My problem with a true bulldog is the continuation of the square shank towards the front often leaves a too thin bowl thickness at the draft hole, and it’s easy to “roast” the bottom on the pipe, often on both sides.
Bulldog vs Rhodesian
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By the same token if you slim it down and take the midriff bulge away an apple would just be a billiard
A few Comoys
2nd from top sans bead lines but indubitably a Bulldog
So a bulldog is something you know when you see it.
When it bites you in the bum
Actually you are quite correct.
My preferred Bulldog shape is having 2 distinct cones bottom to bottom.
I’m not keen on the ones where the “waist” is rounded to give them an “apple-ish” profile
And “tall” Bulldogs - don’t even go there !
Tinderbox Exotica. Still a bulldog. Take the bead off though and...I'm not sure what it would be.
A Ron Powell giant long shanked bulldog. Maybe a bulldog version of a lovat?
A Ron Powell giant long shanked bulldog. Maybe a bulldog version of a lovat?
Looks like the bulldog got loose in the daschund kennel
I'm down with sandblasted bulldogs having the bead lines excluded but that smooth without bead lines looks wrongBy the same token if you slim it down and take the midriff bulge away an apple would just be a billiard
A few Comoys
2nd from top sans bead lines but indubitably a Bulldog
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I'd personally rather see/own a tall bulldog than a squat bulldog, despite owning a couple three squat bulldogs. Guess I only really have three tall bulldogs as well since Peterson uses them for their Sherlock Baker Street/XL13 shaped bulldogs. Still, I love a good straight bulldog and will take a squat/tall one over a Rhodesian still.
I love squats
A Civic
3rd from top - Comoy
These work for me, despite my voiced dislike of tall Bulldogs
A Civic
3rd from top - Comoy
These work for me, despite my voiced dislike of tall Bulldogs
I would not consider that a bulldog. Those are just bead lines for the sake of bead lines. Without at least some form of inverted taper, it's just a decoration.
Also once the invert taper begins low enough, I consider it a brandy.
My thoughts on my own pipes for myself from top to bottom:
Rhodesian
Brandy
Rhodesian
Rhodesian
Brandy
Rhodesian
Brandy
Brandy
2 and 3 are my main smoking pipes.
Rhodesian
Brandy
Rhodesian
Rhodesian
Brandy
Rhodesian
Brandy
Brandy
2 and 3 are my main smoking pipes.
Man, that top one, the Peterson, is a damn fine looking Bulldog. Can one still say, “man”?Bulldog
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Rhodesian
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Danish “pliant morphism”
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Yeah man !
I refuse to be gender fluid
Peterson, in my opinion, have some of THE best iterations of the genre.
And that X155 and their Sherlock Holmes Hudson are my favourites in their Bulldog lineup
I disagree. The Savinelli 514 is a Bulldog. I have versions with and without bead lines. Are the ones without bead lines no longer 514 pipes?
I was thinking more of bowls that aren’t shaped as bulldogs but have a diamond shank.
Once edges start getting rounded, lines get blurred, figuratively and literally; if you eliminate the hard, sharp angles of an older, traditional Bulldog, the pipe can end up morphing into something else, and eventually can take us into nitpicking territory. At some point it might be considered a Freehand.
All bulldogs have diamond shanks, but not all pipes with diamond shanks are bulldogs.
The bulldog and Rhodesian both have the “dual inverted cones” bowl shape as their defining feature (regardless of bead lines), IMHO.
Or is this Kriswill a diamond shanked apple?
The bulldog and Rhodesian both have the “dual inverted cones” bowl shape as their defining feature (regardless of bead lines), IMHO.
Or is this Kriswill a diamond shanked apple?