
I sure wish I could find some more affordable pipes like this one. She is one sweet smokin' babe.
Ok. I worship you guys as sanders, refinishers, and, polishers. But I wanna see what the smokers do. That is not the way our well smoked pipes look. Pristine rims. Are you kidding?Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:02 pmYou must have posted your questions the same time as his. DP wrote:Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 pmWhat do you smoke in them? They look completely unused. Like pristine models. Now if they're just props for fishing gear pictures then you can say so. I think they're gorgeous. But they show no signs of SMOKING. Show us your down & dirty used pipes whose beauty is mated with bruises, tar, rim damage, and bite marks. C'mon. I wanna see them with ash and cake crawling up the bowl. I wanna sense from the pic that they're icky stinkers to everybody but you. We want to see the frail but heroic human side of your pipes. You've shown the fishing gear models. We understand. They're beautiful but just models. It's ok.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmNo, Goose. They're all my own photos.
Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Here are a few more . . .
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard
Ropp horn-stem Liverpool
Stanwell Sterling 109
Stanwell Trio 95
Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013
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I hate to ask but ... has any of that fishing gear been used? Those are fishing catalog pics. Come clean. How about the table?
Where is the used stuff that resembles you? Aging with grace but showing signs of heavy use and age. It's still going but the mileage shows. You're not 18 or 20 yo and you don't look like that. The real pipes don't either.
durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmI almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
So post a photo, already.Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:23 pmOk. I worship you guys as sanders, refinishers, and, polishers. But I wanna see what the smokers do. That is not the way our well smoked pipes look. Pristine rims. Are you kidding?Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:02 pmYou must have posted your questions the same time as his. DP wrote:Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 pmWhat do you smoke in them? They look completely unused. Like pristine models. Now if they're just props for fishing gear pictures then you can say so. I think they're gorgeous. But they show no signs of SMOKING. Show us your down & dirty used pipes whose beauty is mated with bruises, tar, rim damage, and bite marks. C'mon. I wanna see them with ash and cake crawling up the bowl. I wanna sense from the pic that they're icky stinkers to everybody but you. We want to see the frail but heroic human side of your pipes. You've shown the fishing gear models. We understand. They're beautiful but just models. It's ok.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmNo, Goose. They're all my own photos.
Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Here are a few more . . .
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard
Ropp horn-stem Liverpool
Stanwell Sterling 109
Stanwell Trio 95
Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013
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I hate to ask but ... has any of that fishing gear been used? Those are fishing catalog pics. Come clean. How about the table?
Where is the used stuff that resembles you? Aging with grace but showing signs of heavy use and age. It's still going but the mileage shows. You're not 18 or 20 yo and you don't look like that. The real pipes don't either.
durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmI almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Photographed before they were smoked with props I like.durangopipe wrote:Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
I'm not bitching. I'm shocked. It's dark and it's late. Tomorrow I'll post pics of some my pipes. We are friends but I can't imagine that your smoking pipes look pristine. I was hoping to see some pals not brand new retail queens.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:28 pmSo post a photo, already.Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:23 pmOk. I worship you guys as sanders, refinishers, and, polishers. But I wanna see what the smokers do. That is not the way our well smoked pipes look. Pristine rims. Are you kidding?Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:02 pmYou must have posted your questions the same time as his. DP wrote:Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 pmWhat do you smoke in them? They look completely unused. Like pristine models. Now if they're just props for fishing gear pictures then you can say so. I think they're gorgeous. But they show no signs of SMOKING. Show us your down & dirty used pipes whose beauty is mated with bruises, tar, rim damage, and bite marks. C'mon. I wanna see them with ash and cake crawling up the bowl. I wanna sense from the pic that they're icky stinkers to everybody but you. We want to see the frail but heroic human side of your pipes. You've shown the fishing gear models. We understand. They're beautiful but just models. It's ok.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmNo, Goose. They're all my own photos.
Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Here are a few more . . .
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard
Ropp horn-stem Liverpool
Stanwell Sterling 109
Stanwell Trio 95
Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013
![]()
I hate to ask but ... has any of that fishing gear been used? Those are fishing catalog pics. Come clean. How about the table?
Where is the used stuff that resembles you? Aging with grace but showing signs of heavy use and age. It's still going but the mileage shows. You're not 18 or 20 yo and you don't look like that. The real pipes don't either.
durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmI almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Or sit in the bleachers and b****.
I posted some of my favorite pipe photos.
Post yours.
The pipes are valuable to me, and I care for them. That includes not letting them become "well used pals."Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:43 pmI'm not bitching. I'm shocked. It's dark and it's late. Tomorrow I'll post pics of some my pipes. We are friends but I can't imagine that your smoking pipes look pristine. I was hoping to see some pals not brand new retail queens.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:28 pmSo post a photo, already.Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:23 pmOk. I worship you guys as sanders, refinishers, and, polishers. But I wanna see what the smokers do. That is not the way our well smoked pipes look. Pristine rims. Are you kidding?Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:02 pmYou must have posted your questions the same time as his. DP wrote:Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 pmWhat do you smoke in them? They look completely unused. Like pristine models. Now if they're just props for fishing gear pictures then you can say so. I think they're gorgeous. But they show no signs of SMOKING. Show us your down & dirty used pipes whose beauty is mated with bruises, tar, rim damage, and bite marks. C'mon. I wanna see them with ash and cake crawling up the bowl. I wanna sense from the pic that they're icky stinkers to everybody but you. We want to see the frail but heroic human side of your pipes. You've shown the fishing gear models. We understand. They're beautiful but just models. It's ok.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmNo, Goose. They're all my own photos.
Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Here are a few more . . .
