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Post by That Falls Guy on Mar 8, 2018 18:26:01 GMT -5
Short ones, long ones, large bowl, small bowl.  Pics would be nice! |
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Post by slowroll on Mar 8, 2018 18:54:29 GMT -5
Stacks. Mostly my own, because Pipe Dan is no more..  |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 8, 2018 19:08:06 GMT -5
I love the traditional semi bent pipe shape. Does it for me every time.
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Post by zambini on Mar 8, 2018 20:05:33 GMT -5
Small bowl (around .72-80in2), light in weight (under 1oz.), well balanced, wide and thick bit.
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Post by bonanzadriver on Mar 8, 2018 21:48:12 GMT -5
Although I love many styles and shapes of pipes, my favorites are Bent Bulldogs....  Kinda like these too...  Oh, and these...  |
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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 8, 2018 23:34:29 GMT -5
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Post by slowroll on Mar 8, 2018 23:48:11 GMT -5
...I like the look of several styles, but seem to end up with mostly billiards, cuttys and yachts... I think it's the straight draw that works well for me... Well, if you had a decent bent pipe, it's draw fine  |
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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 9, 2018 0:05:46 GMT -5
...I like the look of several styles, but seem to end up with mostly billiards, cuttys and yachts... I think it's the straight draw that works well for me... Well, if you had a decent bent pipe, it's draw fine ...lol, I do have several more than decent bents, and they draw fine, as you point out... |
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Post by slowroll on Mar 9, 2018 0:28:06 GMT -5
I will admit that a straight will always smoke a bit drier than most bents, however
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Post by daveinlax on Mar 9, 2018 0:44:35 GMT -5
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 9, 2018 12:53:32 GMT -5
Great pics- I don't recall ever being this jealous! Those massive, rusticated beauties with the green stems and the dark one with the yellow stem above them are my favourites. Amazing collection. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Mar 9, 2018 13:00:05 GMT -5
Oh, and these... What a coincidence! The Grabow Royalton you steered me to back around Christmas(Identical to this one) was the pipe I used when I smoked my first bowl of Exotic Orange. Turns out that stuff really clings to a pipe, so now that Royalton is the only pipe I smoke Exotic Orange in. |
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Post by cigrmaster on Mar 9, 2018 14:44:22 GMT -5
I smoke mostly group 4-5 sized pipes in traditional shapes like Dublins, Apples, Billiards, Rhodesians and Lovats.
Dave that is one sweet collection.
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Post by mwps70 on Mar 9, 2018 14:51:48 GMT -5
I love dublins and Rhodesians, straight or slight bend.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 18:19:54 GMT -5
Big-arse bowls, think Boswell Grizzly models.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 17:35:42 GMT -5
This is probably the toughest question for me to answer, even allowing for me to give paragraph after paragraph of non-answer-answers.
I thought the Author was the Here-All End-All. Loved the idea of the large bowl. After several gifts, and y'all know who you are, I was given and bid on and won several pipes with smaller bowls and the key to recent happiness, thin shank and stem. Straight Rhodesian, Prince, Apple. The Devil Anse has a fatter stem, but draws like a thin one, which is why I like the thinner stem/shank. It is easier for me to not play Choo Choo Chugga Chugga with them. Their lightness is a plus, though having stripped co-ax cables in my teeth I can clench a hammer. Added by bids, a cutty (no spur) and a Dudeen (with spur). Dudeen is like a Cutty with less of an angle. Add slightly bent to straight.
When I was young straight pipes were boring and cheap. Bent was desired. Now, it's kinda coming home to what I started with.
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Post by haebar on Mar 10, 2018 17:46:53 GMT -5
My favorites are Dunhills, Charatans and other British brands. The first pipe given to me by a friend was a Charatan in the Huntsman shape:  I've been fortunate to find a few more like it in recent years. My favorite shape is a billiard, but also like other traditional shapes such as the bulldog and Canadian.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2018 18:05:16 GMT -5
be they new or estate, I like pipes that smoke above their pay grade. 2 of my better smokers are no names. One an English Billiard and a conservatively carved Danish Freehand.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 11, 2018 23:04:23 GMT -5
Small to medium bowls; group 1 to 4. Straight Billiard, Apple, or saddle stem Bulldog. Smooth finish. Then there is plateaux rim, bent Freehands. Yeah, the fourth one doesn’t quite fit the first three. Straight Billiard comes out on top as that’s about 25% of my collection. A few pics: Basil Meadows:  BBB "Best Make":  Savinelli Punto Oro 127:  Savinelli Punto Oro 702:  Stanwell Flawless 54 (Denmark):  Victor Rimkus:  |
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Post by Scott W on Mar 12, 2018 10:41:52 GMT -5
Lovats , bent bulldogs, rhodesians. Nothing too big but I love those shapes.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Mar 12, 2018 12:04:20 GMT -5
  . Big pipes, Parks bent, 8 inches long, bowl height almost 3 inches. My favorite tractor pipe is a big bent Savory, load it up and bushhog half the morning.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 12, 2018 12:45:32 GMT -5
. Big pipes, Parks bent, 8 inches long, bowl height almost 3 inches. My favorite tractor pipe is a big bent Savory, load it up and bushhog half the morning. That would be MY perfect pipe shape, colour, stem, grain...perfect pipe. |
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Post by GRUMPY on Mar 12, 2018 15:51:11 GMT -5
I prefer bent sandblasted it rusticated, and often a pot. I do have a bunch of everything though.  The above is just my Peterson and English drawer. 
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 5:33:48 GMT -5
I favor billiard and long shank pipes (i.e., Lovats, Canadians, Liverpools, etc.).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2018 5:50:35 GMT -5
I tend to favor shorter pipes and shallower bowls. I have quite a few bulldogs, short pokers, squashed tomatoes and bullcaps. Some apples and billiards work for me.
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Post by Stanhill on Mar 13, 2018 6:45:44 GMT -5
I like the pipe type I smoke at any given time. I really don't have any preferred type or shape.
One day, it might be the Canadians, the next day the Billards, the day after, the Rhodesians
and the day after that... You get the drift.
Or it might be a daily mix of any shape.
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Post by Artistik on Mar 13, 2018 12:13:44 GMT -5
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THIS!
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Post by cigrmaster on Mar 13, 2018 13:46:06 GMT -5
For my tastes no one makes a better looking billiard than Dunhill. Here are 3 from the 1960's. They are all LB models.    |
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Post by daveinlax on Mar 14, 2018 8:47:28 GMT -5
Great pics- I don't recall ever being this jealous! Those massive, rusticated beauties with the green stems and the dark one with the yellow stem above them are my favourites. Amazing collection. Thanks, I love collecting pipes, the hobby and those colored stem's are a favorite of mine. Some of those green stems have a great provenance in the hobby. I'm a budget collector and have put this collection together a pipe or four at a time over 30 years. The collection has grown since these displays but sadly shows have gone from collector events to marketplaces and most collections like mine will probably never be seen publicly again.  |
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Pics would be nice!
I prefer bent sandblasted it rusticated, and often a pot. I do have a bunch of everything though. 
