Who Makes Your Favorite Stems?

[hauntedmyst]

Dunhill and believe it or not, Davidoff has very comfortable stems.

 

[cigrmaster]

I picked up a Ryan Alden recently and couldn't be more pleased. The stem is cumberland, ideal width, and just sits in the mouth without making it's presence known. I do plan to work with Ryan again.

Jose Rubio makes beautiful pipes and is also on my short list. However, since he does not typically take specific orders I am stuck monitoring his inventory for something specific. Did you work directly with Jose or a third-party?

Your mention of Scottie Piersel is at least the third, I will look into her work some more as well.

I bought my Rubio from Max at pipes2smoke. I also keep my eye open for other Rubio's. My Scottie is a group 4-5 Billiard and is not one of her pencil shank pipes. I am not a fan of those. Max also sells Scottie pipes.

 

[grumpyoltroll]

I only have a hand full of pipes, none are factory though, and out of all of them I would have say Ian Walker of Northern Briars is the best.