What Is Your Standard?

[Streeper541]

What is your standard for a pipe? What is your standard for tobacco?
Essentially, what I am asking is... what are your thoughts on what a pipe should look like, or be made of, or how it should be shaped? How should a tobacco look? How should it taste? How should it smell and perform? What is your standard for a pipe by which all others are measured? What is your quintessential blend?

Edited. No links to outside blogs allowed.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don't think that much into them, I just smoke them.

 

[futureman]

I try to exhibit the same qualities I expect to find in a pipe or a tobacco. It's often a challenge, but it's important not to be hypocritical.

 

[kurtbob]

Both pipes and tobacco is the same, I just have to like it. Got everything from cobs, clays, briars and meers. As for tobacco, I’m on a mission to try all of them (yes, impossible). My cellar has everything from GH&Co ropes to Granger. Hell, right now enjoying some Smokers Pride Rich Taste in a cob?‍

 

[Searock Fan]

I'm kind of like Churchill, I'm always satisfied with the very best.

 

[solideogloria86]

Briar Pipe

Length -4.5-5.5"

Chamber depth- 1.25-1.5"

Chamber diameter-0.70-0.75

Stem material-Vulcanite/Cumberland

Cobs

Yes

Tobacco

Very little to no latakia

If there's burley, enough to add flavor, not enough that it adds a dry tanic quality to the blend.

If it's an aromatic, I still want to taste tobacco.

 

[ashdigger]

I’m extremely picky when it comes to pipes.

I demand two holes or if you want to get nit-picky one continuous hole with size differences.

The rest is up to the eye.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

No such thing as quintessential for me. I like variety.

 

[The Clay King]

Got to be a clay pipe for me

 

[warren]

I just smoke 'em. I they gice me a good smoking experience, I keep 'em. I only care how a blend tastes. No thought to tin note or appearance. I don't read "blogs." I'm not particularly interested in making in complicating a relatively simply operation, stuff, burn and enjoy..

 

[monty55]

Well, pretty much the same as a woman. Like a woman, the pipe has to look good and feel good in my hands. Like a woman the tobacco has to smell good and taste good. Other than that, I ain't too picky

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Needs to stay lit with minimal effort.

 

[daveinlax]

Billiard/Balkan.

 

[clynch]

I like good looking variety but the draw MUST be good. Bad draw, adios.

 

[sablebrush52]

I have to be careful about how I answer this, as a world renowned expert and authority on certain pipes and tobaccos. I wouldn't want to damage my sterling reputation. So, in all seriousness, here goes.

A pipe must have bowl, a shank, and a stem, or it must have a bowl and a stem of sufficient length that the lack of a shank isn't an issue. The pipe could even be a uni-piece such as a clay, and still be a pipe.

The bowl should be hollowed out and there should be an exiting airway that travels the length of the shank (if there is one) and (and stem (if there is one) ending in an opening at the other end of the airway.

Tobacco should be made from tobacco, preferably aged, flavored, and delivered in some form that allows it to be inserted into the chamber.

That's about all there is to it.

 

[mso489]

Churchill was a vastly well-read reader. On this score, he was paraphrasing Oscar Wilde. "My tastes a simple. I like only the finest." That quote is from memory, but it will do.

 

[Donb1972]

I don't really have any standard for pipes or tobaccos. I just have to like the way a pipe looks, and the way a tobacco tastes. I have some preferences for pipes: I like a larger pipe because I have large hands and long fingers(but I have smaller pipes). I like clays, but I prefer pressed clay. I prefer morta over briar. But none of these are requirements.

Tobacco...just as long as it doesn't taste like stale cigarette tobacco, I'll give it at least one chance to wow me ?

 

[pappymac]

I admit it.

I have no standard for pipes and/or pipe tobacco.

Wait! I was wrong! The pipe has to be smokeable.

 

[autumnfog]

Pipes.
Briar, straight, open draw, rusticated or blasted.
Medium-small. No ornate embellishments.

Now tobacco.. still on a journey.

 

[kcghost]

Never thought about it.