Pipe smoking/making

[woodwalker1987]

blimey this thread keeps goin strong and i couldnt be happier about it! i am in the final stages of making my first pipe now and wish to post pics when its done! thanks for all the tobbaco suggestions etc all new to me! especially the fact that you can get them at tesco?!

tombear that is a beautiful collection! makes my pipe so far look like a right bodge! oh well its the first one and they will only get better! lol

 

[durulz]

Man,I need a churchwarden!!

That's the kind of one they had in the tobacconist in Canterbury! It was a truly splendid item.

 

[Chris the Cat]

Can they be bought second hand fellas!??
Chris.

 

[woodwalker1987]

i've seen em at car boot etc mate just check to make sure theyre in good nick and give em a goin over with some jeyes fluid!lol

 

[apj1974]

Can they be bought second hand fellas!??
Chris.

Second hand pipes are often refered to as "estate" pipes. Particularly with a briar they are a good thing as they don't have to be broken in. (Just check they are not cracked or anything.

 

[Northern Giant UK]

You can polish the stems with toothpaste but the dedicated polish you can get in the better tobacconists (read "poncier") works really well.

I've used fine wet n dry to take off bad oxidisation (when you get the green colour on estate pipe stems), and finally give them a "like new" Polish with Brasso wadding (the stuff you get in tins) it really brings out the shine.

Kev

 

[tombear]

Brasso wadding eh? I'll have to try that.

Picked up another clay for the princely sum of £1 today on Accy' flea

Unused but with "12 Aug 1951 Congratulations!" neatly inked on the stem and a smilling face in a girlish hand drawn on the bowl.

I rather wish now I'd picked up all the good second hand pipes I've rejected on aesthetic grounds so I could pass them on for the good karma!.

Churchwardens are the business though, real cool smokes and their very size encourages you to sit still and relax. The one time I went for a walk smoking one I broke the stem but luckily it was where it enters the bowl so after matching up a drill to the hole in the wood I drilled out the stem for half a inch and sanded down a piece of brass rod with a hole through it so it was a real tight fit and its as good as new.

ATB

Tom

Whos looking forward to the 31st when it's my last day in work and I've half a ounce of black cherry to celebrate with!

 

[Miyagi]

Well, thanks to this thread, I dug the old pipe out.

It's a Hardcastle make, in a billiard style and all I could get today was a pouch of Condor. This was a spur of the moment choice, while waiting for a bus, plus I had no time to go to a proper tobacconists.

It certainly confused the mutt, but it was very nostalgic for me when I fired it up.

Tombear, I have two or three clay pipes like those unused and one that is browned with a perforated bottle cap top that was my Grandfathers.

According to my late grandfather they used to give clay pipes away to customers in pubs up here.

Thanks for sharing your collection.

Liam

 

[Stingray]

Just to stick my nose in.
I've smoked a pipe since I gave up the ciggies about 3 years ago.
The tobacco don't rule me now.It's a pleasure once every day or so.
I don't inhale,bounce between a corn cob and a Peterson chuchwarden and a clay.
I buy my tobacco online,good service
Nothing better in the garden with a glass of red or the crossword after work.
The preparation for a good smoke makes it worthwhile.It takes a lot of pratice but it's worthwhile.(a terrible thing to say for a vice)

 

[tombear]

Well, thanks to this thread, I dug the old pipe out.

It's a Hardcastle make, in a billiard style and all I could get today was a pouch of Condor. This was a spur of the moment choice, while waiting for a bus, plus I had no time to go to a proper tobacconists.

It certainly confused the mutt, but it was very nostalgic for me when I fired it up.

Tombear, I have two or three clay pipes like those unused and one that is browned with a perforated bottle cap top that was my Grandfathers.

According to my late grandfather they used to give clay pipes away to customers in pubs up here.

Thanks for sharing your collection.

Liam

A pleasure. One of mine has the name of a pub ink printed on the side, The Falkland Arms I think (all packed in sawdust again apart from a bunch of users I keep in a tin) I've just picked up the Shire booklet on clays, will have to actually read it!

ATB

Tom

 

[leaf man]

Hahahaha - I can imagine.

The fires we've lit on that beach were certainly more benches and hedges than benson and hedges.

CLASS!!

 

[woodwalker1987]

hey guys i wanna show y'all my finished pipe but cant put pics on! help!?

 

[fussyproduct]

did you have a look here http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13734

looking forward to see them

fp

 

[woodwalker1987]

not sure if these are gonna work but the pipe was an excellent smoke, cool and smooth it may not be an oil painting but i wanted a woodsman rustic ranger look to it so left bark on the bowl etc and i now take it with me evry time into the woods!

 

[TeeDee]

Right , bit of a numpty question , but being a life long advocate of ME not smoking ( so you guys can do whatever you want. Your Bodies , Your right )

Am i right in thinking you DONT inhale the smoke from Pipe and Cigar? If thats the case , what is the pleasure? sincere question.

Is it just a taste thing?

I do admit , smoking them big long pipes does look cool , look how many women swooned over Strider/Viggio in the LOTR.

All down to the power of the pipe baby.

 

[Melonfish]

I dunno TeeDee, personally i've always inhaled but i do believe there is a school of people who do not?
confuses the hell out of me tbh.
in general i'm not a smoker because i grew up with both my parents as heavy smokers and it REALLY put me off, but i do like the odd cigar sometimes and a pipe does not go amiss.

i remember my aunt and uncle came round for a visit, they're all in the living room smoking away whilst us kids are playing upstairs (i was 8/9 so around 1989) i had a toy in the living room i'd forgotten and so i went down and opened the door.
I couldn't see! my eyes were watering and i couldn't breathe! having had the "fire talk" that week in school i remembered to get on the floor and bury your nose in the carpet and crawl. so i did. i must have looked a right sight to them.
funny thing is after that my parents cut back on their smoking and my dad even stopped.

its odd that i dispise cigerettes so much but i've grown to like cigars and tobacco (although the smell of a pipe smoking away has always been plesant to me)
Pete

 

[gregorach]

Am i right in thinking you DONT inhale the smoke from Pipe and Cigar? If thats the case , what is the pleasure? sincere question.

You can absorb a good whack of nicotine through the lining of your nose and mouth. Cigars / pipes give me more of a nicotine buzz than cigarettes, even though I don't inhale the former.