A few no-name sentimental Italian briars from my dad and grandfather, but the first new pipe I purchased many years ago was a Rossi 8670, which I still have and smokes great
What Was your First Pipe?
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It was almost 60 years back. I can't remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I do remember, correctly I think, I purchased it from the Woolworth's in Fairbanks. !965? Possibly.
It would have been @40 years ago in the very early '70s when I was a cash-strapped undergraduate. I'm not 100% sure, but it was probably this small Albertson sand-blasted 1/4 bent nose-warmer (top pipe in this photo), which I still have.
Its small size makes it ideal for carrying on trips and gives a 30min smoke
Its small size makes it ideal for carrying on trips and gives a 30min smoke
A Dr. Grabow Duke. Bought as a birthday present by my best friend in 1972 at the local grocery store.
I still have it.
I still have it.
A lot of you guys started out well with nice pipes. I think that's great. You must have gotten decent advice. I started with one of those Italian "Real Briar" pipes. It was a bad pipe.
Only bought my first pipe last year and went with a Rattrays ‘Angles Share’.
Over a decade ago I bought the MM General. Looking back at it, it was a terrible first pipe and my knowledge in tobacco was poor to nonexistent. I exclusively smoked Black Vanilla Cavendish and it was impossible to keep lit. Gurgled, bit me, and tasted like hot air (my fault not the pipe).
When I was 13 or 14 we used to bore a 3/4 hole in a round piece of wood and use a bic pen outer as a stem much like the cob pipe as used by huckleberry finn as it was popular back then
Very nice! Were you a kid or an adult at the time? Do you still have this cob?
Just a child. He had lots of a tools and a lathe. We made all sorts of little wooden items. Not sure why we made the pipe, but we had feed corn on the cob for the horses and plently of cane down on the river banks. That pipe is long gone, but still retain the fond memories.
Mid 70's for me, as best I can remember a Tinder Box basket pipe, maybe meer lined. The tobacco I clearly remember as the first was Nightlighter a Tinder Box house blend.
Papaw had all sorts of wood working tools and a lathe. Since they always planted Hickory King corn variety, those cobs could have been 10" long more of less. Beaning corn for feed, the cobs would have already been drying for several months.
We would sand off the part that held the kernels and drill the cob probably using the drill press. The cane is hollow, so you could run a coat hanger wire to clean out, bore a hole in the bottom of the cob and insert. I remember trying to smoke leavea...LOL!!
My first was a MM cob a few decades ago. Gave it up when I entered boot camp since we were not allowed to smoke there. Only got back into pipes recently. Got a lot of 4 pipes from ebay to get started again.
First ever pipe was a cob 3 years ago (I think) along with a selection of Gawith Hoggarth tobaccos.
It got a lot of use and ultimately the core dropped out?( it’s wasn’t the one with the hardwood plug )
It got a lot of use and ultimately the core dropped out?( it’s wasn’t the one with the hardwood plug )
BriarWorks Dublin. Didn't smoke it. Saved to learn smoking first and never got around to it. First one I smoked was Morgan Bones stubby something.
Kaywoodie Fine Line Nurse at Norfolk Naval Hospital,bought t for me at the Geedunk, smoked at night n janitors closet whike he smoked cigarettes.
First pipe was a no named prince shaped second..got a selection of tobaccos Including Peterson's University Flake and Bag Piper's Dream..didn't have a clue what to do or how to prepare the tobacco..took the university flake which was very wet..shoved it in the pipe as hard as I could and lit her up...truth to be told it was a horrible first experience but with time and dedication it got much more pleasant..molding me into the pipe tobacco hobbyist I am today.
That’s a awesome pipe
I purchased my first pipe in 1980 which was a Dr. Grabow Billiard. I still have it somewhere, but don't smoke it anymore. The tobacco I got that day was Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey, which went into the trash can soon afterwards.