How do you decide which pipe to smoke?

Subject: Re: How do you decide which pipe to smoke? Mon Sep 29, 2008 9:02 pm

Wish I could say I have some defined rotation...I don't! With (presently) 140+ pipes, I just scan them all and pick out three or four for the evening. Since I smoke predominately Englisn/Balkan/Oriental blends, I have no "dedicated" pipes; never have. Even when I do smoke the occasional straight Va or Va/Oriental blend; I don't worry about which pipe I select. I do have a way of remembering what pipe/pipes I have recently smoked. Any of my pipes are lucky to be smoked once every 3-to-4 months!! As for tobacco, I tend to keep a "rotation" of four blends going at any given time. The rest just sits and ages!!!!! FTRPLT

Subject: Re: How do you decide which pipe to smoke? Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:48 pm

I'm reminded of the old Steve Martin piece about smoking a joint but I'll apply it to pipe & baccer:
"I used to smoke marijuana. But I'll tell you something: I would only smoke it in the late evening. Oh, occasionally the early evening, but usually the late evening - or the mid-evening. Just the early evening, midevening and late evening. Occasionally, early afternoon, early mid-afternoon, or perhaps the late-midafternoon. Oh, sometimes the early-mid-late-early morning. . . But never at dusk. Never at dusk"
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Subject: How do you decide which pipe to smoke? Fri Oct 17, 2008 1:19 pm

Many times I search for one that I have not used for awhile. I don't want any of my babies getting lonely and ultimately pissed off at me.

Subject: Re: How do you decide which pipe to smoke? Mon Oct 20, 2008 3:29 am

I'm still breaking in the majority of my pipes as I have just started smoking again after over thirty years hiatus. Generaly I decide which tobacco I want to smoke and then pick a pipe to go with it. I have a couple of pipes that I prefer at work (only rarely get to smoke there and have to go outside to do it). I have a Sav Oom Paul that I haven't fired up yet. I'm waiting til I have a couple of hours to read without interuption.