The Venerable Beater Pipe

[saintpeter]

We all have one. The pipe you clench gently while feeding the wood chipper. The one in your back-pack when you summit K2. The old friend whose bit you mumble around when you tell your friend, “Hold my beer...” Show it some love. Show it to the forum.

 

[mso489]

Beaters can take many forms. The anonymous basket pipe. The fine old U.S. factory pipe. The higher end pipe that was supposed to be a pipe-rack pretty but got smoked so often it looks like a beater even if it's price wasn't. Sometimes, cobs are bought as beaters, but after a few years, maybe with addition of a acrylic stem, it isn't disposable any more. I have a Cassano bought at my local independent pipes shop (one of many pipes from the shop); I almost traded off the Cassano, but after another bowl and careful consideration, I decided I'd rather keep it than buy another. It has a Dublin shape with a Calabash arching rim, but all compact and light weight. Just fine for about any blend.

 

[saintpeter]

The higher end pipe that was supposed to be a pipe-rack pretty but got smoked so often it looks like a beater even if it's price wasn't.

Amen to that!

 

[fishnbanjo]

This was never bought to be a beater pipe but due to the fact wind, rain, sleet, humidity, tobacco choice and over 3000 smokes and it practically looks as good as the day I bought it and is a wonderful smoker I can always count on which to me is what a beater is, the Tsuge Tankard, cheers.

banjo

 

[pitchfork]

The higher end pipe that was supposed to be a pipe-rack pretty but got smoked so often it looks like a beater even if it's price wasn't.

I smoke this one almost every day. I don't abuse it, but I don't mollycoddle it either. It's a workhorse anyway, if not a beater.

 

[jaytex1969]

I guess I'm too green to have a bonafide beater pipe.
This Baraccini "pocket" pipe is where I started. It's 4" long and gives a nice 20 minute smoke fully loaded.
It gets grabbed more often than you'd imagine and also has had the widest variety of leaf through it.

 

[agnosticpipe]

While I admit to using cobs as beater pipes, there is one briar that I actually love to smoke without having to worry about it getting a ding or two. I picked up this heavily abused L J Perriti lovat a few years ago and it is really a great smoking pipe! Sure it's a little on the small side, but that's half of its charm. Being the wing-nut I am I tend to smoke Peritti blends in it, usually Tashkent.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Beater Pipe

What all Dunhills are.

 

[didimauw]

Ooo I love threads like these. All my pipes are beater pipes, and get treated as such. No matter the price.
Other than my overly posted legend cob, I smoke my Stanwell and my Rossi more than any. Doesnt matter what I'm doing. I have Grabows, cobs, a hardwood, but I prefer bringing with one or both of these two pipes with me. Just because I know they will perform like they should.
Here's a pic I took of my Stanwell and Rossi all packed up for an overnight camping trip tonight.

 

[tomnernas2ndson]

I have quite a few Missouri Meerschaums in the garage in the tool chest, in the shed, in the box on the porch. I buy the bags of seconds from MM directly. I equates to about 3.50 a pipe.