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mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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I'm assuming this pipe is straight. Many bent pipes don't pass pipe cleaners; I love it when they do, consider it an important quality point, but I don't expect wire to make a U-turn through every bent pipe, and the ones that don't pass a pipe cleaner do just fine, clean up well, remain with airways open. I don't see many/any bent pipes with bamboo shanks.
 

bluegrassbrian

Your Mom's Favorite Pipe Smoker
Aug 27, 2016
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Louisville
I'm assuming this pipe is straight. Many bent pipes don't pass pipe cleaners; I love it when they do, consider it an important quality point, but I don't expect wire to make a U-turn through every bent pipe, and the ones that don't pass a pipe cleaner do just fine, clean up well, remain with airways open. I don't see many/any bent pipes with bamboo shanks.
Roman Kovalev (Doctors Pipes) does many bent bamboos.
Don't see many others though.
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
45,299
119,530
I'm assuming this pipe is straight. Many bent pipes don't pass pipe cleaners; I love it when they do, consider it an important quality point, but I don't expect wire to make a U-turn through every bent pipe, and the ones that don't pass a pipe cleaner do just fine, clean up well, remain with airways open. I don't see many/any bent pipes with bamboo shanks.
@Chasing Embers has a matching pair of morta and briar with bent bamboo stems
But @mso489 you're quite right. They are not very common
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