Your First Pipe?

[ChippewaAce]

Sad to say no I don't, but I would know how to make one. He and my grandmother liked Hickory King Corn variety which had huge ears. I suspect that's what we used. Now days folks like the more sweer varieties with smaller ears. I've read Missouri Meesheum uses a particular variety that they produce themselves.

Lost to time, as many things are. That's great though that you have the memories and remember how to make them. That's also fascinating about the variety of corn, I'd never thought about that going into cob pipe making but it makes total sense.

 

[judcole]

Mine was a genuwine EllIfIKnow, purchased over 50 years ago in the drugstore that was then in the little shopping center at Trowbridge and Harrison, E. Lansing, Mi.
Is there a secret rule that a new version of this thread has to pop up every six months or so?

 

[Ethan]

Is there a secret rule that a new version of this thread has to pop up every six months or so?

Yes...I was notified in a "start a new thread of this variety ...or else" type format.

 

[Dio]

It was a corn pipe i believe

 

[boatme99]

My first was a Webber sandblasted Short Snorter that I "borrowed" from my dads collection back in the early 1970s.
He always said that I just wanted it to smoke pot in.
It was probably my favorite pipe in my meager collection of 7. Smoked it through high school and the Air Force, about 6 years, before giving up pipes for cigars.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Wally Frank bent Billiard from the Wally Frank shop in Huntington, Long Island, NY.
No longer have it.I deserve to be horse whipped for the way I treated that pipe. What can I say,I was younger then.?

 

[haparnold]

My first pipe was a corncob I made (with instruction from my grandfather) from an ear of corn out of our corncrib, and a stem from a piece of river cane in our canebrake. Very similar to the Old Dominion cobs you can buy now. I need to get one for old times' sake.

 

[anotherbob]

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.

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pipes go great with the trail.

 

[jewman22]

Missouri Meerschaum Cob, just one of those cheap little 6$ jobbies. Burnt through it at some point many moons ago and pitched it.
Now my first Briar I still have, It is a Stanwell Bordeaux 183 bent Brandy, and I still smoke it at least once a week.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

That's my first pipe. I still use it. After some months of smoking, I've put pipe mud at the bottom. And a few months ago I cleaned the rim which was totally black. Then I decided I liked it better as it was.
A loyal friend.

 

[FurCoat]

Dr. Grabow Savoy. I still have it.
I've never gotten rid of a pipe.

 

[Ettrick puffer]

On the passing of my father last May I inherited his pipes. The first pipe I bought to add to my rotation was a Parker Lovat from the Pipe Shop Edinburgh. I can remember as a child visiting this shop where my father would stock up on his baccy, something different from his staples of Condor and St Bruno. Nostalgia, you can’t beat it.
Happy smokes.
Ettrick puffer

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

My first pipe was a Danish freehand copy. I say copy because it's not briar and resembles a pipe in form only. Plastic stem, burny finish. Not briar. Is it oak, cherry or plywood? No one knows. I still have it but I stopped smoking out of it pretty much as soon as I could get a proper briar.

My second pipe, a Capri Billiard, is still in rotation and among my favorites.

 

[username]

A mr brog pear wood. Still have it rarely smoke it anymore.

 

[GCW]