Thread: Pipe smokers?

Wayne

Thanks for the info, As soon as Im feeling better I might go to this shop near me that sells pipes and just start off with somethng new in around the hundred dollor range, naybe less if I find something I like and they tell me it's decent quality. It seems though that Im liking the ones called freehand, and Im thinking that means handmade or custom.

My first thought on tobacco is Capt Black/ White . Im familiar with it and even smoked it, but after some reading Im a little intrigued by one called Virginia something.

I really need to get spell check installed here.

Originally Posted by Mike257

I was a pipe smoker in the 70's and 80's but my old collection doesnt fit in this catagory.

I'm with Mike here but had to quit that stuff for a job I wanted to keep

I've been a pipe smoker since college--started in 1971, I think, with three pipes and a rack/humidor outfit I found at a yard sale. One of those pipes has strayed somewhere and I keep hoping it will turn up; the other two are still with me, and one's still my favorite. I've got a Peterson of one of the more modest lines and two or three Cellini Originals that I bought when the Cellini store was still in business in Chicago, and recently got an old Guildhall cleaned up; but on the whole it's a smallish and very low-priced collection.

Mike, have you joined up at Smokers Forums? That's as great a resource for pipe smoking as SRP is for straight shaving. You might see me over there--"rastewart" there as here.

Rich

Is pipe smoking really that much better, different, then smoking quality hand rolled tobacco or finer quality pre-rolled cigarettes, cigars. I quite enjoy smoking casually throughout the week, but have never smoked tobacco out of a pipe.

If you guys wanna see some awesome pipes, check out Bosi Pipes & Pens, exclusive handmade pipes.

Kirk is a member here. I have 4 of his pipes including a church warden he made special for me and love smoking them.

Lynn

Originally Posted by Hayesky

Is pipe smoking really that much better, different, then smoking quality hand rolled tobacco or finer quality pre-rolled cigarettes, cigars. I quite enjoy smoking casually throughout the week, but have never smoked tobacco out of a pipe.

I would say that it is that much better having smoked all of the above for many years. A pipe for maybe thirty of those years and exclusively for the last ten. Smoking a pipe, like shaving with a straight razor, had a learning curve but it is well worth it. Here is more or less my current rotation.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I would say that it is that much better having smoked all of the above for many years. A pipe for maybe thirty of those years and exclusively for the last ten. Smoking a pipe, like shaving with a straight razor, had a learning curve but it is well worth it. Here is more or less my current rotation.

I just love seeing another great AD.......

Thanks Jimmy!!

Lynn

Originally Posted by Lynn

I just love seeing another great AD.......

Thanks Jimmy!!

Lynn

Thanks Lynn, but I don't know if I would call that an AD, that is about half of them.

Lynn Im almost affraid to click on that link you posted. I already know what is going to happen.


Rich I havent signed up I have just been reading, I dont want to get into something else I already have so many hobbies that keep me broke. Im gonna try and keep it simple with this. Im going to the pipe shop this weekend and Im going to pick pick out something in around the $100 range.

Unless of course I click on that link Lynn posted .


Jimmy your pipe collectionction looks like half of my gun collection, I totally understand why you have so many.

Originally Posted by Hayesky

Is pipe smoking really that much better, different, then smoking quality hand rolled tobacco or finer quality pre-rolled cigarettes, cigars. I quite enjoy smoking casually throughout the week, but have never smoked tobacco out of a pipe.

Yes, simply because one is not supposed to inhale pipe or cigar smoke. The smoke doesn't go into the lungs, which absorb nicotine much better than the mouth. Furthermore, most cigarettes have extra agents added into them to increase burn rates, and help the lungs absorb nicotine. Pipe and cigar tobacco are going to, generally, be 100% tobacco, whereas cigarettes generally have nicotine added.

Not to bad mouth cigarettes, I smoke 'em myself, but those are the facts.