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard
Ropp horn-stem Liverpool
Stanwell Sterling 109
Stanwell Trio 95
Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013
![]()
I hate to ask but ... has any of that fishing gear been used? Those are fishing catalog pics. Come clean. How about the table?
Where is the used stuff that resembles you? Aging with grace but showing signs of heavy use and age. It's still going but the mileage shows. You're not 18 or 20 yo and you don't look like that. The real pipes don't either.
durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmI almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Or sit in the bleachers and b****.
I posted some of my favorite pipe photos.
Post yours.
You're telling me that your favourite pipe pics are of unsmoked pipes. Is that true? Do you not have any well used pals?
Those of you that have real smoked pipes that are pals post pics.
It's a matter of taste, Goose. I agree that an as new pipe is beautiful. But to me, so is one that has become mine. And it's hard to believe that an outdoorsman like Steve doesn't have one fishing pipe with a three quarters chewed through stem and a rim blackened on one side from lighting it one handed with a rod in the other. I'm beginning to believe he's just a mite fancier than his old clients.Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 11:21 pmThe pipes are valuable to me, and I care for them. That includes not letting them become "well used pals."Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:43 pmI'm not bitching. I'm shocked. It's dark and it's late. Tomorrow I'll post pics of some my pipes. We are friends but I can't imagine that your smoking pipes look pristine. I was hoping to see some pals not brand new retail queens.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:28 pmSo post a photo, already.Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:23 pmOk. I worship you guys as sanders, refinishers, and, polishers. But I wanna see what the smokers do. That is not the way our well smoked pipes look. Pristine rims. Are you kidding?Goose55 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 10:02 pmYou must have posted your questions the same time as his. DP wrote:Rusty wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 9:54 pmWhat do you smoke in them? They look completely unused. Like pristine models. Now if they're just props for fishing gear pictures then you can say so. I think they're gorgeous. But they show no signs of SMOKING. Show us your down & dirty used pipes whose beauty is mated with bruises, tar, rim damage, and bite marks. C'mon. I wanna see them with ash and cake crawling up the bowl. I wanna sense from the pic that they're icky stinkers to everybody but you. We want to see the frail but heroic human side of your pipes. You've shown the fishing gear models. We understand. They're beautiful but just models. It's ok.durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmNo, Goose. They're all my own photos.
Photographing my pipes is as much of a hobby for me as collecting and smoking them. I almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Here are a few more . . .
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's bent apple
Pre-Cadogan Comoy's blasted billiard
Ropp horn-stem Liverpool
Stanwell Sterling 109
Stanwell Trio 95
Viprati Cherrywood POTY 2013
![]()
I hate to ask but ... has any of that fishing gear been used? Those are fishing catalog pics. Come clean. How about the table?
Where is the used stuff that resembles you? Aging with grace but showing signs of heavy use and age. It's still going but the mileage shows. You're not 18 or 20 yo and you don't look like that. The real pipes don't either.
durangopipe wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2017 8:34 pmI almost always photograph an estate pipe as soon as I'm done refurbishing it and a new pipe before it's smoked. Often, the props included are from other favorite pastimes like fishing and hunting.
Or sit in the bleachers and b****.
I posted some of my favorite pipe photos.
Post yours.
You're telling me that your favourite pipe pics are of unsmoked pipes. Is that true? Do you not have any well used pals?
Those of you that have real smoked pipes that are pals post pics.
Now, I already know what you are thinking. You are going to bring up the fact that I dry my stummels in the arid Arizona sun, and that that is pipe abuse. I rather think that that is better than letting a pipe rim blacken with char.
One can help avoid blackening a rim by wetting it before lighting the pipe, and making part of enjoying a pipe, caring for it's appearance.
But you already knew that. Why are you debating it?.
That's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipesdurangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:51 amMy understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes
What if my favorite pictures of pipes are pictures of my favorite pipes? What if I can't separate the concepts? Would I need to have it explained to me using italic font?Goose55 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:25 pmThat's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipesdurangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:51 amMy understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes
I doubt it . . .hugodrax wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:55 pmWhat if my favorite pictures of pipes are pictures of my favorite pipes? What if I can't separate the concepts? Would I need to have it explained to me using italic font?Goose55 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:25 pmThat's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipesdurangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:51 amMy understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes
I had no intention of insulting. I hope people read all of my missives in a goofy voice. I love how well you care for your pipes. I love my crusty ones, too. I don't think there's a better or worse, just that some have higher resale values.durangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:47 pmI doubt it . . .hugodrax wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:55 pmWhat if my favorite pictures of pipes are pictures of my favorite pipes? What if I can't separate the concepts? Would I need to have it explained to me using italic font?Goose55 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:25 pmThat's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipesdurangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:51 amMy understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes
That was mostly in response to Rusty's comments.
Those comments sometimes sound to me more like accusations than comments, hence the replies.
We've discussed it by PM. We're friends. All is well.
All is truly well, Hugo.hugodrax wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 2:18 pmI had no intention of insulting. I hope people read all of my missives in a goofy voice. I love how well you care for your pipes. I love my crusty ones, too. I don't think there's a better or worse, just that some have higher resale values.durangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 1:47 pmI doubt it . . .hugodrax wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:55 pmWhat if my favorite pictures of pipes are pictures of my favorite pipes? What if I can't separate the concepts? Would I need to have it explained to me using italic font?Goose55 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 12:25 pmThat's right. That's why I phrased it that way. Favorite pictures of pipesdurangopipe wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2017 10:51 amMy understanding of this thread was that it was intended to be about favorite pictures of pipes, not pictures of favorite pipes
That was mostly in response to Rusty's comments.
Those comments sometimes sound to me more like accusations than comments, hence the replies.
We've discussed it by PM. We're friends. All is well.
I love the graining on that pipe. Must be a good smoker.