What are You Looking for at the Chicago Pipe Show?
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People who want to buy SCooSAs. Then, the other two pipes in the Tsuge Shiki series. Fuyu and Aki.
To hook up with old friends and meet new ones.
I'll be there on Saturday, I hope to meet a few forum members and maybe buy a pipe or two.
Hope the damn thing is mobbed with people. I personally don't think many people will be looking for pipes. I think most people will be looking for each other,
I’ve never been to a pipe show before so will be taking it all in. Might pick up an artisan pipe or a Castello if I see something that catches my interest.
I can't make it to Chicago, but just a few ideas for those who can.
Set a budget and stay with it. The best thing you'll get at pipe shows is conversation and information, so get your gift of gab (and listening) going.
Get business cards from venders if you're not sure about purchases, so you can get back to them. A particular item may be sold, but you know the source. Make a note on the back of the card on what interested you, as a reminder.
I'd make a round of the tables before you buy anything, so you get a range on what's there.
If you haven't hit your budget, make a round near the end of the selling part of the show; sometimes amazing offers are made. It happened to me.
Have a good time! Hope there are lots of attendees and venders.
Set a budget and stay with it. The best thing you'll get at pipe shows is conversation and information, so get your gift of gab (and listening) going.
Get business cards from venders if you're not sure about purchases, so you can get back to them. A particular item may be sold, but you know the source. Make a note on the back of the card on what interested you, as a reminder.
I'd make a round of the tables before you buy anything, so you get a range on what's there.
If you haven't hit your budget, make a round near the end of the selling part of the show; sometimes amazing offers are made. It happened to me.
Have a good time! Hope there are lots of attendees and venders.
Hope Springs Eternal that something special will shake loose from a couple of collections. Will see what happens. It will be strange and sad without my buddy Chuck Rio.
I'd love to go to this show one day and was just about to PM you Scott! Haha.
For those that attend: please post up as many pictures as you can for those that can't attend.
Since I took up pipes during lockdown, if I’m able to make it I’ll just take in as much as I can. I enjoy all kinds of hobby & collectors’ conventions & this’ll be a new one.
It's on my bucket list to attend someday. It's not an inexpensive proposition to travel from Texas. I don't have the funds, but if I ever do... I'd just like to walk around and experience everything I can.
Air travel mask mandates just came down. Take it as a sign you’re supposed to go. ?
monty55, in more normal times, there is or was an annual pipe show much closer to you, maybe in Las Vagas or California. The shows tend to be outside the cities that bear their names. The Chicago show is at a town well outside the City of Chicago, and the New York show is in New Jersey (when they're held, of course).
This brings the cost of the venue, the hotel or resort, down quite a bit, within the reach of a recreational pipe smoking clientele. If you then want to combine your trip to include the big metropolis, you have to make all those arrangements independently.
Chicago is an amazing city to visit. I grew up near there, just outside city limits, and commuted there to school, and started visiting the downtown alone in high school, but it never fails to impress me. The boat ride down the Chicago River gives a perfect introduction, and the Art Institute and nearby Millennial Park are not to be missed. Etc.
This brings the cost of the venue, the hotel or resort, down quite a bit, within the reach of a recreational pipe smoking clientele. If you then want to combine your trip to include the big metropolis, you have to make all those arrangements independently.
Chicago is an amazing city to visit. I grew up near there, just outside city limits, and commuted there to school, and started visiting the downtown alone in high school, but it never fails to impress me. The boat ride down the Chicago River gives a perfect introduction, and the Art Institute and nearby Millennial Park are not to be missed. Etc.
I imagine it's nice.
I'm not really interested in sight seeing the cities, I meant I'd like to walk around the Pipe Show and see all the pipes and vendors and such and visit with other pipe enthusiasts. I've seen enough of big cities for one lifetime, but I've never been to a Pipe Show before, and there's none more prominent than the Chicago Pipe Show I don't think. That's why it's on my bucket list.
Lol. Well, as a scientist I just don't put much stock in "signs". But I get it.