The Pipe Material You Smoke The Most

[Mtlpiper]

Mostly briars for me as that's what I've got - I lost my two meers in a move :-(.

I really did enjoy smoking the meers and will have to save up and get some new ones, but that's not happening any time soon.

95% briar though for sure and the very occasional cob.

 

[anotherbob]

Briar for sure, followed by a distant cob, and then an even more distant meer.

a distant cob sounds like the name of a really bad overwrought poem about forgetting to pack ones pipe.

 

[alaskanpiper]

a distant cob sounds like the name of a really bad overwrought poem about forgetting to pack ones pipe.

Hahaha.

“The Sordid Call of a Distant Cob”

By Pipeless McBaccy

 

[danimalia]

So the transition is going well?

Son of a bitch.... This Kindle must have the worst autocorrect of all time. ?

 

[bullet08]

Briar. Occasional cob when I want OTC.

 

[64alex]

80% Meer and Morta, 10% Clay, 5% Cob. I have only 1 briar I use for EM. New acquisitions will only on the meer/morta/clay.

 

[OzPiper]

Briar by far, then morta followed by meerschaum, olive wood and a solitary porcelain. And an ivory and a silver which don't count as I don't smoke them.

 

[gamzultovah]

Morta is interesting. I would like one in a very traditional shape made of Irish bog oak, but I probably couldn't afford it. It doesn't hurt to dream.

They’re not so badly priced as you might think. There are a lot of artisans working with this material that do not charge a premium for it like Morretti and Blandis:

https://www.balandis.store/search?q=Morta

Pipe Moretti

Briar, Morta, Bog Oak, Olive Wood, Pipe, Handmade, Hand Cut, Cumberland, Smooth, Rusticated, Elunium, Sandblasted, Stem, Acrylic, Ebonite, Collection, Pipe Smoking, Pipe Smoker, Art, Radica

www.pipemoretti.com

This, of course, does depend on your budget.

 

[OzPiper]

They’re not so badly priced as you might think. There are a lot of artisans working with this material that do not charge a premium for it like Morretti and Blandis:

https://www.balandis.store/search?q=Morta

Pipe Moretti

Briar, Morta, Bog Oak, Olive Wood, Pipe, Handmade, Hand Cut, Cumberland, Smooth, Rusticated, Elunium, Sandblasted, Stem, Acrylic, Ebonite, Collection, Pipe Smoking, Pipe Smoker, Art, Radica

www.pipemoretti.com

This, of course, does depend on your budget.

I'd second the recommendation for Moretti pipes. Affordable and easily available on EBay.
If you don't find one you like, Marco will customise one for you at a reasonable cost.
He answers emails and your queries very promptly and his turnaround time is excellent.

 

[Toast]

I don't have one, but Chacom did a morta which was very traditional (I don't know where the morta was sourced) & only moderately expensive. Not really my cup of tea but worth a look perhaps?

 

[Papamique]

I just bought a bunch of meerschaum pipes to add to my already modest collection. I wish I wouldn’t have. My Sasieni briar pipes smoke as good, if not better than, my meers. So......

briar>cobs>clay>meerschaum

 

[brian64]

80 to 90% meer, 10 to 20% briar.

 

[mso489]

I only have the one Meer, courtesy of the late great fish'n'banjo, but for flavor definition, Meer can't be beat.