Let's see your pipe hygiene
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Normally dispersed on several bookcases at home, mine are racked up at rest bowl down, and rotated through duty in order. Smoke one, clean one, back of the line. Racks gather dust but pipes don't.
Pipe cleaners and most sealed tobaccos have dedicated file cabinet drawers, opened tobaccos go in the humidor. Another drawer for lighters, flints, fluids and gasses, tampers, cutters, picks, reamers, etc. Matches elsewhere. Sealed commercial good looking tins get stacked or displayed in a barrister. Master log near the jarred & vacuum sealed shredded pipe tobaccos processed from whole leaf, bags of scrap and stem same bookshelf 1 shelf lower.
Now if I could locate the rest of the pipes that are around here, all would be well. For a few days anyways
Pipe cleaners and most sealed tobaccos have dedicated file cabinet drawers, opened tobaccos go in the humidor. Another drawer for lighters, flints, fluids and gasses, tampers, cutters, picks, reamers, etc. Matches elsewhere. Sealed commercial good looking tins get stacked or displayed in a barrister. Master log near the jarred & vacuum sealed shredded pipe tobaccos processed from whole leaf, bags of scrap and stem same bookshelf 1 shelf lower.
Now if I could locate the rest of the pipes that are around here, all would be well. For a few days anyways
ChinaVoodoo
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You all are inspiring me to spend an evening cleaning all my pipes and making a pipe rack. Once I get a door from the garage into the house, I'll be able to smoke in the garage. That will be a perfect place
I appears that you favour the straight shank quite a bit.. and where does the calabash fit into the rotation? One day I'm going to have to get one.
slight favor of the straight shank in the pipes in the picture: 14 straight vs. 11 bent. Can say that the straights do get smoked more.
Don't smoke the calabash or churchwarden too often: not really pipes you can walk around with or clench the whole time while using both hands working on something. Used to use the calabash exclusively for esoterica penzance and margate, and think I may be out of those. I like to smoke flakes/cakes in it for some reason.
Nice.
I wondered if maybe they represented esoterica movie Tolkien and tv Conan-Doyle. Despite my handle I'm not the middle-earth nerd I was in my youth. I am, though, and will most likely remain, the Sherlock Holmes nerd I have always been. That of course precludes me from the requisite calabash, for that purpose, but would like to smoke one all the same. Rather for it's own uniqueness of smoking quality.
ChinaVoodoo
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I know you were asking Tullius about his straight pipes and calabash, but I want to say that I'm only ever going to buy straight pipes in the future. They're just right for me. I wish I realized it sooner in life. My calabash is a once a year thing. Recently, I smoked it because the friend who gave it to me passed away.
Feel free to join in any time. The invitation is open to everyone.
+1 for straight pipes, though I know I will end up with a few more funky bends and possibly a very ornately carved meerschaum.
That sounds like a beautiful way to sit and quietly remember someone.
ChinaVoodoo
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Imagine this.... a straight meerschaum
Put me down for one of those for sure, but I'm really talking about this T-Rex pipe:
Or something like this would be phat too:
ChinaVoodoo
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Eskisehir Meerschaum
A year and a half ago, I had the opportunity to take a long vacation in Turkey. We began in Antalya, rented a car, and in two weeks were in Istanbul, where we spent another week. The highlight was Eskisehir, the city in the stone and ceramics center of the country which is in close proximity...
Sounds like quite an adventure! Maybe one day..
Eskisehir Meerschaum
A year and a half ago, I had the opportunity to take a long vacation in Turkey. We began in Antalya, rented a car, and in two weeks were in Istanbul, where we spent another week. The highlight was Eskisehir, the city in the stone and ceramics center of the country which is in close proximity...fairtradetobacco.com
ChinaVoodoo
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I just got ten pipes back from repair. I had many a chewed or broken stem It's like buying ten new pipes at a fraction of the cost!
They look great.. Did you have to send them away?
ChinaVoodoo
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I brought them to my local tobacconist and they sent them away. The guy who does them is somewhere in Canada. The Brighams came back with actual Brigham stems. Same with the Peterson, which is nice. One is a pipe called an Otomatic Grand Luxe. The replacement stem has a white dot and I thought he used a Dunhill stem, but I googled that pipe and discovered that that brand had single dots too. He must have known.
That little short bent stem, fifth from the left, looks really cool. Looks like a nice size bowl for a compact pipe. Actually, the entire collection is nice.
Within the US, there are a number of pipe repair businesses. You can send a pipe or pipes directly to them. Here are two of them, with prices:
norwoodspiperepair.com
located in Tennessee
located in Michigan
Bob
Norwoods Pipe Repair
A smoking pipe repair shop for briar and meerschaum pipes. Repairing for tobacco and pipe shops and individuals.
located in Michigan
Bob
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