Your Favorite Pipes?
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I've only been smoking a bit over a year and so I don't really think I have a favorite yet. I do find that my best smokers are all estates. I definitely think that has to do with me not adequately breaking in my pipes.
Yep, estates can be a great head start on a great smoke. If they have been cared for properly and cleaned regularly.
I have not smoked clays since the mid 1980s due to pipe notches and discovering how much better meerschaum pipes are for your teeth.
Ah I didn’t realize all those pipes were meers and not clays.
As far as never let me down , a Bings Favorite that I picked at a B&M in North Idaho for some reason it just smokes sweet and easy every time like magic.
A Republic era Peterson 309 System Pipe. It’s treated me well all over the world. She’s easy to carry in a jacket or shirt pocket, cakes well and smokes anything very nicely.
It's this little Foundation by Musico, hands down. I have actually narrowed down my collection extensively, to the point that it only consists of pipes I love, but this one is loved the most. It just ticks all the boxes and does everything it's supposed to do, to a T.
Also if anyone has a KKKKKKK Chicco Di Patate I’d love to see that potatoeye grain.
I would choose one of my cobs first as they always seem to provide a good smoke. Next I would grab one of my Boswells.
@The Amish Tyrant No real rest period with clay pipes; just let the pipe cool down before smoking it next time. My best smoking time was 54 minutes with a clay pipe of St Bruno Ready Rubbed.
@condorlover1 I won't get pipe notches as I never clench my clays! I'm definitely going to confuse future historians as my flat / apartment is furnished as a medieval Great Hall and built on land once belonging to a medieval manor house.
I've only been in the game a little over 9 months. I have to say my Rossi's are my fave.
My Hüseyin Ege unicorn (bent, carved block meerschaum) is my #1, my Chacom Champs-Elysées (bent apple 871) and Peterson Red Spigot Fishtail (bent bulldog 80s) are tied for second place as my best smokers, but the meer is definitely a step above both of them.
You know Dan it is a blessing that you chose the Medieval period as the model for your flat. I am curious how that fits in with the whole Redcoat thing but I suspect it is best not to ask. I suppose we should be grateful that you didn't go in for a 1940s style apartment whilst at the sometime doing WW2 re-enactments as I would suppose you would have then modeled your whole home on the Fuhrer Bunker in Berlin!
It’s just a shame they don’t show ‘Through The Keyhole’ on the telly anymore. I would love to hear what Lloyd Grossman would have made of the Clay Kings drum.
As for the pipes I reach for most, probably my Blakemars.
Cutty, pot or sir Douglas, never go anywhere without one of those.
Cutty, pot or sir Douglas, never go anywhere without one of those.
My favorite pipe varies with the seasons, time of day, phases of the moon, and eddies of the cosmic ethers. I am very fickle. But on the whole my clays are smoked the most often.