djo
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Post by djo on Dec 17, 2020 21:58:28 GMT -5
I was looking through my pipes today, and I came across the first "nice" pipe I ever bought. It's a Savinelli Pisa 114KS, which apparently is not being made any more. It is the only Savinelli I've come across that doesn't take a filter. I hadn't even thought of it in years. Do you still have your first?
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Post by username on Dec 17, 2020 22:04:33 GMT -5
Yep a mr brog with a military mount. The finish is worn in places where I got some everclear in the bowl on accident. Rarely smoke it but I’m glad I still have it.
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Post by Gandalf on Dec 17, 2020 22:07:06 GMT -5
I smoked a pipe for a couple of years back in 1998/99, then quit.
Unfortunately, I got rid of the 3 or 4 pipes I had back then.
My first "good" pipe was (probably) a Jobey Strombolli 300. Don't remember exactly.
I was finally able to buy a used one on Ebay recently.
Sure wish I had my original one.
Back then I smoked it 90+% of the time - 2 or 3 times a day - and only smoked 1 tobacco 90+% of the time.
It was a local "house blend" called "Aces".
Wish I could get that blend now. It was awesome!
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 17, 2020 22:13:02 GMT -5
I still have mine, but I can't find it right now. It's a Peterson system pipe that is packed in a trunk in the barn. I have an unsmoked 114 KS Savinelli Mon Ami straight grain. They are special pipes made as gifts for friends of the factory.
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jay
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Post by jay on Dec 17, 2020 22:37:35 GMT -5
I do have the first one, an Edwards skylark Canadian. I don't have my first expensive handmade, however. It fell apart in my hand, literally, while I was driving back from a national guard drill 43 years ago. The shaft had a crack in it, very well hidden, and it just finally surrendered. I sure miss it.
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Post by sparks on Dec 17, 2020 23:01:57 GMT -5
My first pipe was one that my Uncle gave me. It is safely tucked way in a box in my tobacco closet. The first pipe I ever made is on one of my racks down in the living room.
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Post by trailboss on Dec 17, 2020 23:17:13 GMT -5
Lost a small Turk meer that had scads of Stokkebye Nougat back in the early eighties I wish I still had from my SF> LA runs.
That pipe had a log of miles on it, lost at some point.
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Post by adui on Dec 18, 2020 1:54:07 GMT -5
My first was a drug store $20 special. When my buddy broke it he bought me a Savinelli bent that I cant remember the model. years later I let another friend use it with cheap cigarette tobacco and the dregs from cigarette stubs so I gave it to him.
My first since back to the pipe I have, an unbranded bent billiard (or brandy) bought for me as a birthday present by the friend that brought me back to the pipe.
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 18, 2020 5:33:52 GMT -5
My first pipe was a basket pipe that gurgled A LOT. I got it for £12 in the B&M in Belfast. I tried pipe mud to no avail, and then even decided to 'decorate' the outside. Never really smoke it these days. In fact, I think it's been years since I lit it up. In fact, I found a photo of my doctoring...  |
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 18, 2020 9:44:18 GMT -5
My first pipe was a basket pipe that gurgled A LOT. I got it for £12 in the B&M in Belfast. I tried pipe mud to no avail, and then even decided to 'decorate' the outside. Never really smoke it these days. In fact, I think it's been years since I lit it up. In fact, I found a photo of my doctoring... Nice job with the decoration Paddy. 👍 |
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Post by taiguy66 on Dec 18, 2020 9:57:21 GMT -5
My first pip was a MM corn cob. Think I was 15 or 16 years old when my buddies and I bought them at the local convenience store. I remember buying a pouch of Captain Black White, Blue and Gold too. If memory serves me correctly the White was my favourite as I found it to be extremely mild and sweet. To me, it almost tasted like candy! Maybe that’s why vapes are so popular with teens these days? Not that I’ve tried a vape. Anyway, that was “centuries “ ago and wonderful memories of my misspent youth. Who knows, maybe I’ll pick up a pouch of the White for nostalgia sake.
Do do they still make Captain Black? I’m assuming someone must or has it been rebranded under another name?
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 18, 2020 9:57:37 GMT -5
My first pipe was a basket pipe that gurgled A LOT. I got it for £12 in the B&M in Belfast. I tried pipe mud to no avail, and then even decided to 'decorate' the outside. Never really smoke it these days. In fact, I think it's been years since I lit it up. In fact, I found a photo of my doctoring... Nice. You should try drilling out the shank. |
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briarbuck
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Post by briarbuck on Dec 18, 2020 10:06:44 GMT -5
I for the life of me cannot remember what my first was. I think it was either a well colored Peterson smooth straight military African meer that I got off fleabay...or a Royal Peterson rusticated billiard with a natural finish I bought from SP.
