Pipe Smokers Unite!

[Kid Mac]

Tinder Box Anniversary in a Peterson zulu.

 

[Kid Mac]

Frog Morton's Cellar in a Barling meerschaum.

 

[Rodney]

It's been a year or more since I picked any of my pipes up. With summer here I may just start again.
Rodney

 

[Highlander]

a few of my pipes, and some Dunhill Elizabethan...

 

[Delma]

I love the smell of pipe tobacco.

 

[Kid Mac]

Frog Morton in a Ropp horn-stemmed billiard.

 

[handymike]

Just thought I'd support my family by throwing this out into the Lounge...
My cousin lives in Texas and has been making pipes in his little workshop. He makes some pretty cool looking pieces!

www.rexwaldenpipes.com

Give a look if you might be interested

 

[Michael R.]

Does anyone have a Hackert , or Balkovec ? I've wanted one for years . Here's a Cutty Mark Balkovec did ...

www.balkovec.com

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Michael, I wasn't familiar with his work so I just took a few minutes to look thru his gallery. Now this is a Cutty! He says inspired by Tom Eltang. It certainly would feel good in the hand. I'm going to study his work a bit more & send him an inquiry.

 

[Michael R.]

FYI @Hurricane Jack , He uses vulcanite or acrylic stems , I'm a vulcanite fan personally . Big Plus to me !

Also Mark moved and lives like a block away from Boswell's Shop in PA .

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I prefer vulcanite also. I like the looks of a Cumberland stem on some pipes.

He has some nice looking Lumbermans & Lovats which are favorite shapes of mine also.

I sent him an inquiry but it bounced back the first time as a bad addy. I resent it so hopefully it went thru the second time.

 

[Michael R.]

I hope it went through Jack . I like Cumberland Stems on some Pipes , too . A guy I know loves Mark Tinskey , has a collection , and there was a Pipe I had been thinking about since watching a vid and seeing that Pipe . Talked to me trying to get me to contact him about the Pipe I was wanting Custom . He (you may know) lives in Montana , and makes some nice Pipes , but his shanks seem a bit large for my taste , but he could probably do whatever . His thing , the star in a circle , may be why . But Mark Balkovec has a youtube channel , and seems like a really nice guy , and his Pipes are incredible . I'm a Lumberman , Canadian , Lovat fan , also . He had a Lumberman for Sale before Christmas , but decided to keep it himself . Nice Pipe ! I think his last video he's smoking it , and tells he had it For Sale , but he needed a New Pipe , liked it , kept it .

Good Luck on the inquiry .

 

[Scooterz]

Michael, I wasn't familiar with his work so I just took a few minutes to look thru his gallery. Now this is a Cutty! He says inspired by Tom Eltang. It certainly would feel good in the hand. I'm going to study his work a bit more & send him an inquiry.

Those look more expensive than hats!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Good Luck on the inquiry.

Got a reply. Specs are good to what I like. Thinking about a Cumberland stem instead of the black acrylic as pictured. No vulcanite offered. He is currently caught up so leadtime is now 7-10 days.

Those look more expensive than hats!

Nothing quite like smoking a fine tobacco in an heirloom quality pipe. I only have a few pipes including a Dunhill that belonged to my grandfather, but I have all of my dad's pipes. Plus my own pipes since my college days.

 

[Kid Mac]

Drama Reserved in a Ropp Bonaparte.

 

[Benzadmiral]

I smoked pipes 1-2x a week for about 12 years, and still have many of them. Basically I quit because of the latest Nicotine-Nazi laws forbidding you to smoke anywhere but at home (and the N-Ns will probably start on that next). People in restaurants and coffee shops always told me how great my tobacco smelled -- but somehow now I'm Persona Non Smoka. Oh, well.

Anyway, I had a Peterson (though I could never afford the Mark Twain model they offered), a Savinelli sandblasted model (to me the Somerset Maugham type of pipe), a calabash, and others. My favorite was a thick-walled model with a flat base that I have out in the open on a bookshelf.

 

[Michael R.]

I remember when they started the no-smoking sections in restaurants , then they by law made everywhere no smoking zones . Was that the late 70s or the 80s ? Personally I think it was the jump in asthma in kids due to all the vaccines . They wanted to blame everything except what actually caused it . Nobody had asthma when I was a kid , and people smoked like freight trains everywhere . Now nobody thinks for themselves . Its so obvious . The Control Game .