Do Pipes Really Get Better With Time?

[cosmicfolklore]

You guys aren't getting paid to post on here? You're just doing it for free? Bah ha ha!!

 

[fordm60]

This thread is awesome! After some careful consideration I am decided I am in the pipe and smoker gets better with time camp. My three flea market finds, I mentioned in my first post in this thread, do smoke great with a smoothness, but I suspect after some contemplation that I probably assign some of that mentally because I put so much work into them. All my current pipes smoke very well. The ones I didn't like I donated or sold. But I smoke a few of them differently per that pipes quirks. My Dublin I smoke much slower as it get down towards the bottom per heat issues. My Peterson 314 I smoke slower as the bowl is small and thin walled. As two quick examples. Others I can fill with anything and smoke without even thinking. So the smoker plays a part just as the pipe does.

 

[sablebrush52]

What, have you gone senile on me?

Happens to the best of us. Which would be me. ::

Or, maybe I have.

Far be it from me to comment on that.

But, when asked about dublins, if memory serves, I've seen you post that you did not like the conical shaped bowls... more than once.

I have nothing against conical chambers. They're great for VA's etc. One needs the right tools for keeping the cake trimmed. Senior reamers and Pipnets aren't useful here.
I don't like Dublins and Bulldogs as shapes, and that I've stated more than once. And I believe that a Dublin or Bulldog with a cylindrical chamber is a bad idea. I'm starting to warm up to Dublins. Bulldogs? Feh.