What's Your Dream Pipe?

[captainsousie]

My Comoy has the original stem and another stem made from lucite with the 3-piece inlay no less. You could do that for a Dunhill through Walker Briar Works and have exactly what you want plus the original stem so it won't lose value.

 

[keith929]

I can think of only one dream pipe for me. A Sixten Ivarsson. Any Sixten Ivarsson.

 

[rlunderhill]

Boswell Jumbo or Jumbo X is next. :clap:

 

[ssjones]

A Sasieni 4 Dot Ashford Author would also be on my top 5 Dream Team of Briar.

 

[ssjones]

My Comoy has the original stem and another stem made from lucite with the 3-piece inlay no less.

Your acrylic bit for the 499 has a 3 piece "C"? Wow, who did that work? I'd love to see a close-up shot of that. I had only heard of one person who did a modern 3 pc C logo, a artisan maker for Neill Archer Roan. That is very difficult to execute!

 

[durham270]

I'm fairly old school and prefer 'classic' in my pipe design choices so out of the pipes I've seen my favorite is the Davidoff No. 405 Half Bent. This pipe will be mine the day I win the lottery! HaHa
http://pipesandcigars.com/dano405habe.html#.UTNIUle86Vo

 

[cajunguy]

This one is currently tops on my radar:

 

[surlysoul]

have very simple tastes in a pipe....I'm perfectly happy with a straight apple or billiard, or a 1/2 bent dublin or egg, finish is unimportant. My "dream pipe" is simply any pipe that smokes cool and dry, isn't too heavy to hold in my teeth, with a comfy bite that doesn't make me feel like I'm holding a broom handle between my teeth. As it happens, I have many pipes that fit this description, having kept my favorites over the years and sold or given the rest way. So I guess you could say I'm living the dream every time I light up.

I am pretty much in the same boat. My thing seems to be inexpensive pipes that smoke well and my favorite pipe is a Tsuge Bulldog that I bought from smokingpipes.com for $50. However, I really like the looks of every Mark Tinsky I have seen, but I haven't read any reviews or held one.

 

[dochudson]

 

[kashmir]

Last year I found my dream pipe(s). A case of six unsmoked Comoy Blue Ribands. From Germany. A cool two grand. Sold an old car to make it happen.

And yes, before you ask, I buy pipes to smoke.

 

[pitchfork]

Al,
I believe Jim Cooke used to make them. I'm guessing he's not in the stem business anymore, but I don't actually know for sure.

 

[pitchfork]

Holy cow! Those are beautiful pipes, Kashmir. Not a bad price, either. Who needs another pipe with a set like that? (I know, I know...)

 

[kashmir]

Thanks Pitch! Yeah, that was my last pipe purchase. For good I think. Focus on leaf acquisition and cellar development now.

 

[appointed]

I have actually seen pipes and have had lucid dreams about them until I bought I bought it. I don't really have anything big that I have been drooling over, but there are two things I want: something I plan on having made whenever I get the money and one just a particular shape that I want. I really want a full bent oompaul. The shape is just appealing to me, but I've not had any money to put into pipes lately, so maybe for my birthday or next Christmas I might get one. The other pipe I want is a bit more sentimental. I had to put my dog down a few months ago. He was old beyond his time, but he was a faithful and loyal friend if ever be one. I loved that dog dearly and he helped get me through some very tough times. I reckoned that a meerschaum pipe shaped into his head would be mighty neat. I ain't got the money right now, but I was hoping at some point in the future maybe I could send in a few photos to Storient or some other carver and have it done. It wouldn't have to be an exact representation. Just the general image of a German Shepherd's head. It would be something really nice to have. I hope one day that I will be able to get one.

 

[captainsousie]

@ Al. Sorry, I just got back to this thread. I recently got the 499 from Marty Pulver so I don't know who did the stem but it is really comfortable and well executed. Here's a couple crappy pics. My camera sucks. First is the Comoy's with its extra stem (and a Barling that I got about the same time).

Next, here's the stems. The original is on the left and the "smoking stem" is on the right (sorry about the schmutz on the tenon, I didn't finish the post-smoke clean when I took the pic). It's just a hair longer than the original, the button is cut differently and it doesn't have the metal insert but the C is inlaid.

These 2 are pretty much my best pipes and dream pipes for me as well.

 

[tbradsim1]

Found it a 1943 ODA Root Briar Dunhill my birth year, will show pics when I get it The old cajun

 

[robdlouisville]

Mine would be a Peterson Lip Peterson system bent apple or calabash or rocky.

 

[ssjones]

CaptS - wow, that is incredible stem work. That was a pricey replacement stem, you were fortunate to get that! The only one I've ever heard of was done by Adam Davidson for Neill Archer Roan:

http://www.apassionforpipes.com/neills-blog/2011/10/22/recreating-comoys-3-part-c.html

 

[erichbaumer]

If I narrow it down to two, it's currently the bent system pipe from the Peterson Mark Twain set and a straight billiard Ashton Pebble Grain, which I may try to find a birthyear for (sure it's a Dunhill thing, but I think it'd be cool and I'm young enough that it works-plus that would mean a pipe made by Taylor). Neither will be in my price range til after college. For now though, I'm thinking a Stanwell billiard would be a close second...

 

[fishnbanjo]

A bamboo shank billiard by Sixten Ivarsson