I am not Mario Persico, so I have to smoke every pipe I own. It seems unfulfilling to be an unsmoked pipe.
Your High Dollar Artisan Pipes: Display Only? Or Smoke Away?
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Well...
Not inappropriately, the scene looked like a drug deal, what with the stack of hundred dollar bills rising on the table.
No one cares about my pipes but me. I smoke them. No one will be any more enthusiastic about my collection should a particularly nice pipe be unsmoked, and for me, if I like the way it looks, I like it because it looks like something I want to smoke... and who am I to deny myself.
One member here, if he is still on Forums, didn't smoke. He just bought pipes as collector items. Perfectly reasonable, they are beautiful items. I'm not one who has high end artisanal pipes, although one or two might fit the category. I'm strictly into pipes as smokers. I want them handsome and appetizing, but the point is to have a nice bowl of tobacco. It's personal. If folks like to collect them as objects of art, that's great.
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I smoke them all. The really expensive ones are even more satisfying to smoke because they are usually a better pipe. Although, I understand why some choose not to smoke certain pipes. I've smoked a couple high dollar pipes once or twice and then let them go for half of what I spent for them a week later. It's not easy to take such losses, but I'm not a huge collector and never know if a pipe is right for me until I smoke it. I make decisions on pipes much quicker than tobaccos. I can know pretty quickly if a pipe is going to work for me, but definitely need to smoke it first. My pipe smoking experience is an ongoing trial and error that requires smoking even the expensive ones.
Man, mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast, you've got the longest handle that I've ever seen on a forum!
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Pipestud
congratulationstoyouforwhathastobethemotherofallhandles!
Pipestud
I smoked all my pipes except for the set of 36 unsmoked Dr. Grabow pipes that are part of a salesman's sample kit from the 1950s:
Every pipe I have ever bought was meant for smoking. Even some really high dollar Formers, Barbi's and Balleby's. The thouht of buying a pipe and not smoking it the day I got it is foreign concept to me.
Now if I happened to come across 100 year old Barlings that were new, I would never smoke them. I would sell them to Jesse for triple what I paid for them.
Now if I happened to come across 100 year old Barlings that were new, I would never smoke them. I would sell them to Jesse for triple what I paid for them.
I smoke em the day they arrive. I anxiously watch the tracking system like a wee lad on Christmas. But to be honest I have never paid a thousand dollars or more on a pipe. Much more conservative on price. I do not think I would spend over $400 on a pipe. You can get one heck of a sweet smoker for less than $400. For me if the pipe cost more than 400 it had better provide sexual satisfaction and smoke awesome. But I understand completely those that can afford it spend much more. I like that as I hear about how a pipe smokes I could never afford. Experience by proxy. Sable's example makes complete sense to not smoke to me. I have a 1905 Meerschaum cutty coming from the kind and generous Condorlover1. I will smoke it the day it arrives. I will contemplate who has smoked it over the years, how much they enjoyed it and what kind of life did they have. My older pipes always bring a sense of history, perhaps a tenuous connection with the Old pipers. Anyway to each his own! Happy smokes!!
If the maker didn't forget to drill a hole through the stem, I will smoke all of my pipes. I used to have some rather higher grade pipes when it made me happy. Barling Quaints, Dunhills, Family era Sasienis, Older Charatans etc. In 2006 or so it made me happier to make my own pipes. I sold those mentioned and focused on some tools, stems, pretty decent briar and a lot of sandpaper. I have a more than large enough collection of pipes now. I round out my own pipes with (I think) well chosen lower priced bargains. I don't think I would be happy if I spent more than $75.00 on a pipe nowadays. If that changes and I get a taste for Danish high grades, you can be certain I will smoke every one. For me, the biggest trueism in pipe smoking has been the more you smoke your pipes, the better they get.
Mike S.
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Yeah... what can I say @pipestud? I'm 6'4, have a long dog (basset hound), like long pipes, and prefer foot long hot dogs to regular hot dogs. Additionally, a few months on the Appalachian Trail, getting struck by lightning as a kid, and having my house get struck by lightning and burn down in 2007 made me respect the fact mother nature eats what she wants when she wants.
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