and both the p-lip and the falcon I can say work as advertised. Might over promise a bit as someone will find a way to make a good pipe bite them.
Are Pipe "Innovations" Just Marketing Gimmicks?
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Oh, no, no, no...they don't smoke bad. They just require a slightly different smoking style. I LOVE my The Smoke(the little brother of The Pipe).
which basically was a gimmick. The cob as we know it that is. Before modern ones got made (really close in time to when the Franch started to use Bruyere), cobs where a disposable home made thing. And all because of a delightfully insane farmer (read the history of cobs).
Never tried the Falcon, but I know the Brigham distillers really do help cut down on the moisture in the smoke. I would happily regard it as an innovation as opposed to a gimmick
I've mentioned this before, my grandfather and I made them from corn cobs for horse feed and a piece of river cane we used for fishing poles. I remember sanding the exterior and boring the hole for the stem. Neither of us had any idea of commercially made cob pipes. I have to think its what country folk did when they wanted a smoke.
I have a Britannia twin bore, which I incredibly didn't notice when buying it, and thought was a bummer when I did notice it. But it has proved to smoke well, no better or worse than a single bore, and easy to clean both airways, so a story with a happy ending.
that's where it started. Apparently the myth goes that one day a farmer brought a cob to some wood workers and asked if they could make it a permanent pipe. And they figured out how to do that. And it's what we got today. That comes from the one company we all know and love so.... I find those company mythos kind of get stretched sometimes.
sounds like the same basic idea. So I imagine it would work well.
I had a Medico Guardsman that had a little "carburetor" in it. It was an interesting innovation, but I can understand why it didn't catch on.
I have a question does it work like it does in a glass pipe or do you just ignore it and smoke normally?
I'm not sure how a glass pipe works, but the Medico just, basically, has a hole in the bottom of the bowl, and a metal shaft inside. Just cover or uncover the hole when you smoke. Most of the time, I just forgot it was there so I smoked it like a regular pipe.