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Post by olbluesmoke on Feb 15, 2024 18:30:51 GMT -5
Are you more into accumulating pipes or tobaccos?
I'm more interested in acquiring tobaccos. I sold off some pipes and that money went to my cellar.
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Post by NJDan on Feb 15, 2024 18:55:08 GMT -5
I already have more tobacco than I can smoke in my lifetime. But I’ll buy more.
Same with pipes.
I’m fascinated by tobacciana and could easily see collecting old unique ashtrays, stands and signs.
My father passed a decade ago and left his old pipes and nobody wanted them. I follow in his revered footsteps.
But I guess that doesn’t answer the question, so…I agree with you. Tobacco it is!
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 15, 2024 19:04:57 GMT -5
Yes. Both collections are full.
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Post by turbocat on Feb 15, 2024 19:05:16 GMT -5
Yes
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Post by turbocat on Feb 15, 2024 19:17:31 GMT -5
On a more serious note, I seem to be equally driven to both, but your question got me thinking about it and I realized that I get more satisfaction from buying tobacco.
Pipes occur to me more as tools and while I appreciate and enjoy them as I use them, it’s always the tobacco that I look forward to opening up and smoking. I’ve never thought “I can’t wait to pick ___ pipe out and smoke it”. Plus with having a lot of tobacco it’s easy to be away from a blend for a while and it’s almost like rediscovering it when I come back to it. I have misplaced or just plain forgotten a lot of pipes I have since I’m still mostly using boxes for pipe storage, but the joy of rediscovering them is rather brief and fleeting for me.
Sounds like I need to buy more tobacco!
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Post by NJDan on Feb 15, 2024 19:26:56 GMT -5
I had to move not so long ago and in doing so found a few old pipes I’d forgotten about. Now when I pick them up, they’re like old friends. Not to get too sentimental, but I have looked forward to smoking a certain pipe or two, regardless of the (excellent) blend I’ll pack it with.
But, I still don’t *need* any more pipes.
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Post by rectifythis on Feb 15, 2024 19:27:38 GMT -5
Tobacco. I am still focusing in on blends to cellar. With tobacco varietals disappearing, some brands disappearing, price, taxes and regulations continuously encroaching, I am cellaring in case tobacco becomes the dodo.
If it does, pipes will become a dime a dozen and then I will switch to buying pipes.
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Post by Silver on Feb 15, 2024 19:34:03 GMT -5
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Post by urbino on Feb 15, 2024 20:02:30 GMT -5
I'm more of a pipes guy. I find them aesthetically rewarding just as objects. I'll agree with Turbocat that they're tools, but they're like fine, handcrafted Japanese saws, or vintage planes. They're beautiful craftsmanship, and just holding a good one in your hand is oddly satisfying.
I've got all the tobacco I'll likely ever need and there's nothing inherent in tobacco that draws my attention. If I run across a blend that makes me curious, I'll pick some up to try, but tobacco holds no inherent interest for me. I'm not a "vitamin N" guy. I enjoy the ritual of smoking it, and that's about it. Pipes, otoh, have their own inherent beauty, and they reflect a level of design and craftsmanship that tobacco blending just doesn't. I'm not saying there's no craft to blending; clearly, there is. But it's not remotely on the same level, in my view.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 15, 2024 22:43:32 GMT -5
I'm more of a pipes guy. I find them aesthetically rewarding just as objects. I'll agree with Turbocat that they're tools, but they're like fine, handcrafted Japanese saws, or vintage planes. They're beautiful craftsmanship, and just holding a good one in your hand is oddly satisfying. I've got all the tobacco I'll likely ever need and there's nothing inherent in tobacco that draws my attention. If I run across a blend that makes me curious, I'll pick some up to try, but tobacco holds no inherent interest for me. I'm not a "vitamin N" guy. I enjoy the ritual of smoking it, and that's about it. Pipes, otoh, have their own inherent beauty, and they reflect a level of design and craftsmanship that tobacco blending just doesn't. I'm not saying there's no craft to blending; clearly, there is. But it's not remotely on the same level, in my view. I also look at the pipes as art. But they have to smoke well. I have several meers that don't smoke worth a dang, but I keep them because they remind me of the learning curve. |
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Post by urbino on Feb 15, 2024 23:31:48 GMT -5
I'm more of a pipes guy. I find them aesthetically rewarding just as objects. I'll agree with Turbocat that they're tools, but they're like fine, handcrafted Japanese saws, or vintage planes. They're beautiful craftsmanship, and just holding a good one in your hand is oddly satisfying. I've got all the tobacco I'll likely ever need and there's nothing inherent in tobacco that draws my attention. If I run across a blend that makes me curious, I'll pick some up to try, but tobacco holds no inherent interest for me. I'm not a "vitamin N" guy. I enjoy the ritual of smoking it, and that's about it. Pipes, otoh, have their own inherent beauty, and they reflect a level of design and craftsmanship that tobacco blending just doesn't. I'm not saying there's no craft to blending; clearly, there is. But it's not remotely on the same level, in my view. I also look at the pipes as art. But they have to smoke well. I have several meers that don't smoke worth a dang, but I keep them because they remind me of the learning curve. Gotta work, yep. That's part of the craftsmanship. |
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Post by daveinlax on Feb 15, 2024 23:57:23 GMT -5
Definitely a pipe guy. I overbought and continue to buy tobacco but I don’t get the glow like I do adding the perfect piece to the collection. I don’t buy that many pipes but I just got a great addition to the Castello collection last week. I’m really excited about two younger artisan carvers I’m collecting.  |
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Feb 18, 2024 21:53:53 GMT -5
I seem to go through phases. For the most part, I am fairly consistent with the pipes and tobaccos that I smoke. On occasion, I'll decide to pick up a bunch of new blends to try. Other times, I'll pick up three or four new pipes in short order.
