SOUND OFF !!!!!!!!!!

Name: Corneel Vermeulen

Location: Betekom, which at the moment is in belgium

Occupation: florist.

Age: 26

Years smoking a pipe:7

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Belges -- and anything else with pencilt hin shanks.

Favorite tobacco: still in production: Ashton Celebrated Sovereign, in general: GLP Bohemian Scandal.

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer:Not a fair question.

What brand is most represented in your collection: Stanwell.

How many pipes owned: No idea.  Over 100.

Time you smoke: Afternoons and evenings

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 2

Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 2

Matches or Lighter: Lighter

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: an occasional cigar, and when convenience matters I'll have a cigarillo.

Every try to make your own pipe: No, I leave that up to people who don't have to left hands.

Cheers!

Corneel Vermeulen

http://pipelore.net

 Name: Bob Rivet

Location: Midland, Michigan, good ole US of A

Occupation(s): (work) Manufacturing Supervisor - Automotive Industry.  (home) Ringleader of the Rivet Family 7 (myself, dear irreplaceable wife, and 5 leg huggers ranging in age from 10 to 1 years old)

Age: big 4-0 this coming Jan 2

Years smoking a pipe: 6 months

Favorite pipe shape: To be determined - still in the discovery stage. Have 1 freehand, 1 bent billiard rusticated, 1 handmade straight billiard prince that needs to be finished (just can't quit smoking it long enough to finish it...)

Favorite tobacco: To be determined as well, but Dunhill Night Cap is by far the leader of the ones I've tried.

Favorite pipe manufacturer: broken record... to be determined!

What brand most represented? no two alike (yet!!)

How many pipes owned: 3 - need to build up that rotation!! Don't want to "burn" these out!

Time you smoke: morning on the way to work, late afternoon on the way home from work and usually a bowl or two late evening.

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 3

Avg # of bowl per weekend day: have to work most weekends, but when I don't, 2-3

Matches or Lighter: Stick matches thank you bery much!

Cigar / Cigarettes too?: No cigarettes, yuck!  Love the occasional Arturo Fuente, Monticello, Cohiba, H Upmann.

Ever try to make your own pipe: Attempting to finish a pipe that was given to me half finished.  I will be making my own pipes as a hobby as soon as I can build up the workbench.

Bob Rivet

Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world.  ~Irish Proverb

Name: Misha Erementchouk
Location: Florida, USA (a stop in a chain of endless moving)
Occupation: Scientist (physicist)
Age: 36
Years smoking a pipe: 2 - 14 years depending how to count, so let it be 4
Favorite Pipe Shape: let it be lovat
Favorite tobacco: still in production: that's the tough one, maybe Briar Fox
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: apparently Savinelli but extending the budget would move to explore Sara Eltang series
What brand is most represented in your collection: Savinelli but I can barely count it as a collection
How many pipes own: 30+
Time you smoke: anytime
Avg # of bowls: 3 (rare) - 5 (rare)
Matches or Lighter: Lighter
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Quit cigarettes 2 years ago. May have a cigar once in a great while
Ever try to make your own pipe: nope but want to

Name: Mike Mitchley

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Occupation: Director, software consulting company

Age: 51

Years smoking a pipe: 5 full time

Favorite Pipe Shape: Whatever fits in my mouth & doesn't make people laugh at me

Favorite tobacco: Vapers & English, a really difficult call

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Petes, of course

What brand is most represented in your collection: Petes, of course

How many pipes own: 70+ & growing

Time you smoke: All the time

Avg # of bowls: About 15

Matches or Lighter: Zippo

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Hate cigarettes. A cigar once a week

Ever try to make your own pipe: Have enough difficulty tying my shoe laces

Name:  Rev. Jay W. VanHorn

     Location: Bayou Country of SW Louisiana

     Occupation: Pastor

     Age: 48

     Years smoking a pipe: 34

     Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Bulldogs

     Favorite tobacco: Cornell & Diehl Safe Harbor

     Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Ronny Thuner, Lannes Johnson

     What brand is most represented in your collection: Boswells - 9

     How many pipes owned: 120

     Time you smoke: Mostly Evenings

     Avg # of bowls per weekday: Three

     Avg # of bowls per weekend day: Three

     Matches or Lighter: Zippo Lighter

     Cigars / Cigarettes too?:  NOOOOOO

     Every try to make your own pipe: Not until I get health insurance

I added "Personal Website" and "My Cellar" to the list. Trust me, the tobbaccocellar.org is not about bragging rights at least for me. You'll see umpteen pouches of Altadis blends I have stored for Doomsday... I'll smoke before smoking grass clippings!!! in case of a tobacco crisis. They are sent to SHPC regularly and were free. I can't bring myself to throw ANY tobacco away!

