@RockyMountainBriar Hey, that's what it means to be individuals, and personal tastes fall into that category. I like, you don't...You like, I don't... That's what makes the world go round... For example: Chickens... my wife loves the white meat, and I like the dark meat. We don't agree, but the poor chicken doesn't stand a chance!😁
Loading up the Rattray’s Chubby Jackey with some Sutliff “Birds of a Feather-Aberrant” for “tank night”. It’s getting colder here, we are supposed to get snow on Sunday so I’m rolling out my favorite cool weather libation. Yukon Jack Liqueur 100 proof😋. I’m pleasantly surprised with this Sutliff series so far. They are not loaded with moisture or propylene glycol? like all of the other Sutliff blends I have tried👍🏻 The others were all heavily aromatic these are not.
“Mail Call” today. I grabbed two tins of C&D Low Country “Atalaya” and a cool 8 Deco Kokka wood tamper with a drill for a poker. I figured it might come in handy sometimes on a refurb. I loaded one of my Kirsten’s C’s with it and it’s smoking wonderfully. I will say, I need to smoke my Kirsten’s more, for the life of me I couldn’t figure out why the draw was so crappy. Weirder still, I could pull and it was restricted, but if I tried to blow back through, it was like it was clogged, or had some kind of one-way valve🤔. WTH? OH YES! The end cap is a valve that can close off the bottom chamber so any moisture collected won’t drain out in a pocket (for back in the day when a pipe was an all day multi-bowl workhorse). It didn’t help that the end cap on this one is kinda buggered up from some jamoke using pliers to remove it (not me). There is a flat on the end cap/valve to align it with the bowl’s airway that is kinda “camouflaged” with plier jaw marks. Well that, and I’m old and can’t see or remember. Now that the valve is lined up, it is smoking great.
Enjoying some Creme Brulee in an old reworked Darby "workhorse" pipe. Still smokes good, after all these years. I guesstimate the pipe to be around 40 to 50 years old...👴
@Londy3; It is clumsy in the hand. It doesn't smoke all that well. It is messy to clean up. The only reason I hang onto it is that I understand it has some value. Although, I don't understand why.
I loaded up one of my Zest pipes with some G&H or SG tobacco? I can’t remember what I had rubbed out and put in a “Pocket Jar”, it also has a bit of C&D “Espresso” added to it as well. I picked a small pipe, because it’s kinda late. By the way, there is snow falling this evening, very, very lightly, it’s not even below freezing yet. It’s 41F now and windy.
@opipeman I know there is/was? a Don Warren that carves custom bowls for Kirsten pipes. Maybe he engraves them….or maybe it’s just someone named Don that owned it previously🤔
@opipeman Kirsten is making new pipes again after a long hiatus. The pipes with that design and an XL Briar bowl are $209 + S&H. Don Warren bowls (of which I have seen exactly that freehand floral style in the past) are around $60-$80. The new Kirsten XL briar bowls were around the same price, but I don’t believe they ever had a factory freehand style available. I have seen those estate Kirstens go for $100-$180 in the past. I looked at the E bay and do not see any currently however. I do have a Kirsten with that body style, but it is an earlier model. The valve/endcap does not have the “foot” to stand on.
Had a pretty good day today, including a good supper. Relaxing with some Tinder Box After Dinner in a reworked noname. It never ceases to amaze me how many of these nonames can be such good smokers...
I’m smoking the last of my SG/GH? C&D melange in a contemporary version of a Kirsten type pipe tonight. It is a Stanwell “Harlequin” 9mm filter pipe. There were several bowl shapes, colors, finishes, body colors/patterns, and stem colors, and they were all small bowled pipes in mostly “wild/strange” colors, some painted. They originally came in sets of 10-12 or maybe more? They were meant to mix and match. I think they may have been sold as “parts” as well. After the sets didn’t sell well the sets were broken apart to sell each pipe individually. When I bought this one, it was at a severely reduced “grab bag” price (their choice-I think I got it from Pipes & Cigars). I got sooo lucky, I got a smooth bowl with thick walls and a black stem. The body is not a color/pattern I would have picked, but there were others that were much less desirable to me. The bowl shape is “normal”, although they made a “dublin” I liked better. This pipe had a very small bore diameter…..until I got through with it😬. I bored it out to a respectable chamber size, there was plenty of wall thickness in this one to modify🙂. I have a Savinelli 9mm balsa “soaker-upper” in it tonight, and it still started to gurgle. The moisture was building up directly below the bowl, the airway was 4mm there…..it is now 11/64”, the largest diameter I dare drill it out to. It is no longer gurgling👍🏻 In case anybody cares, the pipe tool is an engraved, aluminum scaled, vintage Kaywoodie with a sharp tobacco knife/round nose scraper and a nice long poker that I just scored on “the bay” recently. P.S. After smoking this tobacco, I’m pretty sure it is the Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. “Dark Flake-unscented”.
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I do like stubby pipes, however, I am not a fan of “Danish Style” pipes, nor most of corey562’s pipes. Don’t hate me.
Hey, that's what it means to be individuals, and personal tastes fall into that category. I like, you don't...You like, I don't... That's what makes the world go round...
For example:
Chickens... my wife loves the white meat, and I like the dark meat. We don't agree, but the poor chicken doesn't stand a chance!😁
If it were up to me, there would be tons of chickens flying around with no backs, necks, or legs😬
LL7 in my Rossi Antico with a nice 115 proof bourbon.
I used to have a Kirsten very much like that. I still have one, but I don't smoke it.
115 proof...
Good thing you waited until AFTER you did your chores.😏
more LL7 in my Rossi Antico while sipping on some Montepulciano. Beautiful day!
Yea, that’s the Kirsten you parade around on here that I love😍🙂
Never seen anything like it. Why don't you smoke it though?
It is clumsy in the hand. It doesn't smoke all that well. It is messy to clean up. The only reason I hang onto it is that I understand it has some value. Although, I don't understand why.
Keep me in mind if you want to “unload” it🙂
I would consider an offer. Note in the first photo it has "DON" engraved on the metal stem. I have no idea of its value.
I know there is/was? a Don Warren that carves custom bowls for Kirsten pipes. Maybe he engraves them….or maybe it’s just someone named Don that owned it previously🤔
I'm thinking it is/was some random Don.
Kirsten is making new pipes again after a long hiatus. The pipes with that design and an XL Briar bowl are $209 + S&H. Don Warren bowls (of which I have seen exactly that freehand floral style in the past) are around $60-$80. The new Kirsten XL briar bowls were around the same price, but I don’t believe they ever had a factory freehand style available. I have seen those estate Kirstens go for $100-$180 in the past. I looked at the E bay and do not see any currently however. I do have a Kirsten with that body style, but it is an earlier model. The valve/endcap does not have the “foot” to stand on.
Relaxing with some Tinder Box After Dinner in a reworked noname.
It never ceases to amaze me how many of these nonames can be such good smokers...
P.S. After smoking this tobacco, I’m pretty sure it is the Gawith, Hoggarth & Co. “Dark Flake-unscented”.
I put new "O" Rings in it a few years ago. Thanks for the research. I still don't like to smoke it.