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Post by Ronv69 on Nov 29, 2024 22:23:05 GMT -5
I haven't smoked 10 different pipes this past year. I REALLY need to unload a couple of hundred pipes. When I saw you say how many pipes you have, it gave me a little shock. Do you have Dunhills, and are they much better than Grabows? Kirstens and the Viking/Nording model sound cool, although I never tried them. I was chatting with a piper on Discord who said that he thought that glass pipes worked great for tobacco, and that he made his own glass pipes. My son is on Discord. 🙄 He would never take advice from Discord. Don't even joke about glass pipes. They aren't for an enjoyable pipe tobacco smoking experience. As far as the smoking experience of different briar pipes, if it is properly drilled there is actually very little difference in the smoking quality between a Graybo and a Dunhill. Each has its preferences and quirks. There is more difference between a Falcon and any briar than between any well made briars. The difference is in the fineness of the shape and finish. The texture of a sandblast vs a rustication. The Radice Rind rusticated pipes feel better in my hands than the Petersen rustication for instance. I have one Dunhill but no Graybows I do have 1950s Texaco gimme advertising handout pipes that smoke close to my one 1950 Root Briar Lovat, but that pipe is special to me in so many ways. I have a lot of pipes because I was curious at first, then because I wanted certain pipes because of the looks, texture, or finish. 10 years ago I also smoked about 6 bowls every day and so I smoked a larger number of pipes in rotations. Now I smoke a couple of bowls a week, and I usually grab whatever pipe is handy. |
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rakovsky
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Favorite Pipe: Full Bent Grabow
Favorite Tobacco: Petersen Standard Mixture
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Post by rakovsky on Nov 29, 2024 22:56:04 GMT -5
I have a lot of pipes because I was curious at first, then because I wanted certain pipes because of the looks, texture, or finish. When I got my first Grabows, I enjoyed so much looking at them because they were like fine woodworks of art, like chess pieces in a wood set or a hotelroom desk at a Hampton Inn. The Full Bent Grabow that I got 2 years ago seems to somehow smell good and sweet in a certain wood way, and when it gets its smell changed by Englishes and I swab it with overproof rum, it seems to reset to that sweet wood smell. The reason why I didn't get something better than Grabows was because of the combination of availability and price. So, I'd really like a non-estate Full Bent Dunhill, but that would probably cost at least in the hundreds. Dunhill stopped making their pipes IIRC. Maybe Petersens would be a close approximation? Then, there are a bunch of low cost decent pipes like Kaywoodie, but at least in the 2000's when I went to the mall store and got a pipe, the store was carrying Grabows. The discount store near me where I am staying also only carries Grabows as far as briars go. Then another factor is reliability. I'd already smoked Grand Duke Grabows in the 2000's and it worked for me with no problem, so when I got my Full Bent briar model, I didn't want it to have some unexpected problem. I didn't want some weird allergy or reaction to one of the components like I'd had with my "Eclipse" pipe made of unknown wood. |
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