How often do you rotate your pipes?

I have more pipes than time to smoke them. So, the 'rotation time' could be months.

But, from the restorations I have done, I don't think you can hurt your pipes by smoking them. Keep them clean, dry them after use and enjoy them.

It appears to me that the old timers had one pipe, maybe two. They smoked them till they couldn't suck smoke through them, probably without cleaning, maybe ever. Even that doesn't seem to ruin a pipe. Burnouts happen, drops and breaks happen, bite through the stem happens, but smoking doesn't seem to hurt them if done properly, and most times even if not.

After Grumpy’s post-I forgot the question.

To each their own I say. I grab a pipe off the rack and will smoke it for a week or more sometimes. My pipes all work fine.

I would say above all else, don't smoke them too hot.

Probably similar to Grumpy, I have several pipes within reach, some in drawers. I am starting to categorize, mentally, some pipes with some tobaccos. Ukrainian Ball with Distinguished Gentleman. Authors with a variety of Aros. Ebeneezer and Jacob with Five Brothers or other Burleys. So that somewhat dictates how often the ones in front of me are used. Then, like the shepherd with a lost lamb, if one is on my mind I haven't smoked in a while I stop at nothing till I take that long twelve foot trek across the room and retrieve it.

I have had a couple of estates that had been smoked until you could no longer get tobacco into it. I assume that the previous owners died with the pipes in their mouth. Once reamed and cleaned, they are my best smokers.

I would look into getting some meerschaum pipes for travelers and some cobs for good measure.

I have almost two hundred pipes so rotation time is usually long. After smoking a pipe once I won't smoke it again until I can't sniff out any residual smell from the bowl. That way I don't need to keep an Excel table to track rotation.

Between briars, meers and cobs in my daily rotation at home, the former probably don't get smoked as often as they should. Agree a brair can be smoked multiple times in a day on the road with a minimum cleaning after every smoke with no worries.

Thanks for the advice, I looked into the Falcon system and picked up an older model a couple of days ago. I'm going to try it out on my next trip to see how we get along.  

I'll have to ditto what Sablebrush {I own quite a few sables also} said here ... Basically do the same .

There are so many "myths" associated with smoking a pipe that it's difficult to keep track of them. As long as you don't smoke it hot, a pipe can be used as long as you like. My experience. YMMV.

I usually have a group of similar pipes at hand that I smoke for a week or four. New pipes always get a lot of attention. I got a really nice one in the mail yesterday and I'm on my forth bowl since I got it.

I smoke a pipe once in a day usually. Once in a while I might smoke the same pipe twice in a day..never more than that. IMO your pushing it after that and the quality of the smoke goes south.

I usually smoke 'em about every 3 days or so, but not rigorously.