Your Favorite Pipes?

[RustiePyles CPG]

I’m not talking about your prized 1917 Dunhill Coronation or Castello KKKKKKK Chicco Di Patate. I’m talking about your reliable, faithful, never lets you down, go to pipes. The ones you grab when you’re running out the door, the ones you don’t even have to think about. The pipes that give you a great smoke every time, the pipes you just can’t go wrong with. Your Favorite Pipes…

I have two pipes that I love dearly, they smoke unlike any other pipes. They fit me, they’re comfortable, light, and never let me down. They are nearly identical in size and weight.

The first is my GiGi Liberty 702, Natural Virgin, rusticated, saddle/taper, Canadian. I bought this brand new at Tewksbury & Co in Denver, sadly they have since closed. The rustication is a combination of tool and wire carving. It was originally a natural virgin finish but has since taken on quite a bit of color. The combo saddle/taper is very comfortable and the pipe is very light. It smokes like a champion. After falling in love with this pipe I tried in vain to find others like it but never seen one. I actually find most other GiGi pipes fairly unappealing.

The other is my Paul’s Cayuga, Oil Cured, 4square, with a tapered acrylic bit. I bought this pipe new at Paul’s Pipe Shop in Flint Michigan. 4 Square is one of my favorite shapes and I love craggy blasts. I knew I had to have this pipe the moment I saw it. It originally had a vulcanite saddle bit on it. Fortunately I knocked it off my patio table one day and snapped of the tenon. I was not making stems at that time and sent the pipe off to Mike Myers at Walker Pipe Repair for a new one. I told Mike I’d like an acrylic taper bit for it and he knocked it out of the park. This pipe has always smoked dry as a bone since day one.

If I’m leaving the house with a pipe it’s most likely one or both of these two.

Now let’s see your favorites.

 

[sablebrush52]

In no particular order:
1. Brebbia Avanti that I picked up on eBay for $2. It ain’t pretty but it always delivers.
2. Preben Holm frasorteret- always a flawless smoke, whatever I stuff in it.
3. My big ass French carved 1906 Barling bent billiard. Wide open airway from the chamber through the orific bit. Loves Dunbar and Directors Cut.
4. A beat to shit 1962 Barling apple that George restemmed for me. It always delivers a great smoke.
5. The big ass Jack Howell that I commissioned a couple of years ago.
Plenty of others. I’ve been lucky with pipes over the years, but this is enough.

 

[Seeleybc1]

Not my favorite pipe in my modest collection by a long shot. There’s a few others i own that mean much more to me, smoke better, look better, cost more etc etc.
But my go to, out the door grabbing hastily, throwing in jeans pocket going fishing, or on a hike, bottom of a backpack and so fourth, has been this little Peterson 230 Christmas ‘22. It’s by no means indestructible, but it’s pretty tough, as far as pipes go, and is a nice little size.
I do really like the copper mounts

 

[AcesAndEights]

One of the first pipes I ever purchased was a Vauen Basic. Loved it so much, I got another one about a year later. They’re my favorites right now.

 

[dsturg369]

My favorite smokers are my MM cobs. They smoke well and I seem to reach for them most of the time.

 

[warren]

An old CAO that for no particular reason I most often find in my mouth. Couldn't tell you why as it smokes no better than any of my others.

 

[bullet08]

Really hard to say. All my pipes deliver. But on some days, some just don't like the weather outside and bitches like 80 year old grandma.

 

[ashdigger]

The two pipes I reach for the most.

A late 1800’s Loewe restemmed and restored by Ryan Alden.

And an early 1900’s long Meer. also restemmed by Ryan Alden. If I’m at my desk working, chances are it’s getting smoked.

 

[telescopes]

That's a tough one. Maybe my Peronelli Author with a beaded finish. It just is a good smoke and is light, and fits in the palm of my hand with a great balance.

 

[verporchting]

I’ve been smoking two Doug Finlay pipes and one Mark Tinsky pipe so much lately that my other pipes must be getting jealous. Just everything about them is perfect and I don’t have to think about anything after the initial lighting. Perfect!

 

[crashthegrey]

My very first modern production Kaywoodie, a Super Grain Lovat, and her sister, my very first personal production pipe (vs. Handmade), a Greywoodie Lovat.

 

[Hillcrest]

Erica (Pete 2nd) System XL Hand Made with orific mil stem
Erica System 302 with orific mil stem
Irish Seconds XL339S
Savinelli 2614 KS
Vauen Olaf 4873 bent egg (current workhorse)
Algerian Sitter (Believed to be J.Waille hand cut)

 

[username]

This akb claw meer is the one I smoke 90% of the time.

 

[OzPiper]

A challenging question

This Parker straight grain billiard with saddle stem is the one I’d pack for most trips away. Lightweight and smokes effortlessly


When I was cleaning up my pipes from the 1970s this Georg Jensen bent billiard was the most caked up of them all. Must speak of the number of smokes I’d had in it


I fell in love on first sight with this 1922 GBD bent bulldog. Thank you (ex-member) Klause for passing this on to me


My very favourite shape, a bent, canted egg Stanwell shape 35b designed by Anne Julie


This perfectly (IMO) proportioned Orlik Prince Regent short Lovat


And lastly this stubby 1922 FLC straight billiard


Ask me tomorrow and I’ll have a different set

 

[Seeleybc1]

One of the first pipes I ever purchased was a Vauen Basic. Loved it so much, I got another one about a year later. They’re my favorites right now.

I’ve yet to add a Vauen to my little collection, but have come close to pulling the trigger on one of their churchwardens enough times I ought to just get one already ha

 

[warren99]

I have close to 150 pipes in all virtually all price ranges but my favorite pipe was an inexpensive Stanwell Rook freehand that cost me $69 over 20 years ago. Unfortunately, it recently developed a hole in the side of the bowl—I don't know if it resulted from burn-out or termites—and I was forced to dispose of it. Since the “chess“ series was only made for a limited period of time in the 1990’s, I have yet to find a replacement.

 

[Streeper541]

I've got a rusticated Peterson 107 and a Donegal Rocky Peterson 107 that I smoke probably more than any other pipes I own. Definitely my "go to" pipes.

 

[RobNYC]

These guys never let me down.

Radice Rind G
Radice Rind Bulldog
Ser Jacopo Maxima Rhodesian
Savinelli Punto Oro Gold 111 KS
Savinelli Seta 606 KS
Peterson Cara B10
Peterson Deluxe System B42

 

[jaingorenard]

Since one is sitting next to me right now, I'm going to have to say all my Falcons...

I also have some old Thorburn Clarke pipes that, while not worth anything, smoke incredibly well every time.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

I love my James Barber B-Line pipes:

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