Is Premium Briar Different?

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Agreed! Take everything you've read before this and throw it out the window. The secret to a cool, clean, wonderful smoke can be had with one word my friend......."Brylon!" Smoking engineering at it's finest. It's hard to find but easy to love.

EBay is your friend if you want one . ?

 

[sablebrush52]

Can you find anyone who advertises their drilling specs?

I suppose I could e-mail every carver until I find one who does drill to my standards but without running a mass information gathering campaign there is no way to know who makes their pipes to what standards.
This is a universal problem with the pipemaking industry as a whole.

I can if you can explain to me, with anything approaching an informed manner, why that matters, why that is necessary. Generally, when I want more information I get off my ass and find it. I don't expect the world to cater to me.
Having made that effort over the years, talking with carvers, briatr merchants, distributors, blenders, etc, I've learned quite a bit about pipes and tobaccos. Maybe if you make that effort you'll eventually learn something about them as well.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Maybe if you make that effort you'll eventually learn something about them as well.

Many carvers will cater to spec requests as well. I've thrown some major curve balls at artisans and they've always said they had fun trying something different.

 

[Briar Lee]

I don’t think there’s a pipe smoker, with more than a few briar pipes, that doesn’t admit all smoke just a little differently, and some few are stinkers and some few are gloriously righteous smokers.

No matter what brand you buy or who carved it, they all accept a standard pipe cleaner.

All briar of quality comes from the roots of older Heath trees along the coast of the Mediterranean and no place else. The same Heath trees anywhere else on earth are only used as a novelty.

There are resins in Heath tree roots grown on hills around the Mediterranean that taste yummy.

For over 150 years somebody over there has graded and tried selling the yummiest tasting Heath tree roots.

Isn’t that kind of like Havana cigars?

 

[mingc]

That's my wife's attitude. Except she'd spend the difference on chook poo and dead carp juice. ??

The difference between what and what?! ?

 

[OzPiper]

The difference between what and what?! ?

Ha ha
Antipodean speak for chicken manure and fish manure
She is a keen gardener

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don’t think there’s a pipe smoker, with more than a few briar pipes, that doesn’t admit all smoke just a little differently, and some few are stinkers and some few are gloriously righteous smokers.

You know one now. Outside of aesthetics, I notice no difference in the smoking quality between one well drilled pipe and another. When I still had these, outside of different surface finishes, they smoked identically.

 

[Duck]

If I can taste the briar after the pipe is broken in then something is wrong.

 

[jpmcwjr]

OK. I think everything has been said. Closing before the smoke turns into fire.