Filtered pipes without filters good for smoking wet blends?

[beastinview]

This is something I've noticed with my pipes:
All of my unfiltered pipes tend to gurgle when I smoke wet, aromatic blends in them. Some even do so with middle-of-the-road blends.
Yet my filtered pipes, which I never use a filter in, never gurgle or have any problem. Even the cheap basket pipes smoke like a dream--as long as they are filtered, but have the filter taken out.
When I clean them, I find all the moisture has built up in the empty space where the filter would be kept.
Does anyone else experience this?

 

[cigrmaster]

I have owned numerous 6mm and 9 mm pipes. I smoked everyone without the filter and everyone pipe smoked clean and dry, with no issues.

 

[mso489]

I haven't run this experiment, and you guys have, so there's my disclaimer. I theorize that when you take out the filter, that leaves the airway a little wider and also more irregular where the filter was held in place, hence creating a little turbulence in the airway and drying things out as well as ushering any residual moisture down into the bottom of the filter gap. Does that sound like what might be going on? I replace my filters with adaptors; otherwise the airway gets too much air and diminishes the flavor, to me. But many prefer just removing the filter, probably more than use adaptors.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Makes sense. Another way to slice this up is to not smoke wet tobacco!

 

[cigrmaster]

mso, the space that houses the filter are always very smooth so when the filter is removed, there is no turbulence which could cause a wet smoke. Think about a filter for a minute, it takes away flavor it clogs air stream and creates a wet smoke, there are no redeeming features to a filter that I have ever found.

 

[mso489]

Thanks! Maybe I'll try it without the adaptors and see how it works for me.

 

[beastinview]

Yeah, I think you guys are right in your theorizing: that's essentially what I had been thinking.

Makes sense. Another way to slice this up is to not smoke wet tobacco!

Well, the thing is, when I smoked it in my filtered pipes sans filter, I had no idea they were wet! They smoked beautifully. In the unfiltered pipes, they gurgle.
For the record, I'm not talking about really moist tobacco, but rather aromatics that would probably lose flavor if one dried them out too much.
For example, I think a run-of-the-mill aromatic like 1-Q comes at a moisture level that is quite ready to smoke without any drying, and when I have dried it, it loses flavor. But it still gurgles a bit in some of my unfiltered pipes with narrow airflow.

 

[username]

Poor man's calabash?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Or the reverse calabash effect?