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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 14, 2017 16:04:57 GMT -5
Setting here now I have five pipes less than 6 months old,(new to me for one of them). There are more, just not on my desk. I shall post pictures of the latest one.  A Blue Nording Sailor. These smoke very well, fairly cool too. The color and price were right. Now I need a a captain's hat to go with it. |
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 14, 2017 16:09:39 GMT -5
The next to the latest...  An Al Pascia Curvy Reverse Calabash, Obviously quite yellow. An early Father's Day gift. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 14, 2017 16:30:35 GMT -5
nice sailor pipe. it would be nicer in purple, though  |
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Post by antb on Jun 15, 2017 1:42:23 GMT -5
 The Sailor is ok. Might order a bronze one next month. Not too sure about the bumblebee though
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Post by craigmillar on Jun 15, 2017 5:10:35 GMT -5
That Reverse Calabash is a beaut Congrats.
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 15, 2017 13:08:55 GMT -5
I have at the urging of my wife ordered an orange Nording Sailor.  I already had a red one.  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 15, 2017 13:11:31 GMT -5
i need to write Nording and insist on purple. Purple is appealing to men as well. I don't understand why they wouldn't do purple. (I'm not bitter, lol)
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 15, 2017 14:01:55 GMT -5
Being lazy I guess, I have never counted all my pipes. I also have several pounds of various tobaccos, ranging from aromatics to blending components. I most frequently smoke C&D's Crooner. Most of my pipes are briars. Peterson's pipes are what I have the most of, about 30 of them. I have some Savinelli,Rossi, Ropp, Comoy,Stanwell,Tsuge,Nording, Karl Eric, Al Pascia and more. I have a preference for English and Irish pipes. I also prefer the classic shapes like bent billiards,apples, lovats,canadian,Dublin and more. The Peterson's...  Being an old fart, I've had time to amass quite a few pipes. Should I be lucky, I'll live to collect more. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 15, 2017 14:06:26 GMT -5
wow, quite a collection!
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 15, 2017 15:17:43 GMT -5
1949Being cheap, I fail to see the appeal of expensive pipes, or tobaccos. They aren't like owning and expensive home or car. Most folk wouldn't know a $10 pipe from a $1000 pipe. As you may guess, most of my pipes are in the $100 or less. Rarely do I venture too much more than $100. My purchases are for my own gratification. Here is a recent exception to my rule, the already posted "My Birth Year Dunghill". A 1949 Dunhill Shell pot. Like me,it's short and stout. Chamber is about 7/8X10 1/4". It is 5 1/4" long, and the bowl is a tad over 1 5/8" tall. Mainly, it smokes great!   |
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 15, 2017 15:28:26 GMT -5
I have at the urging of my wife ordered an orange Nording Sailor. I already had a red one. I just ordered a Captain's hat from Wish |
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 15, 2017 16:10:39 GMT -5
As I said earlier, I'm rather cheap. You get to be cheap with many years with a very limited budget. (Sometimes nearly non existent budget.) Most of my pipes are a hundred or less. I often pass on estate pipes for the same reason. I was introduced to Blakemar Briars in the U.K.
( blakemar.co.uk/) They make many nice (and excellent smoking) pipes of many shapes, sizes and stains. I have gotten four pipes from them, a pot with saddle stem,a bent pot, a bent bulldog and a bent apple, all hand rusticated. All are walnut stained except the bent apple which is black. All smoke excellently. All were $60 or less with shipping from the U.K. My next purchase may be the smooth bent bulldog. They have more expensive pipes too. But and English pipe new, which smokes well for under $100. Works for me
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 17, 2017 11:28:27 GMT -5
Being cheap, I fail to see the appeal of expensive pipes, or tobaccos. They aren't like owning and expensive home or car. Most folk wouldn't know a $10 pipe from a $1000 pipe. As you may guess, most of my pipes are in the $100 or less. Rarely do I venture too much more than $100. My purchases are for my own gratification. Here is a recent exception to my rule, the already posted "My Birth Year Dunghill". A 1949 Dunhill Shell pot. Like me,it's short and stout. Chamber is about 7/8X10 1/4". It is 5 1/4" long, and the bowl is a tad over 1 5/8" tall. Mainly, it smokes great! By the way, first it's my birth year Dunhill,secondly it's a Shell Briar, but most of all, the guy on eBay wanted $249 and free shipping, I could afford it, so I had to have it! |
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 17, 2017 11:44:08 GMT -5
My Nording Sailor arrived in the mornings mail. I have just now filled it halfway with C&D Crooner and lit it. It's smokinh well!
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 17, 2017 11:51:27 GMT -5
Marge, that's just one half of a drawer, and just showing the Peterson's.(the other half are English and recent acquisitions.) There are two more drawers, not quite as packed though. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jun 17, 2017 13:30:13 GMT -5
Marge, that's just one half of a drawer, and just showing the Peterson's.(the other half are English and recent acquisitions.) There are two more drawers, not quite as packed though.
that's a lot!
