When Peterson's Is On Their Game, You Get This

[mikefu]

I have a couple that are pretty good lookers:

 

[elasmo]

You can have my Sherlock Holmes Baker Street...if you can pry it from my cold dead hands.

 

[prndl]

Imo, their spigots are second to none.

 

[JPremo]

Because my fussiness and perfectionism wouldn't seem a match with Peterson's reputation for meh quality control in recent years, some people are surprised when I say that my favorite rack of pipes are Petes.

I just got my first Peterson a few weeks ago and I have a love/hate relationship with it. It took a few tries to get the pipe shape I wanted without any flaws on it, which was a bit annoying, but the good folks at SP took care of everything.

I love the design, the size, the shape, the fact that it's a piece of piping history. But dealing with a system pipe comes with the obvious drawbacks of having to keep it upright or risk tobacco juice getting all over, which is annoying since I don't have a one pipe stand to put it down on in the midst of smoking or for cleanup.

But when all's said and done I have to say it's a fantastic smoker no matter what tobacco I've thrown at it. The system really does make a difference in smoking between my regular straight pipes or my other 9mm and 6mm filter pipes.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

But dealing with a system pipe comes with the obvious drawbacks of having to keep it upright or risk tobacco juice getting all over, which is annoying since I don't have a one pipe stand to put it down on in the midst of smoking or for cleanup.

Just pull the stem and dump the moisture if it accumulates that much.

 

[kcghost]

That bulldog is akin to the loveliest thing I have ever seen.

 

[unadoptedlamp]

I had a nice looking bulldog spigot with amber stem. I bought into the history of the brand. The pipe was well made and looked fine, but in the end, I didn't like the p-lip (it had an extra p-lip acrylic stem for preserving the amber stem) and the amber stem was gimmicky to me.

And it worked! I bought into that for reasons that I still don't understand. Marketing is a real bitch sometimes.

That's when I tried my hand at selling a pipe. My disastrous ad-copy of offering a nice, "juicy" pipe taught me I should stick with what I do best. Which is not selling things. Or marketing.

I'm not sure I would buy another one. They have historical value, I guess, but with so many pipes on the market, it's not really that interesting to me anymore. I scratched that itch and it went away, thankfully.

No offense to Pete's though. Some of them look amazing and some of those are probably good smokers. But I wouldn't buy one just because the company has been around for so long. It's almost like buying a new pipe with an old amber stem slapped on to it for "historical" reasons, though maybe not as bad.