Your First Pipe?

[Ethan]

I was just going to put up another addition to the "what are you smoking" thread, but I am curious...This is the first pipe I ever bought. It's marked European Selection, Italy. Paid $20 for it new over 25 years ago, back when we had a pipe shop in the local mall. How many of you still have your first pipe, when did you buy it, and do you still smoke it? In the bowl this morning, some G&H Brown Irish X.

 

[mikethompson]

A Missouri Meerschaum hardwood cob, given to me by my then-girlfriend-now-wife way back in 2002 or 2003.

I hardly ever use it now, but of course I'm holding on to it.

 

[Ethan]

A Missouri Meerschaum hardwood cob, given to me by my then-girlfriend-now-wife way back in 2002 or 2003.

I hardly ever use it now, but of course I'm holding on to it.

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Nice! I also received 1 of those as a gift quite a while back now. It also doesn't see much use these days.

 

[mikethompson]

Nice! I also received 1 of those as a gift quite a while back now. It also doesn't see much use these days.

It was used mainly as a prop as she said it made me look smart.

 

[Ethan]

It was used mainly as a prop as she said it made me look smart

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[Sweet Home Alabama]

My first purchased pipe this time around was a MM Carolina Gent (nose watmer). The next was an author shaped Kaywoodie 13b, the next a Freehand MM cob, and yesterday another author and an original design MM Freehand.

These pipe are those that I will definately use because they are comfortable to hold.

 

[addamsruspipe]

My wife's dad's Savenilli. We found it in a box after he passed away. My wife said she never saw him with a pipe so we assume he smoked it prior to her birth so it is at least pre 1960's. It's what got me into smoking a pipe and still have it today.

 

[Ethan]

My wife's dad's Savenilli. We found it in a box after he passed away. My wife said she never saw him with a pipe so we assume he smoked it prior to her birth so it is at least pre 1960's. It's what got me into smoking a pipe and still have it today.

Seems like something we should get pic of...

 

[mparker762]

My first pipe was a basket freehand by Alpha, I still have it though it's reserved for cherry aromatics. Second pipe was an unfinished Nording freehand that I'm pretty sure I still have but haven't seen since my last move, its probably in the same box as my Boswell and my college ring, third was an Ashton Old Church 2x bent bulldog that I smoked some Balkan Sasieni a week ago.

 

[Ethan]

My first pipe was a basket freehand by Alpha, I still have it though it's reserved for cherry aromatics. Second pipe was an unfinished Nording freehand that I'm pretty sure I still have but haven't seen since my last move, its probably in the same box as my Boswell and my college ring, third was an Ashton Old Church 2x bent bulldog that I smoked some Balkan Sasieni a week ago.

Back when I first got this I smoked a lot of the CVS cherry cavendish through it....a tobacco I choose to keep fond memories of rather than try and see if I can find/enjoy something similar these days. lol Aros have not been my thing in years. I have tried a few, none that really were interesting enough to buy a 2nd time.

 

[mithridate]

My first pipe was a practice one I bought from local general store. I had read some ways to break pipes in, and I didn't want to buy an expensive one and then mess things up. And of course, I didn't know if the smoking was for me, after all. So I bought a bent rusticated thing, where it reads rather suspiciously "Real Briar". Nowadays I never smoke it. It wasn't too bad, after all, but not too good, either. And now and then it tasted a bit scarred plastic. Maybe some burning bits ended up into the stem...

My first serious one was Peterson Irish Made Army 86. It's still propably my favourite one.

 

[RonB]

My first pipe is long gone. I think it was a basket pipe from the local tobacco shop. Here is one that I bought probably 20 years ago and it still smokes very well. A Brebbia.

 

[Dio]

mine was a corn cob

 

[briarbuck]

I think it was a Splitbeard pipe that I purchased at The Party Source in Newport Ky. Dont have it anymore.

 

[Ryszard]

An overpriced no-name briar from the basket at a local tobacconist, I hate it and it hates me even more. I only keep it for old times sake and sometimes use it for strong aromatics, which I rarely smoke. My second pipe, however, is what really got me into smoking and is still frequently used - a Vauen 5777.

 

[bullet08]

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.

 

[pepesdad1]

First pipe was back in 1961 a Comoy Golden Grain and it is still in rotation.

 

[ray47]

Mine was an MM Cob Legion that was bought in 1967 and I no longer have it.

 

[burleybreath]

My first pipe was a Medico apple. I smoked Middleton's Cherry Blend in it. Hell no, I don't still have it.

 

[mso489]

My first pipe was bought at Tinder Box at the largest local (Raleigh, N.C.) mall at the time, but the Tinder Box moved to another nearby city (Durham, N.C.) years ago. I think I bought it about 1978 or thereabouts. It is stamped The Tinder Box St. Ives, and is a full-bent smooth light walnut stained pot with a unique vertical saddle stem. Despite my somewhat transient early adult life, it is something I kept, including during a long spell of not smoking. It still looks good and smokes well. After I joined Forums, I got in touch with Tinder Box to see if they knew the sourcing on the pipe, and it is likely a French pipe, perhaps a Chacom.