What Was your First Pipe?

[D.T.]

Clynch
You should try a Savinelli 673 with some Edward G robertson. I love my 673s . The slight plum flavor is great. Just a suggestion.
Deety

 

[leonardbill1]

GBD New Standard 329 bent apple in 1975, my freshman year in college. Because, as my new friend in the dorm informed me, a pipe was a required accessory.

 

[D.T.]

Ahhh i remember the 70s fondly. My son was born in 75.
Deety

 

[clynch]

Clynch
You should try a Savinelli 673 with some Edward G robertson. I love my 673s . The slight plum flavor is great. Just a suggestion.
Deety

I am liking the look of that 673 and EGR is on my list. Everytime I read this forum I want something else! That 673 does look nice.

 

[D.T.]

Every since i got that first f&t bulldog. It and the rodision (witch i spelled very badly.) Are my go to pipes. A gentleman (john Harding) matches 860 no longer with us. Got me on the 673 and I'm hooked
Deety

 

[shane1]

My first pipe was a drug store briar pipe with meerschaum lining. Tongue bite and no internet had me walk away for a few years.

 

[D.T.]

My first pipe i dont remember what it was. It took a swim in the lake. Just as far as i could throw it. It blistered my toung gave me a sore throat and wouldn't stay light. I still thought pipes were beautiful. A few weeks later i was in London. Went in a brick and mortar shop just to look. Talking with the owner he told what was doing wrong . sold me a pipe that he would buy back if i had a problem. 6 weeks later i was back and bought another. So the first pipes that i actually smoked were both F&T pipes

Deety

 

[pepesdad1]

1961...a Comoy Golden Grain Canadian...still smoking that sucker, too.

 

[dunnyboy]

I don't know what my first pipe was over fifty years ago (probably a basket pipe) but my second pipe I know was a rusticated Brigham quarter-bent bulldog.

 

[Sir Yak]

Bought my first pipe in 2003 at the General Store at Silver Dollar City in Branson, MO. They had about 3 pipes in the shop. They were prob the last ones they ever sold bc tobacco products were fast disappearing from places like that back then. It was a miserable little pipe..I think it was shorter than 3 inches, badly stained and just said czech briar on it. Hard to believe I didn’t give up after trying Capt Black in that thing for a while.

 

[Hovannes]

The very first was a cob when I was six because Tom Sawyer was a popular movie so all the cool kids had cobs. The next was in High School, a Mastercraft Zulu from the drugstore, Burned my tongue to a crisp on Cavendish aromatics (Sail Green?) and tossed it.
In college I had pipe smoking Profs to learn from(many of them still smoked tobacco then), and the Tinderbox at the Mall and Benederet's in San Francisco. My Briars were up graded---a pair of British made factory second Bulldogs one smooth and straight, the other a rustic 1/4 bent which the sales clerk at Benederet's took a pair of pliers to extracted a stinger commenting that a young man like yourself has no need of these diabolical things.
Happy times!
The best advice I got was to slow down, try bulk blends, frequent a real tobacconist and ask lots of questions

 

[tfdickson]

Here’s mine, Barontini Gran Duc bought used in 1994.

 

[PiedmontPipe]

I bought an Italian bent apple ”basket pipe” for a $25, which I thought to be a lot of money being in college in 1991. Unfortunately, I lost it in a move. Despite preferring the looks of shiny Canadians and the more sleek billiards, I still find that and similar shapes to be most comfortable: dress pants vs old jeans.

 

[Kobold]

Mine was a corn cob pipe that a friend and I bought at a cvs in the mall. I remember we bought a huge bag of cherry tobacco with it. My dad taught us how to pack and smoke. He smoked cigarettes but loved the smell of pipe tobacco so he wasn’t upset his high school aged son was smoking a pipe.

 

[briarbuck]

A pipe from Split Beard that I bought at the Party Source on Newport Ky

 

[D.T.]

Going through my discarded pipe box. Seeing what i could salvage. I came up with a question for the pipe experts. Whats the difference between a custom and a artisan pipe

 

[SBC]

My first pipe purchase was for a lot of 14 estates, at an antique store.
There were a couple Ascortis, a couple Savs, a couple Petersons, a Comoys, etc.

When money was tight, a couple years later, I sold most of them off. The last few were later given away to friends. I don't have any left from that original batch (which I somewhat regret).

 

[loneredtree]

It was in 1962 that I bought a Camoy Everyman 315 and a box of Rum and Maple at a Tobacco shop in down town Oakland, California. The R&M got tossed because of tounge bite. Some one pocketed the pipe arround 1964. Sure do miss it.

 

[Alejo R.]

When I was 20 years old I went into a tobacco shop and bought the cheapest pipe and tobacco.

I got a huge piece of briar for $15.

I still have it

 

[OldWill]

In 1968, I bought a Champion (Swiss made) from a cigar store for $10. I still occasionally smoke it since it is a well balanced sand blast billiard with a saddle stem. No longer a favorite, but still smokes well!