If you've already posted (ckr et al) you might want to go back and do the same. Its fun in a voyeuristic way. OK.. so now Im a corn cob abuser, cross posting voyeur!!! God I love this internet thing. Thank you Mr. Gore!!!!

EDIT: I forgot to mention the Tobaccocellar Site Developer, Jason,  has been busy adding requested blends, and if you were the one who requested it, he lets you know that he has done so. 

Tom

http://thepetersonpipeproject.blogspot.com

Name: Thomas Martin
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Occupation: Accountant
Age: 44
Years smoking a pipe: 3.5 (but not consecutive- long story)
Favorite Pipe Shape: Thats like asking "favorite Beatles song. Cant' answer.
Favorite tobacco: still in production: Sir Walter Raliegh Aromatic"

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Peterson

What brand is most represented in your collection: Those I've made myself

How many pipes owned: 40-50? No virgins.
Time you smoke: Anytime. Mostly am commute and pm commute
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 2-3
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 3-5
Matches or Lighter: iN CAR: Lighter (2 fires w/matches) otherwise matches
Cigars / Cigarettes too?:cigars.. or cigar in the pipe. Why not just smoke a cigar? Because I love pipes.

Every try to make your own pipe: yes and haven't stopped since!!!!

Personal Website: http://thos.martin.tripod.com

My Cellar: Parson's

CArry on,

Tom

http://thepetersonpipeproject.blogspot.com

He must have a huge back log to go through. The blends I requested over a year and a half ago have yet to appear on the list (yep, I just checked).

Ah well..

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Currently reading: Dean Koontz - Sole Survivor | Books read this year: 0

Name: Chris Reynolds
Location: Rhode Island, USA
Occupation: Software Development
Age: Way, way over the hill
Years smoking a pipe: Long Story, just say 2
Least Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Square or Paneled
Favorite tobacco: still in production: Currently Marlin Flake and this category will continue to change
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Dr Grabow, I like the fact that they produce a smoking instrument at a price that does not pinch the wallet.  So it is not so much their pipes, I just respect what they represent. Pipes for the masses and they produce over 250,000 a year.  There are plenty of pipe smokers out there. 
What brand is most represented in your collection: Outside of home made, GBD
How many pipes owned: Currently I have 27, 13 smoked and enjoyed regularly, 7 I basically ignore and 7 virgins.
Time you smoke: Could be any time of day
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 2-3
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 3-5
Matches or Lighter: Matches, even on the windiest days
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Of course, along with snuff - It is only chew that grosses me out.
Every try to make your own pipe: With very few regrets almost all my pipes are hand made and all fingers are accounted for.

Fume in pace, ckr

Name: Dock J.Perry

Location: 70 Miles West of Boston Massachusetts

Occupation: Used Car Sales

Age: 31

Years Smokin' a Pipe: Roughly 10

Favorite Shape(s): Full Bents,Cavaliers,Wild Designs

Favorite Tobacco: MacBaren's NavyFlake

Favorite Maker: Kurt Balleby

Pipe Maker Most Represented: Probably Ardor

Number of Pipes Owned: Several Hundered

Time You Smoke: Mornings & Afternoons

Average Bowls Weekdays: 2-3 Per Day

Average Bowls Weekends: 1 Per Day

Matches or Lighter: Lighter

Cigars/Cigarettes: The Occasional Cigar, Cigarettes NEVER!

