Favorite pipes For Flakes?

[durham270]

What is your favorite pipe for smoking flakes? We're talking flakes, bulls-eye flakes, slices and the like. What are the qualifications that make a good flake pipe? Post images of your favorite flake smoking pipe if you'd like. I'd really enjoy seeing them.
Here are two of my favorite pipes for just that.
This Stanwell, HCA Churchwarden smokes Lancer's Slices & Samuel Gawith Balkan Flake perfectly.

This short Stanwell, HCA has been smoking Solani Silver Flake Blend 660 & Gawith Hoggarth Kendal Flake like a dream.

 

[jgriff]

Rad Davis Canted Pot. It's my go-to pipe for English flakes like Sextant or Lancer Slices. It's only about 5" long so it's not the oversized pot bowl by any means.

Patent Era Dunhill 114. Group 1 pipes live for flakes and this my Virginia Flake par excellence. Sure the cracks make me think it's going to fall apart someday but I've already gotten my money's worth on this one and I bet it will go for several more years. Then I will cry and overpay for a replacement. This pipe made me totally understand and respect both the Dunhill mystique and small pipes the first moment flame touched tobacco.

 

[durham270]

All very handsome pipes here! Thanks for posting and keep em coming.

 

[escioe]

I've been smoking a VA flake out of a Comoy 126 pot lately. Ever since Greg Pease mentioned that he liked flakes out of his GBD 9493 pot / lovats, I've wanted to try it. I just got this Comoy pot recently, and with a 5 year old tin of Union Square, it works really nice. Burns almost 2 hours, too.

 

[7ach]

That Ponomarchuk does deserve more than one photo!

 

[durham270]

JF Germain Brown Flake in a Savinelli Octavia

 

[redbeard]

Not sure what all of the group whatever's are... But a small tall and narrow bowl IMO will smoke a flake like a champ.

 

[rmbittner]

This is why we're all individuals: While I dedicate pipes to certain styles and blends, I don't in any way dedicate certain shapes or sizes to particular things (like flakes).
The only place where this isn't quite true is when it comes to Virginias. I think Virginias -- flakes or not -- shine their best when smoked in oil-cured briar. So most of my oil-cured pipes are dedicated to Virginias. That includes Dunhills and certain Radices. But I also have non-oil-cured briars dedicated to VAs.
Bob

 

[redstar]

Flakes, for me, work well in smaller bowls, folded, wiggled around a bit and stuffed.
I can get an hour and a half out of a full Dunhill Virginia Flake in a small bowl compared to forty five minutes in a larger one.

 

[salewis]

Flakes work best for me in medium sized pipes and with a wide bowl similar to pot or apple shapes. Since I hand rub or tear my flakes to the same consistency as broken flakes I smoke both tobacco configurations in both pots and apples or any of my medium sized pipes with a wider bowl.

 

[phred]

This Stanwell Zebrano is my Va/Per pipe, and most of the Va/Per blends I smoke are flakes (Escudo, Luxury Bullseye Flake, Luxury Navy Flake):

 

[gtclark]

That Ponomarchuk does deserve more than one photo!

Agreed! Absolutely beautiful!

 

[petes03]

There's no way I could name just one, so here they are,
Nording "Special Rustic" 1/8 bent ball

Peterson "Shannon" B-11 3/4 bent Dublin

Nording "Eriksen" straight bulldog

Peterson "System Standard" 31 straight billiard

Ehrlich "Straight Grain" straight Dublin

Peterson "Outdoor" 86 straight billiard/apple

Nording "Silver Series" 925 straight billiard

Ehrlich straight billiard

Aldo Velani 111 bulldog w/slightly bent stem

 

[yazamitaz]

Nice "family portrait" Dan ::

 

[petes03]

Thanks!
By the way, great looking pipes everybody!

 

[jpberg]

Any of them, really.

 

[lochinvar]

My main flake pipe are deep bowled Ser Jacopos. I have one full bent delecta with a 2.5" tall bowl that I have gone almost 2 hours with, smoking very deliberately of course. I also have a Caminetto pot that is great with flakes (although its forte is Esoterica Tilbury, it tastes better in that pipe than any other).

 

[rockymtnsmoker]

As a newbie I've been smoking my English and Balken blends in my pot and prince shapes and flakes in my billiards and related shapes. Will have to try a flake in a wider bowl. Great thread and some beautiful pipes.

 

[thehappypiper]

If I have the option I go for flakes. They always seem to work for me. Not that it didn't take a long while to figure out my way of smoking them. I like a very slightly moist broken flake, medium packed in a pipe with a thinner, deep bowl. I have a couple of Bjarne Dublins which are a dream for flakes. But if it starts out as a flake you alwys have the option of tailoring it to the needs of yor pipe