Beardedpipesmoker
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 3:17:38 GMT -5
So, as someone who barely knew anything about pipe smoking, I bought my first tobacco pipe at what basically amounted to a weed store. I paid $10 For this tiny piece of work. Looking at it now, it is kind of embarrassing. For some reason inside has clay in it. Anyone else start pipe smoking without any real clue?
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 25, 2018 3:21:42 GMT -5
...fairly sure mine was a bent Dr. Grabow, but it's been so long, I can't be certain...
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Post by steveinny on Feb 25, 2018 3:22:23 GMT -5
Back in the early 1980's I went to my local B&M "The Pipe & Bowl" and the owner, Mr. Killick sold me 2 oz of his house blend called "Nectar" & a basket pipe. It was a delicious aromatic that he blended in front of me with the scales in full sight. I was hooked. He mentored me on loading a pipe and was an all around great guy.
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Beardedpipesmoker
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 3:24:26 GMT -5
Back in the early 1980's I went to my local B&M "The Pipe & Bowl" and the owner, Mr. Killick sold me 2 oz of his house blend called "Nectar" & a basket pipe. It was a delicious aromatic that he blended in front of me with the scales in full sight. I was hooked. He mentored me on loading a pipe and was an all around great guy. Wow, I wish that would have been my experience. |
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Post by Scott W on Feb 25, 2018 11:07:24 GMT -5
Dr grabow gifted to me by my dad when I was 16.
My first pipe purchase though was a Nording freehand. Knew nothing about pipes, I just liked the way it looked.
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Beardedpipesmoker
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 12:38:03 GMT -5
So, no one else has an embarrassing story when it comes to how they started?
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Post by Legend Lover on Feb 25, 2018 13:42:52 GMT -5
I started with a basket pipe and OTC St. Bruno. I was expecting to taste a beautiful smoke, but all I tasted was smoke - just plain ol' smoke. The pipe gurgled like crazy and I couldn't pack it properly. I hadn't watched any youtube videos and I wasn't aware of pipe forums at the time. I do remember an old neighbour who smoked a pipe. From what I can remember, he just pushed some tobacco into the pipe and lit it...done!
I almost gave up, but there was something in me to try again and keep going. After a few sample packs of tobacco and a corn cob pipe things got much easier for me.
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Post by zambini on Feb 25, 2018 13:45:43 GMT -5
My first tobacco was Murray era Dunhill Royal Yacht. It left my head spinning so hard outside the tobacco store that I nearly got run over.
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Post by duffer on Feb 25, 2018 14:36:02 GMT -5
My first was a Savinelli Smooth Trevi Bent Billiard - Still have it.
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Post by crapgame on Feb 25, 2018 16:39:43 GMT -5
Started in 1985 with Brebbia First Gala 986.. wonderful pipe.. the shop owner directed me away from the paladin black cherry and set me up with some lane aromatics. After a year or so the shop owner directed me to some tinned aromatics and then eventually to frog Morton. I still have my first pipe and smoke it.. hoping to one day have the replacment stem replaced with the proper one from Brebbia and have it polished so it looks brand new.
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Post by trailboss on Feb 25, 2018 16:56:43 GMT -5
Jiminks started with a Jess Chonoschwitz pipe and Bells three nuns from the 1950’s, and Glenn Ford taught him how to smoke a pipe.
Now his favorite is Captain Black grape in a glass bong, and he is mentoring Catfish Cooley on the art of smoking.
Sometimes it is better to have humble beginnings.... it is where you end up at that counts.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 17:26:56 GMT -5
I started with a couple of Dr.Grabow Grand Duke billiards and still have them.
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Post by beardedmi on Feb 25, 2018 18:00:00 GMT -5
My first two pipes didn't make it, one cracked the full length of the bowl and the other tenon broke off in the mortis.
