What pipe do you prefer?

[chef8489]

Well I enjoy fine english baccy in my English made bulldogs. I currently have a ferndown and an ashton bent bulldog on the way. I perfer bent bulldogs of the larger variety, about a dunhill group 5 to oda.
http://www.pipes2smoke.com/images/Ferndown/LW_37_bnt_bldg.jpg
http://www.pipes2smoke.com/images/Ashton/AST_10L.jpg

I have a custom Bulldog with a blue bit made in the US but I do not have any pics of it. Lets see or hear what you enjoy smoking.

[KingGillette]

I was a pipe smoker for 40 years before my teeth started to fall out -- probably not because of pipe smoking but not helped by it.

I had to stop several years ago.

My favorite tobacco shop in the world, hands down, is L.J. Peretti, 2 1/2 Park Square, Boston 02116. My preferred blend: D7485. This is followed by Straus Brothers in Cincinnati, where I have long liked Private Stock tobacco, plain. My third favorite is the Owl Shop in New Haven.

My favorite U.S. pipe shop is the Connoisseur Pipe Shop in New York City. Their tobaccos are very good too. Every Connoisseur pipe is a work of art.

My favorite pipe shop in the world is La Pipa di Luigi Viprati in the beautiful northern Italian city of Bescia.

[chef8489]

I have contacted L.J. Pereti in regards of finding a banded dunhill 5108. hopefully they will come through for me.

[Ben]

Note that www.cupojoes.com moves a lot of Dunhills. You might contact them as well.

[joel]

A good Calabash is nearly impossible to one up..... but you look MIGHTY pretentious smoking them....
http://www.pipeandcigar-castellana.it/foto%20pipe%20castello/schiuma08.jpg

[puros_bran]

I have about 15 or so pipes.. My favorite is either a Mike Brisset Horn or a Bosi freehand..wish I had pics.

My Fav baccy is PSLNF on the VA/per side, and Penzance or Nightcap on the English side

[zachster]

I haven't smoked my pipes in a few years, as I have become a daily cigar smoker. I might start up again, though, mostly because of all of the pipe posts on this forum! My favorite was always my Savinelli Oscar, much like this one:

[TimmyBoston]

A good Calabash is nearly impossible to one up..... but you look MIGHTY pretentious smoking them....
http://www.pipeandcigar-castellana.it/foto%20pipe%20castello/schiuma08.jpg

Right on, Sherlock!

[joel]

Right on, Sherlock!

Sherlock Holmes wouldn't be caught dead smoking a calabash... he smoked these...

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/kccweb_1927_255983500

[Ben]

I like these:

http://home.cinci.rr.com/benr/PC270001.jpg

Top row, left to right: two freehands made in 1996 by by J.M. Boswell and a Savinelli Autograph second (gift from my grandfather)

Second row, left to right: Savinelli Champagne EX (tons of birdseye, gift from my grandfather), Doodler (gift from my grandfather), pickaxe with deer antler -- custom made for me by Richard Knight (it's a monster)

Third row, left to right: Luigi Viprati cavalier, Ascorti poker/cherrywood, Ser Jacopo maxima bent brandy/scoop, Radice Rind GO

Fourth row, left to right: Radice Silk Cut full-bent, Dal Fiume SB (Butterfly grade), Becker rusticated oliphant (Fritz era)

Fifth row, left to right: L'anatra Nirvana Gigante (enormous pipe, birdseye heaven), Rolando Negoita bent walnut

[wulle]

I'm the proud owner of 14 Kapp&Peterson pipes :001_tt2:

My favorite tobacco is erinmore and Stanwell 'Ariston'

great smokes
rudy

[fatt_tony]

Any one ever heard of Eric Nording pipes? He has some really cool looking freehand pipes (http://www.nordingpipes.com/02Freehand.htm).

[mparker762]

I'm partial to bent bulldogs too. Most of my pipes are ashton, with a healthy selection of ferndowns as well, and a couple of Barbi's. But then I prefer latakia blends, and ashton and ferndown work really well with the english tobaccos.

