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Post by billyklubb on Aug 13, 2017 12:37:55 GMT -5
Now we're finding out what blends you started with, what pipe did you start with? Do you still have it? This was my first. It was a black lightly rusticated H.I.S. bent Billiard. Unfortunately I killed it. I packed it too tight, smoked it way too hot and fast, and upon the advice of another that didn't know any better I scraped the chamber after every smoke. I burned a hole in it in no time.  I learned better with my next pipe: a tan 1/4 bent blasted H.I.S. Billiard. I still have that one. |
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Post by puffy on Aug 13, 2017 12:49:26 GMT -5
Savinelli Hercules Octagon..I didn't keep it too long.It was too big and heavy for someone just starting to smoke a pipe.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 12:50:05 GMT -5
Probably a Grabow from Walgreen's
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Post by daveinlax on Aug 13, 2017 13:11:13 GMT -5
Yes, a cob that is sitting in a tub in the davecave. I was 14 and had read that Hef smoked a pipe and Mixture 79 so I figured I should to. After a week or so I graduated to a Dr G billiard and bought a fancy silver with black "onyx" Zippo. I still have them too.  |
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Post by peteguy on Aug 13, 2017 13:28:30 GMT -5
Way back in high school it was a Grabow from the local drugstore. When I picked it back up it was a cob.
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Post by beardedmi on Aug 13, 2017 13:35:18 GMT -5
I have my first pipe that survived the learning curve, an mm bent legend with an amber stem. Paid 6.39 for it at rite aid. Along the same time I bought an his billiard that the tenon broke off the firt time I took it apart, and a kms? Oom paul that the whole stummel cracked from tenon along the bottom to the top of the bowl. The kms got returned for a grabow freehand and the his got tossed. Total investment in learning what not to buy $35.
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Post by TwelveAMnTX on Aug 13, 2017 14:03:41 GMT -5
My 1st pipe was a MM Legend 5th Ave, the one I'm always smokin'.
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Post by JimInks on Aug 13, 2017 14:30:44 GMT -5
My first pipe was my father's, who didn't stay with it long: a late 1950s smooth with etched grooves straight Willard long stem adjustomatic Canadian with a black vulcanite stem. The first one I bought, a couple weeks after I started back in 1974, was a smooth three quarter bend Dr. Grabow Omega with a black vulcanite stem. The Willard is not a good smoker, but I still occasionally smoke the Grabow, as I did earlier today. It's held up well, and does what it needs to do, having been smoked thousands and thousands of times.
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Post by kraken on Aug 13, 2017 14:54:37 GMT -5
The first pipe I bought was a straight prince with a light colored stain. I don't remember any markings and I paid about $30 for it. It had a balsa filter that I didn't mind at first. No one told me not to remove the stem while it was hot and I must have done it a number of times and it got very loose. I got rid of it because I liked my second pipe a lot better which I still have and smoke.
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Post by just ol ed on Aug 13, 2017 15:53:09 GMT -5
either a Grabow or Yello-Bole from local drug store back in '62. Long gone.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since ''62
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Post by profrmdover on Aug 13, 2017 16:53:10 GMT -5
Kaywoodie 13B Author Regent with cumberland stem purchased in 1965 from a drug store for about $7.95. Still have it and three other 13Bs
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Post by crapgame on Aug 13, 2017 17:10:58 GMT -5
A Brebbia 986 Gala which I bought in 1983 and which I still smoke.
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Post by trailboss on Aug 13, 2017 17:31:11 GMT -5
A small figural meer with a turk wearing a turban, and smoked it often on my SF to LA run back in the eighties. I bought it at the Tinderbox in Mt. View Ca., and an ounce of "North Sea", (rebranded Stokkebye nougat) every other week. Little did I know at the time that if one was going to smoke a single pipe, that is a good one to have.
I wish I still had it.
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Post by Stormy on Aug 13, 2017 17:59:54 GMT -5
A Peterson Aran bent Billiard I got from Cup O Joes
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Post by sablebrush52 on Aug 13, 2017 20:45:01 GMT -5
Some inexpensive basket pipe, over 45 years ago. Have no idea what it was.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 13, 2017 20:57:11 GMT -5
A Peterson Standard bent system pipe I picked up on at Shannon duty free for 73 Irish Pounds in 1984. It's still around here somewhere. Looking for it started this long and expensive path.
