Best Peterson Shape for Flakes

[timt]

Shake it off Salted. It's all good. You've got passion and you help keep things interesting around here. I appreciate your knowledge and experience.

 

[unkleyoda]

For rubbed out flakes, I like the 03/303, 02/302. (apple shape, conical shape)
For folded and stuffed I like the XL105, 106, 107 (billiard shape parallel sides)
For ribbon cuts, it's whatever I'm in the mood for.

 

[mso489]

From fold-andl-stuff to many various stages of rubbing out covers a lot of ground. Flake broken up is still pretty much flake. At the other pole, I sometimes rub out and then grate flake, but it still burns a little longer than most loose tobacco.

 

[unkleyoda]

but it still burns a little longer than most loose tobacco

That's what I love about rubbed out flakes, they burn slower and cooler. I tend to, unless I pay attention, a hot smoker. I get my cadence up there, and rubbed out flake helps, a lot. (Also, it helps that I smoke mainly Lat blends)

 

[saltedplug]

You've got passion and you help keep things interesting around here. I appreciate your knowledge and experience.

Thank you! That helps me right now.
But you know what they say about passion.. .

 

[crashthegrey]

What does who say about passion? I know a few but I don't think they are relevant here.

 

[workman]

Not only does rubbed out flake smoke longer, it also swells more than ribbon cut. So don't pack it.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Not only does rubbed out flake smoke longer, it also swells more than ribbon cut. So don't pack it.

Typically when I rub a flake out it tends to smoke a lot quicker. If I fold and stuff the flake then it tends to take considerably more time to finish the bowl.

 

[seanv]

Fold and stuff I like narrow bowls. Maybe it’s a mental thing. Rubbed out flake I will smoke in anything. I view it the same as a ribbon cut

 

[ssjones]

Mkelaw Pipes just listed a nice Tankard for $55:

http://mkelaw-pipes.com/html/pipee4321.html
Weight = 0.9 oz = Magic!

 

[workman]

@lordofthepiperings: I meant it smokes longer than ribbon cut. Not longer than a folded flake.

 

[enrikon]

Leaving aside the banality that any tobacco can smoke in any pipe, I find it better to smoke flakes (not crumbled) in pipes chimney. This is because the brazier has a smaller surface and the smoke is governed better. The whole flakes, in fact, burn worse.

But usually the flakes I crumble them.
On the other hand, on the discussion that the shape of the pipe changes the taste of tobacco, I think it is true, but this may also depend on the fact that there are no 2 briars (or, if you want, two pipes) with the same taste.

 

[puffermark]

I have a battered old 309. Probably the best flake pipe I have.

 

[disinformatique]

Try to get a Chimney/Stack shape with a cylindrical bowl. Perfect flake bowls/pipes.
Peterson POY 2017 is a fine example.
Cheers,

Chris :puffpipe:

 

[ashdigger]

I just picked up a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Hansom from MKELaw pipes (Forum Sponsor) and it's my new Flake Smoker Extraordinaire.

 

[unkleyoda]

Try to get a Chimney/Stack shape with a cylindrical bowl. Perfect flake bowls/pipes.
Peterson POY 2017 is a fine example.

Do you mean 2016 POTY? The 2016 was a chimney/stack. The 2017 is a devil's anse.
2016

2017

I have 3 2017 POTY, they smoke great, but I think you meant the stack pipe of 2016.

 

[ssjones]

I'm not a flake smoker (OGS in the summer), but this pre-Republic Bullcap should lend itself nicely to flakes(petite size,decent bowl). It's still available in the classifieds section.