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Was a pipe smoker for some years in my late teens (because it was cool and hip), but that was replaced by cigarettes due to wild & hectic lifestyle. Fast forward some 30 years, got rid of ciggies in 2 weeks using an e-cig, but nothing can replace the aroma & scent of true tobacco smoke, so it's time to become a (light) pipe smoker again. And boy is it much more fun now, with the time & money to spare!

At the moment, I have four pipes: A Turkish whole meerschaum and an Ukrainian churchwarden for home use, an Italian Gasparini meerschaum-lined 'Rhodesian' briar pipe which is currently my favourite, and a stubby little Polish pearwood Mr. Brog for travel & work use (I'm marine engineer by trade). I also keep a corn cob as a spare on each ship I'm working on.

EDIT: Treated myself to a Chacom Gentleman 1926 for Christmas 2019, replacing the Mr. Brog which was getting a little worse for wear (in less than a year!) as the stubby little travel pipe. The Ukrainian churchwarden broke at the stem and haven't gotten around to fixing it, to be honest it's not a very good tobacco pipe, though nice to handle and cool looking.
So, it's the Gasparini/Chacom combination mostly (the whole meerschaum one stays at home) and occasionally the corncob if any kind of action is expected.

EDIT2: Sadly, the Gasparini burnt through after only a year of use (I guess I loved that pipe too much & over-used it) so I replaced it with the Falcon system with a meerschaum-lined bowl. Have another style of bowl, and a complete new meerschaum-lined bulldog on order right now. Oh, and I bought a really nice Danish calabash estate from Ebay, but haven't gotten round to fixing it properly (doesn't need that much fixing really).

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