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I have been looking for a 701 Dracula but spotted this one at Peretti’s in Boston. Halloween 2024 bent billiard.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! 
I will enjoy first smoke my new 2025 SPD 999 sandblasted Mac Baren's Royal Twist Deluxe.
I will enjoy first smoke my new 2025 SPD 999 sandblasted Mac Baren's Royal Twist Deluxe.
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Happy St. Patty's Day! I feel silly that I've never posted in this thread, but that's a problem I can solve.
<-- I'll start with my namesake. My Peterson 314 was the first pipe I bought, but not the first that I smoked. My college roommate introduced me to the pipe. He had two--a Peterson something, and a noname churchwarden. We didn't know how to pack or smoke, but we would grab an ounce of Wilford (1Q) from The Tinder Box, sit on the postage-stamp-sized porch of our apartment, and solve the world's problems. My roommate always picked his Peterson, and left me the churchwarden. One fateful day, he brought out a cigar or some other combustible plant, and I got the Peterson. What a difference! I bought my own on our next trip to the shop, and my Peterson 314 was my first and only pipe for about a decade.
<-- I'll start with my namesake. My Peterson 314 was the first pipe I bought, but not the first that I smoked. My college roommate introduced me to the pipe. He had two--a Peterson something, and a noname churchwarden. We didn't know how to pack or smoke, but we would grab an ounce of Wilford (1Q) from The Tinder Box, sit on the postage-stamp-sized porch of our apartment, and solve the world's problems. My roommate always picked his Peterson, and left me the churchwarden. One fateful day, he brought out a cigar or some other combustible plant, and I got the Peterson. What a difference! I bought my own on our next trip to the shop, and my Peterson 314 was my first and only pipe for about a decade.
I still have my first Peterson, a 2013 St. Patrick's Day XL90. It's one of my best. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Recently bought a circle com pre rep 314. Probably my 93rd Pete.
Looks like it will be good pipe for a quick smoke. Kinda tiny. But that’s ok.
Started my St. Patrick's experience Friday night by giving myself this new Peterson 338. I really love the shape and the function, so by Sunday I had ordered a 2nd one...........
My second pipe was also a Peterson. At the time, I thought the idea of having a second pipe was excessive. However, I decided to branch out from my comfort zone of BCA and 1-Q. I trusted the collective palate of my fellow pipe-tobacco-buying brethren, and I picked up a tin of Satan's Hangover Autumn Evening. I took one puff, and my beloved 314 was ghosted with the essence of yesterday's forgotten Eggo waffle drowned in gas-station-tier maple-flavored syrup. Dear god. I'm happy if y'all like it, but that shit gave me PAD.
Once I got my 314 clean (it took weeks!), I started a strict new regimen of auditioning any new aromatic in a cob. I found the wisdom of rotating and dedicating pipes. I dedicated my 314 to BCA, and I bought a Peterson Mycroft. I actually wanted the Sherlock Holmes calabash, but I couldn't imagine spending more than $200 for a pipe! The Mycroft was an estate and priced as such, and thus it became my consolation pipe. It's not dedicated to anything, but it's the only pipe I smoke Haunted Bookshop in.
Narrator: He will spend more than $200 on a pipe.
Once I got my 314 clean (it took weeks!), I started a strict new regimen of auditioning any new aromatic in a cob. I found the wisdom of rotating and dedicating pipes. I dedicated my 314 to BCA, and I bought a Peterson Mycroft. I actually wanted the Sherlock Holmes calabash, but I couldn't imagine spending more than $200 for a pipe! The Mycroft was an estate and priced as such, and thus it became my consolation pipe. It's not dedicated to anything, but it's the only pipe I smoke Haunted Bookshop in.
Narrator: He will spend more than $200 on a pipe.
I learned from my Mycroft that buying a consolation pipe doesn't scratch the itch. SP had a gorgeous Sherlock Holmes with a gold band, and they were really proud of it. $600 for a pipe?! Not a chance. The gold-band one sold and left the store, but not my mind. When this one popped up, it found itself in the cart, and then in a box, and then in my mailbox. The chamber volume is just over a cubic inch, and to this day it's still the largest bowl that I smoke.
Narrator: He will spend more than $600 on a pipe.
Narrator: He will spend more than $600 on a pipe.
