Originally I had something called a "Spitfire II", a full-bent type of thing, which was a pretty bad pipe. Plus, I didn't know what I was doing, which didn't help, either. That pipe got thrown out eventually. =D
What is the Worst Pipe You've Owned?
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Yep. Hasn't rooted enough to wire yet, still has juvenile foliage, but the branch placement is perfect.
I just remembered a worse pipe than my George Jensen. It was a bent Peterson with a P-lip. I tried smoking it once and it was awful. I hated the smoke going to the roof of my mouth, and the pipe gurgled from the get go. I gave the pipe away to a friend who is not a pipe smoker. I told him it was a shit pipe but he wanted it anyway just to mess around with.
A dipstained Peterson Spigot that was drilled by a monkey with a bad eye. I sent the ugly thing back with instructions for Tom Palmer to smoke it. Or use it for a door wedge.
Not doing for the intent of bumping, just was noodling around & caught Mike's thread.
Memory must be kind, or else it's just been so long I don't remember how *really* bad it was. It'd have to have been my first, that damnable old varnished Medico Dublin from back in the 60s. OK, yeah, I was still learning cadence & proper technique, true, but that POJ would have *had* to have been the worst, since it was so cheap, so cheaply *made*, drew poorly, burned like a furnace (again, operator malfunction surely played a part) & was frankly probably THE worst possible pipe choice I could ever have made to try to start smoking with. Kudos to Jack Kirk of Smoker's World in Tallahassee (now both sadly defunct
) for getting me off the right track & *onto* the right one.
Memory must be kind, or else it's just been so long I don't remember how *really* bad it was. It'd have to have been my first, that damnable old varnished Medico Dublin from back in the 60s. OK, yeah, I was still learning cadence & proper technique, true, but that POJ would have *had* to have been the worst, since it was so cheap, so cheaply *made*, drew poorly, burned like a furnace (again, operator malfunction surely played a part) & was frankly probably THE worst possible pipe choice I could ever have made to try to start smoking with. Kudos to Jack Kirk of Smoker's World in Tallahassee (now both sadly defunct
) for getting me off the right track & *onto* the right one.
I've returned both of the Rossi pipes I've bought. One was drilled by a drunk Italian right as a goal was scored during a World Cup match. Not only was it way off center, the draft hole entered the bowl at a sideways angle.
The second looked fine until I smoked it, at which point it popped two fills and the finish started to bubble. It didn't smoke half bad, though. If they'd rusticated it, it probably would have been fine.
I don't plan on buying any more Rossis.
The second looked fine until I smoked it, at which point it popped two fills and the finish started to bubble. It didn't smoke half bad, though. If they'd rusticated it, it probably would have been fine.
I don't plan on buying any more Rossis.
An estate Peterson Kildare 106. Damn thing always gurgled and always left sizeable dottle. Being of Irish ancestry I tried to like it and it looked nice enough. Utter crap to smoke though. That one got tossed in the sea from a boat. I hope it sank to the bottom and will never be seen by man again. Perhaps it's made a better home for a hermit crab than it did a smoker.
>>" drilled by a drunk Italian right as a goal was scored during a World Cup match" -- Props to you, spartan, for the best description of junk I've seen in a while.
The closest I have to a stinker is a Peterson B42 System pipe. It smokes fine, other than, it likes to gurgle. I think it's the angle of the stem in the mortis. Moisture collects on the end of the stem, like a System pipe should, but since the stem angle is so shallow (compared to other bent system pipes), the moisture sits there, rather than dropping in the moisture well. All I need to do is tap the pipe gently on my hand and it knocks the droplet off and stops the gurgle, but it would be nice if it didn't do that. Other than that the pipe smokes nicely.
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