Favorite Shape?

Danish_Pipe_Guy · Subject: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:53 am

What's your favorite shape?.....

ftrplt · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:59 am

I hit bulldog, but I enjoy apples, billiards, and brandy's just as much

J_Rock · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:01 am

I would have to say my hands down favorite is the Bulldog. Yhis what my grandpa smoked and I just associate pipe smoking with the Bulldog. I do have some other shapes but I alway gravitate to that shape.

Doc Manhattan · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:07 am

No poker/cherrywood option? I know that has some devoted fans.

At the end of the day, though, I'm a billiard man.

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jhuggett · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:11 am

Bulldogs and Rhodesians have got to be at the top for me.

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EJinVA · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:17 am

Bent Bulldogs and Rhodesians do it for for me.

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mark · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 11:34 am

I've recently become a lovat fanatic,,,

RonA3597 · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:07 pm

I clicked bulldog, but I like the prince shape almost as well.

Puff Daddy · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:13 pm

I voted Billiard because I'm a real sucker for a straight (preferably saddle bit) billiard, and that's represented in the fact that many of the finest pieces I own are billiards. If you want to collect old British briars you're almost obligated to love the noble billiard. As much as I love bulldogs (my second choice here, but a damned close one indeed) I find that I just have to have a fine billiard or variation thereof if I want a representative piece from a British maker in my rack. My best Dunhill, Barling, Sasieni, Ashton and Ferndown (not to mention Stanwell and Castello) pipes are billiard variations. Bulldogs I love and want on my racks too, but not until the perfect straight bill sits there first.

Also a big fan of the Danish egg/scoop, but that's my alter ego coming out Laughing

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Aaron · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:17 pm

Billiard but Freehand would be my second choice.

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paddy-boy · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:21 pm

Bulldog and Dublin

Midnight Blues · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:24 pm

To be sure this is a tough question. Specifically number one in my book, both in appearance and in hand fit and feel has to be my Howell Volkimo. Next would be Castello's #55, a rakish billiard pot affair, and I'd have to include the Bulldog as well.
A noble beast that always seems to please....

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glpease · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 12:45 pm

Danish_Pipe_Guy wrote:

What's your favorite shape?.....

Overall, my favourite shape is the often forgotten and sometimes reviled Prince, which isn't even on the list. To my eye, its graceful and elegant lines are unmatched by any other, and the shape really suits a tall, narrow guy like me. It's not the shape most broadly represented in my collection, however.

I started out loving classic shapes. Over the past ten years, I found myself chasing Danish neo-classical forms more, but never really got into the more outlandish things that some makers produce. But, I've more recently found myself reverting to the conventional. Billiards, lovats, apples, bulldogs and the derivatives of these are what I seem to reach for most often. There's a reason the classic shapes have been around for so many decades. There's something comfortable in their timelessness. Fad shapes come and go, but billiards are here to stay.

On any particular day, I'd likely choose a different pipe as my fave. It's not that I'm fickle, or anything; I just really like pipes. Wink

-glp

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kilted1 · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:21 pm

I like the entire Canadian family of shapes, Canadians, Lumbermans, Liverpools, and Lovats, I also like Billiards (straight) and Bulldog, Rhodesians and variants.

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Ol'Dawg · Subject: Re: Favorite Shape? Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:46 pm

The last several years bent bulldogs and rhodesians have dominated my purchases, but I like apples almost as much.

Jim

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