What Defines a "Beautiful" Pipe To You?

[CAlabama]

1. How it delivers the flavors that I seek from my favorite blends.
2. How if feels in the hand.
3. How it clenches if needed.
4. No big deal if lost or broken.
5. Rhymes with Bob.

 

[canucklehead]

And increasing with every sip, eh?

I find it progresses in three beer increments. I've done a fair bit of research in this specific field this year.

 

[ashdigger]

This

 

[jaytex1969]

I seem to like plain and simple things.

With pipes, vehicles, rifles, the ones that others call "ugly" or "dated" seem to call to me. Maybe it's "born too late" syndrome.

With women, I am more "Mary Ann" than "Ginger". (Google it, youngsters ? )

In regards to mates, a wise person once explained to me, "No matter how cute they are, someone, somewhere is sick of their shit!" ?

 

[OzPiper]

I seem to like plain and simple things.

With pipes, vehicles, rifles, the ones that others call "ugly" or "dated" seem to call to me. Maybe it's "born too late" syndrome.

With women, I am more "Mary Ann" than "Ginger". (Google it, youngsters ? )

In regards to mates, a wise person once explained to me, "No matter how cute they are, someone, somewhere is sick of their shit!" ?


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With you re: Mary Ann vs Ginger (for those of us born in the right decade

 

[anotherbob]

I seem to like plain and simple things.

With pipes, vehicles, rifles, the ones that others call "ugly" or "dated" seem to call to me. Maybe it's "born too late" syndrome.

With women, I am more "Mary Ann" than "Ginger". (Google it, youngsters ? )

In regards to mates, a wise person once explained to me, "No matter how cute they are, someone, somewhere is sick of their shit!" ?


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personally I was more into both of them.

 

[bullet08]

It has to be Peterson. Bulldogs or Rhodesians. Good grain, gentle flow of line. Doesn't have to enhanced my face while clenching, but that gets extra point.

 

[Lawyer66]

Aesthetically, I like nice grain as much as anyone else. However, I do like a pipe that has a nicely contrasted stem. For me, it's like getting dressed in different colors that "just work" together.

Outside of that, I do like pipes with rustication as well, partial or full.

Still, beauty is quite subjective and the aforementioned is a small excerpt of a larger set of preferences that are narrowed by the individual piece I am looking at.

 

[mikethompson]

Lots of good answers and pretty much what I thought.

A beautiful pipe and an ugly pipe are two things I know when i see them!

 

[philairfoil]

Beauty is in the hands of the holder...or something like that

 

[Pit&Pipes]

This

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@ashdigger...How long did it take to get that coloring? Beautiful!!!

 

[ashdigger]

@ashdigger...How long did it take to get that coloring? Beautiful!!!

I purchased it that way, but based on how it colored some of it came with the pipe. Pre-coloring pipes was big at the turn of the century (1900’s). Here’s an example of an Orlik Goudron

 

[Pit&Pipes]

I purchased it that way, but based on how it colored some of it came with the pipe. Pre-coloring pipes was big at the turn of the century (1900’s). Here’s an example of an Orlik Goudron

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Thank you... You would have been puffin’ a ton o’ bowls to get that color

 

[JOHN72]

I'm very conservative and traditional.My favorite are................... Bent Dublin and Calabash Rusticated and Sandblasted..............Now I can only enjoy ears of corn..........Next year,I'II buy some heather..........If the aconomy allows me

 

[olkofri]

I've traditionalist tastes myself. Don't see myself ever buying pipes from Werner Mummert.

 

[JOHN72]

I'm very conservative and traditional.My favorite are................... Bent Dublin and Calabash Rusticated and Sandblasted..............Now I can only enjoy ears of corn..........Next year,I'II buy some heather..........If the aconomy allows me

.If the economy allows me

 

[JOHN72]

[QUOTE = "olkofri, publicación: 36259874, miembro: 17250"]
Yo mismo tengo gustos tradicionalistas. No me veo comprando pipas de Werner Mummert.
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[Pallidan]