Anyone With Experience With A GTP?

[Capt Morgan]

I picked up this estate pipe, mostly because it looked nice. I noticed right away that it's giving me some bite from a tobacco that doesn't usually bite. Is it me or the pipe? I am not doing anything different than normal.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Looks like it is made of porcelain although the bowl looks like briar. I've personally found 3/4 bent pipes can gather more moisture than straight or minimally bent pipes which can heat up and turn to steam. May just need more breaking in. Could have been the tobacco you were smoking.

 

[mso489]

Are you puffing more to keep it lit? Does it have a more open draw that burns more tobacco? I don't know the brand? Where is it made? Is it smaller than most of your other pipes? I'd slow way down, really just sip, and see if it helps. Keep us posted on any progress.

 

[Capt Morgan]

Looks like it is made of porcelain although the bowl looks like briar. I've personally found 3/4 bent pipes can gather more moisture than straight or minimally bent pipes which can heat up and turn to steam. May just need more breaking in. Could have been the tobacco you were smoking.

yeah, it's a clay pipe with double walls, but I think you are right, it's a moister thing.

 

[Capt Morgan]

It is a Gouda Tobacco Pipes brand pipe. Ceramic with double walls, pipedia says it has moisture issues.

GtP - Pipedia

pipedia.org

 

[madox07]

I don' know this brand. Is it bryar? It looks interesting, but I am not sure it's the pipe that gives you less bite. It may be that the tobacco is drier than you last smoked it? Or perhaps you got better at it, you are pacing yourself better ?

 

[mso489]

Ceramic with double walls sounds like the problem, nowhere for the heat to go so it bakes the moisture out of the tobacco and the steam burns you. That's my guess.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

It is a Gouda Tobacco Pipes brand pipe. Ceramic with double walls, pipedia says it has moisture issues.

GtP - Pipedia

pipedia.org

That sounds like a heat problem waiting to happen to me. Almost as difficult as smoking a clay pipe.

 

[bullet08]

Double walled ceramic means it's insulated. Is it glazed? If it is, no place for moisture to go anywhere.

 

[Capt Morgan]

Well, it's still pretty to look at. Going to take it slow and sip the next time I use it. Otherwise, I may just put it up to be looked at.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

I picked up this estate pipe, mostly because it looked nice. I noticed right away that it's giving me some bite from a tobacco that doesn't usually bite. Is it me or the pipe? I am not doing anything different than normal.View attachment 51584

I know that pipe very well - you bought it on etsy and it has an exposed side that you haven't revealed in this thread, correct?

 

[Capt Morgan]

I know that pipe very well - you bought it on etsy and it has an exposed side that you haven't revealed in this thread, correct?

Huh?

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Huh?

Did you source that pipe from a lady who sells under the name 'Tobacco Treasures'as an unsmoked pipe? She took it off her listings - it has an exposed side - you can seen into the chamber, yes? or is yours a different one - It was the same make, model and color, regardless.

 

[Capt Morgan]

Did you source that pipe from a lady who sells under the name 'Tobacco Treasures'as an unsmoked pipe? She took it off her listings - it has an exposed side - you can seen into the chamber, yes? or is yours a different one - It was the same make, model and color, regardless.

Yeah, that is where I got it, but it had definitely been smoked before. I could see the burnt tobacco marks in the bottom of the bowl and the stem had tar residue in it. I am not sure what you mean by exposed side though. If you mean the pic from the listing where a section is cut away, that was an example of what the inside looked like, not the actual pipe.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Yeah, that is where I got it, but it had definitely been smoked before. I could see the burnt tobacco marks in the bottom of the bowl and the stem had tar residue in it. I am not sure what you mean by exposed side though. If you mean the pic from the listing where a section is cut away, that was an example of what the inside looked like, not the actual pipe.

AH INTERESTING _ I thought that the pipe may have been cracked with an exposed side - anyway, yea, I bought a pipe from her once- she's alright. She listed that as unsmoked (it looked a bit dirty to me) maybe smoke drier leaf in there. Nice looking pipe though.