Oh Oh Time to buy a pipe

[cigarmo]

After not having much love for pipes, because they were evil things that burn my tongue. I have had a play with one for a couple of days. Slowly with a scorched tongue I continued to experiment, finally my perseverance paid off, I managed too smoke this pipe and get No burn..yey


I dont think that a pipe will ever take the place of a good cuban for me, but can now see what pipes are all about and think I may participate from time to time.

which brings me to my question, what pipe should I get? I want something good, but bare in mind it will be for occasional use, so dont want to spend ?500 on one.

[oskihen]

Savinelli I'd say you'll get a decent one 70/100 or a Peterson possibly slightly cheaper

[Wigan]

Less than a hundred?

[butternutsquashpie]

Get an assortment of 3 corn cobs.
-One wide bowl for... well.... more tobacco
-One narrow bowl for........ you guessed it
-One more narrow bowl for heavily aromatic flavours.
Don't mix the latter two up. The pipe set shan't cost you more than $40 in Canada (20 quid?). Get a czech tool and a pipe lighter which will cost less than 20 quid together. And finally a giant 1000 pack of pipe cleaners.

Then run over to the shoppe and pick up a generic pipe blend along with another medium-heavy aromatic. The generic pipe blend will save you money as you probably won't be used to the action. The aromatic blend will get you used to tongue bite.
Don't spend too much money in the learning curve. If you tamp it wrong, you could waste the tobacco so don't get too good tobacco right off the bat. Learn to tamp with the house blend that your local store has and learn to taste with the aromatic flavours.

Spend it on $10 corncob pipes instead of $30 briars. Cheap briar pipes are (believe it or not) worse than most corncob pipes. Plus if pipe smoking isn't for you, you wouldn't have invest so much in the habit you're not too familiar with.

Keep it up, Mo! And change the name of this thread so you can update us with your purchases and experiences!

[ValeTudoGuy]

Aldo Morelli 770 from http://www.mysmokingshop.co.uk/index..._rsProdscat=27

?41.50

I have one and its beautiful, I couldn't find anything else as good until I was getting to double to money.

[cigarmo]

Less than a hundred?

upto ?200 i would say

[Wigan]

I like the look of this one but its abit steep at 150 quid.

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/pipes/marku-pipes-pencil-shanked-liverpool/#.VLNQ-blyYpE

I reckon I could just about to talk myself into this nearly as nice one for 100 quid, maybe

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/pipes/marku-pipes-pencil-shanked-liverpool/#.VLNQ-blyYpE

[oskihen]

One thing I'll say though mo is to get a few especially if your going to smoke different blends and types aromatics etc also get a small corn cob for sampling tobacco

[cigarmo]

Get an assortment of 3 corn cobs.
-One wide bowl for... well.... more tobacco
-One narrow bowl for........ you guessed it
-One more narrow bowl for heavily aromatic flavours.
Don't mix the latter two up. The pipe set shan't cost you more than $40 in Canada (20 quid?). Get a czech tool and a pipe lighter which will cost less than 20 quid together. And finally a giant 1000 pack of pipe cleaners.

Then run over to the shoppe and pick up a generic pipe blend along with another medium-heavy aromatic. The generic pipe blend will save you money as you probably won't be used to the action. The aromatic blend will get you used to tongue bite.
Don't spend too much money in the learning curve. If you tamp it wrong, you could waste the tobacco so don't get too good tobacco right off the bat. Learn to tamp with the house blend that your local store has and learn to taste with the aromatic flavours.

Spend it on $10 corncob pipes instead of $30 briars. Cheap briar pipes are (believe it or not) worse than most corncob pipes. Plus if pipe smoking isn't for you, you wouldn't have invest so much in the habit you're not too familiar with.

Keep it up, Mo! And change the name of this thread so you can update us with your purchases and experiences!

Butters thanks for that, now go back and read my post again, i have already done the tongue bite learning curve

[butternutsquashpie]

Butters thanks for that, now go back and read my post again, i have already done the tongue bite learning curve

IMO, (H) a couple of days doesn't warrant an immediate pipe purchase. I would evolve the tobacco before evolving a pipe.

[cigarmo]

IMO, (H) a couple of days doesn't warrant an immediate pipe purchase. I would evolve the tobacco before evolving a pipe.

i see Butters, sometimes when you post stuff like this, I think you may just be slightly below average intelligence, but then you go do a box split and i know you are really well below

[ValeTudoGuy]

If you want to spend upto ?200 then get a one off showpiece like this!

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/enricoro-bent-cutty-egg-artisan-pipe/#.VLwZeojfWK0

At least then I will get to hold it and see it in real life. Lol

I would buy it but I'm still saving.

Keep it well and you will get good money back on it in the future too..... Probably from me in years to come. Lol

[Wigan]

Get an assortment of 3 corn cobs.
-One wide bowl for... well.... more tobacco
-One narrow bowl for........ you guessed it
-One more narrow bowl for heavily aromatic flavours.
Don't mix the latter two up. The pipe set shan't cost you more than $40 in Canada (20 quid?). Get a czech tool and a pipe lighter which will cost less than 20 quid together. And finally a giant 1000 pack of pipe cleaners.

Then run over to the shoppe and pick up a generic pipe blend along with another medium-heavy aromatic. The generic pipe blend will save you money as you probably won't be used to the action. The aromatic blend will get you used to tongue bite.
Don't spend too much money in the learning curve. If you tamp it wrong, you could waste the tobacco so don't get too good tobacco right off the bat. Learn to tamp with the house blend that your local store has and learn to taste with the aromatic flavours.

Spend it on $10 corncob pipes instead of $30 briars. Cheap briar pipes are (believe it or not) worse than most corncob pipes. Plus if pipe smoking isn't for you, you wouldn't have invest so much in the habit you're not too familiar with.

Keep it up, Mo! And change the name of this thread so you can update us with your purchases and experiences!

Ah Butters thank you. You know I always read your posts through because of these occasional great insights you provide. Figure its worth wading through the majority that are nuttier than a jar of peanut butter to get to the good ones.

Was completely unaware of the range of corn cob pipes and how blooming cheap they are! Thought you got your bog standard one in the starter pack and that was your lot. I can now go try out a variety of size and shapes without outlaying a fortune first.

Some I quite fancy a go of.....

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/missouri-meerschaum-shortstop/#.VLwYVLlyYpE

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/missouri-m...aum-huck-finn/
http://www.gqtobaccos.com/missouri-m...eman-straight/

Did I say thank you?

[Wigan]

If you want to spend upto ?200 then get a one off showpiece like this!

http://www.gqtobaccos.com/enricoro-bent-cutty-egg-artisan-pipe/#.VLwZeojfWK0

At least then I will get to hold it and see it in real life. Lol

I would buy it but I'm still saving.

Keep it well and you will get good money back on it in the future too..... Probably from me in years to come. Lol

Oh t6hat is nice

[butternutsquashpie]

i see Butters, sometimes when you post stuff like this, I think you may just be slightly below average intelligence,

"Get better tobacco before you get a better pipe."

May I recommend Dunhill Nightcap or Davidoff Blue


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