Pipe smoking, a lost art.

[November]

Yeah along the same lines, I tried to make a thin walled small billiard and hit a run of sand pits. I got it to work but the shank isn't square to the bowl now so it's been sitting in the drawer. I could probably turn a bit to make it look ok but that isn't something I've done yet. It would probably make a good short nose warmer ifni could pull it off.

 

[November]

Anyone ever use pear wood for pipes? Ive seen them for sale but haven't tried it. A guy offered me some decent pear wood for a meat goat but not sure about it...

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Butternut burley in my Dagner Poker. So good

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[CGVT]

Hey all! First post in the pipe thread... I've smoked cigars for years, but about a year ago my son bought me a corncob pipe and I gave it a shot. I am now a full fledged pipe smoker. I bought a couple of cheap briars and enjoy smoking them, but I wanted to expand my collection and rotation and since new pipes are so expensive, I decided to buy some estate pipes on ebay and restore them.

This is the first that I have tackled. It is a Marxsman Super Briar Pocket Pipe. that I got for about 12 buck. It was made before 1953, probably in the mid 40s. It was in decent shape, but I decided to go beyond a deep cleaning. I gave the stem an Oxyclean soak and sanded and buffed out the oxidation and then removed the old wax and rewaxed the stummel. I've smoked it a couple of times and I really like it.

Not too shabby for under 15 bucks and a couple of hours of work...

 

[CGVT]

The stem before the soak, after and cleaned up.

 

[CGVT]

I did a quick clean up on the pipe with when I first got it with alcohol, pipe cleaners and q-tips so I could smoke it to see how it smoked. It smoked fine, but about halfway through, I realized there was a taste to it that was familiar. After some thought, I realized that it tasted just like I remember my Great Grandmother's house smelling when I visited her back in the early 60's. I don't remember if my Great Grandfather smoked a pipe or not, he died when I was pretty young, but I am guessing he did, and the tobacco he smoked was the same that the person that owned this pipe smoked?

I did an alcohol (vodka) and salt soak to remove the ghost. It did the job and I only taste my tobacco now.

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I did a quick clean up on the pipe with when I first got it with alcohol, pipe cleaners and q-tips so I could smoke it to see how it smoked. It smoked fine, but about halfway through, I realized there was a taste to it that was familiar. After some thought, I realized that it tasted just like I remember my Great Grandmother's house smelling when I visited her back in the early 60's. I don't remember if my Great Grandfather smoked a pipe or not, he died when I was pretty young, but I am guessing he did, and the tobacco he smoked was the same that the person that owned this pipe smoked?

I did an alcohol (vodka) and salt soak to remove the ghost. It did the job and I only taste my tobacco now.

you should visit us at https://thebriarpatchforum.com/forum some time.

I now have a decent variety of tobaccos in the cellar. a bunch of Escudo in for the long haul as well as Peterson's 3P Perfect Plug. been sluggish on making new pipes. I need to get off my butt.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

you should visit us at https://thebriarpatchforum.com/forum some time.

I now have a decent variety of tobaccos in the cellar. a bunch of Escudo in for the long haul as well as Peterson's 3P Perfect Plug. been sluggish on making new pipes. I need to get off my butt.

Yeah you do. Next time you want cigars we should swap sticks for a pipe!

 

[arturo7]

I recently got back into pipe smoking. I've got about a dozen "estate pipes" I picked up off eBay. I was into it a while back but I had no idea what I was doing. It was all a matter of saving money over cigars and seeing how much smoke I could generate. Now I smoke a lot slower and cooler and enjoy the tobacco. Just finished a bowl before I found saw thread.

 

[grampamark]

"A pipe gives a wise man something to do while he's thinking and a fool something to put in his mouth".

I can't remember to whom that quote is attributed.

I smoked a pipe for about 30 years. Quit about 15 years ago; don't really miss it.

Mark

 

[CGVT]

you should visit us at https://thebriarpatchforum.com/forum some time.

I now have a decent variety of tobaccos in the cellar. a bunch of Escudo in for the long haul as well as Peterson's 3P Perfect Plug. been sluggish on making new pipes. I need to get off my butt.

I checked the briarpatch yesterday and joined. Looks like a good place with good people.

I've been trying all kinds of different tobaccos, It seems that I like to change it up a lot and haven't really settled on an every day blend, although I bought a pound of Lane 1Q and tend to grab a quick bowl of that often when I take the dog out. I have about ten different briars now and have them "kinda" dedicated to different types of tobaccos. I usually grab a pipe based on what I feel like smoking, but sometimes I grab a tobacco based on the pipe I want to smoke. Ha!

I recently got back into pipe smoking. I've got about a dozen "estate pipes" I picked up off eBay. I was into it a while back but I had no idea what I was doing. It was all a matter of saving money over cigars and seeing how much smoke I could generate. Now I smoke a lot slower and cooler and enjoy the tobacco. Just finished a bowl before I found saw thread.

