Briarworks Oom Paul Size Question

[Misanthrope]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

The search bar here won’t accept search terms shorter than 4 letters, so I had to resort to posting a thread. Sorry!

Does anyone here have a Briarworks C151XL Oom Paul, and if so, do you have a picture of it with a hand, object, or whatever for scale? It looks large, but the listed dimensions on SPC seem small, and I don’t really have a good sense of its size. Google searches haven’t come up with any candid shots of that particular pipe next to other objects I can use to estimate scale with. I’d appreciate it!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Have you tried contacting Briarworks?

As to search, try Google with one of the terms being "pipesmagazine".

 

[Misanthrope]

Yep. Twice, a week apart or so. My emails seem to get stuck in their spam filter or something. It’s not just them, I have spotty luck at best with contact forms and emails.

That Google tip was useful, I got way more hits for Oom Paul pipe threads that way. Thanks!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Also search on "Hungarian" Some folks feel the "Oom Paul" designation is a poor one.

 

[Misanthrope]

Oh, definitely, I prefer the “Bent Hungarian” term myself and only used “Oom Paul” because that’s what Briarworks calls it, and I didn’t want to confuse the squirrels powering Google’s search engine.

I thought they were completely different shapes until I came across an article on the history of that pipe shape a little while back, and I found it weird that the name “Oom Paul” stuck when there isn’t actually any hard evidence that there was an association with Paul Kruger.

 

[mso489]

I'm not sure it is relevant, but I can recommend both sizes of Hungarian shape pipes. My large version is a Savinelli Hercules that swallows a lot of tobacco, and my small version is an Iwan Ries house pipe by Benton that is still fairly deep and can give a good length smoke with flake, coin, plug or rope. So if the size isn't exactly what you expect, it might prove to be a worthy addition to the rack. (I'm afraid both my Oom-Pauls are no longer made, and not that common as estates, I suspect.)

 

[Misanthrope]

Oh, yeah. I was looking to add more long-burning writing pipes to my collection. The Briarworks Hungarians have a 2 inch deep, 0.8” diameter chamber, and since my Moonshine Cannonballs’ chambers are 1.6” deep and 0.8” diameter, the Hungarian chamber size seemed decent enough to me. The overall size is a bit hard to pin down in a photo of just the pipe, so I can’t tell if I’m going to look like I’m smoking a saxophone or a *really* squished small straight billiard.

I found one photo with a hand in it suggesting that they’re roughly 7 inches tall and 4 inches long, which seems to be on the smaller side for that shape, but that’s based on an assumption that the hand is an average sized hand.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Sorry; used a term offensive to someone in describing Paul Kruger. He was a rascist and a nasty person, not the offspring of a female dog.

 

[Misanthrope]

Well, update time. Got mine in today. It's both smaller and bigger than I expected all at the same time, and I'm of the mind they probably should call it the Oompauloompa.

 

[jpmcwjr]

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[ofafeather]

I'm not sure it is relevant, but I can recommend both sizes of Hungarian shape pipes. My large version is a Savinelli Hercules that swallows a lot of tobacco, and my small version is an Iwan Ries house pipe by Benton that is still fairly deep and can give a good length smoke with flake, coin, plug or rope. So if the size isn't exactly what you expect, it might prove to be a worthy addition to the rack. (I'm afraid both my Oom-Pauls are no longer made, and not that common as estates, I suspect.)

I have a recent Savinelli Hercules. You’re right about it swallowing a lot of tobacco! Is it no longer made? I must have gotten it in the last few years but time does fly!

 

[mso489]

I've seen a few other Hercules in inventory, but not the Hungarian, though I suppose it could resurface.

 

[ofafeather]

I've seen a few other Hercules in inventory, but not the Hungarian, though I suppose it could resurface.

You’re right. Just looked up mine. It was from 2015. Only 604 I see now on SP is a Cocktail KS

 

[Misanthrope]

Okay, I’ve spent a little time with it.

I’m very pleased with how well it smokes, the packing advice for tall bowls that I found here was spot on (dry, loose, don’t overtamp).

The stem could stand to be a bit shorter, though, since it hangs so far down that it hits my chest when I move my head or lean forward. Basically, if they made it hang like a Moonshine Cannonball, it’d be perfect.

It passes a pipe cleaner easily when using the “bend tip slightly, insert until it stops, then twist 180 degrees” trick, but you’ll want to use a 9 inch cleaner, not a normal size cleaner.

I managed to make it gurgle slightly at a couple points during a bowl of Prince Albert, but it wasn’t as bad as I feared it might be. Overall, it’s a fairly decent pipe.

 

[AroEnglish]

Do you have any pictures of this pipe?