What's the deal with Pokers?
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+1 on David Jones for a Poker shape at a reasonable price.
This one has been a very nice smoker and is with David for a new stem, I dropped it on Halloween night, hopefully it is back shortly.
I'd love a British made Poker shape, Ferndown Pokers look incredible. I'd love to own something like this:
This one has been a very nice smoker and is with David for a new stem, I dropped it on Halloween night, hopefully it is back shortly.
I'd love a British made Poker shape, Ferndown Pokers look incredible. I'd love to own something like this:
npod. that is an awesome looking pipe. Love it! I like the look of pokers, I like how they sit on their own. On the other hand, I'm a clincher and they're most often heavier. And they certainly don't fit well in most pipe racks. If I had one that looks like yours, I'd learn to deal with the shortcomings.
Here is a magnum sized Castello, Fiammata, Aristocratica, poker shape 88. It’s almost impossible to get a true sense of the size of this pipe from a photograph. I tried to place some props around it for comparison. FYI, the inner bowl depth is 2 1/8 inches deep. It’s a massive hunk of briar. So fun. So impractical. I love it.
Pokers, as a shape, don't have any specialty in blends. However, like most pipes, they can be matched up with blends that they favor, pipe by pipe. I have a LaRocca with folksy carved rustication of interlocking loops; I saw it and thought it was too much, went away, and came back two weeks later and bought it. Its specialty is faster burning burley like Tabac-Manil Semois and Five Brothers and many other burley blends, a tall deep bowl on a fairly light weight pipe. The sitter aspect is always handy. I think I have three or four pokers, depending on how you designate the shapes ... the LaRocca, a Parker, a Jerry Perry Mountain Laurel, and maybe one or two more. I'm not a Dunhill guy, but foggy's poker is probably my all-time favorite from the 'hills.
I actually ended up nabbing a Don Warren poker in his Del Rio rusticated finish. It's a really good smoker. Love the fact I can just sit it down go off to do something and comeback to it. I also picked up a Dagner cob and it's pretty good as well.
panamacharlie- those aren't pokers. Just because a pipe sits on its own doesn't make it a poker, that just makes it a sitter. Most of what you posted are freehands/fans with some odd shaping/carving. Pokers typically have a barrell/cylindrical shape to the bowl and the shank usually goes in a bit higher than say a billiard. If the bottom is slanted or on a canted angle that makes it a cherrywood not a poker. And now I'm sure it's clear as mud lol. .
panamacharlie- those aren't pokers. Just because a pipe sits on its own doesn't make it a poker, that just makes it a sitter. Most of what you posted are freehands/fans with some odd shaping/carving. Pokers typically have a barrell/cylindrical shape to the bowl and the shank usually goes in a bit higher than say a billiard. If the bottom is slanted or on a canted angle that makes it a cherrywood not a poker. And now I'm sure it's clear as mud lol. .
I don't know - I've never been a poker fan. They never looked right. Too burley. Too outdoorsy. Too broad. I'm tall and lanky and you don't see Gumby with a poker do ya?
Lord, I know that! I was just making a joke because someone made a point of a poker's ability to stand on its own.
Not a fan of either pokers or free hands. Thank heavens for diversity and lots of choices in our arena of pipe smoking.
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