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 19, 2017 15:19:07 GMT -5
Being old "er" I've have had the time to acquire many pipes.
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 19, 2017 15:25:38 GMT -5
Here is another "Had to have" pipe.  
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 16:13:09 GMT -5
My Nording Sailor arrived in the mornings mail. I have just now filled it halfway with C&D Crooner and lit it. It's smokinh well!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 16:17:21 GMT -5
Congrats & Enjoy. A Nording fan, I have been curious about the new Sailor pipe. How is the balance on them and is he bowl insert removable for clean up?
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 21, 2017 15:19:06 GMT -5
Congrats & Enjoy. A Nording fan, I have been curious about the new Sailor pipe. How is the balance on them and is he bowl insert removable for clean up? |
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Post by stvalentine on Jun 21, 2017 15:34:03 GMT -5
Bruce the Pete Founders Edition is one lovely pipe! Too bad that I am too cheap for it too....  |
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 25, 2017 20:22:51 GMT -5
Some people only want one shape pipe. At one time almost all my pipes were rusticated black or dark bent billiards. Not so any more. I now have pipe of many shapes and colors. Many different sizes too. I buy pipes for my own satisfactions, not to impress anyone but myself, and maybe the wife. I also do not just buy pipes from one pipe maker, but my most numerous is from Peterson. Last count I believe I have 29 or 30 Peterson pipes. Savinelli probably is next.
I often am an impulse buyer. I see a pipe I like, my first question is, is it within my budget?Next may be just how well do I like it, or is it worth it? If the stars align right, I'll get it. In the same light, I've talked myself out of buying or delayed my buying often long enough for someone else to get it. But every so often I find a pipe I just have to have. This is one of those...
Glad I got it! Straight grain all around, red stain and silver bolster. Besides looking good, it smokes very good too.
I just had to have it!
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 27, 2017 19:59:19 GMT -5
Today I pulled out the Peterson Kapp Royal XL02, a bent apple. Been smoking it all afternoon. Smokes well and looks good. The wife likes the yellow stem. 
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2017 21:05:42 GMT -5
GRUMPYare the shanks on the Nording Sailor pipes easy to bend ? i like the looks and cost range but might be better fitted for me if it was able to be a bent instead of a straight pipe thanks
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 28, 2017 14:19:46 GMT -5
GRUMPY are the shanks on the Nording Sailor pipes easy to bend ? i like the looks and cost range but might be better fitted for me if it was able to be a bent instead of a straight pipe thanks
Cup O' Joes has the same pipe under the brand of Rocky Patel in a duel stemmed churchwarden and regular stem. The churchwarden has a slight bend. For $63.00.
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 28, 2017 14:56:41 GMT -5
I jokingly refer to pipe collecting and smoking as my obsession. Well it does consume a good deal of my time. The focus of that time spending has of late been directed to this forum. That is because I came to the realization that the content of my post didn't have to have serious content. Just whatever I felt like.
I shop online for pipes a lot, window shop mainly. There are a lot of online stores. I also look at tobaccos. For reasons unknown my taste has shifted from black cavendish (with vanilla) to English blends, and other non aromatics. Maybe at my mid 60's I've grown up. That and now because of online stores I have a much larger selection to choose from. For years I smoked the bagged black cavendish from the local discount tobacco store. Living in a small town and not being near a B&M, I couldn't justify the drive into the big city just to visit the B&M. I didn't want to fight all that traffic too. I only go into town for important stuff.
Here in the forum I've seen other's obsessions which I think are just that, like the post and video about the guy with over 10,000 pipes. In that case,I think PADS has progressed into OCDS. Obsessive, Compulsive Disorder Syndrome.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2017 15:03:31 GMT -5
All great looking pipes, thanks for all the great pictures, I have pipe envy again.
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Post by GRUMPY on Jun 29, 2017 10:09:27 GMT -5
Being lazy I guess, I have never counted all my pipes. I also have several pounds of various tobaccos, ranging from aromatics to blending components. I most frequently smoke C&D's Crooner. Most of my pipes are briars. Peterson's pipes are what I have the most of, about 30 of them. I have some Savinelli,Rossi, Ropp, Comoy,Stanwell,Tsuge,Nording, Karl Eric, Al Pascia and more. I have a preference for English and Irish pipes. I also prefer the classic shapes like bent billiards,apples, lovats,canadian,Dublin and more. The Peterson's... Being an old fart, I've had time to amass quite a few pipes. Should I be lucky, I'll live to collect more. 
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Post by GRUMPY on Jul 1, 2017 21:17:08 GMT -5
It being the first of the month and pay day time I am pondering whether I should buy another pipe. if so which. There are several pipes I like, at different places on the net. None reach out and grab me, making me say "I gotta have it!" Then too I bought three pipes last month, making me wonder if I should buy another so soon. Guess I'll shop some more.
I also want more tobacco. But it's not that I don't have any to smoke, just wanna try new stuff, and keep stocked up on my favorite. More shopping.
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The Sailor is ok. Might order a bronze one next month. Not too sure about the bumblebee though 
