Show us your Ugliest Pipes!

[alaskanpiper]

This has probably been done before but it's time for a refresher.

I have recently been feeling pipes that are "so ugly you have to have them" but I have yet to select the perfect grotesque for my collection. I need some inspiration! Whether it is an old Caminetto with melted snickers bar rustication, a Jabba the Hutt shaped Brebbia Oom Paul, A Yanik carved Mickey Rourke head Meer, or the classic soft poo curves of a fat Sav 320, show us the ugliest pipe in your collection!

 

[warren]

Can't do it. An ugly pipe, to my eye anyway, has never caught my eye in a store.

 

[brian64]

A Yanik carved Mickey Rourke head Meer

I hope you made that up.

 

[scloyd]

I'll play along.



I picked up this Poul Hansen in a local antique shop when I first started smoking a pipe. At first I liked the look. Now, not at all...I think it's ugly. To me, it's the ugliest pipe in my collection.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I hope you made that up.

Haha, I think I did? The other one's all exist though.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I picked up this Poul Hansen in a local antique shop when I first started smoking a pipe. At first I liked the look. Now, not at all...I think it's ugly. To me, it's the ugliest pipe in my collection.

Not the prettiest freehand I've ever seen, but not so horrifying.

 

[saintpeter]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do. Long, long ago. Then one day I had to decide if it should just go in the trash. Seeing as how the briar came from American Pipes and was drilled by Tinski or one of his minions I popped a stem in it and fired it up. Now I only smoke it at night, to hide the shame of smoking an ugly pipe.

 

[brian64]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do.

We have a winner. No further entries are necessary.

 

[SpookedPiper]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do. Long, long ago. Then one day I had to decide if it should just go in the trash. Seeing as how the briar came from American Pipes and was drilled by Tinski or one of his minions I popped a stem in it and fired it up. Now I only smoke it at night, to hide the shame of smoking an ugly pipe.

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damn..that is up there and maybe the winner of this UGLY contest!

 

[saintpeter]

We have a winner. No further entries are necessary.

Thank you! Thank you! I shall cherish this moment as the high lite of my day. LOL

 

[SpookedPiper]

Here's mine..first eBay, I am going to start this hobby pipe...savanelli baronet bruyere 619ex with a poorly fitting stem and silver adornment... Should have listened and gotten a cob!

 

[SpookedPiper]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do. Long, long ago. Then one day I had to decide if it should just go in the trash. Seeing as how the briar came from American Pipes and was drilled by Tinski or one of his minions I popped a stem in it and fired it up. Now I only smoke it at night, to hide the shame of smoking an ugly pipe.

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[alaskanpiper]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do. Long, long ago. Then one day I had to decide if it should just go in the trash. Seeing as how the briar came from American Pipes and was drilled by Tinski or one of his minions I popped a stem in it and fired it up. Now I only smoke it at night, to hide the shame of smoking an ugly pipe.

That thing is horrifying, man.

 

[brian64]

It started as a test briar to see what different tools would do.

I can't imagine what tools could have produced such a monstrosity.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I can't imagine what tools could have produced such a monstrosity.

Whatever they were I hope they have been destroyed.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Here's mine..first eBay, I am going to start this hobby pipe...savanelli baronet bruyere 619ex with a poorly fitting stem and silver adornment... Should have listened and gotten a cob!

It's not so ugly aesthetically, it just looks like a ramshackle jalopy shitbox held together with spit and a prayer.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Come on folks, I know there has to be more heinous beasts out there....

 

[mso489]

Mostly I think my pipes all have beauty and/or charm. Even my least attractive is not an eyesore, but it is a pleasantly shaped billiard, very traditional, roughed out of some wood on one of the less prosperous island nations in the Caribbean for sale in the street market. It has blade marks and a meal chamber insert made out of tin cans. Not a smoker, but an interesting artifact.

 

[brian64]

Come on folks, I know there has to be more heinous beasts out there....

They all suddenly look beautiful compared to Saint Peter's disfigured abomination. No one can follow that.

 

[seldom]

Now I only smoke it at night, to hide the shame of smoking an ugly pipe.

Ah, well, there's no shame in smoking an ugly pipe as far as I'm concerned. I've some pretty beat up pipes that I like to smoke while walking the dogs through the woods. In that environment I really don't care what anyone I see might think. I'm more of a form follows function than a form over function type of man.