Issues With Dublins

blueeyedogre · Feb 1, 2015

I'm not sure why but I seem to have a problem with small Dublins. I have 2 in my collection and while I like the space they always seem to smoke hot on the last half of the bowl. I don't have this problem with my smaller Apples, Eggs, Cuttys or Billiards. Maybe its how I smoke matched with the narrowing of the chamber at the bottom half of the bowl? Anyone else have this issue or find problems between one shape to the next?

Chasing Embers · Feb 1, 2015

I had that problem with these two guys. Started packing the bottom half a little more firm, and fixed the issue. :wink:
http://pipesmagazine.com/members/chasingembers/album/picture/15392

blueeyedogre · Feb 1, 2015

I'll have to give that a try. I've always thought packing to firmly adds to overheating not the other way around.

Chasing Embers · Feb 1, 2015

Not so firmly that it restricts the airflow much, just a little more pressure than just pressing it down until it stops. Hope this helps! Added tamping the further down the bowl you go can also help.

pitchfork · Feb 1, 2015

I don't know why they would smoke hot, but they look great.

Chasing Embers · Feb 1, 2015

Thank you! Two of my oldest little buddies.

pitchfork · Feb 1, 2015

Thank you! Two of my oldest little buddies.

Doh! Thought that was the OP linking to his Dublins.

cortezattic · Feb 1, 2015

In addition to what junkyarddawg observed about the diminished thickness at the lower end of the bowl,

could it be that the bottom of the bowl has less external surface area from which the heat can radiate?

papipeguy · Feb 1, 2015

Cortez is onto something. I'd also submit that of you are tamping the last bit of the bowl that you are concentrating the burning tobacco in a smaller and tighter space. More heat should be expected.

forest7 · Feb 1, 2015

When I do smoke a pot shape I do push down tamper little hard but dublin? I don't do that.

Mostly I do just let it go down naturally and slower smoking. Sometime get more flavor from there.

Chasing Embers · Feb 1, 2015

I just do it with mine in particular because it tends to heat up the nearer I get to the draft hole.

mso489 · Feb 1, 2015

I think that may be true with the conical shape inside the bowl, but my Dublins have thick enough bowls

that it doesn't seem to matter. They get a little warmer at the bottom of the bowl, but not so I can't

comfortably hold the pipe. To me, it's an innately appealing shape.

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