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Baki Meers

LilBastage

LilBastage

Meat is murder! Tasty, tasty murder.
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I'm looking for a good quality meerschaum pipe and some of his designs are pretty nice. Does anyone here have any experience with his pipes?

Any other recommendations?
 
Those look really nice. I have a CAO but I don't think they compare. At least mine doesn't.  I would love to get a really nice one, but I can't be disiplined enough to wear a glove while smoking.
 
Those are beautiful pipes, Alan!


I'm curious though, why would one need to wear a glove while smoking a meer? Aren't the oils and heat from use what gives a meer it's character over time?
 
bigwhiteash said:
Those are beautiful pipes, Alan!


I'm curious though, why would one need to wear a glove while smoking a meer? Aren't the oils and heat from use what gives a meer it's character over time?
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It's the oils and heat from the tobacco you want, not the oils and dirt from your skin. Some people are more fastidious about it than others. Personally, I like a darker waxed meer as compared to the super white meers so the coloring is something I probably won't be too concerned with. This isn't going to be a museum or heirloom piece. It's for smoking.
 
I have two Baki pipes and they are probably my two favorite smokers... Probably the best quality block and best engineering you can find in a meerschaum pipe, and Deniz Ural is a pleasure to deal with. I wouldn't hesitate for a second buying more,,, in fact I'm usually browsing Deniz's site a few times a week.

As one of my friends says... "Once you go Baki, you won't go Back-ee!"

In my experience with new meerschaum pipes, the white cotton gloves are only necessary for the first half dozen bowls of tobacco. Good quality new meers have a thick coating of bees wax and this heats up and gets sucked into the block during these first smokes. After that I no longer use the glove.
 
I have heard wonderful things about Baki's. I really like his squat rhodesians. That being said, you might want to check out Tekin. They have delrin tenons and are well made. Prices are very reasonable. He usually puts a couple up on ebay in addition to his website. Can get a real good deal that way. Here is a pic of one I recently picked up.

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Thanks for all the responses, guys. I'll check out Tekin pipes and I'm looking at a couple of Bakis that I really like. I'll be buying in the next couple of weeks, probably. I want to get some smoking in with it before winter, so the sooner I can get it started, the better.
 
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