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Does anyone on the board smoke a tobacco pipe? I've been a cigar smoker for the past 15 years, but my wife and pretty much almost anyone always hated it. While we were on vacation, a gentleman opposite our balcony smoked a pipe. My wife commented how pleasant that was, so I said I'd give it a try. My cigar shop said that I would hate it and don't waste much money on getting a pipe.
I bought a $20 estate pipe on Ebay and to my surprise, really enjoyed the experience. The smell doesn't hang on you and the variety of tobacco seems endless, aromas, etc. You can smoke for 15 minutes or an hour, unlike a cigar which takes an hour plus. Decent cigars are around $10 and gone in an hour. For $10, I can get three ounces of a good tobacco blend which lasts several months.
You do need some pipes. I live near a pretty famous PA pipe shop, "JM Boswell" who makes his own branded pipes and they are priced reasonably. I picked up one of his a few weeks ago and use his own blends.
I just wondered if anyone else enjoyed this past-time?

I do both pipes and cigars. I have two pipes already one kind of cheap for taking with to places like rallies, parties, and occasionaly to work with me.(incase it gets lost or damaged) I have a nice expensive one at home that I will take with me on certain occasions. I love the smell of black cavandish (so do most others). Once a pretty young thing smelled the pipe smoke.....came up to me and told me it reminded her of her late father. She stood there and told me her whole life story that night. O'coarse I listened to her tell the whole tale.

But I smoke a cigar when Its me and my wife out to the backwoods ( a little bar out in the middle of nowhere, and my favorite hangout). If you don't mind sending a link or pics of some of his pipes I may be interested in another one. I like stuff made by individuals, original stuff is always best.

Al, I bought a nice pipe a few months ago to try.
I am also a cigar smoker and wanted to try something different.
My tobacconist fixed my up with a couple of ounces of a blend that was similar to cigar tobacco.
So far I hate it.......will keep on trying just for the savings vs cigars.
I should really quit altogether but with my current job, I need something to look forward to on my breaks.

I love smoking a pipe, I just don't like tobacco

Just saying Tony maybe you should go to a cigar shop that has a lounge, usually you can get a small volumn pipe and try different kinds. Cigars and pipes are quite different so you may like a very different tobacco in your pipe.
I smoke very robust cigars, but my favorite pipe tobacco is very mild with a sweet taste.

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I grew up with a pipe somoking father, I tended to hate it due to it filled up the car all the time. I did however like his collection of Meerschaum pipes.

As I got older I learned a bit to enjoy a pipe. I learned that if you dont want brownfinger marks on your nice aged clay pipe you have to wear a cotton glove, and you cant get it tooo hot or the clay will crack.

I like the occasional cigar, 7 bucks is what I usually spend.

I also like a glass pipe but I perfer some coolant in the bottom of it

I wanted to pick up pipe smoking but Karen was dead set against it. Im still not sure why. I think she said it would make me look old(er).

I do enjoy my cigars, though not as often as I would like due to a bout with some high BP.

Id like to see some pics of the nice pipes you guys have.

I love dark, maduro cigars, but so far, have hated dark English style pipe tobacco. I prefer a milder blend, it's a way different experience.
Here's the link to JM Boswell. Don't let his "For Sale" page scare you. He releases new pipes every week and they are typically sold in 15 minutes. But, he has a whole wall of lower prices pipes in his shop, from $79 - $100.
http://www.boswellpipes.com/pipesforsale.html
Here's the freehand I bought last month:


A decent, but older estate pipe goes with me now on the bike, etc. I got stuck in an old church graveyard yesterday, under a big oak tree. I had my pipe bag with me and enjoyed a nice smoke in solitude.

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I do both pipes and cigars. I have two pipes already one kind of cheap for taking with to places like rallies, parties, and occasionaly to work with me.(incase it gets lost or damaged) I have a nice expensive one at home that I will take with me on certain occasions. I love the smell of black cavandish (so do most others). Once a pretty young thing smelled the pipe smoke.....came up to me and told me it reminded her of her late father. She stood there and told me her whole life story that night. O'coarse I listened to her tell the whole tale.

But I smoke a cigar when Its me and my wife out to the backwoods ( a little bar out in the middle of nowhere, and my favorite hangout). If you don't mind sending a link or pics of some of his pipes I may be interested in another one. I like stuff made by individuals, original stuff is always best.

