Still Have Your First Pipe? Why or Why Not?

[onestrangeone]

Still have my first, a Stanwell/Ivarsson that I bought new as part of a “starter kit” 6 tins of Stanwell tobacco pack of cleaners and a pipe shaped tool. Did a bunch of reading and how to videos and decided I should start out with a cob ‘just in case’ so I actually had this pipe for almost a year before I ever smoked it. It’s a fantastic smoker and gets used at least once a week.

Pretty sure I still have some of the Stanwell tobacco as well.

 

[trouttimes]

First 5 or 6 pipes were cobs I made out in the barn from the corn crib, over 50 years ago. I bet the great great great great granddad mice ate them long ago.

 

[trubka2]

An Iwan Reis my wife gave me about 15 years ago. It smokes great and has gotten really pretty with age and use.

 

[pepesdad1]

First pipe I ever bought was a Comoy Golden Grain Canadian in 1961, and it is still in daily rotation.

 

[diamondback]

Cool thread! I’ve loved reading all the answers.
My first pipe was a cob. A little MM bent apple.
My first briar was a gift to me from my wife. It was an estate Comoy straight billiard with a saddle bit (3 piece C), relatively clean. It’s not my oldest Comoy but it’s very special to me. I still have both.

 

[brian64]

I still have my first one...a black rusticated Sav Hercules 619 EX that I purchased from Frenchy's pipes.
I bought a few of my first pipes from him back around '06 when I began transitioning from cigars. I've wondered occasionally if he's still around somewhere and how he's doing. He seemed to vanish a few or several years ago.

 

[mrmachado]

Yes. I had a $10 no-name cheap pipe which broke right after I tried to smoke it years ago and made me quit pipe smoking for some time, so I don't count that.
Then my mother gave me this Bazzanelli churchwarden last year. I was going to go back to smoke cigarettes or start to smoke pipes, and this gift made me stop starting the cigarette habit again. I thank my mother for that. It has a lot of sentimental value of course. The bowl is pretty small for me to smoke nowadays, but it smokes great:

 

[recluse]

Do you still have the first pipe you ever owned? What was it? Was it new? Was it a hand-me-down? If you bought it, where? Do you still have it?

Yes. It's a "Crown" brand purchased from a local Tinder Box that has since closed. I purchased it brand new.
I keep it precisely because it was my first pipe. I don't smoke it. No interest in doing so.

 

[doctoryes]

My first was a Dunhill patten in I received in 1999 from my father (also a pipe collector and smoker with over 200 pipes!). I still smoke it, and it smokes better than the other 3 Dunhills I acquired that aren’t estates!

 

[retrogrouch]

My first was a Peterson system 303 that I bought at the BX in Panama in 1985. I lost it but bought another in 1993 that I still have and smoke regularly.

 

[hawky454]

Yes, I still have my first pipe. It was a house pipe that I purchased from Heroes & Legacies (rip). It’s a Savinelli made pipe made for Heroes & Legacies so it doesn’t have the shape number in the nomenclature. It now has a crappy band (should have sent it to Cosmic for that) because I beat it up over the years, dropped it and cracked the shank but it still smokes excellent and I smoke it all the time. This pipe and I have been through a lot together. I bought two more of these house Savinelli pipes for $40 a pipe back in 2009 and I thought that was expensive at the time, haha!
First pipe:

The other two I bought 3 months after:

All three are awesome smokers! Especially for $40.

 

[olkofri]

This pipe and I have been through a lot together

Did you mean 'through a lot of St Bruno together'? :P

 

[hawky454]

^^^ Hahaha, yeah, that too!

 

[wulfheard]

I don't have my first pipe...And I don't give a single fuck what happened to it because it was awful...It was a yellow bowl billiard made of "Brylon". I bought it at a local drug store in 1979 because I had grown tired of smoking my dad's old Kaywoodies...Christ I had no idea what I was doing... :?
But I do have my second pipe...a Briar Workshop bent apple that at the time, (1980) cost me about half a weeks pay. Again I had no idea what I was doing but I got lucky with that one...I walked into my soon to be regular tobacconist, spied a revolving rack full of really nice pipes with a snowflake moniker on them and chose a rather chunky, smooth, dark walnut stained beauty without asking the price. After all how much could it be, pipes were cheap, they were like 8 bucks at the drug store. As I said I was clueless. When I got to the register the pipe smoking sales clerk, named John, said to me $65 dollars, American. I gasped so hard that almost swallowed my 19 year old tounge. Well I bit the bullet and I forked over nearly the lasted of the contents of my wallet. It left me with about 20 bucks between starvation and payday. In fact I had to wait a week to by some Tobacco so I could smoke my new pipe... :D

 

[dino]

My first pipe was given to me by my father back in 1959, with a pouch of Cookie Jar. He didn’t want me smoking cigarettes. It was a rather small billiard, basket pipe, that I still have. I smoke it, occasionally, for sentimental reasons. But, the bowl is about a group ½, so, not much of a smoke. The first pipe I bought myself, sometime in the early 60s, was a Medico Guardsman, with the port in the bottom of the bowl. I still occasionally smoke that one, too.

 

[maduromadness]

My first pipe was stolen! Still bitter about that, it was a nice Ashton 3/4 bent billard. Stolen out of my barracks room while away for duty. Worse part I didnt even have a roommate. Someone had a key to get in.smh

 

[JimInks]

My first pipe belonged to my father, who didn't take to it for long. It is a late 1950s Willard Canadian that is a bad smoker. Perhaps, if my father tried a better pipe and better tobacco, he might have given pipe smoking more of a chance. Anyway, I'd never part with it because it was his pipe and my first one.

 

[bnichols23]

Always does my heart good to see folks who still have their first or second & it was a good one. The piece of junk I had is lobg gone in a landfill somewhere, & I feel sorry for the landfill. }
Bill

 

[JimInks]

Bill: the first pipe I bought was a smooth, bent Dr. Grabow Omega egg. I've had thousands and thousands of smokes with that pipe, and I still occasionally smoke it. Best $2.49 I ever spent (1974 dollars).

 

[bnichols23]

Jim, I'm betting if it was a varnished Medico you wouldn't say that. -grin-