Your First Pipe

[dcon]

My first were some Dr.Grabow Dukes that, I used to hide from my anti-tobacco father in the trunk of my Duster. I nervously tossed several of these when I thought he might have access to my trunk

 

[ThomasS]

Well, embarrassed to say... my first was this ebony wood Whitluck Tobacco Pipe I found on Amazon for $23, including the pipe, a Czech tool, a stand, and some pipe cleaners. The only thing I still use is the stand and the Czech tool. Pretty pipe, but heavy and not very fun to smoke.

Don't be embarrassed, I'm the same! Mine was by "Scotte". This one's really not bad. Despite all the whinging in the comments, the bowl's comprable to a Grabow Lark. I pulled off the stingers, and I used the longer stem on a bowl that I made, but I still use it once in a while.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Mine was a cheap basket churchwarden that got misplaced in the recent move sadly.

 

[Fuelman]

Bought this little cob at Cracker Barrel in 1987, but didn’t smoke it until 2022. The first pipe I ever smoked. Vintage.

 

[KruegerFlap]

My first pipe was a Dr. Grabow Savoy I bought back in 2015. I still have it and it smokes Captain Black White like a champion so that's all I smoke in it. That's the only pipe in my collection that I've dedicated to one blend.

 

[troutface]

Being a young woodworker I decided to make my first pipe because, you know, how hard could it be ? Shaped the stummel and sent it out to get a stem. Silly me, I drilled the chamber with a Forstner bit, which produces a flat bottomed holed. DOH ! Still smokes fine. Was a perfect straight grain until I hit a small pit on the bottom, which I filled. I think I made it in the early 80's. My friend Anthony Hopkins recently refinished it for me.

 

[DesertDan]

Dr Grabow bent billiard, not sure of the exact model.
I was 14 and bought it off of the display board along with a pouch of Borkum Riff at a Rexall drugstore by my house.
It really was a different world back then.
I still have it and smoke it from time to time.

I did not get along with the Borkum Riff and thankfully quickly discovered the Smoker's Haven in the local mall.
Mountain Mist and Cyprian Mixture were my two favorites and I smoked them for years.
I also smoked others of their house blends mostly aromatics, I remember a maple and a cherry blend, and one called Cavendish Delight, probably Lane blends but I didn't know of such things back then.

 

[Briarpuffin]

Mine was/is a Stanwell 126.
still have it but dont use it except for looking at.

 

[portascat]

Grabow Lark and some "apple" pipe tobacco. It is amazing I still smoke. I burnt a hole in the Lark after about 5 bowls.