What's Your Favorite Way to Transport Pipes?

[Anchorage Bowl]

Hello Everyone,

Last night I went to Alaska Pipe Club for the first time and my experience got me thinking:

What's the best way to transport your pipes, tobacco, and accessories?

I saw everything from Pelican pluck foam cases, leather pouches, Maxpedition pouches, to carrying stuff in a pocket. What's your favorite way to transport?

Thanks!

Gary

 

[verporchting]

I found a Japanese school kids’ pencil case that works great. It’s compact, easily holds two pipes and a pouch of tobacco in the main compartment, and lighter/matches, tamper and cleaners in the small zippered side area. Cost a few bucks and works fine. Easy access and padded enough for protection but easy to stuff into a satchel or even a coat pocket.

 

[warren]

Pockets, corner of a gear bag, car door pockets and the console.

 

[kcghost]

I just haul everything in a normal leather bag. No big deal.

 

[LotusEater]

 

[bullet08]

I travel at most 20' to my front porch. By my left hand along with MP3 player, pipe stand, and pipe cleaners.

 

[Coreios]

Pocket.

 

[Waning Embers]

Shirt pocket.

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I'm a big fan of this Scotte case. For $30, you get a 2 pipe case, tobacco pouch, redwood tool, reamer and other things (along with a pear wood pipe that looks similar to a Savinelli 606 KS - decent smoker for what it is).

The case and accessories are worth the price of admission alone. I keep it in my car with some pouches in the console.

Amazon.com

 

[lukifer]

I bought a wooden box from Hobby Lobby. (middle one cost ~$15)

It is big enough to hold several pipes, 2-3 tins, a small jar or 2, pipe cleaners, a small pan to use for packing/drying and all the other things I need. It's a bit big(10x14x6) but I keep it on the passengers seat of whichever car I am driving and just close it up and move it when need be. I do 99% of my smoking in a car as MN is cold and apartment is non-smoking. I just have to remember to grab whatever I want to smoke that day before I leave the house. Does NOT fit in a pocket though...

 

[didimauw]

In another thread I've discovered my maxpedition will be for longer trips.

But my favorite has been a cheap PU leather pipe tobacco combo pouch. It's lasted me 8 to ten years now of hard use. I have a nice leather combo pouch, but the tobacco area is separating and tobacco gets all over my pipes. So when my cheap one finally goes, I'll probably buy another.

Took me forever to find one, but this is my daily pouch.

This one

 

[sablebrush52]

 

[scloyd]

I usually smoke at home, but when I bring a pipe and tobacco with us in the camper I just carry it out and put it in a cabinet or a drawer. No special bags or totes.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Leather pipe bags work for me.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I’ve been known to wrap a pipe in a paper towel, put it in a tall Starbucks travel coffee cup, screw the top on and toss it in the suitcase.

 

[ashdigger]

I have a variety of pipe bags that hold 1 or up to 8 pipes.

If I’m out for the evening it’s a two pipe pouch with an integrated tobacco pouch.

If it’s a road trip it’s a four pipe pouch with a separate two compartment tobacco pouch.

I have one made out of sailcloth I’ll post to this thread after hockey tonight. I love if for an extended trip.

 

[ssjones]

Over the past decade, I've traveled quite a bit with pipes, by air and car. I've evolved thru multiple soltions.

I have a small Ehrlich carrier, but its very limited. And doesn't offer much protection.




I have a SmokinHolsters Necessities bag (4-6 pipes), good for pipe club events, but not much else (not much real protection, useless for air travel.




I used a foam, hard-shell case for a long time, for primarily air travel.

 

[ssjones]

I switched to a big air back pack for carry on and didn't feel the foam case was up to the knocks of overhead or underseat storage. So, I bought a $12 plastic hard case (similar to a pistol case) it's slimmer than the foam case and offers the ultimate in protection. It's only good for 4-5 smaller pipes, but those are all that i use on vacation, etc.

 

[Streeper541]

I've got several, but if I'm carrying several jars of tobacco along with several pipes, my favorite is an Igloo lunch box. It'll hold several mason jars & tins in the bottom and half a dozen pipes up top. Plus room for lighters, matches, pipe cleaners & tampers on the side.

 

[mso489]

For a pipe club or any gathering with pipe smokers (a show, a pipe shop), it is time to put on the dog. So if you have fancy leather cases (I have one) now is your time to show off to the fair-the-well. However, for travel, when you walk the gauntlet of kleptomaniacs, I always like a nylon shaving bag from Walmart that holds everything and only tempts the thieves to steal my toothbrush and deodorant. It holds about three or four pipes, three or four baggies of tobacco of different blends, and accessories like pipe tools, lighters or matches, and pipe cleaners.

A fancy pipe case can also be confused as a pistol case, in which case it will draw in thieves from distant places. They'll book flights just to get a pass at that.

My only luggage search at an airport resulted from a harmonica that looked on the x-ray like a pistol clip.