1 Pipe - 1 Tobacco From Here On Out

[zonomo]

So I decided that I am going to try and stick with a certain pipe for a particular tobacco. A few questions, that I know have been brought up before so please forgive the re-post of these questions. 1) How long or how many bowls will have to be smoked in a given pipe for the flavor to become exclusive (assuming a used pipe)? 2) Do different briar pipes taste different with different tobaccos? In other words, is it possible for a pipe to not smoke well for a given tobacco but that same tobacco tastes different in a different pipe?

 

[pitchfork]

zonomo, after two or three bowls of the same tobacco, I start to notice a difference.
And absolutely do some pipes do better with certain blends and poorly with others. Sometimes you can pinpoint the reason (e.g. too big a bowl with VAs), but a lot of times it's a mystery. One of my favorite pipes (now) was pretty poor with latakia blends and just never much good with VAs, either, but I eventually discovered it brings out the best in burley blends like Wessex Slice, Aged Burley Flake and Stonehaven.
I'm not sure how all of this works out with aromatics, though.

 

[daytonsean]

My Barling smokes aromatics better than any pipe I own. I have a Sav 677 that is dedicated to Old Dublin because it does so well with that blend. And it could be just me and the way that I like things. I recommend picking a blend that you smoke more than any other, and dedicating a pipe to it.

 

[mrenglish]

I once had a Dunhill that smoked nothing but Pembroke. After a few bowls the Pembroke started tasting better. It does not take long, especially if the pipe has not been smoked much before hand.
These days, I always start a pipe out with a VAPER and if it does start singing to me within a dozen or so smokes, I switch it off to something else.
I agree with Pitchfork, sometimes why a pipe smokes a certain blend or genre of tobaccos is a mystery.

 

[cigrmaster]

I also dedicate one blend to one pipe when I find a magical combo. My Lane Era Charatan Dublin smokes SG FVF great so I stick with it. I think it should only take a few bowls like others have mentioned. I recently re worked part of my pipe collection because I had pipes that were too big for flakes. When I smoked English blends I had large pipes because they smoked better than smaller ones.