What Can You Learn about Yourself by Looking at Your Own Pipe Collection?

[litup]

When other people have viewed my collection they've said things like, "you're obsessed with pipes!"

If one of you viewed my pipe collection, you might surmise that I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none.

 

[UncleRasta]

I suspect my pipes speak ill of me behind my back. To my face, they say simple, habitual, eclectic, low budget...

 

[tschiraldi]

What does my collection say about me? Hmmm...
Bat shit crazy? Schizophrenic? On the one hand I have a halfway decent collection of vintage Britwood, very classic stuff like Barling, Sasieni, Comoy, and BBB with pieces going back to the early 1880's. Then I have a number of pipes by American artisan carvers like Piersel, Von Erck, Buthenberg, Alden, etc, and some really wild constructions by Tatum, Cannoy, Talbert, and Fillenwarth.

Focus, man! Focus!?

 

[jaytex1969]

Two is one and one is none.

My tactically trained, proletarian disposition assures that I will not run out of pipes, tobacco, coffee, ammo or toilet paper.

I have an ample supply of functional, mainly "classic" shapes, most valued in the tens of dollars each.

 

[snagstangl]

Why do I have so many pipes that someone else smoked but I have not?

 

[rmpeeps]

I seem I like Tinsky TanBlast Dublins.
Rather conservative.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Well loved collection of MMs & Meers. And a decent collection of neglected briar, many of which will eventually be transitioned out for more MMs & Meers.️

 

[Keweenaw]

...that lately I'm trending toward pipe makers that use acrylic. Growing tired of the struggle to keep vulcanite stems shiny.

 

[warren]

My pipes are mostly very conservative but, I made the decision to be conservative long before I started smoking.

 

[greeneyes]

I'm a British centenarian.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

"What Can You Learn about Yourself by Looking at Your Own Pipe Collection?"

My pipe collection would indicate to most people that I have absolutely no sense of self restraint.

I'll be placing another order for more pipes next week.

 

[scloyd]

My collection of pipes...too many impulse purchases.

 

[gatorhazard]

I posted on another thread that I found out how much I prefer smoking cobs over briar, so I guess what mine says is that there is pleasure in simple, effective things and finding what you like. I have also gravitated to a few tobaccos and feel like they can keep me interested in smoking for a long time. I have tried multiple styles of tobacco and found myself really in the English/Balkan arena, and have found that I like PS Proper English and C&D Super Balkan and Arango Balkan Supreme the best. I also like Pirate Kake on occasion and will be smoking that a lot on Sunday night when Tampa plays in the SB.

I have tried some more expensive blends (like I have smoked some more expensive pipes) and enjoy them, Maltese Falcon is a good one, nice and smooth and mellow for me. I will say, I just finished a tin of Quiet Nights and, to me, it is very difficult to taste the difference between it and C&D Super Balkan, so why pay the markup. Ill just keep putting back pounds of Super Balkan and Proper English and grabbing tins of this and that to try.

 

[mso489]

Too many for me. Yet, every one is smoked.

 

[Lyle b]

Only thing I can say is "I love Peterson pipes."

Love my petes

 

[PapeChulo]

Bulldogs

 

[telescopes]

I did it. After realizing I had an unfulfilled bulldog wish- I have three Rhodesians, not realizing that Rhoads are essentially Bulldogs, I’ve got my first Bulldog, a Marlin 6.

 

[saltedplug]

That I am a straight-forward individual strongly inclined to straight and classically straight pipes; that the 90 degree ascension of the bowl from the shank provides by gravity the best engagement of the tobacco to the honest ember's flame; and thus His combusting grace.

 

[edger]

I am frugal. Aesthetics's are important to me. Classical shapes appeal. I am conservative. Graceful lines are important( I have been known to heat and bend , ever so slightly, the plastic stems on cobs because they were "off"). I am anal ( see last sentence). I am vain and have been known to pose in the mirror with a
Pipe in my mouth while my wife rolls her eyes less than discreetly. I think Falcon pipes are cool.

 

[krizzose]

That I’m obviously much more interested in tobacco than pipes