New Pipe Bowl Coatings, Leave It or Remove?

[petes03]

+1 anthonyrosenthal, It doesn't make a difference to me personally. Although, on one cheap basket pipe I bought, the coating actually started to peel off! It didn't affect the flavor, but it was a little annoying.

 

[batdemon]

In my 40+ years of puffing, I've never had a burnout and I believe that if a pipe smoker maintains his or her pipe properly, avoid using torch lighters and/or smoking outside when it's windy, the bowl coating is not only irrelevant, I look as the coating and being an interference between me and the pipe's briar.

While I only have 30 years of puffing I agree with Roth. I don't think a pipes individual character comes out if there is a bowl coating.

 

[cigrmaster]

So we are all in agreement, people who coat their bowls should be castrated and made to eat their own genitalia, or is that a tad extreme? How about we hook them up to a car battery and give them a few thousand volts, I think there is no punishment too great for these blasphemous bowl coaters.
I think we should start a facebook page telling all artisans and mfgs that he who coats their bowls, will be dealt with swiftly and harshly, so who is with me? :crazy:

 

[peckinpahhombre]

I have no issue with bowl coatings. I do agree, however, that they really aren't necessary. I think artisans primarily do it for aesthetic reasons - to make the pipe look "finished". However, if Castello - in my view, the creators of the best and most beautiful smoking pipes known to man - does not feel it necessary to coat their bowls, what possible justification would anyone else have?

 

[wcannoy]

I prefer not to buy pipes with coated bowl in the first place. I've had a couple of bad experiences with the taste, and removing the coating didn't completely get rid of the taste. So, now I just play it safe and avoid them.

 

[dragonslayer]

I'm sure the big companies use some type of chemical coating and can't comment truly on them because I've never smoked a fresh coated pipe. But I've read in a forum that many of the artisans use a simple coating of honey, tobacco ash and some even a little egg white. So it may be worth asking the pipe maker, if he'll tell you, what he used for the coating. If you see a pipe you really want and that's the only hold back. JMO
Craig