I have bought a handful of estate pipes on Ebay-mostly cheaper pipes that were in rough shape so I could work on my restoration skills. I got a couple of beat up Brewster coupon pipes for about 10 bucks that had serious stem issues and restored them. I started using one for cherry aromatics (I've settled on Lane Very Cherry for when I want to go that way) and it is a great smoker and turning into one of my favorite pipes. P&C runs a special every now and then on unfinished Savinelli for 50 bucks. I got a large bent brandy and love it so much a bought another, a bent Dublin. Both are great smokers.

My favorite cheap Brewster

This one had an over severely oxidized, over-clocked stem that I had to clean up and reset. The briar was dark and filthy and it was almost closed off with cake. When I finished it, I gave it to my son.

 

[CGVT]

I didn't finish the Sav bent brandy because I wanted to see what it would look like as it aged, but I did finish the Dublin

 

[Billy-Klubb]

Yeah you do. Next time you want cigars we should swap sticks for a pipe!

that can definitely be arranged!

I recently got back into pipe smoking. I've got about a dozen "estate pipes" I picked up off eBay. I was into it a while back but I had no idea what I was doing. It was all a matter of saving money over cigars and seeing how much smoke I could generate. Now I smoke a lot slower and cooler and enjoy the tobacco. Just finished a bowl before I found saw thread.

you should join us over at The Patch as well!

I checked the briarpatch yesterday and joined. Looks like a good place with good people.

I've been trying all kinds of different tobaccos, It seems that I like to change it up a lot and haven't really settled on an every day blend, although I bought a pound of Lane 1Q and tend to grab a quick bowl of that often when I take the dog out. I have about ten different briars now and have them "kinda" dedicated to different types of tobaccos. I usually grab a pipe based on what I feel like smoking, but sometimes I grab a tobacco based on the pipe I want to smoke. Ha!



I have bought a handful of estate pipes on Ebay-mostly cheaper pipes that were in rough shape so I could work on my restoration skills. I got a couple of beat up Brewster coupon pipes for about 10 bucks that had serious stem issues and restored them. I started using one for cherry aromatics (I've settled on Lane Very Cherry for when I want to go that way) and it is a great smoker and turning into one of my favorite pipes. P&C runs a special every now and then on unfinished Savinelli for 50 bucks. I got a large bent brandy and love it so much a bought another, a bent Dublin. Both are great smokers.

My favorite cheap Brewster
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This one had an over severely oxidized, over-clocked stem that I had to clean up and reset. The briar was dark and filthy and it was almost closed off with cake. When I finished it, I gave it to my son.
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nice work! glad you joined (like any of us need another forum. hahahhaa!!!) I think y'all get bonus points for mentioning how awesomely awesome I am. hahhaha!!

 

[arturo7]

you should join us over at The Patch as well!

I'm on a different forum. One is enough. Thanks just the same.

 

[Dan]

Wow. Has it really been over four years since anybody posted here? Time has flown pretty fast since move to Hawaii, but I missed four years since the last post.
Last one I see is by Arturo71 in January 2014. Is that correct?

 

[treacheroustexan]

Wow. Has it really been over four years since anybody posted here? Time has flown pretty fast since move to Hawaii, but I missed four years since the last post.
Last one I see is by Arturo71 in January 2014. Is that correct?

Last post is January 2018 by Arturo7. Post #1874.

 

[kh54s10]

A bunch of them in August 2017 and a few more in January 2018.

Pipe smoking is not for me. But the second hand aroma is better than cigars. And cigarette smoke makes me gag!!!

 

[Genuine]

Here’s from last weekend

 

[Dan]

I don’t know what happened. I checked this place out awhile back and the last post was years ago. Reloaded the page same thing. Glad this thread still up and running

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! Eat and drink and enjoy this day!

 

[November]

Waiting for the Turkey to smoke. Frog Morton's cellar. Probably my favorite.

 

[Sacdebites]

Hello everyone. New to this forum but this thread was the first to catch my eye. I have quite the cellar with lots of aged tobacco. I also have some bought pipes (Savinelli 320) and a few hand made pipes.

Cheers!

 

[Genuine]

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Waiting for the Turkey to smoke. Frog Morton's cellar. Probably my favorite.

Haven’t had that in forever

 

[Kiln]

It's just something you have experience. Smoking a pipe to me is relaxing. Finding the right tobacco is a journey. Once you get the right tobacco, and sit on the porch with a Homebrew, it's the little things in life. Yeah, cheers 2019. Hope it's a good one.

 

[Honda88]

Pipe smoking is great but it is also something that you should still do in moderation. I love sitting on the deck and having a bowl of fine tobacco. I own two pipes one is of standard length and the other is a churchwarden. I am 30 and I think it's too bad that tobacco is now frowned upon in society. I often find myself thinking I was born in the wrong time period.