Ever Make Your Own Pipe: Nope,But I Have Designed A Few

Personal Website: NO,But See My Pipe Club's Link Below

Pipe Club Affiliation: Sherlock Holmes of Boston

Favorite Pipe Smoker of All Time: Sherlock of Course : )

Best,

D.

The Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston... "Keeping The Smoking Lamp Lit Since 1989" www.shpcboston.org

Name: Matt Hayes

Location: Virginia, but I'm moving back to North Carolina soon.

Occupation: Student/part-time

Age: 21

Years smoking a pipe: 3 or 4

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Freehand

Favorite tobacco: McClelland's Frog Morton Series, but I change with the seasons.

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Stanwell

What brand is most represented in your collection: N/A

How many pipes owned: 15 or so

Time you smoke: Evenings or after work

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 1

Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 1

Matches or Lighter: Matches!

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Occasionally

Every try to make your own pipe: No, not really my thing unless I can go all out and learn how to do it right.

Name: Josh Sohn

Location: Copenhagen, DK (for the year...)

Occupation: Student (Architecture)

Age: 21

Years Smokin' a Pipe: Roughly 3

Favorite Shape(s): Billiards, bent billiards, princes, and anything that displays beautiful grain

Favorite Tobacco: MacBaren's NavyFlake or Mixture

Favorite Maker: probably trevor talbert (realistically speaking...)

Pipe Maker Most Represented: Stanwell,  Ozark Mountain Briars, and Mark Tinsky

Number of Pipes Owned: about a Hundered

Time You Smoke: Afternoons and Evenings

Average Bowls Weekdays: 1 Per Day

Average Bowls Weekends: 1 Per Day

Matches or Lighter: Lighter

Cigars/Cigarettes: The Occasional Cigar, Cigarettes very rarely

Ever Make Your Own Pipe:  A Few

Personal Website: www.uoregon.edu/~jsohn/pipes

Pipe Club Affiliation: none

Favorite Pipe Smoker of All Time: between Sherlock and Einstein

Name: John

Location: Connecticut Valley

Age: 52

Occupation: Facilities Manager

Favorite Manufacturer: Savinelli

Number of pipes in collection: 80-100

Matches/lighter: Matches (of course)

Smoke all all day and all night...like a good cigar once in a while, gave up cigarettes three years ago.

Website: http://matches2john.spaces.live.com/

Name: Jim Highland
Location: Winchester MA
Occupation: Architect
Age: 46
Years smoking a pipe: 15, then off for 5 years, 4 years since re-starting
Favorite Pipe Shape(s): 1/2 to full bent billiards, apples, traditional shapes
Favorite tobacco: Peretti's British Blend
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Mark Tinksy
What brand is most represented in your collection: Tinsky
How many pipes owned: 12
Time you smoke: Evenings, morning
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 1-2 per day
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 2-4
Matches or Lighter: Lighter
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Nope
Every try to make your own pipe: No, I'm all thumbs.

Oops, I posted a new thread to say hello... guess I could have accomplished the same thing here. So here goes.

Name: Justin Bain

Location: Buffalo, NY

Occupation: Construction/Business Owner   

Age: 27

Years smoking a pipe: On and off since I was 18... you can do the math.

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Bulldogs, Dublins & Pears... anything classic really.

Favorite tobacco: Brian's Blend (Local smoke shop blend)

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Dont really have one yet... I smoke what looks good and smokes good. Some of those are often no-names.              

What brand is most represented in your collection: Fischer

How many pipes owned: Current: 12 After X-mas: 14 After Treating myself: 16. Hey what can I say !  

Time you smoke: Any

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 3-4      

Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 4-5

Matches or Lighter: Lighter

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Cigarettes

Every try to make your own pipe: Not yet !     

Personal Website: None... but I designed one for a local freehand carver. Check it out. www.BrianKalnitz.com

Updated: July 18th, 2008

Name: Lars Wiberg
Location: Malmö, Sweden (Danish immigrant of 2005)
Occupation: Chief Technological Officer
Age: 30+1 = 31
Years smoking a pipe: 3+
Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Bulldogs and Apples
Favorite tobacco: Orlik Golden Sliced
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Stanwell
What brand is most represented in your collection: Stanwell
How many pipes owned: 100+
Time you smoke: Evenings - all day in the weekends
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 2-3
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 5-6
Matches or Lighter: Lighter
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Both on occasion, however cigarettes have been gaining ground *shudder*
Every try to make your own pipe: No, and I'd like to keep my fingers, thankyouverymuch!

