Your First Pipe?

[Fiddlepiper]

Dr Plumb basket pipe was my first just to try things out. Followed swiftly by a 1973 Dunhill Root Briar.

I have the Dr Plumb still (not that hard was only a few years ago) and I still smoke it when out hillwalking/working in the garden as it doesn’t matter too much if it gets abused.

 

[tatter]

Mine was a full bent egg basket pipe stamped SAVOY. Smoked like crap, still does but I still have it!

 

[BarrelProof]

This Boswell’s spiral freehand from February, 2015. Still have/smoke it, in spite of a break from pipes that lasted from about February, 2015 until March, 2020. To be fair, I never really knew what I was doing when I got it - I bought it for an Appalachian Trail hike that saw me too tired/apathetic to smoke it on most days. What I wouldn’t do to have the opportunity to get on that trail again after a more committed venture into pipe tobacco a year ago.

 

[cigrmaster]

My first pipe was a Savinelli Linea Pui 5 with a silver band. THe retail was 155.00 but since I was at my buddies shop he gave me 20% off.
It was a great pipe as it smoked cool and dry and it gave me a baseline of how a good pipe should smoke like. My next pipe was a was a Jensen which was a piece of shit. It smoked hotter than the lower depths of hell. I threw it away as it only cost 95.00. My third pipe incredible. It was a Winslow hand made grade C. It retailed for over 500.00 and my buddy who's shop it was in gave me my 20% discount. I loved that pipe but eventually sold it 15 years or so later when I went to all ebonite stems.

 

[Ethan]

The very first one I used to learn to smoke was Morgan Bones pipe. Still have it. Abused the hell out of it. Bottom of the chamber is cracked, but still smokes fine.

I have looked at a fair number of the Bones pipes...never followed through and bought one yet. I like the concept, and the looks of quite a few though

 

[Toast]

Mine was an Ardor poker - it wasn't the first pipe I smoked though, I bought it as a reward for when I'd figured things out. It was a good reward too, it smokes beautifully!

 

[bullet08]

I have looked at a fair number of the Bones pipes...never followed through and bought one yet. I like the concept, and the looks of quite a few though

They are poker, pot and bulldog. All stubby. They are OK. About as good as MM cobs.

 

[luigi]

I still have it. Some Toscana, bought over 20 years ago for about 20 bucks, shank slightly cracked, vulcanite stem melted from inside at some points, used and abused. It's still smoking and with a thick cake it's a great smoker.

 

[Ethan]

They are poker, pot and bulldog. All stubby. They are OK. About as good as MM cobs.

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Those are all good looking pipes, for the $$ I usually see em not bad either

 

[ukbob]

Ben Wade picked it up in Austria, first holiday with my wife in 1985, just wish I kept it got lost in a house move.

 

[craig61a]

Bubble pack Dr. Grabow Billiard at the Base Exchange at Mountain Home Air Force Base in 1981. My first attempts at pipe smoking were dismal, I tossed the pipe when I PCS'd to the UK in 1982...

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

See here, I showed mine in a similar thread:

Show Us Your First Pipe :: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes

First of all, sorry if I missed a similar thread in the search. But now the question: Have you still got your first pipe? Do you regularly smoke it? What are your thoughts and memories about it? I still have mine, a Vauen de Luxe, bought about 24 years ago at the famous Huber of Munich tobacco...

pipesmagazine.com

 

[tbradsim1]

Kaywoodie Fine Line, bought by nurse at Gedunk, Norfolk Naval Hospital, smoked it in Janitors closet late at night.

 

[Ethan]

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Kaywoodie Fine Line, bought by nurse at Gedunk, Norfolk Naval Hospital, smoked it in Janitors closet late at night.

I love some the older rustication styles. Great looking pipe!

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Bartolini basket bent Dublin circa 2001-2002

 

[Ethan]

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Bartolini basket bent Dublin circa 2001-2002

Dublin is a shape I don't have just yet....there is one I have been looking at recently though

 

[addamsruspipe]

Seems like something we should get pic of...

Here it is. A Savinelli Dry System 2611.

 

[Wuce Brayne]

Missouri Meerschaum Ozark pipe.

 

[olkofri]

Vincenzo picked up at the local tobacco shoppe:


Dublin Churchwarden

 

[elasmo]

had a Grabow...2nd hand.