Show me that workhorse pipe!

[Wesley pipes]

Affectionately known as my ”cracked pipe” this late 40s Savinelli has bin my beater since around 2009! I purchased it at a little thrift store in my hometown out of a junk bin. This pipe had a huge crack going down the front, a repair band, a cake build up so thick you could only fit a pencil erasers worth of tobacco in it and no stem. After reaming out the bowl, a lot of deep cleaning and replacing the stem, I decided to make it my… Camping ️ fishing hiking ya know that pipe you leave outside on the porch when you get to drunk and it’s not a big deal kinda pipe? Yeah that’s the one. It had the sh** smoked out of it long before I got it, so I can only imagine the hard life it had before me, but someone cared enough to keep smoking it after it cracked and have the shank repaired after it cracked so it was definitely loved for a long time! The Savinelli brand is almost completely worn off, Italy is still visible, looks like the numbers 80 something. The pipe is nice and light, burns super cool and sweet. The best part is you don’t have to worry about the finish or scuff/dents the damage is already done, so I smoke it as much as I want sometimes several times a day! I clean it sometimes, I knock tobacco out of it on hard surfaces, scrape it out with my keys. I think it likes it rough!
unfortunately I have used it so many times and taken it so many places that I would be pretty sad it I ever lost it… kinda defeats the whole purpose of having a workhorse pipe. How about you? lets see that hard working pipe you secretly love

 

[ashdigger]

I smoke these two pipes almost every day. They both were broken and repaired. We have that in common.

1921 Dunhill Shell and a 1923 Peterson House pipe. Both have repair bands holding the bowls together.

Absolute Unit Workhorses

 

[Wesley pipes]

I smoke these two pipes almost every day. They both were broken and repaired. We have that in common.

1921 Dunhill Shell and a 1923 Peterson House pipe. Both have repair bands holding the bowls together.

Absolute Unit Workhorses

nice Repair jobs! Did you do em yourself? Even though the crack on mine has never gotten any bigger, I have considered making a band for my Savinelli.

 

[spearheadbill]

MBSD billiard

 

[Wesley pipes]

I smoke these two pipes almost every day. They both were broken and repaired. We have that in common.

1921 Dunhill Shell and a 1923 Peterson House pipe. Both have repair bands holding the bowls together.

Absolute Unit Workhorses

 

[PaulRVA]

This Ashton XXX Pot is my workhorse of workhorses. It has a ton of tobacco burned through it and it just tastes darn good too.

 

[Wesley pipes]

This Ashton XXX Pot is my workhorse of workhorses. It has a ton of tobacco burned through it and it just tastes darn good too.View attachment 435491

If Jimi Hendrix smoked a tobacco pipe

 

[ashdigger]

nice Repair jobs! Did you do em yourself? Even though the crack on mine has never gotten any bigger, I have considered making a band for my Savinelli.

I bought them both banded.

 

[georged]

Here it is new.

Have smoked it 6-8 times a day since. Too handy to NOT fill and light non-stop from when I wake up to when I go to bed.

 

[Wesley pipes]

Here it is new.

Have smoked it 6-8 times a day since. Too handy to NOT fill and light non-stop from when I wake up to when I go to bed.


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That pipe is crazy! What brand is it? I wanna mount that on the hood of the fancy car I’ll never own. Looks like something out of a fairytale.

 

[Wesley pipes]

Here it is new.

Have smoked it 6-8 times a day since. Too handy to NOT fill and light non-stop from when I wake up to when I go to bed.


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awesome

 

[Arkansas Paul]

This one has been an absolute workhorse. It was one of the first new pipes I ever bought and has definitely been the most smoked, sometimes multiple bowls a day.

It's a Savinelli Series III which came unfinished. You can see the fills in the briar since it's darkened.
It's not pretty, but is one of my best smoking pipes and I'll use it until it burns out or I do.

 

[PLANofMAN]

Here it is new.

Have smoked it 6-8 times a day since. Too handy to NOT fill and light non-stop from when I wake up to when I go to bed.


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If Saddam Hussian smoked a pipe, this would be it. The added diamonds, rubies, and emeralds, and let's not forget that sapphire, add the proper touch of ostentatious display.

...Or restrained dignity. Depends on one's point of view, eh?

 

[Wesley pipes]

This one has been an absolute workhorse. It was one of the first new pipes I ever bought and has definitely been the most smoked, sometimes multiple bowls a day.

It's a Savinelli Series III which came unfinished. You can see the fills in the briar since it's darkened.
It's not pretty, but is one of my best smoking pipes and I'll use it until it burns out or I do.

Like an old cast iron skillet, It maybe ugly but always cooks the best!