I have actually been thinking of selling off a number of my pipes, as I really only smoke a few of them. The rest just sit in pipe stands or in their boxes.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 18, 2024 22:05:24 GMT -5
Not really looking for either, I am content with the pipes I have, and I have more tobacco than I can consume.
If I was to recommend which course to pursue, I would tell the person to narrow down what they like and cellar heavy. The pipes will not increase at the rate that tobaccos will. As for the estate market, there are a lot of older pipe smokers...their pipes will enter the marketplace at affordable prices, not so much the case with tobaccos.
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Post by Darin on Feb 19, 2024 6:33:26 GMT -5
Pipes & tobacco are both good to go and I've been slowly stocking my humidor with cigars.
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Post by velanibriar on Apr 24, 2024 13:44:31 GMT -5
I'm more of a pipes guy. I find them aesthetically rewarding just as objects. I'll agree with Turbocat that they're tools, but they're like fine, handcrafted Japanese saws, or vintage planes. They're beautiful craftsmanship, and just holding a good one in your hand is oddly satisfying. I've got all the tobacco I'll likely ever need and there's nothing inherent in tobacco that draws my attention. If I run across a blend that makes me curious, I'll pick some up to try, but tobacco holds no inherent interest for me. I'm not a "vitamin N" guy. I enjoy the ritual of smoking it, and that's about it. Pipes, otoh, have their own inherent beauty, and they reflect a level of design and craftsmanship that tobacco blending just doesn't. I'm not saying there's no craft to blending; clearly, there is. But it's not remotely on the same level, in my view. Do you have the same attitude towards different types of blends? Like you may like all of them but not love a particular one? |
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Post by just ol ed on Apr 24, 2024 15:17:00 GMT -5
Have to be tobacco here. At my age, my 53 pipes do me well, in rotations of 10-11, clean when needed, another rotation & so on. At present 5lbs of heavy latakia serves me well. Also do cigars, 2-3 per day depending on size
Ed-whatever works since 1962
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Post by jonmc75 on Apr 24, 2024 17:49:25 GMT -5
Pipes will always be available, tobacco on the other hand,.... 🤷
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Post by turbocat on Apr 24, 2024 17:51:52 GMT -5
Pipes will always be available, tobacco on the other hand,.... 🤷 Definitely. If you have tobacco, but no pipe, you can always scrounge or make a pipe. If you have pipes, but no tobacco, you have pipes. |
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Post by urbino on Apr 24, 2024 18:23:17 GMT -5
I'm more of a pipes guy. I find them aesthetically rewarding just as objects. I'll agree with Turbocat that they're tools, but they're like fine, handcrafted Japanese saws, or vintage planes. They're beautiful craftsmanship, and just holding a good one in your hand is oddly satisfying. I've got all the tobacco I'll likely ever need and there's nothing inherent in tobacco that draws my attention. If I run across a blend that makes me curious, I'll pick some up to try, but tobacco holds no inherent interest for me. I'm not a "vitamin N" guy. I enjoy the ritual of smoking it, and that's about it. Pipes, otoh, have their own inherent beauty, and they reflect a level of design and craftsmanship that tobacco blending just doesn't. I'm not saying there's no craft to blending; clearly, there is. But it's not remotely on the same level, in my view. Do you have the same attitude towards different types of blends? Like you may like all of them but not love a particular one? I'm not quite sure what you mean. Can you expand on that? |
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