Let me explain: This photo was shot about 4 years ago and it was the corner of my desk at the time. The ugly looking pipe in the front was one I was working on hand carving. The piece of wood sitting on a block of wood is something I bought at a fleamarket because it looked interesting. I never smoked it because I think the idiot who made it carved it from pine. My plan was to replicate the design in briar or cherry. The two bowls on top of the pipe stand are carved from cherry and what I called art deco designed. The one with the obvious two tone color I finished and smoked. The natural wood piece cracked so was never finished.
The meerschaum is a CAO Cavalier (the image not the style) that I put a churchwarden stem on. It normally has the original stem on it and I still smoke it. The other churchwarden standing up is a Savinelli. The leatherclad pipe is a Whitehall estate pipe and the one to the right is a Maestro de Paja sitter that I still smoke in my weekly rotation. The first pipe I carved is also in that rack sitting to the left of the Whitehall. I still smoke it also. There is also a Yello-Bole Imported Briar Spartan in the rack that belonged to my grandfather.
My wife and I converted an old sewing machine cabinet she bought for $1.00 at a resale shop into a nice little desk which acts as a display for some Holmes related material including a gourd Calabash pipe and a replica of an antique Eifel Tower telephone. I think it makes a nice pipe related desktop wallpaper.
Nice backgrounds, if I ever get my smoking room built I will put a PC in there Just for Pipe stuff and I will use a Pipe background but for now I have Wolves.
I like these desktop pictures but what about Screen savers?? Maybe we could copy all the pictures from Pipe Porn and make a screen saver? Anyone know of any already made screen savers that have pipe or pipe related stuff? If not is everyone OK with me copying pictures from Pipe Porn thread and making a custom screen saver?
• On a Mac, you can simply set up a folder to put all your pipe porn into, and then go into your Desktop & Screensaver preferences. Select Desktop.
Then click on the Folders subheading, and click on the + at the bottom of that scroll-box.
It will open up a dialog box which you can use to select the folder you created for your pipe porn. Once that's done, click Choose. You can then either select a single picture from that folder, or set it so that it changes at various intervals.
• If you select Screen Saver instead of Desktop, the process is the same, but you select from the Sources drop-down box to get the Choose Folder command to select the folder with the pix. You also get to choose how long before the screen-saver starts as well as which transition effect you want the screen saver function to use when it brings up the next picture in the folder.
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My wife and I converted an old sewing machine cabinet she bought for $1.00 at a resale shop into a nice little desk which acts as a display for some Holmes related material including a gourd Calabash pipe and a replica of an antique Eifel Tower telephone. I think it makes a nice pipe related desktop wallpaper.
@jim102864, It's enough to make a guy move clear to Clearwater. :^)
@motie2, here ya go motie. I think you are partial to this one, because she is smoking a churchwarden.
Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: March 2021
Includes an April preview.
Also BTW, I have not found any pipe smoking screensavers.