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Oh the irony. As a nonsmoker,I can't stand to be around cigarette smoke. However, if I get a whif of a cigar or pipe, it doesn't bother me. It actually smells good.

I once made a pipe out of pipe stone. It got stolen from me. I hand carved it from the stone myself and glazed it with bees wax. Every time you would smoke from it the wax would soak into the stone more and you coat it again till it was as shiny as one of those Briar wood, or rose wood bowls.

Freedom smokes a pipe.

I find cigarette and cigar smoke pretty disgusting but pipe smoke usually isn't too bad.

I have a client who smokes cigarettes like a chimney. When I'm at their house it's unbearable. But when I was working on Freedom's bike, his pipe didn't bother me nearly as much. Same for cigars. I would never partake in any of that myself, but the smell can be okay.

I have several pipes but my favorites are the Falcon pipes. I bought one new probably 35 years ago and a few used ones in the last several years. The bowl unscrews from the base of the pipe which is made of metal. You can dump out the liquid that accumulates and cleaning it is a snap. The bowls and bases are interchangeable as are the stems. They tend to smoke cool because the metal stem allows much of the heat to dissipate as the smoke is drawn through it.

I've read about this sytem,but never seen one in the flesh. Interesting.

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I have several pipes but my favorites are the Falcon pipes. I bought one new probably 35 years ago and a few used ones in the last several years. The bowl unscrews from the base of the pipe which is made of metal. You can dump out the liquid that accumulates and cleaning it is a snap. The bowls and bases are interchangeable as are the stems. They tend to smoke cool because the metal stem allows much of the heat to dissipate as the smoke is drawn through it.

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must admit i just love smokin, i have pipes cigars hand rollin tobaco, & cigrettes, and i like to relax with the hooker pipe, some of those turkish flavors are a dream,

Cigars for me but only good ones,(no White Owls etc) that doesn't mean expensive if you source them such as my favourite factory in Punta Cana. Every time a friend is going down there they pick up a box of 25 for around $5 a piece depending upon model. Mild medium strong and vanilla. That said a good pipe tabacci always smells sweet.

Well, I'm thinking we need to do a run to Boswell's. I'm in State College, PA. Even my old tobacconist (besides several friends) in Philly recommended Boswell's.

I've smoked pipes since college and have several Meerschaums, Erik Nordings and an assortment of other pipes.

I stick mostly to the oriental blends as there's nothing added but the tobacco and water. I highly recommend the McLelland Oriental 14. Heck, any of the McClellands are great. Now, if you're into aromatics (cherry, vanilla, burley, Etc.) don't smoke them in the same pipe that you smoke your nonaromatics in. Their tar and flavoring will color the taste of future smokes. I keep different pipes for different tobaccos and I highly recommend this.

I tell everyone that's never tried a pipe to try it. And, smoke what you like! If you like a local tobacconist's blend called "fireside," smoke it. If you like the rarest Latakia sprinkled with a hint of the cheapest burley...smoke it. That's the joy of smoking a pipe, it's whatever you want it to be!

Ah, pipe smokers of the world...let me share with you this true and cautionary tale ...it was written by me as a regular column which I write for a magazine and I offer it to the world of TBA/Speedy riders as a warning to you all.
Being a sort of gentleman hoodlum my friend Larry had decided that, in the words of the old advert, ‘a pipe does something for a man’ …...therefore he announced one day in 1980 or so that, henceforth, he’d smoke a pipe. All very well, and, being an impressionable sort of lad, I decided I’d give this pipe smoking lark a go, too. I gave it up after a few goes, realising I was leaving a lot of pipes on the top decks of buses and generally I couldn’t be bothered faffing around with them. I also nurtured the suspicion that it didn’t really improve my image.
But Larry persevered. And then did a bit more persevering till I was thoroughly fed up with all this persevering stuff. He even drilled and bolted a metal ashtray to the handlebars of his bike and claimed this as possibly the single most superfluous motorcycle accessory ever devised. It has to be a pretty strong contender for the title, I reckon.
Anyhow, come Stonehenge Festival time we dutifully pobbled off down the A303. At this time we were both riding XS650’s as we’d finally got fed up with pushing our various machines and had reckoned the XS was about as close as we’d get to a British Bike Experience, but without the strenuous exercise these involved.

