@Pipefreak2383, i have 2 hardwood Missouri Meeschsam maple pipes i got for 5 bucks each at pipes&cigars that are my work pipes and just smoking pipes also. If you dont like the cobs, they look good smoke great, maybe check in to them. Want disappoint
Here's a question for you pipe historians out there. I was watching an old movie on TCM not too long back (I CANNOT remember the movie now, dammit), the movie was set perhaps in 1700's Europe. There was a brief scene where the requisite old codger was at his desk smoking a very large pipe....I mean, he was in a chair and the base of the pipe rested on the floor next to him. This wasn't a hookah, mind you, but what you'd think of as a traditional pipe but quite large. I saw it and thought "Holy cow, what a pipe!"
@motie2, well the scale is certainly on par with what I recall....I only caught a brief look. I'm thinking there may have been a stand/holder associated with it - it seemed able to stand without a hand on it. I wonder how much of a thing such pipes were? Darn near furniture status.
@motie2, I believe it must have been in the October selection of TCM on-demand horror movies.....and we watched way too many to mentally winnow that down. I should have made a better mental note at the time. C'est la guerre.
I checked out the company site....Vauen has some beautiful pipes. And a few offbeat ones also.
The smokingpipes description of the pipe above states: “The bulk of this pipe is made from maple. The exceptions are the briar chamber and the thin streaks of Brazilian rosewood running through the stummel. However this pipe is not just for your eyes. Perfect engineering from the German Vauen company has resulted in this pipe being one of the cleanest smokes available on the market.”
@KA9FFJ Speaking of smoking upside-down. This pipe is called a “Windy” Perpetual Dry Smoker. Notice the shank stamps, it is meant to be lit from the bottom and smoked that way. The holes are in the bottom cap, the top cap is solid. The “Windy” is the built in wind cap. The “Perpetual” comes from being able to add tobacco from the top, which pushes the ash out the bottom, and keep right on puff’in. Since the stem airway is on top and the tobacco burns from the bottom up, there is no moisture buildup in the bottom of the bowl, the “Dry”. I have not actually smoked this one yet. I took me awhile to figure out how all the windy, perpetual, dry smoker was meant to be employed 🙂
@RockyMountainBriar I'm speechless! If I'm hearing you correctly, I would guess you would need to hold the pipe over an ashtray when reloading from the top to keep ash from dispersing where ever. That pipe is definitely for an all day smoker...
Just the name and description wears me out. I'm afraid I'd be too worn out to smoke it after I finished all the prepping...
@KA9FFJ Over an ashtray, or at least somewhere that would not get ashy or possibly start on fire. I with you, I don’t think I could smoke, or want to smoke, all day like this pipe is apparently capable of. I want to try it just to see what it would be like to load from the top and smoke the bottom. Talk about “chain smoking”. I have smoked a pipe upside-down in the rain while fishing. It is actually pretty easy and ash does not really fall out much. A kind of strange way to smoke, but it works.
@motie2 .That pipe looks like some kind of specialty tool used somewhere in, perhaps, the automotive industry... I don't want to know how much that pipe costs. Although it probably would make most other pipes seem cheap in comparison...
Don't get me wrong @motie2 It's a beauty and a real work of art. I was trying to interject a little humor in the above post and, as usual, failed. Was there a price on that pipe or just the pic?
Going to a Christmas dinner in a few minutes. I'll check back in way later and see what's been going on here at TPL...
Last month P&C had a great deal on Peterson Donegal Pipes. I took the opportunity to pick up a P-Lip (though I thought I was buying a fishtail...) Lovat. It's much smaller than I thought it would be, bigger than a nosewarmer, but not by much, but I'm quite happy with it. It'll make for a great pocket pipe.
For me, beauty it is at simple things, that Japanese pipe is just too much and PappyJoe is right, if we need ask for the price, usually we can't afford.
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Anyone heard of such?
Best I could do.......
Anything here ring a bell?
http://www.tcm.com/watchtcm/films
Looks like a Maple and Walnut laminate with a briar bowl insert. I think I like it🙂
The smokingpipes description of the pipe above states: “The bulk of this pipe is made from maple. The exceptions are the briar chamber and the thin streaks of Brazilian rosewood running through the stummel. However this pipe is not just for your eyes. Perfect engineering from the German Vauen company has resulted in this pipe being one of the cleanest smokes available on the market.”
Speaking of smoking upside-down. This pipe is called a “Windy” Perpetual Dry Smoker. Notice the shank stamps, it is meant to be lit from the bottom and smoked that way. The holes are in the bottom cap, the top cap is solid. The “Windy” is the built in wind cap. The “Perpetual” comes from being able to add tobacco from the top, which pushes the ash out the bottom, and keep right on puff’in. Since the stem airway is on top and the tobacco burns from the bottom up, there is no moisture buildup in the bottom of the bowl, the “Dry”.
I have not actually smoked this one yet. I took me awhile to figure out how all the windy, perpetual, dry smoker was meant to be employed 🙂
@RockyMountainBriar I'm speechless! If I'm hearing you correctly, I would guess you would need to hold the pipe over an ashtray when reloading from the top to keep ash from dispersing where ever. That pipe is definitely for an all day smoker...
Just the name and description wears me out. I'm afraid I'd be too worn out to smoke it after I finished all the prepping...
Over an ashtray, or at least somewhere that would not get ashy or possibly start on fire.
I with you, I don’t think I could smoke, or want to smoke, all day like this pipe is apparently capable of. I want to try it just to see what it would be like to load from the top and smoke the bottom. Talk about “chain smoking”.
I have smoked a pipe upside-down in the rain while fishing. It is actually pretty easy and ash does not really fall out much. A kind of strange way to smoke, but it works.
I don't want to know how much that pipe costs. Although it probably would make most other pipes seem cheap in comparison...
Don't get me wrong @motie2 It's a beauty and a real work of art. I was trying to interject a little humor in the above post and, as usual, failed. Was there a price on that pipe or just the pic?
Going to a Christmas dinner in a few minutes. I'll check back in way later and see what's been going on here at TPL...
Enjoying your recommendation of JOSN... NICE!...