Show us the Pipe that Started Your Smoking Adventure!

[Piping Rooster]

This is my first pipe, a Medico paneled billiard that I got from my local B&M along with a pouch of straight Black Cavendish from Smokers Pride. Lets just say that experience wasn't all too pleasant. Newby smoker with wet tobacco and a plastic pipe is a recipe for disaster! Scorched tongue and hands made me a little hesitant to pick a pipe back up for a while, but I'm sure glad I did!

 

[OzPiper]

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

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

 

[Chasing Embers]

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

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

Same, first pipe bought was in '91 but I still have this one gifted to me by one of my high school teachers in '92.

 

[Chasing Embers]

a plastic pipe

Those brylon pipes aren't bad at all if you smoke them slowly.

 

[ashdigger]

I had a cob and it literally burned up I was freight training so hard. I’ve lived and learned.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

This 4 square was my 3rd pipe I believe -a cob and a nice bent basket being the first 2. I had trouble smoking the bent early on due to moisture issues. This was the pipe that showed me the potential of what a better pipe could reveal about a tobacco. It was a great estate pipe

 

[jaytex1969]

I got this Baraccini "Pocket Pipe" and a tin of John Cotton's #1 to start.

It's good for about a 20 minute smoke, as a noob with poor packing and cadence.

 

[Brendan]

Will post something later when I'm at home but @Chasing Embers your high school teacher has good taste ?
Must have been a great teacher too.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Will post something later when I'm at home but @Chasing Embers your high school teacher has good taste ?
Must have been a great teacher too.

I got him hooked on pipe smoking. ?

 

[warren]

Long disappeared, lost, left somewhere in an early home, who knows?

 

[jiminy]

This little "Well Bent" was given to me by my uncle when I was probably 8 years old. Didn't smoke it until high school, and haven't smoked it much at all, but it was (and is) one of my most sentimental items

 

[jndyer]

This is my first pipe, a Medico paneled billiard that I got from my local B&M along with a pouch of straight Black Cavendish from Smokers Pride. Lets just say that experience wasn't all too pleasant. Newby smoker with wet tobacco and a plastic pipe is a recipe for disaster! Scorched tongue and hands made me a little hesitant to pick a pipe back up for a while, but I'm sure glad I did!View attachment 160053

My first pipe was a brylon. I smoked some lane 1-Q. It was not a horrible experience, but the pipe did get incredibly hot. Over the next couple of months I kept trying to build up a cake, which I finally realized may not be possible when your pipe is made of smooth and slick nylon.

I know I still have the bowl of that pipe in my collection, but somehow I have lost the stem. I wish I could find the stem because I would like to try smoking that pipe to see if I could smoke it much cooler than my first few months.

 

[JOHN72]

I started my tortuous way, spitting tobacco, and those things of impatient novice, but I succeeded in using these fantastic MM corn pipes. Three years smoking a corn pipe. The first tobaccos I bought at my local tobacconist, and my first pipe. It was really exciting, to this day.

 

[Brendan]

This Peterson 304 (I think, stamping is worn down). Bought sometime in 2009, smoked a fair few packs of Amphora and a pack of Borkhum Riff Cherry Cavendish without a single pipe cleaner or alchohol clean.

Until tonight ?

Smokes okay but not a favourite - I think I'll stick with straight shapes.
The faint cherry ghost is actually nice as well ?

 

[craig61a]

1981 at the Base Exchange, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho…

My first attempts at pipe smoking were a miserable failure. The pipe got tossed when I PCS’d to England.



My second pipe was an Italian basket pipe, which I burned out, third pipe, an Italian bent basket pipe, which I still smoke. Bought it in 1990.

 

[kcghost]

I bought my first pipe 50+- years ago. It was a Dr. Grabow and it was blue. I have no idea where it is today other than I don't have it.

 

[Kobold]

My very first pipe is long gone but this is the pipe I bought when I decided to start smoking a pipe again. It’s a La Rocca pipe. Not my favorite but I probably smoke it the most because it was cheap so I take it camping and hiking all the time.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I got this Italian made basket pipe in 1982. I'm a little amazed I still have it, and still smoke it on occasion. I also have no idea why I picked the uncommon poker shape as my first pipe, and I haven't bought all that many since.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

This Peterson Sherlock Holmes Rathbone!

 

[Honkytonk Man]

I started with a Peterson Darwin, I believe it is. A large bent pipe. Like many of us here starting off, I had no idea what to look for or what I wanted. I'd heard from the old guys, way back when that Peterson was "the best pipes in the world". Well, they're ok, pretty good some of them.
I bought 8 oz Lane I-Q, 8oz Lane BCA and 12oz Half & Half. I was going big, with no intention of going home!
Needless to say, I burnt my tongue. Put the pipe away and bought a MM corn cob and a tin of Solani, I don't remember which one. Anyway, better results with the cob & Solani.