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Post by Scott W on Feb 25, 2018 18:14:52 GMT -5
So, no one else has an embarrassing story when it comes to how they started? First bowl I smoked, as I was lighting, flame came up off the lighter and burned both my eye brows. That was fun. Especially explaining it to your friends in high school the next day. |
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Post by cigrmaster on Feb 25, 2018 18:25:37 GMT -5
I bought my first pipe from my buddy who owned a tobacco store and lounge. One day while sitting in the lounge I got yet another phone call from a cigar buddy who had been pestering me for over 2 weeks to try a pipe, I broke down and bought my first. It was a Savinelli Linea Pui 5 Apple. My buddy who owned the store showed me how to pack it and light it and I took to it fairly quickly. I did of course burn my tongue and mouth the first half dozen bowls but kept at it. I will forever be grateful that the Savinelli was my first pipe. It gave me a frame of referenced for all the other pipes I bought after that. It smoked cool and dry and when I picked a lousy pipe after that, I at least knew it was a bad smoker. If I had started with a bad smoker, I may never have realized what a good smoker was. It is the reason I always recommend a new smoker buy a Savinelli. You can find tons of them for under 100 bucks. Here is my first pipe which I will never get rid of.  |
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Post by Matthew on Feb 25, 2018 19:45:02 GMT -5
My first pipe was gifted to me by my FIL,a Swiss BBK.I promptly picked up
some OTC,Borkum Riff Whiskey.Packed that "Bad Boy" nice and tight and set fire
to it.I was pulling so hard it whistled.I burned my tongue so bad I couldn't
speak properly for a week.And being stationed at Ft Campbell,Ky in an Infantry
unit,I was in a bit of trouble with my Platoon Sargent.I caught a few S-details
until I could answer without a lisp.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2018 20:15:55 GMT -5
My first pipe was gifted to me by my FIL,a Swiss BBK.I promptly picked up some OTC,Borkum Riff Whiskey.Packed that "Bad Boy" nice and tight and set fire to it.I was pulling so hard it whistled.I burned my tongue so bad I couldn't speak properly for a week.And being stationed at Ft Campbell,Ky in an Infantry unit,I was in a bit of trouble with my Platoon Sargent.I caught a few S-details until I could answer without a lisp. lol . . . . now that's paying your dues!  |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 25, 2018 21:35:01 GMT -5
Yeah Matthew, you should have earned a ribbon for that.
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Beardedpipesmoker
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 22:37:14 GMT -5
So, no one else has an embarrassing story when it comes to how they started? First bowl I smoked, as I was lighting, flame came up off the lighter and burned both my eye brows. That was fun. Especially explaining it to your friends in high school the next day. I think you beat me. Lol |
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First pipe
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Post by Scott W on Feb 25, 2018 22:38:55 GMT -5
Never hold the bowl or your head down while lighting. 1st rule I learned.
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Beardedpipesmoker
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Favorite Pipe: New England Pipe Works Freehand
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 22:41:03 GMT -5
I bought my first pipe from my buddy who owned a tobacco store and lounge. One day while sitting in the lounge I got yet another phone call from a cigar buddy who had been pestering me for over 2 weeks to try a pipe, I broke down and bought my first. It was a Savinelli Linea Pui 5 Apple. My buddy who owned the store showed me how to pack it and light it and I took to it fairly quickly. I did of course burn my tongue and mouth the first half dozen bowls but kept at it. I will forever be grateful that the Savinelli was my first pipe. It gave me a frame of referenced for all the other pipes I bought after that. It smoked cool and dry and when I picked a lousy pipe after that, I at least knew it was a bad smoker. If I had started with a bad smoker, I may never have realized what a good smoker was. It is the reason I always recommend a new smoker buy a Savinelli. You can find tons of them for under 100 bucks. Here is my first pipe which I will never get rid of. When I smoked that basket pipe after smoking the cheap little impersonation, it was like being in a whole new world. It's a nice little pipe that I still fire up. Sometimes you get a diamond in the rough. |
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Beardedpipesmoker
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Post by Beardedpipesmoker on Feb 25, 2018 22:42:09 GMT -5
My first pipe was gifted to me by my FIL,a Swiss BBK.I promptly picked up some OTC,Borkum Riff Whiskey.Packed that "Bad Boy" nice and tight and set fire to it.I was pulling so hard it whistled.I burned my tongue so bad I couldn't speak properly for a week.And being stationed at Ft Campbell,Ky in an Infantry unit,I was in a bit of trouble with my Platoon Sargent.I caught a few S-details until I could answer without a lisp. Wow, that definitely is worse. So did it turn you off of pipes or did you go right back to it? |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Feb 26, 2018 10:03:56 GMT -5
being a WVian my first pipe was a cob. being ocd, i got online and researched and asked a lot of questions efore i lit my first bowl, lol.