I have never seen another of either of those two pipe shapes. So they are either rare...or garbage. lol
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 18, 2020 10:38:57 GMT -5
My first pipe was a basket pipe that gurgled A LOT. I got it for £12 in the B&M in Belfast. I tried pipe mud to no avail, and then even decided to 'decorate' the outside. Never really smoke it these days. In fact, I think it's been years since I lit it up. In fact, I found a photo of my doctoring... Nice. You should try drilling out the shank. Tried that too...This was all before I knew about running a pipe cleaner through during the smoke. |
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 18, 2020 13:08:11 GMT -5
Been a while. Pretty sure it was a cob.
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Post by Goldbrick on Dec 18, 2020 19:26:33 GMT -5
In November of 1977, at the local Tinder Box, I purchased a bent billiard, marked only with the number 250...it has an ox blood stain and a gray lucite stem, and still gets smoked now and then.
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Post by kxg on Dec 18, 2020 19:43:29 GMT -5
Early '70's, a Town Crier branded pipe from a shop of the same name. I'd call it a prince, a small bowl.
My third "good" pipe was a Savinelli 114 KS Sherwood Rock Briar, later '70's I think. I still have the four pipes I started with, the second being sort of an Author shape, stamped "Royal Saxon", my fourth being a carve-it-yourself meerschaum kit that my wife bought me for Christmas, probably in the late 70's early 80's. It turns out I'm not a great carver, but I did turn it into a presentable smooth, albeit heavy, bent meer. Note that it was smooth until my son's dog got hold of it many years later. When it came home it needed a new stem, which turned out to be no problem. Smoked it last night in fact.
I stopped smoking pipes sometime in the late '80's and picked it back up in the summer of 2018, all four pipes came out of retirement and are going strong.
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Post by peteguy on Dec 18, 2020 22:03:20 GMT -5
Mine is long gone. A Dr Grabow Freehand from the early 80's. Stopped after a few months of tongue scorch and tossed it.
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Post by mrlunting on Dec 19, 2020 8:53:40 GMT -5
My first pipe was a wooden MM. I bought back woods cherry tobacco. I was staying in a shelter at that time. Distant memories. For the record. Back woods tobacco socks donky @#$%!
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 19, 2020 15:22:00 GMT -5
My first two pipes of any significance (in other words not a cheap drug store pipe) were both gifts from my wife when we were dating in the early 70's. One was a Sven Lar Danish freehand (Sven was neither Danish nor was his real name Sven Lar). She purchased it at the local Tinder Box in Santa Monica. Incidentally, this store was the original Tinder Box where it all started. The other was a Holmes style Calabash gourd pipe. I still have both.
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Post by bigwoolie on Dec 19, 2020 18:37:52 GMT -5
A Dr Grabow purchased at a drugstore in Soldotna, AK. Its been long gone for many years.
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Post by Scott W on Dec 20, 2020 10:22:28 GMT -5
A grabow that my dad gifted me when I was 16. I had stopped smoking a pipe when I moved out at 22 and never saw the pipe again.
When I started back up, I purchased a Nording Signature freehand. I smoke it rarely but when I do, it usually delivers a hour and a half long smoke.
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Post by haebar on Dec 20, 2020 10:52:15 GMT -5
My first pipe was a Dr. Grabow 1/2 bent billiard which I no longer have. I have fond memories of walking down the railroad tracks in rural Georgia hunting for small game back in the early 70's while smoking that pipe. Probably smoking Half & Half.
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Post by Rattlesnake Daddy on Dec 20, 2020 19:17:07 GMT -5
I still have mine. Simply marked Israel, and bought at the Tinderbox in Gwinnett Place Mall, Ga. I use it to smoke a few aromatic's on occasion.  IMG_20190821_134109-2 |
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Post by crapgame on Dec 27, 2020 12:18:10 GMT -5
I still have my first pipe I bought back in 1983... I still smoke it and had it restored a few years ago. It is a Brebbia Gala First 986. Not sure how to load a pic cause I'm I really want to show it off since it is such a beautiful pipe.
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Post by pepesdad1 on Dec 27, 2020 12:30:09 GMT -5
First pipe that I bought was in 1961...a Comoy Golden Grain Canadian...still have it and smoke it regularly...gave all but 2 of my Comoys to a good friend that collects them...wanted to give them additional life after I passed.  |
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