smoke fine, if nothing else can be a workhorse pipe. I'll try it out later, I just cleaned the stem (had bunch of dust still from where they cut/drilled it).
@TheIronMonkey sent me this earlier this year along with one of his famous illustrated notes. Might not look like much to most, but to me it was a true act of kindness, as I had been looking for a replacement or analogue to my very first pipe, a shabby old Dr. Grabow with a crack down the shank so terrible that the stem would simply shake out of the darn thing, for several years.
While I don’t smoke it on the daily as I have certain hang-ups about smoking unfiltered pipes with my constant retrohaling and intermittent rough health issues, I do smoke it on special occasions when the time is right. Stuff it full of my ever-shrinking supply of Prince Albert’s Soft Vanilla, which I call “The Jeff Special”, as I also got the pouch of the leaf from Jeff when I first came into contact with him because of some ancient tins of PA.
He’s very, very, very good people, even more simply put and as genuine as I can be, he’s the best I’ve found on this forum, and one of the best I’ve found in the real world to boot. Thanks, Jeff.
