Preferred Pipe Styles?

Ok. I'll jump on this. What are people's preferred pipe styles to smoke? I love my churchwardens for events where I'm outdoors the whole time but I find that my daily smoker tends to be a brandy style pipe.

There are so many styles of pipe and I always wonder what others are people smoking.

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Permalink Reply by Sgt. Ian MacBrooke on April 30, 2014 at 3:24pm

Glad you brought up the need for a different pipe for different occasions. For my general outdoors smoker, I fall back on a knucklebone or great dane style corn cob. I'm not the biggest fan of filtered Dr. Grabows, but they do have some nice authors and bulldogs for fishing and just lazy day activities. I produce my own 'filters' using rolled paper, hence no embers nor plastic chemicals and all the flavor. I have a nice after dinner smoker in my bent billiard, the cocobolo oom paul more for knobbing with the 'snobs' I know. I've got to say that I get more fun out of the looks I get when I attend ren faires smoking my MacArthur corn cob than I ever got from the church wardens.

Permalink Reply by Professor Briar on April 30, 2014 at 9:38pm

This is one of life's great questions of course. In the end, it may be as Sherlock Holmes once said, there is nothing quite so personal as a man's pipe or bootlaces. Pipes are distinguished by their shape, their finish, the type of stem, the bowl;s material and shape etc. Some prefer a smooth finish that shows off the grain of the briar while others prefer a rusticated or sand blasted finish. Each of us has a different shape face, and each selects a shape and stem curvature that suits our image of ourselves.

Permalink Reply by Sgt. Ian MacBrooke on May 1, 2014 at 2:24pm

Very well put Professor.

Permalink Reply by Willenger Aetheris on May 10, 2014 at 3:13pm