Bowl question???

[mjtannen]

How many a day has already been asked, however, what size do you smoke? Does a large bowl count as two small ones? I've found that a large bowl of Penzance for example lasts nearly two hours. If I smoke a small bowl frequently I'm not satisfied and I refill for a second round. So what's your actual count? I find that a shy one hour bowl is just a tease requiring a refill encore smoke.

 

[ohin3]

I'm not a heavy smoker and tend to smoke a lot of flakes so I usually buy pipes that are around a Dunhill group 3 and smaller. I steadily sip at my pipe rather than puff puff puff so a folded and stuffed flake in a group 3 can sometimes last over an hour for me

 

[marmal4de]

For me it's Dunhill group 3 and 4 everything else feels too large or small in my hand.

 

[marmal4de]

All straights for me too, with heavy emphasis on the billiards and Canadians. I started with many bent Pete Systems, that have all been traded away now, I kept one bent that I smoke, rarely.

 

[mjtannen]

I started this post with the intention of learning what constitutes "a bowl" for the sake of a daily count. Insofar as straight or bent, I'm about 50/50. Always a straight when I'm lounging in a horizontal position and frequently a bent when I'm up and about such as now while keyboarding. I'm a clencher so the bent pipe hangs comfortably especially if it's one of my large oom pauls. Now, for example, I'm on my second bowl in my new estate pipe this time it's a mix of C&D Engine99 and Partagas cigar leaf.

 

[mlaug]

I pick up and put down pipes alot. Some days I smoke in one sitting, other days it takes all day to smoke that pipe out.
I guess it depends on what all else I have going on.

 

[romeowood]

I tend toward smaller to medium chambers, generally around a group 3 to 4-ish. My outliers are 3 pipes around a group 1, and 1 pipe around a group 5 (mainly due to the previous owner's over zealous reaming). I have been wanting a stacked billiard, however, for those days when I want to spend a good long time with some VA flakes.

 

[docwatson]

SIZE MATTERS LOL. for everyday smoking a group 4 pipe. For a baseball game or a football game, an ODA or a Magnum size.

Doc

 

[pstlpkr]

I tend toward medium size bowls... for the most part.

But, I love a good little bowl of PS Luxury Bulls Eye Flake (for example) because the coins are suited and sized for a small bowl.

Also, in a like vein... I love a good old Stuff and Puff of Lane's 1-Q in my big old Nordings.

 

[smoker]

i have small to medium bowls, now whether it's the roundness of tobacco chamber in my parker i don't know but it appears larger. As i have mentioned before i prefer large bowls and count them as a single bowl. When i smoke my peterson full bent it can last upto an hour or so the bigger the bowl the longer the smoke the less tobacco i use. Maybe i'm being cost effective but that's me.

 

[fullbent]

Magnum!

 

[punkpiper]

I have yet to acquire any large bowled pipes. For now, small to medium size bowls are working, though I have my eye on a nice big bowled bulldog.

 

[unclearthur]

I own and smoke every size from a Peterson Belgique (very small) to a GBD Collector (OMG that's huge size) .All depends on my mood and what I feel like smoking at that moment. I tend to keep a pipe going all the time I am up and awake. Sleep smoking I haven't figured out yet.

 

[romeowood]

Sleep smoking I haven't figured out yet.

Let us know when you master that one, Uncle A--you'll have bested Mark Twain at last! :rofl:

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. -- Mark Twain