Last month I was gifted a couple great pipes by Dennis (Mountedshriner), one was a brand new Turkish Meerschaum. As many of you know Meers color as they are smoked, they go from a pinkish hue to a golden brown and eventually to near black. This color change takes many years of smoking. I cant wait many years so I smoke the crap out of it (10 times a day). In the picture below it shows one month of smoking, the pipe looks brown but in real life its pinkish. I have shown several people that have smoked meers for many years and they cant believe how much its colored, they also usually color from the stem forward, mine is coloring all together.....very cool IMO.

Here it is new:



Here it is after one month of smoking:

Very nice. I should get a new pipe. Prolly a briar though. I am kinda poor and dont think I can afford a spiffy one that changes color.  

i wish i had a good pipe my roommate in college broke my old one    it was a very   day and now i have over a pound of pipe tobacco with no pipe ahhhhhhh...... i guess ill save up some money this summer.

o and btw that pipe looks beautiful

Very nice, quite a transformation

Duker!! That pipe looks fantastic!! You must be working on your second set of lungs to have aged it so well in such a short time! Really, it looks spectacular. Glad you are enjoying it. Right on TIM.  

Cough, cough, its not so bad......cough....I only...cough....smoke it about....cough....10 times a day....cough!! Anyways, yes I am enjoying it alot, I told you Id smoke it like it was meant to be. Thanks again Dennis.  

Random question.... did you get the box that the pipe is on from the Bahamas?

Quotestogie_foggie - 6/3/2009  10:26 AM

Random question.... did you get the box that the pipe is on from the Bahamas?

I don't know about his, but the boxes like that that the ex got in the divorce were picked up on a trip to S Florida.

Quotegitfiddl - 6/3/2009  9:23 AM

Quotestogie_foggie - 6/3/2009  10:26 AM

Random question.... did you get the box that the pipe is on from the Bahamas?

I don't know about his, but the boxes like that that the ex got in the divorce were picked up on a trip to S Florida.

That's why I asked - my wife got a bunch in our last trip to the Bahamas.  Must be a regional thing.  They actually are pretty nice - mahogany with metal inlay.

We got the box from our friends in Florida that live on a boat and go to the Bahamas often, nice call Stogie !!  This one has seashell inlay we were told, very cool.

Gorgeous pipe!  It makes me want to try to find my box of pipes that's somewhere around here.  I bought a block of Meerschaum from Edwards years ago with the intention of making my Dad a Father's Day present.  I didn't get too far with it, but I was only 11 or 12.  I felt guilty, you see, because in an effort to help Mom clean up the house for Dad's return from a Med cruise, I decided I'd try to clean all the brown gunk off of what was once a white pipe...    

That pipe is beautiful. Ive got to get one of those.

Very nice pipe indeed.  

QuoteAequitas86 - 6/2/2009  8:28 PM

Very nice. I should get a new pipe. Prolly a briar though. I am kinda poor and dont think I can afford a spiffy one that changes color.  

Cheap corncob pipes beat briar anyday.

Quotemattmancool34 - 6/2/2009  8:39 PM

i wish i had a good pipe my roommate in college broke my old one    it was a very   day and now i have over a pound of pipe tobacco with no pipe ahhhhhhh...... i guess ill save up some money this summer.

You can't afford a $5 corncob pipe and some cheap pipe filters?

Its been awhile, how is the pipe looking now Tim?

Thats a really cool looking pipe, I like it!

Very nice pipe, and nice work on the accelerated aging.