Thread: Pipe of the Day

Great score with the Old School Prince Albert! My POTD is a Kaywoodie Flame Grain Meerschaum loaded with C&D Billy Budd. The unseasonably warm (85 degrees F) temperatures have caused a premptive fielding of my hot weather beer of choice (PBR). The house is ripe with the smell of Corned Beef and Cabbage. I raise my beer to Agnes (Bryant) Richter, my maternal great-grandmother. She was born in 1879 in County Cork, Ireland. Her marriage to a lowly German, Lutheran, farmer (Charlie Richter) caused a major falling out with her well to do family. Not only was he a farmer, and a non-Catholic, he had a reputation around town for occassionally wreckless debauchery. He enjoyed the company of women and (hold on to your hats) was even known to dance with them until closing time.

Originally Posted by jdto

Very cool. Let us know how it goes. If you don't mind me asking, were they really expensive?

Not terribly expensive, but I did have to dig deep to get three of them. I couldn't pass up getting a few, though.

Yep, great score with the PA. The day started off with some Macbaren Vanilla Flake in an Eagle claw meershaum with black coffee on the side. Nice and warm breezy morning on the back day. I do love morning time when I am off, just doesnt get much better.

Started my day off with some Naviera coffee and a couple bowls of Granger in my Whitehall Grand National.

After getting a few too many tobaccos in my cellar, I decided to jar up most of them and just stick with a simpler tobacco for a while to help me get back into the pipe again.

Stanwell-pipe

ok, i have a question, might be just a matter of taste i understand, but what i would like to know, my local tobacco shop has regular petersons, and a peterson system pipe, and i know nothing about petersons to make a qualified decsion on which i should look at when i finally decide to purchase one, i would like to have a more traditional pipe sometime down the line, I hope that this makes sense as i am beginning to think it doesnt.

My system pipe is a very nice pipe, so far.

Originally Posted by wvloony

ok, i have a question, might be just a matter of taste i understand, but what i would like to know, my local tobacco shop has regular petersons, and a peterson system pipe, and i know nothing about petersons to make a qualified decsion on which i should look at when i finally decide to purchase one, i would like to have a more traditional pipe sometime down the line, I hope that this makes sense as i am beginning to think it doesnt.

Difference between regular and system pipes is that there's is a separate chamber below the bowl. The smoke goes through that chamber before entering the stem, making it more dry than with regular bowl. If your tobacco is dry there's not much difference (imho).
Some like it some don't. It think system pipes are ok but i do not like my tobacco too moist anyway.
Also you have to clean the chamber but that is a piece of cake.
I have one system pipe and it is ok smoker but so are my regular Petes as well (specially the elder ones)

Peterson pipes