I kinda stand corrected... The tobaccodays blog post is a great experiment, and having smoked a calabash, I can see that having a giant reserve chamber is beneficial. Plus the flavors are just so much better. But, I have six churchwardens. My favorite is the Scream Warden made by Northern Briars. On a calabash, I notice that it takes a few puffs to get the smoke from bowl to chamber to the stem. However, on my wardens, it's just as instantaneous as all of my other pipes. The volume of adding 12" to a 3mm hole is much less volume than a calabash. The speed of even the gentlest puff is very fast. Condensers in an air conditioner use many feet of small diameter tubing to reduce the temperatures of pressurized air. I do have one short 4" brandy, and it has made me ponder,
I do that sometimes while smoking, and I just don't think your typical warden is long enough or a nose warmer is short enough to make much difference.
I'm not sure that the links to the calabash posts were... wait... were we talking about calabashes? I thought this was a nose warmer thread?
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