Falcon Pipes

[puros_bran]

Anyone use them?

 

[Briar Spirit]

I had a standard stem Bulldog bowl Falcon for a while, smoked incredibly well to be honest but I don't like metal in a pipe as a rule, I cleaned mine up and gave it away as a competition prize on my old forum.

 

[mgtarheel]

Love'em. Coolest smoke I have ever had. They might look funny, but boy do they smoke gooooood! I have 9 vintage Falcons from the 60s and 70s.

 

[DrT999]

I have two, one with a Cover bowl and one with a Bulldog (I admit I don't change them around -- does anyone use multiple bowls with one stem?). They are two of the four pipes I have dedicated to Lakelands and similar tobaccos, and they both (esp the Dover bowl) smoke very well

 

[i.keenum]

I have one that smokes great. Just uglier than a hair lipped boar to me. So it sits on the rack most the time.

 

[puros_bran]

I was just curious.. I've owned several of them but they had all had other consumables burnt into them and nothing was bringing that out.

 

[George Kaplan]

...( -- does anyone use multiple bowls with one stem?).

I do. Or rather, I do with my Grabow Viking boxed set. Not quite a Falcon, but you wouldn't notice unless you tried to put a Falcon bowl on a Viking stem. It makes a decent work pipe. If it starts smoking wet, I just unscrew the bowl and shake out the stem, no pipe cleaner needed. I can usually do that without needing to relight. I actually bought the set separately. I found the stem with one bowl at an antique shop. Later that day in a different shop I found a presentation box with four bowls, no stem, and one empty spot for another bowl. I can't prove they all went together originally, but who cares? I think I spent $5 for the pipe and like $1.50 for the box of bowls.

 

[puros_bran]

That was a "king of the world" feeling day wasn't it?

BRAVO!

 

[George Kaplan]

Heh. Sure was. I was on a winning streak that day. 2nd shop was in a town about an hour away from where I grew up. Saw this old (early '70s) Spider Man lunch box, kinda beat up, but the spitting image of the one I had in 1st grade. I turned it over, and scrawled on the bottom in green marker, it said "George".
Yup. Found my actual childhood lunch box, not just one like it! Cost me another $10 to get it back.

 

[bosun1]

Heh. Sure was. I was on a winning streak that day. 2nd shop was in a town about an hour away from where I grew up. Saw this old (early '70s) Spider Man lunch box, kinda beat up, but the spitting image of the one I had in 1st grade. I turned it over, and scrawled on the bottom in green marker, it said "George".
Yup. Found my actual childhood lunch box, not just one like it! Cost me another $10 to get it back.

Now that goes under the "WOW" category!!!
My lunch box was Hopalong Cassidy to give you an idea of my age (g)..

 

[puros_bran]

We were to poor.. I had freel lunch.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I've been tempted, but the look is funky, and the possibility of metal-taste made me hesitate. Marshall (loneredtree) here has, not a Falcon but some other kind, that has a cool diamond-shank that really looked neat. Maybe I'll find one...the concept is cool.

8)

 

[DrT999]

I've been tempted, but the look is funky, and the possibility of metal-taste made me hesitate. Marshall (loneredtree) here has, not a Falcon but some other kind, that has a cool diamond-shank that really looked neat. Maybe I'll find one...the concept is cool.

8)

I don't know about any others, but I've never gotten any 'metal' or other foreign tastes from a Falcon. I'm sure if any have, they'll chime in!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Before I knew better, I wondered why a couple of my pipes tasted metallic. Lo, I started looking at the stinger in them. I didn't know one could take them out (until I came here) and it fixed the problem. A lot of folks say that meerschaum lends no flavor to the tobacco, and I can taste it...might be just me. *shrug*

8)

 

[Natch]

I've had and smoked a few Falcon's over the years, but I guess I'm more of a Kirsten kinda guy.


Natch

 

[puros_bran]

I actually remembered that Natch. Mindless minutia that matters little... until you have a kirsten question.. :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Slow Puffs]

I had to go searching through my pipe cleaners and found a package of "falcon pipe" cleaners :shock: . I always found these pipe cleaners come in handy when I encountered a "narrow" opening in a stem. An example would be some of the clay pipes that sometimes are a bit tricky. In my "toss odds and ends" box, I'm sure I might come across a falcon pipe :lol: .

 

[yadan]

Hi all - I'm new to the site, so greetings from the Central Galilee!
I've been smoking Falcons for years, and love them. I currently have 5 bowls, but two of my grandsons broke my two aluminum stems after getting their hands on them! So I ordered a new complete pipe from the Premium Pipe site with a straight stem and smooth Istanbul bowl. It should arrive any day, and then I'll have, for all practical purposes, 6 Falcons.

The Falcon is very likely the most 'cost effective' pipe you can buy: it's quite affordable, enables you to use any number of bowls with one stem, provides a very pleasing, cool and dry smoke, is relatively hardy, is easy to clean and maintain, and is readily available from many trustworthy sites on the Net, and of course in many shops in the U.K. and U.S.

Unfortunately for me, my small town has only one tobacconist who no longer stocks Falcons, since he switched to a distributer who doesn't handle them. So, I must rely solely on Internet sites for Falcon products, but my three orders with Premium all turned out fine.

If you're thinking of trying out a Falcon, just remember that the bowl is briar and must be broken in like any other briar pipe.
Enjoy!