 

[Roach1]

My two are a Jirsa 210 and a Stanwell small Freehand. You can see in the WAYS thread it is smoked several times a day.

 

[HammerandPipe]

My cobs work hard and my Sav fantasia is my english workhorse.

 

[tartanphantom]

The 60+ year-old cob that just won't die...

Back in 2010 I bought a box lot of vintage cobs on Ebay, and I mean vintage. These pipes appeared to be from the late 1950's or early 1960's based on their unsmoked patina and the manufacturer labels. There were approximately 14 various unsmoked pipes, most of which had reed/bamboo stems, which is my favorite stem type on a cob pipe. On top of that, there were an additional 8-10 unsmoked cob replacement bowls, already prepped for reed stems.

Most of the pipes and bowls were NOT Missouri Meerschaum, but rather they were from the other major cob companies of the past-- National Cob Works, Phoenix-American Pipe Works, and H&B (Hirschl & Bendheim). Yes, there were even a few MM's in the pile too. Just for the record, Phoenix-American went out of business in the 1950's, National Cob works was bought out by MM in the 1950's, and H&B was the last man standing until they sold out to MM in 1990.

The only cleanup that was needed on any of them was a simple going over with compressed air to blow out the accumulated dust, as none of them had ever been smoked. From that lot, I figured I'd have enough cobs to last me the rest of my life. I gave a couple of pipes to my son, along with a couple of the spare bowls.

Fast-forward fifteen years to present-- I'm still smoking the same H&B pipe from that box lot! This pipe has seen everything from codger blends to FVF to VaPer flakes (I don't smoke Lat or Aro in this pipe), and it still stands up to multiple daily smokes. The reed is still firm with no splintering, and the bottom plug is still solid, though the label is well-worn and barely legible now. Whenever I travel, this is one that always makes the trip as my go-to for Virginia and Burley smokes.

While not pretty to look at, it is one of the most reliable smokes in my stable. and I still have 10 more similar unsmoked cobs as backups if this one ever burns out.

Probably my most favorite smokes in this pipe are Half & Half, Carter Hall and my dwindling stash of Country Doctor, but it also takes Rattray Marlin Flake and Escudo like a champ.

 

[FLDRD]

Wow.
While I don't yet have any that fall into that state of abuse, I'm encouraged to not be too concerned about the capabilities of one to endure whatever I might accidentally put it through.

 

[Sea Lord]

I smoke these two pipes almost every day. They both were broken and repaired. We have that in common.

1921 Dunhill Shell and a 1923 Peterson House pipe. Both have repair bands holding the bowls together.

Absolute Unit Workhorses

The working man's Dunhill. Love it.

 

[Wesley pipes]

The 60+ year-old cob that just won't die...

Back in 2010 I bought a box lot of vintage cobs on Ebay, and I mean vintage. These pipes appeared to be from the late 1950's or early 1960's based on their unsmoked patina and the manufacturer labels. There were approximately 14 various unsmoked pipes, most of which had reed/bamboo stems, which is my favorite stem type on a cob pipe. On top of that, there were an additional 8-10 unsmoked cob replacement bowls, already prepped for reed stems.

Most of the pipes and bowls were NOT Missouri Meerschaum, but rather they were from the other major cob companies of the past-- National Cob Works, Phoenix-American Pipe Works, and H&B (Hirschl & Bendheim). Yes, there were even a few MM's in the pile too. Just for the record, Phoenix-American went out of business in the 1950's, National Cob works was bought out by MM in the 1950's, and H&B was the last man standing until they sold out to MM in 1990.

The only cleanup that was needed on any of them was a simple going over with compressed air to blow out the accumulated dust, as none of them had ever been smoked. From that lot, I figured I'd have enough cobs to last me the rest of my life. I gave a couple of pipes to my son, along with a couple of the spare bowls.

Fast-forward fifteen years to present-- I'm still smoking the same H&B pipe from that box lot! This pipe has seen everything from codger blends to FVF to VaPer flakes (I don't smoke Lat or Aro in this pipe), and it still stands up to multiple daily smokes. The reed is still firm with no splintering, and the bottom plug is still solid, though the label is well-worn and barely legible now. Whenever I travel, this is one that always makes the trip as my go-to for Virginia and Burley smokes.

While not pretty to look at, it is one of the most reliable smokes in my stable. and I still have 10 more similar unsmoked cobs as backups if this one ever burns out.

Probably my most favorite smokes in this pipe are Half & Half, Carter Hall and my dwindling stash of Country Doctor, but it also takes Rattray Marlin Flake and Escudo like a champ.

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Yes sir! You can’t beat a cob! The legendary workhorse.