Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Sounds like great work, if you can get it My hat's off to anyone your age that can function academically with such pleasant distractions. Carry On! Semper Fi

Haha thank you. Not only was it packed with the girls, they were all to varying degrees of intoxicated and hyper from not seeing eachother since may. So I sat back made sure nothing got too out of hand and sipped on tea.

lucky bastard you

Originally Posted by Devilpup

Haha thank you. Not only was it packed with the girls, they were all to varying degrees of intoxicated and hyper from not seeing eachother since may. So I sat back made sure nothing got too out of hand and sipped on tea.

Again, I totally admire your restraint and good sense. At your age, in a similar situation, I suspect I probably would have been leading the charge to making sure things got completely out of hand in minimal time

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

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Again, I totally admire your restraint and good sense. At your age, in a similar situation, I suspect I probably would have been leading the charge to making sure things got completely out of hand in minimal time

+1 to that!!! It's better than doing the five knuckle shuffle !!

More Briar Fox, this time in a Nording Freehand.

Originally Posted by thewatermark

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

People 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.)

I 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

Originally Posted by dolf

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.)

I'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.

Originally Posted by thewatermark

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

As I have said in the past... As long as you enjoy it, thats ALL that matters...