Hey, theres a lot of guys here on MPC that weren't around for this thread ... come on guys, sound off!

Name: Daniel Sutherland (real)

Location: Kelowna, BC, Canada

Occupation: Baker, Student(History/Chemistry Teacher)

Age: 22

Years smoking a pipe: 4

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Canadian

Favorite tobacco: Peterson: Irish Oak

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Stanwell, BC

What brand is most represented in your collection: pretty equal

How many pipes owned: 14

Time you smoke: Walking to and from work, Early morning, Evenings.

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 2-3

Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 5-6

Matches or Lighter: Matches at home, zippo when out

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Yeah ... sigh

Every try to make your own pipe: I made a bong when I was 14, but I don't think that counts ... haha

Location: Pandrup, Denmark
Age: 39 (Big 40) in 22 days :/
Job: Freelance IT consulten.

Firste pipe: 1987 been smoking the pipe on and off untill 1/1-2008 where i quit cigarettes and went solo pipe smoker.

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Bent dublin/ dublin

Favorite tobacco: Orlik Golden Sliced

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Stanwell/Karl Erik

How many pipes i owned:30 I have lots of, Stanwell, Karl Erik, Winsløw, are the most of them, All get to see lots of action i have no steady rotation, but i try to give them all a fair bid of action.

I smoke avg #7-10 bowls pr day
Time when i smoke from morning till i go to bed, I do most of my job at home an can therefor smoke when it suite me, so i smoke all day long :)

Lighter: I have Zippo for outdoor, Old boy/Nibo/Coney/Lotus around inside my house so every station has pipes/lighter/tamper ect so i dont have to walk around for a light ect.

I must say that the last 6 month on MPC has opened my eyes for a whole new side of what it will say to be a pipe smoker. Thanks you guys for that.

Name: Michael Eaton

Location: Port Richey, Florida

Occupation: Technical Writer, Quality Assurance Auditor and Staff Development

Age: 45

Years Smoking a Pipe: Since I was 15 off and on but daily for about the last 3 years or so.

Favorite Tobaccos: OJK at the moment but anything Codger Burley

Number of Pipes Owned: 30 or so counting meerschaums and calabash (about 70% of the fleet are Kaywoodies)

Lighter or Matches: Lighter

Smoking Frequency: 6-9 bowls a day

Cigars/Cigarettes and other stuff: Cigars (1 or 2 a decade whether I need to or not) Cigarettes (never touch them) Occassionally I'll dip snuff at the office or in another situation where the need for nicotine calls and pipes are not logistically possible (nasty habit but I'll probably never quit all the way)

Using Rick's template:

Name: Bob Runowski Sr

Location: Philadelphia, AP

Occupation: Senior Environmental Scientist/USEPA

Age: 60

Years smoking a pipe: 42

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): straight stems in Billiards, apples, dublins

Favorite tobacco: ERRd, most C&D blends (non aromatic)

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: KW/Peterson/Custombilts

Brand most represented in your collection: Petersons/KW

Pipes owned: 75+, 25 rotated regularly

Time you smoke: All day, every day

Bowls per weekday: 6-8 daily

Bowls per weekend day: 8-10

Ignition: Matches, blue diamond kitchen and small pocket box

Other Tobacco: CT valley, Muniemakers, maduro wrap

Every try to make your own pipe: No, I am not permitted to handle sharp objects w/o supervision

(My avatar is actually the late Allan Ginsburg, with whom I bore an uncanny resemblance, until his untimely death.)

Name: Henrik Elmunger

Location: Luleå, Norrbotten, Sverige

Occupation: student / R&D engineer

Age: 31

Years smoking a pipe: 16

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): straight stems in Billiards

Favorite tobacco: Very hard question, but probably something manufactured by SG or GH

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: uhm...

