Then keep smoking them. But understand for a number of reasons, they're likely to smoke wetter.
Driest pipes?
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All the tips about tobacco packing/prep are spot on, as are the Falcon and cob recommendations. Otherwise, with many pipes if the gurgle is annoying you can hold the pipe with your palm over the bowl and sort of whip it towards the ground with the stem facing out/down to help drain it. On your Peterson you could take the stem right off and practically pour moisture out, but that whipping/flicking motion is bound to clear it right out. Like so, but with a pipe in your hand and the hat is optional:
Never had an issue with bents. I own only a couple of straights and that's mainly because their carver was a buddy of mine.
Add to dry tobacco, slower smoking, and a MM cob, packing a little looser. i get gurgling infrequently, so I must be doing something correctly ... surprising myself.
I have a couple of cheap bent Molinas that dont give me as much grief as my pete 314. They are bigger pipes though so that may play a factor too.
I agree with most comments here - it's less of the pipe and more the smoker. Plenty have said it already so I won't get detailed. But dry the tobacco more, correct packing, use pipe cleaners, clenching could put moisture in the pipe, straight pipes instead of bent, etc.
Honestly, the 314 is probably my favorite pipe of all time. I have another one coming in soon, but this is a 314 with the 9mm stem. I think that will be the most versatile pipe for me: I like the filtered option because I am a wet smoker and forget to dry my tobacco. But I can also slap an adapter/reducer in it and smoke it without a filter, and still break it down if I hear some gurgle.
Also, like you I love army mounted and bent pipes.
Also, like you I love army mounted and bent pipes.
I have run into a couple pipes that had a gurgle.. I've not owned a system pipe. To much breath down the pipe stem will condense and cause this.
But like @canucklehead says, a cob won't gurgle even if you do smoke fast or wet.
But like @canucklehead says, a cob won't gurgle even if you do smoke fast or wet.
I like my falcons but yeah the looks aren't great.
Yep. What Duane says.
Pipes don't gurgle; people do! While an exaggeration, mostly true.
Also the ambient humidity will have a definite effect on how much moisture will condense in the heel and shank.
Not always an exaggeration, I’ve know people that were just droolers, it could be those people that have a habitual habit of licking their lips even. We’ve had them in the cigar world we’re if there was a puff puff pass it was a given they would get skipped ?
just to be a nit picker. I generally agree with the sentiment it's more the smoker... The pipe is a factor and can make a difference. The caveat is that the difference is pretty small and not really game changing (well a falcon the dry ring, might be and their international stem (makes it look more normal) can take a filter, tried it with a dry ring and filter and you could probably smoke water dry in that, though it will also quickly end any debate about if filters effect flavor (yeah they do). I mean that set up you could smoke like you're trying to hide in smoke clouds and not get too much bite (note that is hyperbole).
Hate to tell you this but you got that word backwards. optional isn't a synonym for required.
Consider that he didn't mean to have a synonym! Makes sense to me either way.Hate to tell you this but you got that word backwards. optional isn't a synonym for required.
Talking strictly about pipes, Falcon is the way to go. They are awesome pipes. Where I live is 90-100% humidity year round, so its easy to get a gurgle. But with a Falcon, not even once.
he did but I was trying not be rude about pointing out his obvious mistake. Few things in life are concrete, but wearing Devo hats when possible is one of those immutable facts. Which facts that the answer to wear Devo hat? Is always YES!