Do you buy an e-cigarette or e-cigar? Instead, why not invest in hand crafted electronic pipes? Far from being disposable, an electronic pipe (marketed some places as personal vaping devices) can be kept a long time and will hopefully keep or even gain value.
Pipes have always been collectable, especially if they are particularly decorative or made in a special wood. Of course normal wood (known to collectors as trine) is also collectible.
Of course tobacco pipes has a long history-it is the oldest way of smoking tobacco. There is Rene Magritte's pipe for example (in the oil painting The Treachery of Images) with the slogan "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe"-in English "This Is Not a Pipe."
A pipe consists of several sections, the chamber or bowl part and the stem, which is also known as a chank where you put the e-juice. Some pipes have a cylindrical chamber, like a tiny barrel some are more spherical.
Unsurprisingly, you can get electronic pipes in different woods-such as myrtle wood, eucalyptus, teak, even zebrano. Zebrano or zebra wood comes from a Central African tree.
Traditionally, as much as tradition can apply to e-cig technology, the e-pipe has come from the US, but now the Italians seem to be gaining ground.
It is strange in a market to observe new brands being created. After all the whole point of a brand is that it should be familiar to the consumer.
As well as big brand names, there are more intimate seeming craftsman who sell under their own name.
As well as pipes you can also purchase smoking apparel. No doubt an e-smoking jacket. I kid you not. You could use them for e-cigs, I suppose.
Variations include an all-white pipe in the Alpine series. You can also get all grey versions. It is hardly surprising that the most distinct substance for pipes-meerschaum-is being turned into e-pipes. By the way meerschaum means in German foam of the sea. It is a fairly soft creamish mineral. It is also known as sepiolote. It can mostly be found on the Black Sea. Technically this is magnesium silicate, which is similar chemically to soapstone or talc.
Certain pipes have variable electrictic voltage. This means you can smoke it at different strengths. It seems they have thought of everything.
You can get pipes similar to the Sherlock Holmes's pipe-called a gourd pipe. Traditionally they were made of Acacia wood, also known as the Wattle Tree, bizarrely enough. It resembles a capital S or the swirl on a violin. You can also purchase a pipe with a long shaft, slightly similar to the American Indian's pipe of peace (in fact the pipe of peace was used exclusively by the Sioux tribe).
The most expensive e-pipe I have found was made of clay. I wouldn't be surprised if many electronic pipe products go up in value, but there's no way of knowing for sure, I haven't got a crystal ball.
It seems that e-cig or e-cigarette technology have something for everybody-not just electronic pipes, but also e-cigars, the usual e-cigarette and even the coloured pen like e-shishas and so on.
Pipes have always been collectable, especially if they are particularly decorative or made in a special wood. Of course normal wood (known to collectors as trine) is also collectible.
Of course tobacco pipes has a long history-it is the oldest way of smoking tobacco. There is Rene Magritte's pipe for example (in the oil painting The Treachery of Images) with the slogan "Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe"-in English "This Is Not a Pipe."
A pipe consists of several sections, the chamber or bowl part and the stem, which is also known as a chank where you put the e-juice. Some pipes have a cylindrical chamber, like a tiny barrel some are more spherical.
Unsurprisingly, you can get electronic pipes in different woods-such as myrtle wood, eucalyptus, teak, even zebrano. Zebrano or zebra wood comes from a Central African tree.
Traditionally, as much as tradition can apply to e-cig technology, the e-pipe has come from the US, but now the Italians seem to be gaining ground.
It is strange in a market to observe new brands being created. After all the whole point of a brand is that it should be familiar to the consumer.
As well as big brand names, there are more intimate seeming craftsman who sell under their own name.
As well as pipes you can also purchase smoking apparel. No doubt an e-smoking jacket. I kid you not. You could use them for e-cigs, I suppose.
Variations include an all-white pipe in the Alpine series. You can also get all grey versions. It is hardly surprising that the most distinct substance for pipes-meerschaum-is being turned into e-pipes. By the way meerschaum means in German foam of the sea. It is a fairly soft creamish mineral. It is also known as sepiolote. It can mostly be found on the Black Sea. Technically this is magnesium silicate, which is similar chemically to soapstone or talc.
Certain pipes have variable electrictic voltage. This means you can smoke it at different strengths. It seems they have thought of everything.
You can get pipes similar to the Sherlock Holmes's pipe-called a gourd pipe. Traditionally they were made of Acacia wood, also known as the Wattle Tree, bizarrely enough. It resembles a capital S or the swirl on a violin. You can also purchase a pipe with a long shaft, slightly similar to the American Indian's pipe of peace (in fact the pipe of peace was used exclusively by the Sioux tribe).
The most expensive e-pipe I have found was made of clay. I wouldn't be surprised if many electronic pipe products go up in value, but there's no way of knowing for sure, I haven't got a crystal ball.
It seems that e-cig or e-cigarette technology have something for everybody-not just electronic pipes, but also e-cigars, the usual e-cigarette and even the coloured pen like e-shishas and so on.