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Thread: Pipe of the Day
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07-18-2012, 04:25 AM #4451
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07-18-2012, 12:03 PM #4452
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07-18-2012, 10:30 PM #4453
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07-19-2012, 01:59 AM #4454
First POTD,have been smoking a pipe for about a few weeks now and love it, have an order of new tobaccos and things coming in soon.
Tonight it was some Captain Black in a Dr. Grabow,despite some negative reviews on this tobacco and pipe, I actually like em, a great evening smoke
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07-19-2012, 02:46 AM #4455
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07-19-2012, 03:16 AM #4456
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Thanked: 45More Briar Fox, this time in a Nording Freehand.
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07-19-2012, 05:14 AM #4457
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Thanked: 7People give these products negative reviews because part of the pipe community contains stuck up twits. Not really much different from the wine community, really. Tobaccos are good / bad, but pipes really are not. It may be true that a Graybrow is more likely to smoke poorly / wet / hot than a Dunhill, but I will guarantee that there are Graybrows out there that will smoke a Dunhill under the table. I presently own a Dunhill opera pipe (small, oval pipe) that has always smoked hot (by design it is a very thin wall, short shank pipe to put in your vest pocket.) I have a Kaywoodie in the same basic shape (though much more Art Deco styled) that smokes amazingly.
Briar comes from cutters. Yes, a high end maker will pay a premium and get one with amazing grain. On the other hand, a smaller chunk of that exact same briar from the same root is sold to make a low grade pipe because it is too small for a massive, expensive freehand. Yet somebody out there is going to say that the $1000 freehand has to smoke well and the $50 Peterson will not have the same qualities (yes, I am aware that construction, hole size, drilling wall thickness ect all play a role- but to say that a lower end pipe cannot have superb construction and be an amazing smoker is insane.) One day I am going to post a rant about this idea that all high ends smoke amazing and all drug store pipe are only fit for the rubbish heap.
As for the tobacco- I do prefer a full English to any other. Orientals and various other spicy tobaccos are what I go for. However, I will say that I occasionally like Captain Black. Again, snobs look at it as a cheap drugstore brand unworthy of their S. Bang. I take it for what it is- an unpretentious, relaxing (albeit not overly complex) smoke to unwind with. It is exactly what it tries to be.
I know there will be people who do not believe me (those who are elitist in their choices of pipe never seem to wish to admit that a $20 Kaywoodie will outsmoke the $250 Dunhill (I think that is roughly what I paid for each.)
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07-19-2012, 09:27 AM #4458
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Thanked: 983I think your opinion is a sound one. I think you may also be "preaching to the converted" as most of us who follow this thread are fairly "unpretentious", and, "exactly what we try to be" as well. We're fairly laid back around here I'd say.
Mick
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07-19-2012, 11:31 AM #4459
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Thanked: 1185I've said it for years and yes, sadly there are some in the pipe smoking community who would scoff at the idea but I know better. Most of my collection consists of pre-1938 Kaywoodies, these pipes were made of very old briar and I've never seen one that wasn't an absolutely amazing smoke.
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07-19-2012, 05:15 PM #4460
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