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Post by olbluesmoke on May 2, 2024 16:05:37 GMT -5
Just observing responses in other threads, it seems as though there are quite a few people who have dozens upon dozens of pipes, yet only use a fraction.
I have just five pipes right now. I use those same five pipes weekly. This set up works fine...how about you?
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Post by rectifythis on May 2, 2024 16:14:33 GMT -5
I'm probably dancing between 40 and 50 pipes. Typically I use 8 or 10 consistently. However much of it depends on what type of blend I'm smoking and how long I want to smoke. I have a few 2 hour bowls that I almost never smoke. I have wide bowls that I reserve for English, which are winter smokes for me.
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Post by username on May 2, 2024 16:23:32 GMT -5
I have about a dozen but actively only spoke 3-5
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Post by Darin on May 2, 2024 16:33:34 GMT -5
I should do an approximate count one of these days. My guess is around 100 pipes, not counting Cobs, with about 20 in actual use. More often than not, I reach for a Cob even with many briar options.
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 16:39:54 GMT -5
I've got right around 110 pipes. I smoke about 50 of them often enough to remember when I last smoked them, I'd say. Something like 12-15 of the others are pipes I'll probably never smoke again because I just didn't turn out to like them for one reason or another. Too heavy. Uncomfortable for some other reason. Don't smoke well. Whatever. The rest are just pipes I don't like nearly as well as the ones I do smoke. I'll revisit them at some point, or maybe sell them off. I dunno.
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 16:40:57 GMT -5
I should do an approximate count one of these days. My guess is around 100 pipes, not counting Cobs, with about 20 in actual use. More often than not, I reach for a Cob even with many briar options. Why don't the cobs count? Especially if they're the ones you smoke the most. |
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Post by just ol ed on May 2, 2024 16:44:53 GMT -5
53 total pipes, smoke ALL in rotations of 10-11, same method since around 1998. Each one gets smoked pretty much same amount over the course of a year
Ed
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Post by turbocat on May 2, 2024 17:27:56 GMT -5
I really don’t know how many pipes I have any more. But it’s a lot. Over two hundred that I like for sure. I only ever smoke from a selection of about eight. That selection hasn’t changed a lot in many months.
There are times when I feel nostalgic for the days when I was young and poor and only had one nice pipe and a few cobs. The simplicity of it was nice in a way. While I could replicate that situation, except for the young part, I’ll stick with things the way they are. But sometimes a lot of pipes can seem like a chore.
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 17:34:15 GMT -5
I really don’t know how many pipes I have any more. But it’s a lot. Over two hundred that I like for sure. I only ever smoke from a selection of about eight. That selection hasn’t changed a lot in many months. There are times when I feel nostalgic for the days when I was young and poor and only had one nice pipe and a few cobs. The simplicity of it was nice in a way. While I could replicate that situation, except for the young part, I’ll stick with things the way they are. But sometimes a lot of pipes can seem like a chore. If you only ever smoke 8 of them, how big a chore can it be? |
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Post by Ronv69 on May 2, 2024 17:51:05 GMT -5
I really don’t know how many pipes I have any more. But it’s a lot. Over two hundred that I like for sure. I only ever smoke from a selection of about eight. That selection hasn’t changed a lot in many months. There are times when I feel nostalgic for the days when I was young and poor and only had one nice pipe and a few cobs. The simplicity of it was nice in a way. While I could replicate that situation, except for the young part, I’ll stick with things the way they are. But sometimes a lot of pipes can seem like a chore. There is a freedom that comes from not having too many possessions, and I sorely miss that freedom. I'm about to start liquidating stuff wholesale. |
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Post by Ronv69 on May 2, 2024 17:52:12 GMT -5
Not nearly enough out of way too many.
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Post by coalsmoke on May 2, 2024 18:06:03 GMT -5
I have less than twenty pipes including four cobs and smoke eight of the briars and mostly two of the cobs.
