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<blockquote data-quote="KevinM" data-source="post: 455980" data-attributes="member: 2318"><p>I have a problematic number of pipes. When I see an appealing possible acquisition, I have to think a bit to be sure I don't already have its near twin. One test I use for a buy / don't buy decision is, would the new pipe push an old favorite out of the line? I still have the first pipe I ever bought fifty years ago. My totals are c. sixty briars, more than a dozen cobs, three meers. If the bowl is tall and skinny, it gets fed Va. If it's more squarish in dimension, English. Aros get briars whose bowls seem a good match for the tobacco's cut, coarse or fine. I don't like too rigid a system, because it seems to take some of the enjoyment out of this avocation, for me, anyway. One of the best things I've done to enhance my enjoyment is to keep a "piper's diary." Entries are selective (I wouldn't do an entry on PA in a cob, for examp) and brief (Date, pipe, tobacco, what's remarkable). With the diary, I can quickly choose a tobacco if I've already chosen a pipe . . . or the opposite.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KevinM, post: 455980, member: 2318"] I have a problematic number of pipes. When I see an appealing possible acquisition, I have to think a bit to be sure I don't already have its near twin. One test I use for a buy / don't buy decision is, would the new pipe push an old favorite out of the line? I still have the first pipe I ever bought fifty years ago. My totals are c. sixty briars, more than a dozen cobs, three meers. If the bowl is tall and skinny, it gets fed Va. If it's more squarish in dimension, English. Aros get briars whose bowls seem a good match for the tobacco's cut, coarse or fine. I don't like too rigid a system, because it seems to take some of the enjoyment out of this avocation, for me, anyway. One of the best things I've done to enhance my enjoyment is to keep a "piper's diary." Entries are selective (I wouldn't do an entry on PA in a cob, for examp) and brief (Date, pipe, tobacco, what's remarkable). With the diary, I can quickly choose a tobacco if I've already chosen a pipe . . . or the opposite. [/QUOTE]
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