Who Taught You to Smoke a Pipe?

[DeaconPiper]

I'm still looking for a mentor!

 

[multitool]

Muttnchop piper; Eddie Gray-The Pipe Nook; George Bruno-Listen My Son; Scott from Aristocob; as well as all the fine folks here on the forums.

 

[jpmcwjr]

I do! Mr. Trialanderror mostly.

I know that guy! He "guided" me into a few mistakes from which I learned; rest was Dean of Students at my college. May he r.i.p.

 

[lupy1234]

I learned on my own.

 

[jguss]

I had help

 

[MGAOKC]

Well I’m not going to say I learned on my own.
But I did not have a mentor, needed one.
Picked up a little here and there.
Finally got things going my way.
Started a pipe club and have been trying to help newer smokers at our local B&M.

 

[Lucashly]

The owner of a pipe shop in Carmel, CA. sold me a pipe and tobacco and said enjoy. In frustration I quit from some 15 years. Then I found my pipe and went on Youtube. That helped. Then I got on a Forum and then your Forum and after 2 years I now have a good smoke. People who cannot teach or teach well can drive you away.

 

[BenMN]

You people, mostly.

Thanks for that.

 

[rmpeeps]

I’ve mostly been isolated, so I learned on my own.
Interestingly, after laying off pipe smoking for 8 years, everything just meshed better upon resumption.

 

[dublinpiper90]

I read, watched you tube, read some more started out with a knock off sitter remembering getting the bowl extremely over heated with a off-brand vanilla blend and using a old masonry nail as my first tamp. Here it is 10 years later and I still seek advice and ask questions, each blend and pipe has its on way. However I just recently obtained one of my grandads pipes that I remember walking around with when I was around 4 years of age. The taste of the stale tobacco being drawed through it takes me back to days of my childhood and the smell of a wood stove burning. So I guess it really escalated from there for me.

 

[Rex_D]

youtube

 

[PaulRVA]

An old man I used to rabbit hunt with as a teen in the cane fields of south Louisiana. The pipe was a Ben Wade Danish Pride and the tobacco was something english from a B&M
Which I would change up with SWRA or Borkum Riff from time to time.
I love the smell of SWRA and shoutgun shell smoke in the air.
He was an ardent match expert and one was all he would use compared to my half a box. I still have that pipe too.

 

[AJL67]

This long before i ever joined as a member, so many of the old timers here as well as a few off my cigar board like Rev and Mr Moo.

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[Cyxelsid]

I mostly have been figuring it out on my own, with a lot of help here on the forums. I tried YouTube, but have been less than impressed. Of course, I am not someone that spends a lot of time on YouTube.

 

[gkunkel]

Self-taught - with a little help from the internet.

 

[felix Cappuccio]

I was about seventeen when when I started now iam sixty five learned by myself and some help from wally frank who had a store in the Roosevelt field shopping mall on long Island that was a long time ago

 

[El Capitán]

I learned from artofmanliness.com lol. I always enjoyed reading their articles and found that pipe smoking sounded, and was, fun.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

@cosmicfolklore et. al.

 

[<Idsmokedat>]

Myself

I didn't meet another pipe smoker for over a decade after starting and that was long before the internet.

I have still not met one in the wild
All the Pipe Smokers I know are Digital Ghost in the internet.