Your Favourite Stem Shape

[Lianza]

Hello pipe smokers!

What is your favourite stem shape?
Why?

I have three straight stemmed pipes, a billiard and two apples. And I find I’m reaching for those pipes first. Not only do I find I like the smoke out of the straight stemmed pipes but I like the look of them as well (I have a round face). What’s your favourite?

Thanks!

 

[burleybreath]

Straight taper, especially on billiards and apples. Tried to like saddles, but find them not pleasing to the eye. They "work" on pots and lovats, but that's about it for me. Saddle bit on a bent disgusts me. (Slight exageration. Hey, you asked!)

 

[STP]

Bent billiards… I like the position of the bowl.

 

[captainsousie]

Probably quarter to half bent. Except I secretly love a full bent Hungarian if I'm clenching and not paying attention.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Straight to 1/4 bent.

 

[Waning Embers]

1/8-full bent saddle stems. Not a big fan of straight pipes.

 

[Spa32]

Saddle stems are my favorite. I like both straight and bent.

 

[Servant King]

My two are a bent billiard and a bent dublin. Had a full bent once, the shape of which I do love. Not into straight stems whatsoever, though the same cannot be said of my avatar.

 

[AlanH]

Straight but I have not tried a bent stem in years and not at all since I became a little more serious about the pipe. Though not always may favorite aesthetically I like the way a saddle bit feels.

 

[edger]

Straight army mounts. Acrylic fishtails. I only have one, but I love the look of amber/tortoise stems.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

My two are a bent billiard and a bent dublin. Had a full bent once, the shape of which I do love. Not into straight stems whatsoever, though the same cannot be said of my avatar.

My favourite advice from the Church of the SubGenius in regard to women: "Ignore them and they will crave you."

 

[Servant King]

My favourite advice from the Church of the SubGenius in regard to women: "Ignore them and they will crave you."

 

[OzPiper]

Any stem NOT a Charatan double-comfort or Sadieni Fantail. I just can't abide them, no matter how much I try. ?

I don't have any, but love the look of amber tortoiseshell stems (with the right bowl, of course).

 

[kcghost]

Probably an 1/8 to 1/4 bent.

 

[warren]

All of my pipes are bent to some degree or another. Only bents attract my eye when I explore store displays.

 

[DanWil84]

Coincidently most of my pipes, except 1, are at least 1/8 bent. A straight pipe I like is long 6 to 7 inch and I have just found one that appealed to me, Briarworks Cutty with a great wire rustication. For stems I like generally saddles, for straight pipes that also narrows it down to Lovats or Lumber man's I look for.

 

[Ahi Ka]

I like big buttons I can not lie.
You otha brothas can´t deny.

 

[Waning Embers]

I like big buttons I can not lie.
You otha brothas can´t deny.

When a pipe walks in with an Itty-bitty shank and that round thing in your face.

 

[Ahi Ka]

You get SPRUNG. Want to puff up tough, cuz you notice that bowl was STUFFED.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

1/4 bent or saddle stem…it’s pretty close. ️