First run for my ‘25 SPD 221 and an LJ Peretti Pete Park Square 69 this afternoon. 
Two new to me pipes. Aran B11 and 1983 303
Posted this on WAYS so I’ll post here too. Happy SPD everyone 
This is one of my favorites. It's unsmoked and will probably stay that way.
This is a Peterson Natural Amber Silver Spigot D6. As the story goes, Peterson had a very small run of new old-stock amber stems that somebody discovered in a box in the Dublin factory. The stem is made of (very soft) natural amber that dates back to 1939.
I've always wanted one of these. When I found it online, I thought it was expensive. If I had better judgment, I would have left it in the cart. But the number was just out of what I wanted to spend, and I had already drowned my better judgment in a glass or two of scotch. Click, click, boom, and it was on the way to my house.
The next morning, I checked my email and my credit card and saw a WAY bigger number than I had expected. I checked my receipt, and realized that the price that Macallan and I had agreed to was in GBP instead of USD. Whoopsies. Thank you, Bonds of Oxford Street. At least it's pretty.
This is the lightest pipe I own. It's not even an ounce. I'm sure it would smoke beautifully.
This is a Peterson Natural Amber Silver Spigot D6. As the story goes, Peterson had a very small run of new old-stock amber stems that somebody discovered in a box in the Dublin factory. The stem is made of (very soft) natural amber that dates back to 1939.
I've always wanted one of these. When I found it online, I thought it was expensive. If I had better judgment, I would have left it in the cart. But the number was just out of what I wanted to spend, and I had already drowned my better judgment in a glass or two of scotch. Click, click, boom, and it was on the way to my house.
The next morning, I checked my email and my credit card and saw a WAY bigger number than I had expected. I checked my receipt, and realized that the price that Macallan and I had agreed to was in GBP instead of USD. Whoopsies. Thank you, Bonds of Oxford Street. At least it's pretty.
This is the lightest pipe I own. It's not even an ounce. I'm sure it would smoke beautifully.
That is gorgeous. That exchange rate sucks.
When those originally appeared I got one as a gift for my best friend. Gorgeous, and light as a feather.
When Peterson came out with their 2024 Christmas pipes, I bought 3. This is the one I kept--2024 Christmas Copper Spigot 05. I gave the other two as gifts.
My brother's is unchristened, which is a problem he has guaranteed he will remedy soon. He has a newborn and is on a newborn's schedule, so his word on pipesmoking availability is garbage. The other, I gave to a friend I've had since Middle School. That poor bastard claimed that he liked cigars, but he really hated how long the aftertaste lasted. I had a solution, and invited him over to break in his new pipe. It was well-received. I sent him home with a starter stash of BCA and Edward G. Inks.
Mine has only been around the block a few times. It requires company.
My brother's is unchristened, which is a problem he has guaranteed he will remedy soon. He has a newborn and is on a newborn's schedule, so his word on pipesmoking availability is garbage. The other, I gave to a friend I've had since Middle School. That poor bastard claimed that he liked cigars, but he really hated how long the aftertaste lasted. I had a solution, and invited him over to break in his new pipe. It was well-received. I sent him home with a starter stash of BCA and Edward G. Inks.
Mine has only been around the block a few times. It requires company.
In closing my Saint Greenbeer's Day Peterson dump on my fine Pipesmoking Peterson Petronas, I offer the last addition to my Peterson family. This one has no story other than I've wanted a Deluxe, and damn if Chuck Pete himself didn't christen a new stash of Barleys just a few moments ago. It was love at first sight:
And before that one even made it home, Peterson outdid themselves by not releasing a Baker Street in Terracotta. However, whilst looking for the ONE MORE Peterson I wanted from the Sherlock Holmes series, Peterson made me think really hard about whether or not I needed a Lestrade. I decided that I did not need it. I have a shit-ton of pipes, and I have plenty of other pipes to break in, so I decided to pass.
Oops.
And before that one even made it home, Peterson outdid themselves by not releasing a Baker Street in Terracotta. However, whilst looking for the ONE MORE Peterson I wanted from the Sherlock Holmes series, Peterson made me think really hard about whether or not I needed a Lestrade. I decided that I did not need it. I have a shit-ton of pipes, and I have plenty of other pipes to break in, so I decided to pass.
Oops.
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