[Scorpio]

I have 3 Savinelli's Erica Fianna, 622, 606 and 626. I like to smoke mostly Virginia blends.

Raf

[Jim]

A Bulldog for me as well.

http://www.badgerandblade.com/gallery/displayimage.php?imageid=4530

[chef8489]

Nice sasieni there. Is it about a group 3? I perfer larger pipes and that is why I went the Ashton and Ferndown route, not to mention they are great pipes. I sold or gave away all my petersons, sasieni's, and all my smaller pipes because I just never reached for them anymore.

[Jim]

Chef
Yes its a # 3 I do not have a large collection but this is a favorite of mine fits in my hand well.

[HlSheppard]

I like the few pipes I have by "local boy" Brian Ruthenberg. Phenomenal smokers!! http://briarart.com/

Also just about any pipe by S. Bang or Rainer Barbi!! :drool:

[jhusman]

My two favorites are my Tsuge and my old Kaywoodie. I had a lot, but I have trimmed down to just a few.

[KingSlug]

I always gravitate towards Dunhills and their larger Diplomats and Prince's straight or bent.

[allmodcons]

I don't mean to be crass, I'm truly curious, but why are Dunhill pipes so damn expensive? It's not like the have 1 or 2 pipes over a grand, there are a number of them.

Like I said, curious if someone has the time and inclination to explain.

[Ben]

I don't mean to be crass, I'm truly curious, but why are Dunhill pipes so damn expensive? It's not like the have 1 or 2 pipes over a grand, there are a number of them.

Like I said, curious if someone has the time and inclination to explain.

Like anything, you're paying for a name. The director of the main Dunhill shop explained to me once that the special-edition pipes are really what keep the production afloat. Many decades ago, Dunhill's briar was outstanding. It dropped off for a long while, and is supposedly pretty good again. And believe me, there are plenty of pipes that cost more than a couple grand. Look into anything by the late Bo Nordh, for example.

At the end of the day, Dunhill pipes are copies of each other. If you want a somewhat unique, one-off Dunhill, you can do so fairly resonably by finding a model marked Quaint.

Dunhill pipes are dandy, but you can do better, especially for the price.

[allmodcons]

Any suggestions on where to look for good, but reasonably priced pipes?

[chef8489]

Dependso n what type of pipes and what one deem reasonable. Here is where I buy most of my pipes. www.pipes2smoke.com for ashton and ferndown,
http://www.ljperetti.com for dunhills
http://www.the-tobacconist.co.uk,
http://www.watchcitycigar.com
http://www.cupojoes.com
http://www.paylesspipes.com
ohh and for estate pipes http://www.briarblues.com/

[Scotto]

Smokingpipes.com is a wonderful place to do business. You can pick an inexpensive Peterson, Stanwell, etc. for very little money.

[allmodcons]

Thanks gents! I appreciate the links.

It's always hard to use relative terms on a MB without going into a lengthy definition of what the heck you mean by said term. :wink:

Reasonable would be something akin to "sure you can buy x brand pipe for $$$$ and it will smoke great, but there is also brand y pipe for $$$ and it will smoke just as well". Or maybe another way to look at is that there must be a baseline price for a quality, decent smoking, nice in hand pipe, what is that baseline pipe price?

Hopefully that narrows it down a bit. :)

[chef8489]

Thanks gents! I appreciate the links.

It's always hard to use relative terms on a MB without going into a lengthy definition of what the heck you mean by said term. :wink:

Reasonable would be something akin to "sure you can buy x brand pipe for $$$$ and it will smoke great, but there is also brand y pipe for $$$ and it will smoke just as well". Or maybe another way to look at is that there must be a baseline price for a quality, decent smoking, nice in hand pipe, what is that baseline pipe price?

Hopefully that narrows it down a bit. :)

I would say petersons, comoys, BC, Jirsa,parker, savinelli, and stanwell all have great pipes and you can find many for about 50.00 - 100.00.