Idlefellow
Well-known member
Do you have any pipes in your collection that, for one reason or another (or maybe no reason at all that you know of) somehow just don't do it for you? (I know: If they don't, send 'em down the road, right?) You see them there, but for some reason, when you reach for a pipe, it's never that one? But even so, you can't - or won't - let them go?
I was looking at my rack today, and I have these three..
The bent pot on top is a house pipe from an old home town shop now long gone called The Pipe Rack. For one thing I have to twist the stem around to get it in and out of my rack :evil: . It's a decent enough pipe but...dunno. But John Ojile and his wife were great folks and I have many fond memories of them and that shop. I expect it'll stay forever.
The other two are, obviously, Petes. The large bulldog in the middle is a shape from their Sherlock Holmes collection called the Baker Street, but since it's in their less expensive Kinsale line it got demoted to shape #XL13. It smokes fine. I don't know what it is; maybe I'm just not a bulldog guy. But I can't see letting it go either.
The big Dublin Millennium on the bottom is well grained and really smokes pretty well. I just somehow never reach for it. But they're never be another, so...
Anybody else have an orphan or two they'd like to share?
I was looking at my rack today, and I have these three..
The bent pot on top is a house pipe from an old home town shop now long gone called The Pipe Rack. For one thing I have to twist the stem around to get it in and out of my rack :evil: . It's a decent enough pipe but...dunno. But John Ojile and his wife were great folks and I have many fond memories of them and that shop. I expect it'll stay forever.
The other two are, obviously, Petes. The large bulldog in the middle is a shape from their Sherlock Holmes collection called the Baker Street, but since it's in their less expensive Kinsale line it got demoted to shape #XL13. It smokes fine. I don't know what it is; maybe I'm just not a bulldog guy. But I can't see letting it go either.
The big Dublin Millennium on the bottom is well grained and really smokes pretty well. I just somehow never reach for it. But they're never be another, so...
Anybody else have an orphan or two they'd like to share?