 

[FatDragon]

Lit up a pipe tonight for the first time in a few years. Wife got me a tin of Dunhill Early Morning Pipe for our anniversary after I mentioned that I poked through the Hong Kong duty free only to be disappointed that they didn't have any pipe tobacco. The Early Morning is a terrific blend. It was relaxing in a way that a cigar rarely is for me. After a pint of porter, a pipe, and a good book, I felt almost like I'd gone for a massage. It was a bit too heady for me by the end, though. I don't inhale, but I had to slow down on the last quarter of the bowl as it started to make me feel a bit woozy. I guess that's what happens when you don't smoke but once a month or so (and then usually just a small cigar or two).

I should add that I always smoked bulk aromatics before and had issues with heat, liquid in the stem, and keeping lit before. The Early Morning suffered none of those problems. Seems I was missing out back when I used to smoke my pipes more often...

 

[woknblues]

I recently enjoyed a nice mild dry pipe of trout stream while, well, fly fishing for trout! (a lake and just stocked 'bows, but still). It had been a couple of years, I have not indulged since my mother's recent diagnosis of lung cancer, it seemed crass (she a lifelong cigarette smoker and in full remission after a single dose of radiation two years later) and with my two small children, though I don't hide anything, I don't want to imprint any habit that I'd rather not have them indulge in until they are able to make that decision as an adult as I did. I've only really ever indulged in tobacco on an occasional basis, mostly for the taste and buzz, tools and ritual. I started off with flavored, tried out English, and have since fallen back to what I would consider a curated bunch of respectful aromatics and English blends, like the aforementioned trout stream, a Vermont "meat candy", and Larry's blend. In regards to pipes, I'm in the Missouri Meercham camp. I love the pricing, portability and not caring if it drops and breaks or falls into a river (this has happened, several times, one of them still smoked fine after, the other wasn't recovered). They also smoke nice and cool and dry for me.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

OK, pipe smokers, what is your fav undressed, untopped tobacco? Your fav burley blend? For those of you who grow & cure your own tobacco, what varieties & what process(s)? I'm looking for a variety that air cures well, has a good flavor undressed/topped & will grow in zone 4; any suggestions?
Regards, GF.

 

[bracconiere]

if you PM me i can mail you a bunch of kentucky burley seeds.....i think i got some from last year, and the year before....I don't know about air curing, i just wrap the plants in a tarp and let them breathe every other day...been growing these for 15 years, and get plenty of seeds off them every year...only had to buy seeds really once....

(i've also cured tobacco by just bundling the leaves, and hanging in the garage for a few months during humid winter months....

 

[Dan]

Oh my goodness! Was the last post really four years ago?

I guess it was... Quite a lot has changed in all of our lives and Corona hit recently.
wow!
I’m jobless since and claiming “retired Navyman” for now. I’d put retired “NavyChief”, but I’m not feeling all that chiefly these day.

Life moved on though and so do we and our children. My kids are all grown up and on their own. Have been for quite a few years now.

This was suppose to be a pipe smoking reply. It kind of is because I’m smoking a pipe, enjoying some good tobacco and being contemplative

I’m sitting at my daughter’s house smoking a churchwarden style pipe. It’s only about 7 inches long. I have one that is around 10”. I’ll put up a pics

I’ve been visiting my son’s house and youngest daughter’s house the last few months. Kinda alternating between the two. My daughter lives a block from the ocean and son lives in the desert temporarily. (29 Palms MCB) for training.

Long story short. I’d like to put up a aome pics of a few of my new pipes, also of some little pipe stands I made in my sons workshop. Also a pipe rack made of aged ash wood. The wood is beautiful. I’m thinking of leaving it with no stain. I think staining it a fake color would be silly. I might put a coat of Helmsman spar varnish on it though. I love that stuff. It brings out the natural wood color with a little bit enhancement.

that is IF! I remember how to post a pic these days

 

[passedpawn]

Oh my goodness! Was the last post really four years ago?

I guess it was... Quite a lot has changed in all of our lives and Corona hit recently.
wow!
I’m jobless since and claiming “retired Navyman” for now. I’d put retired “NavyChief”, but I’m not feeling all that chiefly these day.

Life moved on though and so do we and our children. My kids are all grown up and on their own. Have been for quite a few years now.

This was suppose to be a pipe smoking reply. It kind of is because I’m smoking a pipe, enjoying some good tobacco and being contemplative

I’m sitting at my daughter’s house smoking a churchwarden style pipe. It’s only about 7 inches long. I have one that is around 10”. I’ll put up a pics

I’ve been visiting my son’s house and youngest daughter’s house the last few months. Kinda alternating between the two. My daughter lives a block from the ocean and son lives in the desert temporarily. (29 Palms MCB) for training.

Long story short. I’d like to put up a aome pics of a few of my new pipes, also of some little pipe stands I made in my sons workshop. Also a pipe rack made of aged ash wood. The wood is beautiful. I’m thinking of leaving it with no stain. I think staining it a fake color would be silly. I might put a coat of Helmsman spar varnish on it though. I love that stuff. It brings out the natural wood color with a little bit enhancement.

that is IF! I remember how to post a pic these days

Nice handiwork Dan. If you do use polyurathane, look for the matte vs the gloss. I know the brand of spar I buy comes in several finishes. Or, if you use the gloss, knock down the shine with 000 steel wool.