All went well initially, at any rate.
Somewhere along the way Larry, as was his usual wont, stopped for a smoke. (How many hours of my life have been spent in lay-bys watching this ritual?) On this occasion I gave him a bit of hassle. And he grumbled a bit, tapped his pipe out in the way a North Sea Fisherman would have been proud of, and got back on the bike.
A couple of miles later and I thought at first he’d got a wiring problem as a wisp of smoke appeared behind his bike.
Then another, followed shortly after by a small cloud of smoke…and a little while after that I could distinctly see sparks. I tried the obvious- sounding the horn, flashing the headlight and even overtaking and gesticulating at him. This last tactic was particularly ineffectual and resulted merely in a returned V sign from Larry as he wound up the throttle and accelerated rapidly into the middle distance.
Ordinarily, of course, I’d have followed. However Larry had recently been taken to task by the local constabulary over the volume of noise from his exhaust( sawed it off, just before the baffles, see?) His solution had, as usual, been dictated by expediency and economy and involved simply stuffing said pipes with wire wool-resulting in the occasional spitting forth of great gobs of incandescent Brillo .You didn’t want to get too close to these, I can tell you.
At this point in the proceedings I can remember giving a sort of shrug and accepting that, as usual, fate would take its own (& often grisly) course.
It did. When I finally saw him again 2 or 3 miles down the road, Larry was riding along at a fair old pace, but now was trailing a 4 foot sheet of flame from under his left armpit in a scene reminiscent of a battle of Britain dogfight, the loser plummeting to earth in a dizzying death spiral. I think it was the latter image occurring to me that solved the mystery. I remembered Larry’s propensity a) to be somewhat careless about making sure the pipe was extinguished before b) stuffing it in the top pocket of his denim cut-off. Presumably the increased turn of speed had resulted in a kind of ram jet effect, causing the observed phenomenon.


To all of which ,of course, he was completely oblivious…so long as
Larry rode on, he felt no pain. (Later he told me he’d dismissed the slightly warm sensation as being heartburn brought on by a diet of beer and burgers the previous evening).

Finally though it was the recurring image of a doomed pilot which both decided me to put a stop to the death ride and which provided a mechanism to achieve this, hopefully without the need to shovel up the remains. The A303 has a significant number of roadside ditches. Some of these are significantly wet and, in the end, I simply gritted my teeth and gradually slowed down in front of him, effectively running the silly s*d off the road and into one of these. As his bike squealed and then stalled, I leapt smartly off mine and promptly shoved Larry into an especially wet and noxious ditch.
I will forever cherish the memory both of the look of surprise and indignation on Larry’s face, and of the distinctly audible hiss from under his left armpit as he hit the water.
Despite my protestations to the effect that I was in fact his saviour and general benefactor, I suspect he remained secretly convinced that I’m just a sore loser. Either way, Larry gave up the pipe, though he never raced me again either, come to think of it.
Al

Great story Alscott, nope don't see smoking the pipe much on the bike....(although I think you can get pipes with lids for wind, but doubt they are bike-proof!)

Well, I'm primarily a cigar guy... but when cash is tight I'll switch over to my pipes....have an Elvis pipe a cousine gave me, it is covered in black velvet....also several others,,, actually the BEST pipe I have is a corn cob pipe... Hey we need a pipe smoking gremlin here !!!

Great story Alscot , I had a visual picture the whole way through ...

And yes we definately need a pipe smokin' gremlin

That's quite the story there, Al! From that tale I gather you and Larry spend good time together and I get the feeling there's more than one adventure between you two. Ahhh, friendships and the things we have to do to ensure we live long enough to enjoy them!

Btw... I don't suppose that column you write is available somewhere online, is it?

There is some interest, at least I would like the chance to read it.

Ok....I'll upload another 'Tales Of Townsend' in the next couple of days---For some reason my work server has just decided to bar this forum -so it'll slow down my posts till I sort it out.

Al

Don't smoke a pipe, though I did try once, burnt the h-ll out of my mouth. Don't smoke cigars unless given to me to celebrate an occasion. But, I absolutely love the aroma of both. So keep up your good works gentlemen.

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At work, I never had problem getting on this forum, but our server locks you out of anything Alcohol or tobacco related.

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