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eriksmokes85

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 24, 2015
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How many of the members here can remember the day they took the first sip of a pipe? What pipe were you smoking and what was the tobacco? I think this hobby is all about traveling to simpler times and just slowing down, which I feel makes things easy to remember. So lets hear it! Also do you still have the pipe in your rotation?
Mine was around a bon fire with 3 buddies, two of them smoked pipes already and had brought them over. The first pipe I smoked was a Sherlock calabash and the tobacco was smokers pride black cavendish. It wasnt my pipe so no I dont have it still.

 

fitzy

Lifer
Nov 13, 2012
2,937
27
NY
Does being 14 and rolling up a teachers pipe tobacco in a rolling paper count? Otherwise it's a cheap ass drug store pipe and some horrible goop from the same drug store at about 15.
My first good smoke was a nice pipe and some dynamite bulk I picked up from a local B&M that is no longer in business when I was about 17.

 

sjfine

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 4, 2012
653
4
Mine was in a $25 bent egg filled with some English blend, both of which I bought at JR on the way down to Florida. Despite reading a bit, I had no real idea what I was doing. It was a disaster, and I still have the tongue-scars to prove it.
I still have the pipe, but I can't remember the last time I smoked it. And I am not an English fan, but for other reasons.

 

jbales

Lurker
Nov 4, 2015
23
0
Player's Navy Cut Flake in a Spitfire Lorenzo merely four days ago. It was a wonderful experience.

 

jkrug

Lifer
Jan 23, 2015
2,867
8
Long time ago....I can tell you it was a Brigham pipe but that's about it?? :?

 

jpmcwjr

Moderator
Staff member
May 12, 2015
24,565
27,067
Carmel Valley, CA
Forgettable drugstore pouch-baccy in a brand-forgotten shallow-bowled stingered, varnished ugly thang in 1963. I have it somewhere!

 

hawke

Lifer
Feb 1, 2014
1,346
4
Augusta, Ga
I'm not real sure, I'll ponder on this more however I do remember my first Flake. ...Sam G's FVF. I was instantly sold on flakes. Before that was Dan Tobacco Independence which somehow led me into Latakia blends. I have smoked a fair amount of John Bull in the pouch. All this began Jan 2014. I am now a big fan of PS Lux Twist Flake and HH Vintage Syrian. My Latakia tastes have become less desired and VaPer's have become more of a part of my smoking rotations. I have had many chances to sample different blends in trades which I value tremendously due to the friendships acquired on this forum. Wish I lived closer to some pipe clubs.
Good question for discussion!

 

eriksmokes85

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 24, 2015
172
0
I was wondering how many members would be saying cheap pipe cheap bad tobacco! seems like maybe the majority!

 

davidintexas

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 4, 2013
673
209
A Dr. Grabow pipe (can't remember which one) with some Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. Actually was pretty good although I couldn't appreciate the taste of it as much as I can now, although I prefer other burleys over SWR

 

matches

Starting to Get Obsessed
Feb 22, 2015
103
0
Dunedin, NZ
I've only been smoking a pipe for a year so not hard to remember. FM Cellar in a Becker e Musico apple which I still have.

 

mayfair70

Lifer
Sep 14, 2015
1,968
2
First time was at the river trails with my friend's dad's THE PIPE circa 1983 and some drug store tobacco. I remember a lot of RedMan chew around this time too.

 
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