Favorite Small Bowl Pipes

[Sigmund]

This Kai Rhodesian perfectly holds a coind of Petes DNR and smokes for 50 minutes. Perfect for a session.


This Kai is smaller but still plenty for a nice smoke



This brandy is about the same as the top one. Another Kai.



A Viprati that is perfect for Quiet Nights. A small bowl for a really slow burning blend


I could keep listing becuase I like smaller bowls on most occasions.

 

[judcole]

I have a definite preference for smaller bowls - most of my Ropp Vintage series are, as is the Etudiant. I have some Sav Tre series that also are about Group 3 or so, as well as my Pete 701s.

 

[SSGT.]

I started out with the bigger is better mentality, buying the larger brandies because of the way they fit my hand. Then went to the smaller apples for quicker smokes, graduated to the conical Dublin's. Now days I prefer the smaller canted eggs, or Cutty's.
In honor of my mother's Irish ancestry today's pipe is a Peterson heritage poker. but my favorite everyday smoker is a Dagner Devil Anse. The smaller bowls seem to make the blends natural flavors more pronounced throughout the smoke instead of the first 3/4. For me anyway.

 

[ssjones]

I'm a small pipe aficionado. My original Dunhill birth year pipe was a larger 120 shape. I found this much smaller '61 Shape 56 to replace it. That and a KK Castello 65 are two of my favorites. Both under 40 grams in weight.

 

[craig61a]

I have quite a few smaller bowl pipes, but the ones that come to mind are the Ropp Vintage/Superior pipes…

According to lore they were carved decades ago when pipes were generally smaller. And I really dig the horn stems on the vintages.

 

[BriaronBoerum]

How about a falcon with a bantam bowl?

Totally valid, but they just don't grab me, though I know some folks here swear by them!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Totally valid, but they just don't grab me, though I know some folks here swear by them!

They outclass every pipe I've ever owned.

 

[ssjones]

They outclass every pipe I've ever owned.
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I can't get past the awful plastic stems.

 

[Nonesuch]

I've had good luck with smaller Stanwells.



Also, YMMV, but I have a small Morgan Bones sitter that I swear by for VaPers.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I have quite a few small bowl pipes, but this Ashton Brindle X is my favorite.

 

[Sgetz]

They outclass every pipe I've ever owned.
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Agreed !

 

[Chasing Embers]

I can't get past the awful plastic stems.

Nylon

Softer tyan acrylic and no maintenance like vulcanite. Probably the most comfortable stems I've come across with the perfect button shape.

 

[ssjones]

Nylon

Softer tyan acrylic and no maintenance like vulcanite. Probably the most comfortable stems I've come across with the perfect button shape.

To each his own I guess. For me, life is too short to abide poor stem (same reason cobs don't appeal to me).

 

[Brad H]

Smaller bowls for me, go to is a Peterson tavern or Peterson Jr.