Show Us Your Falcons!

[condorlover1]

@simong: Smoking a soap bar? Isn't that Gallaghers Condor Ready Rubbed?

 

[simong]

@simong: Smoking a soap bar? Isn't that Gallaghers Condor Ready Rubbed?

Not in Hereford it’s not, no. lol

 

[condorlover1]

Whatever @condorlover1 says, you just can't deny the innate sex appeal of the humble Falcon.

I can't be bothered to dig out all of mine. By their very nature they end up in rucksacks, coat pockets and in the shed. The great thing about Falcons is they're almost impossible to get a bad smoke from, so they're great for beginners, and they're great for travelling and throwing in a pocket. Since @simong mentioned them, here is the Peaks Pipes falcon bowl I bought at the UK pipe show:View attachment 310246

@jaingorenard: That looks like a Bakelite insulator from an early 1930 wireless!

 

[buroak]

@buroak : Hey bud, I have not seen you around in ages. How the hell are you?

It has been years! I am well. I am pleasantly surprised to see you here, and participating in a Falcon thread, no less. I hope you have been doing well.

 

[condorlover1]

Good my friend. Glad to hear you are well as well.

 

[The Clay King]

Whatever @condorlover1 says, you just can't deny the innate sex appeal of the humble Falcon.

I can't be bothered to dig out all of mine. By their very nature they end up in rucksacks, coat pockets and in the shed. The great thing about Falcons is they're almost impossible to get a bad smoke from, so they're great for beginners, and they're great for travelling and throwing in a pocket. Since @simong mentioned them, here is the Peaks Pipes falcon bowl I bought at the UK pipe show:View attachment 310246

@jaingorenard Did we meet at the Nottingham (UK) Pipe Show? I'm the clay pipe smoking Redcoat

 

[SmokeyJock]

My first falcon arrived today! Excited to smoke it, went for the bent extra stem with a briar dover bowl, I know some people don't like the aesthetics but to my eyes she's a beauty

 

[JoeW]

My first falcon arrived today! Excited to smoke it, went for the bent extra stem with a briar dover bowl, I know some people don't like the aesthetics but to my eyes she's a beautyView attachment 346123View attachment 346122

That is a beauty!

 

[SmokeyJock]

smokes like a beauty too! have seen a few folk complaining about breaking them in, but honestly my first bowl was a dream

 

[JoeW]

smokes like a beauty too! have seen a few folk complaining about breaking them in, but honestly my first bowl was a dream

I got some briar flavor when breaking in 2 of my first 3 bowls, but not from the third. Then I bought a Dublin bowl and didn’t bother with any sort of breaking in, and it has been perfectly fine. I probably won’t bother with it anymore.

 

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[Skippy Piper]

Just a screenshot for now while I wait for them to arrive in the mail from GQ Tobaccos, but my Christmas present to myself this year was two Falcons. I've never owned a Falcon before and am really looking forward to giving them a try!

 

[Skippy Piper]

The Falcons have landed!

 

[FalconForever]

Thanks to a relative in the hood ol' USA, I managed to purchase a real gem for my little museum of Falcon pipes, and thanks to another visiting relative, it has landed on UK shores this week - I have literally been waiting nearly a year for this to get here!!

This is a genuinely unused, boxed Falcon from the US and I'm dating it to the 1950s. The Info sheet prices pipes at $3 and there's a sticker on the box that reads 11 21 55? Info or corrections welcome.

 

[SSGT.]

searching eBay for Falcon bowls and saw this.

 

[Chasing Embers]

searching eBay for Falcon bowls and saw this.
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Oguz has many fans.

 

[Skippy Piper]

I picked up a rather ornate block meerschaum bowl for my green Falcon twister, and I really like how the plant motif and spiraling around the rim of the bowl match the vine-like twists of the green stem.

 

[SSGT.]

I have a straight dental and a bent Falcon both estate pipes but today my first brand new out of the box Falcon with a sifter bowl arrived and it smokes like a dream.

 

[Skippy Piper]

A new bronze International Falcon stem as well as some new bowls showed up the other day. My little Falcon family grows!






I do very much like the traditional look of the bronze colored International stem, though unfortunately it doesn't do the thing I bought it to do. I really wanted to use it with 6mm Dr. Grabow or Medico paper tube filters, but alas they simply don't fit and rattle around loose inside the stem so the smoke passes around them instead of through them. Savinelli 6mm balsa wood filters and Vauen 6mm Dr. Perl Junior charcoal filters fit just fine, but my favorite 6mm paper tube filters that I like using most just don't fit. Bummer!

On the plus side, I now have bowls for all the different kinds of blend types I like to smoke! Here's how I've dedicated them:

Hunter Dublin - Virginias & Burleys
Hunter Bulldog - English blends
Hunter Billiard - Aromatics
Standard Dark Billiard - Lakelands
Bantam Dublin - Strong Dark Fired blends
Ornate Meerschaum - Anything I darn well please!

 

[SSGT.]

Where can you buy a cob bowl for Falcons?