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Post by papipeguy on Aug 13, 2017 21:06:44 GMT -5
A GBD pot in 1970. It's still around here somewhere but needs a new stem.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2017 21:21:31 GMT -5
This is it. Bought it in September of 1980, in Boulder, Colorado. I remember thinking it was pricey at about $25. My first year at college. It is an X'd out second. I can't read who the maker is under the x's. Stem needs a buffing. Still smokes great. Tapered bowl is good for about a 20 minute smoke. This pipe and a gourd meerschaum calabash were my only two pipes for many years. I sold the calabash on eBay about 15 years ago. This one still gets smoked often.  |
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Post by daveinlax on Aug 13, 2017 22:30:12 GMT -5
sorry still had the page open since I posted earlier. |
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Post by antb on Aug 14, 2017 1:44:01 GMT -5
A clipboard beechwood full bent Clipper gifted to me by the man wo got me into pipes about 8 or 9 years ago. Still have it, still gets smoked.
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Post by Tsal on Aug 14, 2017 7:55:13 GMT -5
Kaywoodie 13B Author Regent with cumberland stem purchased in 1965 from a drug store for about $7.95. Still have it and three other 13Bs Wow! Cumberland in a drug store. |
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Post by Artistik on Aug 14, 2017 7:55:33 GMT -5
My first was a Yello Bole. Burned through the bottom while sailing the North Atlantic. I deep 6'ed her around the Artic Circle.
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Post by Tsal on Aug 14, 2017 7:56:56 GMT -5
I no longer have it but my pops started me off with one of his Billiards, Kaywoodie.
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Post by goose on Aug 14, 2017 8:01:19 GMT -5
Savinelli Roma from Cup O Joes. Took a 2 1/2 hr motorcycle ride to get it  |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 8:47:26 GMT -5
Yes, a cob that is sitting in a tub in the davecave. I was 14 and had read that Hef smoked a pipe and Mixture 79 so I figured I should to. After a week or so I graduated to a Dr G billiard and bought a fancy silver with black "onyx" Zippo. I still have them too.
that Zippo sounds grand!
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 8:52:03 GMT -5
This is it. Bought it in September of 1980, in Boulder, Colorado. I remember thinking it was pricey at about $25. My first year at college. It is an X'd out second. I can't read who the maker is under the x's. Stem needs a buffing. Still smokes great. Tapered bowl is good for about a 20 minute smoke. This pipe and a gourd meerschaum calabash were my only two pipes for many years. I sold the calabash on eBay about 15 years ago. This one still gets smoked often.
That is a gorgeous pipe! I LOVE the shape! *drool*
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 9:03:55 GMT -5
Thanks LM. It is a light and comfortable pipe. The sandblast is pretty nice on it. I thought it was very Danish when I bought it. That appealed to me.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Aug 14, 2017 9:07:20 GMT -5
 Kaywoodie, bought in 61, got a Nurse to buy it from the Geedunk, that's PX for you Ground Pounders, while I was recouping in Norfolk Naval Hospital , smoked it in the Janitors closet late at night. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 9:34:37 GMT -5
my first pipe was a MM Legend 5th Avenue bought at Rite Aid in Marlinton, WV. My choices were that or a Dr. Grabow for $40, lol. I developed PAD early on, because I only smoked it twice before I went to Rite Aid 5 miles from home and bought another MM Legend 5th Avenue, this time it was a bent stem. My first one was straight because that was all they had. The second one I charred the rim to hades learning how to use a lighter to light my pipe. I still have both but don't smoke them as I don't like the shape of the bowls, they are not comfortable in my hand. I discovered the Diplomat Apple and fell in love with that shape. Eventually I added Mark Twain and Country Gent. I hope to try a Rob Roy soon.
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Post by Darin on Aug 14, 2017 9:45:52 GMT -5
Dr. Grabow and an MM Cob with CH and PA ... circa 1990
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