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Post by turbocat on May 2, 2024 18:18:25 GMT -5
I really don’t know how many pipes I have any more. But it’s a lot. Over two hundred that I like for sure. I only ever smoke from a selection of about eight. That selection hasn’t changed a lot in many months. There are times when I feel nostalgic for the days when I was young and poor and only had one nice pipe and a few cobs. The simplicity of it was nice in a way. While I could replicate that situation, except for the young part, I’ll stick with things the way they are. But sometimes a lot of pipes can seem like a chore. If you only ever smoke 8 of them, how big a chore can it be? It’s more the idea that when I had one nice pipe and some cobs, I didn’t think about which pipe to use. I was happy having my regular pipe. I didn’t think about some I have that I need to clean up and wax, or try to figure out which box had a pipe that I was thinking about using, or arguing with myself about using a new pipe if I don’t think I’ll stick with it as a regular, or feel like I should be paying more attention to the other pipes I have since I have them, or be worried about how they’re stored, if they are potentially being damaged stacked in boxes, or the fact that I have them, but I’m not really enjoying them, which seems wrong, or… Maybe these things never cross your mind, but for me, it can take some of the fun of owning a lot of pipes out of it. There are many times all of these seem like fun, but there are times they can seem like work as well to me. |
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Post by urbino on May 2, 2024 18:33:00 GMT -5
If you only ever smoke 8 of them, how big a chore can it be? It’s more the idea that when I had one nice pipe and some cobs, I didn’t think about which pipe to use. I was happy having my regular pipe. I didn’t think about some I have that I need to clean up and wax, or try to figure out which box had a pipe that I was thinking about using, or arguing with myself about using a new pipe if I don’t think I’ll stick with it as a regular, or feel like I should be paying more attention to the other pipes I have since I have them, or be worried about how they’re stored, if they are potentially being damaged stacked in boxes, or the fact that I have them, but I’m not really enjoying them, which seems wrong, or… Maybe these things never cross your mind, but for me, it can take some of the fun of owning a lot of pipes out of it. Oh. I thought you meant cleaning them or organizing them or something. Just seemed like if you only ever smoked the same 8 pipes, none of that would be an issue. No, I can't say I ever feel guilty about owning pipes I don't smoke. They're just relationships that didn't work out.  No more pipe smokers than there are, anymore, I don't feel like I'm taking them away from someone who would appreciate them more, or anything like that. If someone saw one of them and really liked it, I'd happily give it to them, but I've noticed pipe smokers tend not to like getting a gift like that if they can't give you something back. |
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Post by trailboss on May 2, 2024 19:52:10 GMT -5
I am somewhere over 100 pipes, I tend to smoke a handful because with the time constraints and the life I am living, I do not give the other pipes the time of day, not because they are bad smokers more because I know which ones are definitely good smokers and I want to clean my smokers as needed.
Kind of the way with guns...my striker fired ones are dependable, easier maintained when filed stripping and lubricating, so that is what I grab for a quick range session....1911, and rifles not so much they are therefore probably feeling neglected, but it is not their fault.
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Post by NJDan on May 2, 2024 20:37:29 GMT -5
I smoke em all. About 100, bunched in two separate locations. When I’m hitting the Dunhills, i’m inland.
Now, my problem is keeping them all cleaned up. I smoke them I try to keep them reasonably clean. I love them all or they’d be in the bin.
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Post by lizardonarock on May 2, 2024 20:41:20 GMT -5
I like the wild bunch close at hand and I keep em clean, three smoke rule.
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Post by Darin on May 3, 2024 11:27:14 GMT -5
I should do an approximate count one of these days. My guess is around 100 pipes, not counting Cobs, with about 20 in actual use. More often than not, I reach for a Cob even with many briar options. Why don't the cobs count? Especially if they're the ones you smoke the most. Oh, they certainly count to me. I figure most people are referring to briar or meers when they ask. Cobs included, it's closer to 130. |
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Post by Silver on May 4, 2024 14:16:50 GMT -5
Over the course of a year, I'd say that about half get smoked. Some, very frequently, others only once or twice. I need to fix that. This hasn't stopped me from buying or making more.  |
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Post by jonmc75 on May 6, 2024 16:01:55 GMT -5
I'm three years in and I've got 31 in total, I smoke them all, but I think around the 30 mark is still manageable re: rotation.
Scary thing is, it's not that long ago I remember telling myself that seven was the perfect number, 'one for each day of the week'.
Pipes are quickly becoming like guitars for me; "how many do you really need?" > "just one more!" 😂
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Post by urbino on May 6, 2024 16:19:37 GMT -5
I'm three years in and I've got 31 in total, I smoke them all, but I think around the 30 mark is still manageable re: rotation. Scary thing is, it's not that long ago I remember telling myself that seven was the perfect number, 'one for each day of the week'. Pipes are quickly becoming like guitars for me; "how many do you really need?" > "just one more!" 😂 For me, [acoustic] guitars and pipes both feed my need for beautiful wooden objects. |
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Post by jonmc75 on May 6, 2024 16:26:00 GMT -5
I'm three years in and I've got 31 in total, I smoke them all, but I think around the 30 mark is still manageable re: rotation. Scary thing is, it's not that long ago I remember telling myself that seven was the perfect number, 'one for each day of the week'. Pipes are quickly becoming like guitars for me; "how many do you really need?" > "just one more!" 😂 For me, [acoustic] guitars and pipes both feed my need for beautiful wooden objects. A man after my own heart. 😊 |
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No more pipe smokers than there are, anymore, I don't feel like I'm taking them away from someone who would appreciate them more, or anything like that. If someone saw one of them and really liked it, I'd happily give it to them, but I've noticed pipe smokers tend not to like getting a gift like that if they can't give you something back.
