Show Us Your French Pipes

[OzPiper]

A Ropp cherry wood
Clunky and not fancy, but the look grows on you

 

[youghman57]

Smoked my Gefapip Signature 106 pipe today. I forgot how easily this pipe smokes; the draw is effortless. I love the bowl’s beautiful grain and unique color and marbling of its stem. I purchased it as an estate pipe and can’t recall how much I paid for it, but I’m sure glad I picked it up and added it to my collection. This is my only Gefapip pipe and I can’t say I’ve seen another.

 

[dottlejockey]

I have had 2 Chacom pipes over the years. The only pipe i ever regret selling was a Chacom with a horn stem. It was a great smoker, but went to a friend at the pipe lounge long ago. Here's the one i still have and has survived many cullings of the heard over the years. Something about it's simple elegance, hand feel and the fact that it smokes VaPers like a champ just does it for me.

 

[xrundog]

First time seeing this thread. I don’t really collect French pipes but have a few pics on my phone for the WAYS thread.

First the Chacom commemorative D-Day 80th Anniversary Army mount. 75 of 80. Nice pipe, smokes good.



A guy was selling a pair of French Army pipes on eBay. First had the name of an Army base with 1893. I got the second which has unit designation and Artillerie. I assume it’s contemporary to the one I didn’t get. Hard rubber stem with a bone tenon and spoon attached. It’s a well pipe. It has a stamp I can’t read. The font is odd and I assume it’s a French name. Smokes good, cool pipe.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

I got a day off ,and about to fixing a blower motor resistor in my Ford, must a be a real fun especially in the heat of the day,but prior to that I gotta have something strong, a small bowl of S Gawith 1792 Flakes in my Lithe Jeantet Bruyer Distinction model 701,

 

[AreBee]

I picked this up from a local antique shop for $20 and restored it. No markings on it other than "FRANCE". It has a moisture well behind the draft hole similar to a Peterson System pipe. Smokes great and has a deep chamber too that gives me a nice long smoke!

 

[Sigmund]

A Chacom restored from oblivion. I wish I had a before picture. I had to top away about 4 mm it had been beaten so bad on someones shoes. It was just a dark brown filthy mess. I tookt it back to wood and stained it last night. No amazing grain but a pretty little military mount pipe that smokes great.

 

[nnsailor]

Mail came in today-

 

[BingBong]

Just delivered, Chacom Reverse Calabash.

 

[AirOne]

Just delivered, Chacom Reverse Calabash.

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Please let us know how she smokes, this line has been on my radar for a while

 

[BingBong]

Please let us know how she smokes, this line has been on my radar for a while

Stuffed 6 coins of Cabbies in it and lit up. This is my big test, if it delivers all of the flavours, it's a winner. Well, I have to say that I'm gently in the final third and that is has delivered - despite the nosewarmer dimensions, it has not been an uncomfortably hot smoke, and that the sweetness that goes missing in so many other pipes is there in spades.

I am impressed that this has done what I wanted: a longer smoke of my favourite tobacco with all the taste. I have a Morgan Bones stubby which is 9mm filter and I thought, sans filter, I would get this result - but I didn't. The Chacom is quite similar in most respects (bigger 2nd chamber), yet it is a different beast. More testing will follow to see if it's repeatable.

 

[AirOne]

thanks for your feedback. I guess I 'll have to pull the trigger!

 

[BingBong]

thanks for your feedback. I guess I 'll have to pull the trigger!

The box is corrugated like one of those old camionettes and the bag is delightful, a very French presentation!

 

[AirOne]

Here are mine, spaning several decades of french savoir-faire. From no name St Claude to Chacom to P. Morel to C. Lefebvre, T. Lefebvre and C. Wolff.

 

[PaulRVA]

A few Bruno Nuttens Bings and a Twiggy

 

[AndyNJ]

Pierre Morel and Chacom Royale