Pipe Rack

LoneSmoker

Any suggestions on what to do for a pipe rack? What are the best options?

Yakster

I just saw a bunch at the thrift store, but they didn't impress so I left them there.

LoneSmoker

I look there

jsnake

I'm thinking of building one. I need something. I have several but I'm out of room .

Captain_Call

Arch has a wall hanging design I like but I don't have the wall space it requires. I've thought about making my own, it doesn't seem terribly complicated. But then I just toss my cobs back in their shoebox and gently put my briar in a coffee can and forget all about it

jsnake

I want your typical rack design with multiple levels that I can mount on the wall. They have then in 24 pipe racks and maybe in he 30's but I want something that holds more. 

peter4jc

Captain_Call said:

Arch has a wall hanging design I like but I don't have the wall space it requires. I've thought about making my own, it doesn't seem terribly complicated. But then I just toss my cobs back in their shoebox and gently put my briar in a coffee can and forget all about it

I could be mistaken, but hanging them stem down/bowl up, like Archy's design isn't desirable.  At least that's what I've heard... but then if you run a pipe cleaner through after use, it shouldn't matter right?

Captain_Call

@peter4jc you aren't mistaken. It is not the most desirable manner of storage. But I hear tell that it works out fine anyway. The part of that design that appeals to me is the compactness and the stability. It's snug to the wall and I wouldn't have to worry about all my pipes falling down if I bumped it. I like the aesthetics of the bowl down, leaning style but I don't think they would actually work for me in the long run

Markwell

Hmm...might have to take up pipe shelving along with restoration.

I believe most of Europe stores their pipes bowl up, stem down. As long as you clean your pipe it really doesn't matter. If you're afraid of something magically appearing and running down the stem, store with a pipe cleaner.

Diver43

Markwell said:

Hmm...might have to take up pipe shelving along with restoration.

I believe most of Europe stores their pipes bowl up, stem down. As long as you clean your pipe it really doesn't matter. If you're afraid of something magically appearing and running down the stem, store with a pipe cleaner.

I was just going to say that. When in Rome last year, we stopped in several smoke shops looking for cigars. What we found was very high end pipe shops. Many had pipe racks like a shelf with holes drilled through, pipe stem down through the hole, bowl displayed sideways.

LoneSmoker

I think I may build one also

Yakster

I was going to make this cigar box into an ashtray (glass bottom) but it makes a good pipe holder.

Yakster

Got this pipe rack from eBay a while back, added a shelf for my currently smoking out of tins.

Yakster

I decided to take updated pictures of my pipe storage racks.

My featured pipes are wall-mounted on stained branch cuts with leather straps holding the pipe rings.

My cobs and larger clays are stored in this wall-mounted pipe rack of men shooting dice in my closet above my cigar crates.

My pipe tree was a thrift store find of a K-Cup rack that's been repurposed. I really like this pipe tree. I've got a ramekin of baking soda behind this which keeps my pipe cabinet smelling nice. I put dowel rods in the pipe cabinet holes meant to hold the shelf pins to store my Falcon bowls.

My Wife gave me a wire grid which holds some overflow pipes and small clays that would slip through the other pipe racks. Also shown is a cased meerschaum pipe and my gourd calabash.

I found these little shelves at Daiso and drilled out the top shelf to convert them into pipe racks. The one on the left holds my Norm Triptow pipe and the one on the right holds my vintage pipes with metal accents. Behind the pipe racks are a vintage plug cutter and my frozen meat slicer that really does a good job cutting plugs into uniform sized flakes.