Which Do You Pick First? Pipe or Tobacco?

[ugh457]

LOL...easy for me...just starting with one pipe and one tobacco.

Tho I am curious about bowl shapes/sizes matching to a particular tobacco blend.

 

[captainbob]

Since I smoke all three of my blends every day and have dedicated several pipes to each blend, I decide based on which tobacco I want and then select a dedicated pipe. So, I do both! First, the tobacco, and then the dedicated pipe of several choices.

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[eazye77]

I'm with you bigboi. Depends on what my taste buds are saying that day.

 

[joshwolftree]

since my pipes are dedicated only to blend types on the broader scale, it usually plays out as, "what type of tobacco do I want" (IE: sweeter aro, calm VA/VAPER, English) then select a pipe based on that then decide which baccy specifically I want. The only exception is with Peterson Irish Oak, when I want that I have but one pipe I smoke it in and thats the only thing I smoke in that pipe.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

For me it depends on the day. Some days I want to smoke a particular pipe and I'll match a tobacco with it. Other days I want to smoke a particular tobacco so then I'll match the pipe to it. It just varies for me.

 

[brassonly]

I seem to always go with what tobacco I am wanting to smoke at that time & then just pick what pipe best fits that particular blend . Always been doing it this way cause I find myself first desiring a certain tobacco blend so second comes which pipe I will use to smoke it.

 

[jp12]

I generally open my day with a bowl of early morning pipe, but after that, it all depends on my mood as to whether I pick the pipe or the tobacco first. I've never settled on a specific order.

 

[vabriar]

50/50 for me, but usually I have an idea of both when I want a smoke.

 

[foggymountain]

Go both ways on this.

 

[john218]

Sometimes the pipe, sometimes the tobacco.
I've accumulated enough pipes that there's plenty to choose from with either approach.

 

[mso489]

I'd say sixty percent of the time, I start with the pipe and match the tobacco to it. But if I have an

hankering for a particular tobacco, I'll match it to the pipe. Now and then, I'll start out with the pipe,

but when I choose the tobacco, I'll choose a different pipe. That's as indecisive as I get, and I don't do

it often. I'm not sensitive to ghosting, although I will occasionally choose particular pipes for setting

off an aromatic or an English blend particularly well. But I rarely if every think, I can't do that tobacco

in this pipe. I just do it, and hope for the best. Seems like my English blends can master any residual

aromatic I smoke.

 

[batdemon]

Probably tobacco first around 80% of the time

 

[rthbaum]

I find that most of the time I pick the tobacco and then pair it with a pipe. Lately since I have got my NASPC S. E. Thile pipe I am looking to smoke it whenever I can since it is such a great smoker.

 

[morton]

90% of the time, I'll pick the tobacco and then decide what pipe that I'm going to smoke it in but every once in a while, I'll choose a neglected but loved pipe and try to match it with something that I think will smoke well in it.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Mine differs greatly. Sometimes there's a blend I really want to have when I wake up and sometimes there's a pipe that I really want to smoke when I wake up. Lately I've been trying to cut down on my open tins and ziplock bag samples so I've pretty much been sticking to one blend until I finish it.

 

[uberam3rica]

It varies for me. Sometimes I pick a pipe first, sometimes tobacco.

 

[cajunguy]

What Uber said.
Most of the time I pick the tobacco first, but there are occasions when I really want to smoke a certain pipe, in which case, I choose tobaccos that smoke very well in it.