Tell me about Bjarne Viking Copenhagens.

[dsturg369]

Any in your current rotation? Thoughts?

 

[burleybreath]

Sold my only Bjarne a few years ago. Can't remember why. It was a good pipe, nothing bad to say about it.

 

[Papamique]

I have had many Bjarne pipes over the years. ALL have been good smokers. One of the most underrated Danish pipes IMO that fly under the radar. Good mechanics/drilling, great briar, fit and finish usually top notch. Sorry I can’t remember specific models as I’ve probably had a dozen or so in the past.

 

[jaytex1969]

I have 3 of the Viking Classic line. Two are in rotation and both smoke very well. My slightly bent Dublin with a conical chamber is my best VA flake smoker by far.

(Damn, now I have to find some Old Dark Fired and dig out that pipe....)

 

[kcghost]

I've had several and ended up getting rid of them. They were decent smokes but not exceptional.

 

[agnosticpipe]

This is the only Bjarne pipe I've ever had. I picked it up as an estate from Marty Pulvers about 2 years ago and it's been a great smoking pipe. It's an odd shape, but that's what drew me to it to begin with and I don't regret getting it.

 

[Papamique]

This is the only Bjarne pipe I've ever had. I picked it up as an estate from Marty Pulvers about 2 years ago and it's been a great smoking pipe. It's an odd shape, but that's what drew me to it to begin with and I don't regret getting it.
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That’s an amazing looking pipe!

 

[OzPiper]

I had a NOS Bjarne Viking which I gifted to a mate who was getting back into pipes.

I see it from time to time when he joins me for a smoke on my verandah

 

[ophiuchus]

I bought five Copenhagens as beaters for walking on the beach and in some of the more rough neighborhoods in north Chicago, back when pipesandcigars was owned by a pipe shop in Albany, NY. I think they started this line when production moved to Italy, a few years after Bjarne Nielsen passed. The acrylic stems have flat, comfortable buttons. The drilling is solid and the airflow smooth on all of them. I exchanged one of them due to a sand pit in the chamber of a sandblasted bent egg (the old P&C traded for a similar one, even though it had been smoked). A couple of them smoked nicely from the get-go, and two of them took years and many bowls to break in (somewhat immature wood, I suspect). Not bad pipes for what I paid for them. This was over a decade ago, though; the quality may or may not be what they were.