Brand most represented in your collection: No name

Pipes owned: 19

Time you smoke: All day, every day

Bowls per weekday: 6-8 daily

Bowls per weekend day: 6-8

Ignition: Butane lighter or matches

Other Tobacco: other than pipe tobacco ? none atm

Every try to make your own pipe: No

61% of us, the majority, are white collar workers. While 19% of us are blue collar workers, 14% of us are students, and 5% of us are members of the clergy.

The average age is 37 years old, with a combined age of ~ 770. On average we've been smoking for 11 years.

We smoke 3 and a half bowls on a weekday, and 4 on the weekends. Which means the average MPC'er smokes 25.5 bowls a week, or 1224 bowls a year.

We prefer lighters to matches at ~ 2:1

28% of us smokes coffin nails ... bad 28%!

Name - David Bruno

Location - Upper Michigan{ Menominee}

GIG - Construction Consultant

Age - 55 OUCH!

Years smoking pipe - 36

Fav pipe- Stanwell Danish

Fav Tobacco- Have quite a few Old Joe probably# 1

pipe owned - 28 good smokers

Brands of tobacco in collection - About 23 brands in celler

Bowls Per day- 7 bowls every day of the week

ignition- Zippo pipe lighter

Tobacco other than pipe. None quit ciggs. Possible beech nut chew during hunting.

Try to make pipe- HECK NO!!

Name: Ian Minton
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Occupation: Trader
Age: 33
Years smoking a pipe: 15
Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Danish Freehand
Favorite tobacco: Va Perique
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Former, Tonni Nielsen, Peter Heeschen
What brand is most represented in your collection: Jess Chonowitsch
How many pipes owned: 63
Time you smoke: morning and evening
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 3 to 5
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 5 to 7
Matches or Lighter: Lighter
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: Cigars yes, cigarettes not often
Every try to make your own pipe: no

Name: Hiram Bollaert aka 1-13 (i'm a mathematician and proud of it)
Location: Antwerp Belgium
Occupation: docent (teaching and working on projects in a university college)
Age: 42
Years smoking a pipe: on and off since 1993
Favorite Pipe Shape(s): danish freehand, rhodesian
Favorite tobacco: not decided yet, but I kind of like latakia
Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Poul Winslow
What brand is most represented in your collection: Winslow
How many pipes owned: 7 nice ones (and a few cheap pieces of wood)
Time you smoke: depends on the opportunity
Avg # of bowls per weekday: 1
Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 2
Matches or Lighter: Lighter
Cigars / Cigarettes too?: cigarettes once a week, cigars once a year
Every try to make your own pipe: just dreaming of it

Ah, look a that, the best city in the whole wide world and far beyond.

Welcome (from someone who's at least in the same province)!

Bumping this. Hopefully some of our newest members will chime in here.

Roll Call time folks - don't think we've done this before:

Name: Dave (For real just look it up)

Location: Oklahoma, USA

Occupation: Retired

Age: 56

Years smoking a pipe: since 1970 off and on

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Bulldogs and Billiards

Favorite tobacco: PA,CH

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Stanwell and savinelli

What brand is most represented in your collection: stanwells

How many pipes owned: 37

Time you smoke: All day every day

Avg # of bowls per weekday: 10 to 12

Avg # of bowls per weekend day: 10to 12

Matches or Lighter: Lighter

Cigars / Cigarettes too?: As long as its pipe tobacco

Every try to make your own pipe: No its better for the world if I dont lol

Name: John

Location: Portland, Maine

Occupation: College Student(History/Religion), Surgicial Tech.

Age: 30

Years smoking a pipe: About 8

Favorite Pipe Shape(s): Billiards, Canadians, Lovats

Favorite tobacco: Walnut

Favorite Pipe Manufacturer: Peterson, Kaywoodie

Brand most represented in your collection: Petersons and cobs.

Pipes owned: 27

Time you smoke: From waking up to going to sleep.

Bowls per weekday: 9-12.

Bowls per weekend day: 9-12

Ignition: Whatever is available.

Other Tobacco: American Spirit Perique tobacco

Every try to make your own pipe: If you count cobs, yes.

My avatar is of the late John Ford. Film director of such films as "The Searchers" and "The Quiet Man".