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Post by stvalentine on Jun 14, 2017 15:41:49 GMT -5
While there is a quite bit to find about corn cobs on the www I can´t seem to find any information about hickory pipes. It is said that they smoke quite well and I wonder if you folks know anything about them. While in Europe cherrywood was used quite commonly hickory is not very well known in pipe smoking. Do you have a hickory pipe? Have you ever smoked one? I am curious so please enlighten me!  |
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Post by papipeguy on Jun 14, 2017 15:56:00 GMT -5
Great question, Frank. I wonder if everything would smell like latakia in an oak pipe.
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Post by TwelveAMnTX on Jun 14, 2017 16:20:56 GMT -5
I've never smoked a pipe made of hickory, but I have several hardwood Missouri Meerschaum pipes made from maple & a Don Warren Maple Dublin. They are all really good smokers, especially the Don Warren. The MM hardwoods smoke similar to a cob, but have a sweet taste during the break-in period & look a little nicer with the wood grain.  This is what the Don Warren Maple Dublin looked like when I got it. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 14, 2017 16:26:59 GMT -5
I've never smoked a pipe made of hickory, but I have several hardwood Missouri Meerschaum pipes made from maple & a Don Warren Maple Dublin. They are all really good smokers, especially the Don Warren. The MM hardwoods smoke similar to a cob, but have a sweet taste during the break-in period & look a little nicer with the wood grain. This is what the Don Warren Maple Dublin looked like when I got it.
wow, wow, WOW. *drool*
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 16:28:58 GMT -5
I smoke a rustic hickory churchwarden. Smokes cool. I did not notice a real difference in break-in time. I will try to post a picture when I get home.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jun 14, 2017 20:53:15 GMT -5
No hickory here, yet. I do have three olive wood pipes that I really like. If I do get a hickory some day, it will be from Don Gillmore (Don Warren Pipes). He has made a lot of hardwood pipes. I haven't seen him make any batches of hardwood pipes recently. He's been making mostly briar and morta lately. So, he's due to make some hickory or maple pipes soon.
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Post by stvalentine on Jun 15, 2017 14:58:08 GMT -5
So I have got this wrong - MM makes some pipes out of maple but hickory is/was used by others too. Well, I guess I will have to try it and report here... |
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Post by sjmiller on Jun 15, 2017 16:31:49 GMT -5
Never smoked anything but briars or cobs here. Saw a lemonwood pipe once that I was interested in but didn't pull the trigger fast enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2017 15:00:47 GMT -5
You know Frank it wasn't that long ago I was thinking about digging out some Hickory and throwing it on the lathe and making a pipe out if it. Maybe I'll reconsider it to see what happens. It wouldn't be as nice as Rons or Scotties.
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Post by stvalentine on Jun 16, 2017 15:08:47 GMT -5
Great idea John! I believe a hickory pipe still should maintain a certain red neck style and not be too perfect. Let us know how it turns out i might order one from you! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 20:59:29 GMT -5
I have 2 Hickory pipes from an Ebay lot. The stickers on the bottom are rubbed out, but probably MM? Maybe H & B. I think they were the forerunners of the Ozark pipes. They smoke similar to Ozark's imo, but have a bit more heft to them and vulcanite bits.
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Post by mgtarheel on Jun 19, 2017 21:58:16 GMT -5
No hickory , but do have a lemonwood pipe from Tom Spanu. Great smoker
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Post by nitehawk on Jun 20, 2017 7:31:51 GMT -5
I have an old Buescher's Hickory and it pretty much smokes like maple hardwood. It does have some interesting grain patterns.
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Post by nitehawk on Jun 20, 2017 7:36:33 GMT -5
Here's the Buescher's Hickory I have. I shortened the shank by an inch and made a nosewarmer out of it....Length = 4" Bowl Height = 1 3/4"  |
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Post by stvalentine on Jun 20, 2017 14:20:49 GMT -5
That looks great indeed Darryl! Lovely grain!
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Post by trailboss on Jun 20, 2017 15:42:18 GMT -5
I just attended a family reunion in Kansas and I helped smoke 200 pounds of pork over hickory.....Hickory is nonexistent in the southwest...be advised Frank, if you show up around these parts I am going to get you drunk and hope you don't wake up after I smoke a pork chop with your hickory pipe.  |
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Post by Zach on Jun 20, 2017 20:11:35 GMT -5
I have yet another hardwood that hasn't been mentioned. I have a pear wood pipe with bark trim made by rekamepip (John Barrett) good smoker but you don't want to scrape the chamber down too much it seems to scratch a bit easy. GREAT smoking qualities though. Doesn't burn out when smoked properly.  |
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Post by Zach on Jun 20, 2017 21:23:09 GMT -5
Speak of the devil, Don Warren just made a test pipe out of Canarywood today. I didn't even know what that wood is.
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Post by stvalentine on Jun 21, 2017 15:31:22 GMT -5
Small problem Charlie - I still don´t have a hickory pipe! May I help you out with an axe handle?  |
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Post by stvalentine on Jul 2, 2017 8:06:06 GMT -5
Ok guys, just to let you know: I have bought two hardwood pipes (maple) from Missouri Meerschaum and I am just smoking one of them. At first I was slightly dissapointed because of the small size of the bowls. But it turned out that they give a decent smoke timewise. The second thing I noticed is that the bowls stays much cooler than a briar bowl. I haven´t noticed any particular strange flavour from the maple and it seems to me that MM´s hardwood pipes are up to their corn cobs! The only drawback is that I am running out of arguments for expensive pipes.   |
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