http://pipedia.org/wiki/Airflow:_The_Key_to_Smoking_Pleasure
First off this is a nice article about airflow in a pipe. It does have a lot of hyperbole, as is common with writing in this industry, but still seems like generally good information.
With the frequency of new members around here it may as well get brought up again every once in a while, and I haven't found any threads quite focused in on just this one thing.
I'm tempted to ask for draft hole dimensions but pipes are more often than not restricted at the button and not the draft hole, and while it's tempting to list makers with restrictive buttons, that would probably degrade into mud-slinging anarchy pretty quick. Lets just leave this to positive experiences.
This does leave room for makers listed to be inconsistent, but at least it's something to point you in the right direction vs. searching hundreds of manufacturers blindly.
Basically, if you were backpacking through Italy and some guy sitting on his front porch carving Briar with a pocket knife sold you a pipe, and it has a nice draw, I want to hear about it.
Standard plastic stem Missouri Meerschaum Cobs are probably a good reference point for "open draft", if your pipe has a similar draft, or if you don't have any Cobs but at least find one pipe much more open than average, list it here.
Personally I found my Savinelli 320 and Icarus Bend Egg pretty good out of the box, and of course all my plastic stem Cobs.
Edit: I was going to try and list manufacturers, but on second thought that sounds too edgy as well. I just want personal experience with individual pipes.
Seacaptain got in before the edit, my apologies.
First off this is a nice article about airflow in a pipe. It does have a lot of hyperbole, as is common with writing in this industry, but still seems like generally good information.
With the frequency of new members around here it may as well get brought up again every once in a while, and I haven't found any threads quite focused in on just this one thing.
I'm tempted to ask for draft hole dimensions but pipes are more often than not restricted at the button and not the draft hole, and while it's tempting to list makers with restrictive buttons, that would probably degrade into mud-slinging anarchy pretty quick. Lets just leave this to positive experiences.
This does leave room for makers listed to be inconsistent, but at least it's something to point you in the right direction vs. searching hundreds of manufacturers blindly.
Basically, if you were backpacking through Italy and some guy sitting on his front porch carving Briar with a pocket knife sold you a pipe, and it has a nice draw, I want to hear about it.
Standard plastic stem Missouri Meerschaum Cobs are probably a good reference point for "open draft", if your pipe has a similar draft, or if you don't have any Cobs but at least find one pipe much more open than average, list it here.
Personally I found my Savinelli 320 and Icarus Bend Egg pretty good out of the box, and of course all my plastic stem Cobs.
Edit: I was going to try and list manufacturers, but on second thought that sounds too edgy as well. I just want personal experience with individual pipes.
Seacaptain got in before the edit, my apologies.