Old companion in one of those ukranian things I had issues with when I first got them -- took me a while to work up the nerve to try a full bowl in one.
They smoke very. .. meh. . ..Too hot, but very dry, strange taste from the wood that isn't good or bad just strange, but no tongue bite because of the wooden stem. . .. Tobacco burns so hot the bowl is gone in about a third of the normal time even, but it doesn't make it taste bad.
Very meh pipes. . .. well at least this particular one is, there are 4 basic designs that are different enough they might smoke different, but there are 4 others that are basically the same as this one so at least those 4 will probably smoke the same.