This came to mind during the Pipe of the Day yesterday. For the first time in a while I dug out, loaded, and smoked a Lorenzo pipe I bought at Tinder Box in the '80s: a bent Dublin sitter with a thick-walled bowl. It's been through some adventures. Apparently I replaced the stem with an acrylic one; the shank cracked and I reglued it. For years, while I did not smoke, it sat as a decoration on a kitchen shelf. It still smokes well.
The odd thing is that, in the late '80s and into the '90s, until I gave up pipe smoking, the Lorenzo was my favorite, the go-to pipe. For some reason that seems to have changed -- or I would not be storing it in a separate box from my other briars. I wonder what happened. My current favorite, I guess, is the Mastercraft straight billiard I picked up in Birmingham a couple of years ago. It's slim and tapered, with the unusual twin bores in the stem. And it's connected in my mind with bugging out for a hurricane (not good, but a kind of adventure) and with visiting The Briary there and buying the pipe, the current leather pouch, and my Zippo (great).
So: If you have more than one pipe, what is your favorite, either because it is the one you reach for most often, or for another reason? And did it displace another former favorite?
The odd thing is that, in the late '80s and into the '90s, until I gave up pipe smoking, the Lorenzo was my favorite, the go-to pipe. For some reason that seems to have changed -- or I would not be storing it in a separate box from my other briars. I wonder what happened. My current favorite, I guess, is the Mastercraft straight billiard I picked up in Birmingham a couple of years ago. It's slim and tapered, with the unusual twin bores in the stem. And it's connected in my mind with bugging out for a hurricane (not good, but a kind of adventure) and with visiting The Briary there and buying the pipe, the current leather pouch, and my Zippo (great).
So: If you have more than one pipe, what is your favorite, either because it is the one you reach for most often, or for another reason? And did it displace another former favorite?