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1 Old Pipe and 1 Cheap New Pipe
While rummaging through one of the storage cabinets in my truck a couple of days ago I found a pipe. I vaguely recall buying this pipe several years ago, right before I started mostly smoking meerschaums.
I had only smoked a couple of bowls in it, determined that it didn't smoke well, and had stashed it away and forgotten about it.
It's a Kaywoodie. I cleaned it up, noting that the stem was fairly loose. I packed it with some Carter Hall and fired it up. As I smoked it I thought "There isn't a thing in the world wrong with the way this pipe smokes." I realized that the fault hadn't been with the pipe but rather with my lack of experience in packing and smoking at the time.
After smoking the bowl of Carter Hall I noticed that the heat from smoking had tightened the stem again. After a couple of days it remains as tight as new.
last night I met a fellow pipe smoking trucker in Effingham, IL. We chatted about pipes and tobaccos for a few minutes. He mainly smokes Captain Black. That got me to thinking that I hadn't smoked any Captain Black in a long time.
Today I stopped into a little discount tobacco shop in Kentucky to pick up some Captain Black. While there I saw a box that had contained some basket pipes, with only a single pipe remaining. As I liked the looks of it and I figured that at fifteen bucks I wasn't out much if it turned out to not smoke well, I bought it along with the Captain Black.
I filled it up with the Captain Black and fired it up. I was quite amazed at how well that fifteen dollar pipe smoked. I looked the pipe over carefully. The only marking was "Italy". When I looked closely I could see two small, narrow fills in the bowl. You can see them in the photo below, one is shaped like a chevron. The fills explain why it was a basket pipe, I suppose.
I have to say that fifteen dollar pipe smokes as well as many of my more expensive pipes and I feel it was money well spent. It's taking it's place in my rotation of regularly smoked pipes.
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Re: 1 Old Pipe and 1 Cheap New Pipe
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Johnnycake wrote:
Don't you just love when you find a pipe like that? I had a Doc Grabow that had this uncanny quality - it would make Kendal Flake just sing like no other pipe. I dropped it about a year ago while smoking and it split the bowl right in half. 
I really like the looks of that 15 dollar pipe. Enjoy it!
Johnny 
Thanks. I also like the look of it. It's the first one I've purchased with the long shank.
Bummer about your DG.
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Re: 1 Old Pipe and 1 Cheap New Pipe
That Canadian/Lumberman looks just fine. Especially as a "working pipe", a couple of fills are no big deal. Now that KW is a looker...glad you didn't give up on it. Have fun with your new rack-mates!
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That Canadian/Lumberman looks just fine. Especially as a "working pipe", a couple of fills are no big deal. Now that KW is a looker...glad you didn't give up on it. Have fun with your new rack-mates!
Thanks.
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