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Post by Matthew on Feb 26, 2018 11:01:24 GMT -5
My first pipe was gifted to me by my FIL,a Swiss BBK.I promptly picked up some OTC,Borkum Riff Whiskey.Packed that "Bad Boy" nice and tight and set fire to it.I was pulling so hard it whistled.I burned my tongue so bad I couldn't speak properly for a week.And being stationed at Ft Campbell,Ky in an Infantry unit,I was in a bit of trouble with my Platoon Sargent.I caught a few S-details until I could answer without a lisp. Wow, that definitely is worse. So did it turn you off of pipes or did you go right back to it? Not immediatly,I tried a few times over a course of years and in 2006 I finally bought some bulk tobacco from a B&M.I figured out how to pack my pipes,I had also picked up a Rossi.But it wasn't until 2014 that I started having those "Ah Ha" moments.I had found the forums and learned what that tamper thing was for, got into a trade with Heabar and another piper and have been Hooked ever since. To give a proper time frame, this all started around 1982-83. |
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Post by mrlunting on Aug 11, 2020 18:11:33 GMT -5
My first experience. I walked into a smoke shop. Told them I was wanting to get into smoking a pipe but didn't want to break the bank. Seemed fair enough. They sold me on a mm not a cob but some wood thing. And some backwoods cherry. Ohh nooo! Tongue bite. The pipe kept falling apart. I could go on, but I was homeless at the time and don't like to focus on negatives.
My first good pipe after getting my life back on track was a yellow bowl burley. And some dunhill london mixture not knowing what I was doing.
It worked out. Flash forward s couple years. I am enjoying a bowl of wild anatolia on my balcony.
Sorry for ranting.
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Post by mrlunting on Aug 11, 2020 18:12:14 GMT -5
My first experience. I walked into a smoke shop. Told them I was wanting to get into smoking a pipe but didn't want to break the bank. Seemed fair enough. They sold me on a mm not a cob but some wood thing. And some backwoods cherry. Ohh nooo! Tongue bite. The pipe kept falling apart. I could go on, but I was homeless at the time and don't like to focus on negatives.
My first good pipe after getting my life back on track was a yellow bowl burley. And some dunhill london mixture not knowing what I was doing.
It worked out. Flash forward s couple years. I am enjoying a bowl of wild anatolia on my balcony.
Sorry for ranting.
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First pipe
Aug 11, 2020 18:12:54 GMT -5
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Post by mrlunting on Aug 11, 2020 18:12:54 GMT -5
Double posted sorry. Rather embarrassing.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 11, 2020 19:50:01 GMT -5
Jiminks started with a Jess Chonoschwitz pipe and Bells three nuns from the 1950’s, and Glenn Ford taught him how to smoke a pipe. Now his favorite is Captain Black grape in a glass bong, and he is mentoring Catfish Cooley on the art of smoking. Sometimes it is better to have humble beginnings.... it is where you end up at that counts. ^^^^^THIS! ^^^^^😜🤠 |
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Post by Goldbrick on Aug 11, 2020 21:20:30 GMT -5
Back in October of 1978, a pal of mine found out he was gonna be a Dad. He went out and got himself a Grabow and some Cherry Blend...when he came by my place , it smelled so good I dug out my Pop's old Wally Frank and had my first bowl.
These days ,he puffs on ciggs, but he has three grown girls and seven grand kids...I ended up with almost two hundred pipes ,but no kids...and no Cherry Blend!
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Post by bonanzadriver on Aug 11, 2020 21:22:13 GMT -5
Jiminks started with a Jess Chonoschwitz pipe and Bells three nuns from the 1950’s, and Glenn Ford taught him how to smoke a pipe. Now his favorite is Captain Black grape in a glass bong, and he is mentoring Catfish Cooley on the art of smoking. Sometimes it is better to have humble beginnings.... it is where you end up at that counts. ^^^^^THIS! ^^^^^😜🤠 Ha |
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