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!

 

[Waning 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 !

 

[Waning 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.

 

[Butter Side Down]

My two favorite small bowled pipes are a treasured David Huber Dublin nose warmer and my beautiful black and brown Bay bamboo brandy. Shown here with a Dunhill group 5 for reference.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

My little clay. It’s an amazingly good pipe.

 

[dottlejockey]

My two favorite smaller pipes.

Mehmet Cinar billiard.


Hüseyin Ege hammer.

 

[anotherbob]

Always a reason to mention the Tsuge Metal Blowfish. It's tiny. It smokes great and also can smoke it twice in a row without any issues you'd normally get from smoking a large pipe twice in a row.

 

[jaingorenard]

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

They briefly made vulcanite stems, and the buttons on those earlier stems are cut nicely. The new stems don't bother me anyway, but if you keep your eyes peeled the vulcanite stems turn up.

 

[Wisps77]

In my few months of acquisition, I bought a couple of smaller pipes mainly because 1) they were cheaper; and 2) I'm still in my "try everything" phase, with two dozen blends in my desk and less than half of them sampled, and I prefer starting with a small bowl of something new, and lastly 3) I am making an effort to keep some limits on my tobacco use.

I now have a Brulor apple, a Ropp Etudiant, and a Rattray's Blower's Daughter (thanks again, Skippy Piper!) and petite calabash meer, and I find that I actually like small pipes in themselves. I plan to acquire a few more as my credit allows, and so I'm curious to hear if anyone else likes the lil' pipes, and if so, do you have any favorites? Oh, and before the big bowl bros start posting, you can have my Pete Donegal Rocky 68 when you pry it from my ash-covered bones, so I have nothing against larger pipes!

I am a small pipe lover. Some pipes on the smaller side would be Wessex feather weight, Graco, and Peterson has a junior model. I prefer a smaller pipe I think because it stems from my younger weed smoking days. Although we didn't smoke our weed through briar. But hey. That's an idea!