Show us the Pipe that Started Your Smoking Adventure!

[cigrmaster]

My first pipe was a Savinelly Linea Pui 5 with a silver band. It was a great first pipe as it smoked cool and dry and showed me what a good pipe s supposed to smoke like. I bought a few lemons in the beginning but I knew they sucked because I had something to compare it to. Here is my first pipe.

 

[shanez]

My first pipe went in the trash long ago. It was a cheap no name basket pipe. The stem became loose. While clenching and mid smoke the pipe flipped upside down on the stem and fell off into my lap.

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

My first pipe - typical for a German, was a Vauen, bought mid nineties. I've never grown to become a Vauen fan, but I still treasure it:

 

[Puff nstuff]

My first pipe was a Barling Londoner dublin that I bought at a shopping mall tobacconist back in the early '80s. The pipe put up with much abuse, but it's still a good smoker and a handsome piece. I unearthed it from years of neglectful storage about a year ago. Glad I still have it.

 

[captpat]

No can do. I started smoking pipes in the late 70's and that first pipe was likely a basket pipe from the local Tinderbox. No idea what happened to it, I do have several pipes in my collection from the early years but not the first one.

 

[AcesAndEights]

This gorgeous little number. Chinese made JoyOldElf. Pipe AND starter kit for $19.99. Worth every penny… ?

 

[bwfh]

I got interested last year when visiting my dad (he's 91), he stopped smoking in 1970 but kept his pipes. He gave these two to me.
Top is the Kaywoodie Dublin, and below is a Linkman Hollycourt Relief Grain, 7413 - Dublin shape from circa 1937-40s.
Also marked as pre-smoked from their ‘invention’ REG US PAT. OFF Patent 2073663
Other side: 7424 IMPORTED BRUYÉRE
And that got me interested...

 

[Nicolasylvain]

I was expecting only photos of basket pipes with bubbling lacquer from smoking cherry blends. Surprise of the day...

 

[tklee]

Too many years (very early 1970s) and too many pipes ago.

These days I have problems remembering what I had for breakfast sometimes ?

Mmmm...... The result of not smoking enough pipe ?

 

[Servant King]

JoyOldElf on Amazon.com, $10 for the pipe, $15 total for the whole kit (pipecleaners, stand, filters etc.):

 

[edger]

My first, a Hardcastle bent billiard bought in Wales in 1972, didn't make it. My second, a straight Falcon with a blasted billiard bowl, I still have and smoke and was recommended by my Ulster grandfather. He was very practical even though he occasionally admonished me re what a "thinking man" ought to smoke!

 

[augiebd]

A Lorenzo Cadore and a pouch of rum and butter aromatic bought at a mall tobacconist. I still smoke the pipe from time to time.

 

[Kingsley]

This is my first pipe. An old, heavily used Dr. Grabow Riviera with a stinger filter and vulcanite stem. It had a cracked shank when I bought it, and I used to use tape and rubber bands to keep the shank tight enough to hold the stem. It was a long journey, the thing was clogged with a capital C, and because pipe smoking was such a back burner idea to me at the time, having never seen a person smoke one, I just bumbled my way around learning it on my own. I didn’t even clean it proper for around two years, but once I did it went from a thing I did every three months if it came up, into a pipe that I would smoke all the time. It eventually took so much of a beating that I tried supergluing it sealed, but the heat made the glue melt, and I figured it wasn’t a good idea to huff superglue fumes along with my Prince Albert. This pipe, without a doubt, is my favorite pipe, and I can’t smoke it. Small bowl, long, light, excellent, and smokes PA better than any pipe I’ve ever tried. I am always looking for another of its shape, but I’ve never found one that matches its exact size.

 

[username]

This mr brog pearwood. Back in the early 2000s.

 

[kschatey]

This was my first pipe and tobacco purchase. I was such a noob that I didn't even think about pipe cleaners!

 

[Alejo R.]

 

[rmbittner]

My first pipe, which I still own, is a Tinder Box “board” pipe (think: basket pipe), which I purchased in 1979 for $8. She has colored beautifully and continues to give excellent smokes.

BTW, don’t read the notes in the photograph too closely; I was a very new pipesmoker when I made these tasting notes, and let’s just say I didn’t always know what I was talking about! But I *was* able to try a lot of blends that are no longer with us…even if I didn’t always understand them.

 

[grimpuffer]

This 2010 Peterson St Patrick’s Day B34 fishtail that I received as a gift that same year.

Still one of my favorite pipes for English blends

 

[FurCoat]

My first pipe was a Dr. Grabow Grand Duke that I snuck from my dad's pipe rack. My first purchase was this Country Gentleman which has colored quite nicely and now sports a forever stem.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I don't have a picture of the cigarette shop churchwarden from china I procured on a whim 7.5 years ago.

What I do have, however, is the invoice from SPC from when I ordered my first "real" pipes.






Amazing to look at considering it didn't take long to realize I detest latakia!