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olkofri

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If a pipe with a chamber of 'average' size takes one folded flake, then you could have ~10-11 smokes out of one 50-gram tin, methinks. That'd be ~5.5 smokes out of one ounce.

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jzbdano

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Jul 7, 2016
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Eleven bowls per ounce for me. I tracked a couple 100g tins of a broken Virginia flake a couple years ago. First tin took 42 bowls, next one took 44 which is a bit under the 2.5g/bowl I use for my calculations.
 

burleyboy

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Jul 30, 2019
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I had times when I smoked only one blend (Elizabethan Mixture) in a group 4 Dunhill 4103. I‘ve once counted the bowls I got out of a 50g tin. I don’t remember exactly, but it was between 25 and 28, packed very loose, though.
 

mikestanley

Lifer
May 10, 2009
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Kind of like asking how many licks it takes to get to the tootsie center of a Tootsi Pop. I know this, the one slow smoke contest I participated in they gave me 3.3 grams of tobacco. My pipe was only able to hold about 3/4 of it. And, I had one of my larger pipes with me since you could still smoke indoors. Most of my pipes these days are @ 1 1/2 inch deep and 3/4 inch dia chamber. I believe the last time I checked, they held 1.6 grams of normally dry mixture.

Mike S.
 

BROBS

Lifer
Nov 13, 2019
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Most people are referencing an attempt at pipe size standardization by Dunhill: Dunhill Shape Chart

The odd part is it appears to be about the overall size of the pipe and has nothing to do with the chamber size which pretty much makes it useless.
To be even more confusing it’s not about the finished size either, but the size of the piece of briar they started with.
 

smokeyweb

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Dec 29, 2013
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My experience, using a combination of medium to large pipes:

8-10 bowls per ounce on average for non-flake cuts of tobacco.

5-6 bowls per ounce for flakes - using approximately 1 to 1.5 flakes per bowl
 
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