Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

TBH I've been smoking tobacco for 52 years. Every month I think about quitting completely and I let my tobacco run dangerously low. At the absolute last minute I order another couple of pounds and start the cycle over again. If I was more committed to continuing to smoke I'd probably have a tobacco cellar (figuratively speaking) but I keep thinking about hanging it up.

Much harder to give up pipes than cigarettes I think. Cigarette tobacco tastes like hot air, and there is nothing comely about a cigarette or the pack they come in. A pipe OTOH, is a beautiful object, and the tobacco is divine. I don't inhale a pipe, so as bad as it is, it is not as bad as the cigarettes. My father smoked a pipe (a lot) until a week before he died at 84. If I last as long as he did I have 17 years left to enjoy.

I did quit with cigarettes about 15 years ago and switched to pipe. I had tried pipes when i was about 15 or so but pipe tobaccos back then were way too strong for me. After quitting cigarettes i tried them for few times, borrowed from wifey, but they tasted like paper. Difference between cigarettes and pipes is that you get the regular routine with cigarettes but smoke pipe only when you want to. One bowl takes time so it is not for someone who likes to take quickies.

Anyways, here's my late sat evening pipe (and beer). HU dockworker from Savinelli Autograph and season beer from Åland isles.

Lately i've been hoarding this (and few other) HU blends into my cellar. They seem to have some special simple something sidenote or taste i haven't found anywhere else. Even this is basically just strongish burley/va blend with (very) small amount of orientals but the taste is great.

Beautiful afternoon here. Enjoyed a cob with 4th Generation 1855. 1855 is a ready rubbed all Virginia's mixture, sweet all tobacco tastes with immediate relaxation washing over you.



Decided to prepare my first venture with some unsliced rope for tomorrow. The rope was sticky and very damp so I let it rest while I enjoyed the 4th Generation then bagged it to give it a try tomorrow.

Originally Posted by lz6

Decided to prepare my first venture with some unsliced rope for tomorrow. The rope was sticky and very damp so I let it rest while I enjoyed the 4th Generation then bagged it to give it a try tomorrow.

Bob, you read that about me being addicted to nicotine, and smoking unfiltered Camels for 36 years ............ I took a bowl of that rope one morning and began puffing away. I didn't get through half the bowl and I had to go lay down, the room was spinning. Just saying ......... if you have a pipe with a small bowl, that is the one to try it out with .....

Thanks Jimmy. I will keep your advice in mind. : )

I smoked Marlboros from 1964 to 2007 and quit cold turkey. Cigars had always been in the mix as well and I smoked a Cuban cigar a day since 2007 until about 5 weeks ago when I decided to give pipe smoking a try. I must say the $ savings of pipe vs cigar is huge.

I am guessing I can get up to 15+ full pipes of great tobacco's for the price on one of my favorite Habanos. The math makes very good sense with me living on my retirement. I have found some very nice estate pipes for very reasonable prices and the dominion cobs work great while I do the learning curve on packing and tamping and learning how to take care of the nicer estate pipes.

I figure when my end of days comes I will have all my pipe tobacco's cremated with me.
: ) It's a win win.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

I pretty much smoke morning, noon and night. Never have inhaled a pipe though, and I walk and ride bicycles daily for fitness.

That's awesome !! Huzzah ! Back when I had a bike I used to smoke my pipe when I rode. I'm sure it drove all the hotshot Bicycler's nutty ......I hope it did ha !!

Originally Posted by Sailor

One bowl takes time so it is not for someone who likes to take quickies.

And I just read somewhere (can't remember) , where a study was done and supposedly pipe smokers lived about a year longer than non smokers because of the relaxing contemplative nature of the act of ............Yay us !!!!! And I really like that pipe "T" !

Originally Posted by lz6

Thanks Jimmy. I will keep your advice in mind. : )

I smoked Marlboros from 1964 to 2007 and quit cold turkey. Cigars had always been in the mix as well and I smoked a Cuban cigar a day since 2007 until about 5 weeks ago when I decided to give pipe smoking a try. I must say the $ savings of pipe vs cigar is huge.

I am guessing I can get up to 15+ full pipes of great tobacco's for the price on one of my favorite Habanos. The math makes very good sense with me living on my retirement. I have found some very nice estate pipes for very reasonable prices and the dominion cobs work great while I do the learning curve on packing and tamping and learning how to take care of the nicer estate pipes.

I figure when my end of days comes I will have all my pipe tobacco's cremated with me.
: ) It's a win win.

Nice....you goin with a more Virginia creamation or would you consider yourself and Aromatic ??

Well, I have enjoyed watching y'all wax poetic about pipes 'n tibacky. But, it isn't for me. Wasn't when I took a puff of a sig, any of the times I tried. Chew damn near made me puke.

And then there was that time before all that, when I was somewhere between the age of 7 and 9. I was the fifth wheel at some sort of social event that my Dad attended, recovering from divorce. The shrimp was awesome. Pretty sure I ate half of it on my own . But there wasn't but a couple of us kids, and most of the adults were chain smoking in the not-large house, on the fringe of winter. As best we figure, I had an alergic reaction to all the tobacco smoke. Not a fun night, in the end.

Enough of me being long winded. I am subscribed to this thread because I came across a heck of a collection of pipes up for grabs at an estate sale nearby. It doesn't hurt to tip off friends to good leads, even if they bear no weight personally . But for now, I will be unsubscribing from this thread. It's not one of my hobbies, and the notifications are cluttering up my e-mail lol.

Don't worry, if I see another lead on pipes 'n such, I'll drop in again .

Have a good one, gents!

Smoking a bowl of Haunted Bookshop in my Chonowitsch with my mug of coffee. Nightblade mentioned pipe smokers living longer than non-smokers and I have read that also. Prudential offers life insurance at the same rate for pipe smokers as non-smokers. They must have at least one pipe smoker on the board

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Bob, you read that about me being addicted to nicotine, and smoking unfiltered Camels for 36 years ............ I took a bowl of that rope one morning and began puffing away. I didn't get through half the bowl and I had to go lay down, the room was spinning. Just saying ......... if you have a pipe with a small bowl, that is the one to try it out with .....

I also have found these ropes to pack a wallop, enjoy them slowly. I have two cheap old Dr. Grabows I smoke my Samuel Gawith Brown # 4 kendal twist. They work well enough and provide about a 10-15 minute smoke. Most tobaccos I barely notice the nicotine, the twists will send you for a ride. Good flavor not too deep in complexity but they hit the spot and go really well with coffee imo. I smoke them on the dry side I find them a little difficult strait from a fresh tin. Enjoy!

Im smoking a Peterson 2015 limited edition , with a cigar leafs , in a dublin pipe
ive aways wonder abbout those ropes

Originally Posted by apipeguy

Smoking a bowl of Haunted Bookshop in my Chonowitsch with my mug of coffee. Nightblade mentioned pipe smokers living longer than non-smokers and I have read that also. Prudential offers life insurance at the same rate for pipe smokers as non-smokers. They must have at least one pipe smoker on the board

Wow....I gotta get a piece O the Rock !! LOL nice !