Hello everyone,
I just passed the one-year mark on my first pipe that I love dearly. It is a Vauen author shape, 1677. The cakes getting lumpy and a flake of cake came off when I tapped it. I spent some time reaming it VERY carefully to get the bowl even.
Of course I’m concerned about burnout. I’m hoping that I am being over protective and that doubt about burnt briar means it is not happening.
However - post-ream the pipe smoked more evenly and easily. This seemed good. It even seemed to smoke cooler. I’m not noticing any harsh smell and there is at times an odd taste, but is that the cake having been reamed? My reaming was so subtle that I doubt it could change much of the draw dynamics - but the airflow seems to be so much better and he ember is SO much more even. Is this due to the bowl having the uneven cake removed so the temperature is more uniform at the edges?
I’m very concerned about burn. I might have been tasting some acrid tobacco. I have a new tin of Dan Da Vinci and it is drying unevenly - some very wet, some crispy - so I may be thrown off there. I’ll try to upload some photos to show ge chamber. I didn’t uncover what looked like scorching when reaming. I didn’t cut past the original carbon bowl treatment. (Vauen has top notch bowl treatments by the way, one other pipe I no longer use had some horrible black plasticish junk.)
So - would I DEFINATELY smell harsh burning from a charred chamber after my bowl is empty and still warm? I’m not noticing anything out of the ordinary.
As for taste, there was a bit of harshness this time - but this may have been the tobacco and there is this ghosting of a paraffin
-like wax taste that I suspect is from matches and I taste that is sometimes in all my pipes.
So - thanks in advance - I really hope there is no burnt briar - let me know your thoughts. Thank you.
I just passed the one-year mark on my first pipe that I love dearly. It is a Vauen author shape, 1677. The cakes getting lumpy and a flake of cake came off when I tapped it. I spent some time reaming it VERY carefully to get the bowl even.
Of course I’m concerned about burnout. I’m hoping that I am being over protective and that doubt about burnt briar means it is not happening.
However - post-ream the pipe smoked more evenly and easily. This seemed good. It even seemed to smoke cooler. I’m not noticing any harsh smell and there is at times an odd taste, but is that the cake having been reamed? My reaming was so subtle that I doubt it could change much of the draw dynamics - but the airflow seems to be so much better and he ember is SO much more even. Is this due to the bowl having the uneven cake removed so the temperature is more uniform at the edges?
I’m very concerned about burn. I might have been tasting some acrid tobacco. I have a new tin of Dan Da Vinci and it is drying unevenly - some very wet, some crispy - so I may be thrown off there. I’ll try to upload some photos to show ge chamber. I didn’t uncover what looked like scorching when reaming. I didn’t cut past the original carbon bowl treatment. (Vauen has top notch bowl treatments by the way, one other pipe I no longer use had some horrible black plasticish junk.)
So - would I DEFINATELY smell harsh burning from a charred chamber after my bowl is empty and still warm? I’m not noticing anything out of the ordinary.
As for taste, there was a bit of harshness this time - but this may have been the tobacco and there is this ghosting of a paraffin
-like wax taste that I suspect is from matches and I taste that is sometimes in all my pipes.
So - thanks in advance - I really hope there is no burnt briar - let me know your thoughts. Thank you.
