How Do You Smoke Your Savenelli Filter Pipes?

[mso489]

All of my Savenelli pipes are non-filtered -- an Oscar Lucite, a 601 churchwarden, three unfinished pipes

(a panel billiard, straight billiard, and zulu). But most Savenelli's have their 6mm balsa filter system which

usually also comes with a plastic adaptor to make a pipe smoke like an unfiltered pipe. How do you smoke

your filtered Sav's -- with the balsa filter, with the adaptor, without the filter or the adapter, or some other

way? I had a filter Sav for a while and smoked it with the adaptor which gave me a plastic taste I did not like.

I found without a filter or an adapter, the draw was a little too airy and seemed to reduce the intensity of the

flavor. I eventually traded the pipe. How do you smoke your filter-designed Savs?

 

[derfatdutchman]

I smoke my Savinelli sans filter with the adapter installed. I can't say I noticed any plastic taste from it.

 

[brdavidson]

No filter and no adaptor, I like a wide open draw.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I have only one Savinelli pipe that takes a filter, and I always smoke it with a balsa filter. I like to smoke some tobaccos with a filter, and this is one of 6 pipes I have that use a filter. The others are a Chacom 2011 POY (9mm Sav. balsa filter), an old Brigham (one of my favorites) and 3 MM cobs, which I use the Sav. 6mm balsa filters in. Outside of the Brigham, which is the best filter pipe I've ever smoked, I find the balsa system the best if you're going to use a filter. Most of the time I smoke without filters, but when I do use a filter, I use the pipes and filters I've mentioned here. If you haven't tried a balsa filter, try one sometime, even if just in a cob. They don't restrict the draw too much, let plenty of flavor through, are not very expensive and when blotted and dried after use, you'll get maybe 3-4 smokes from them. I use them mainly with aro tobaccos that smoke a little wetter than most of the tobaccos I smoke.

Experimenting can be fun! ::

 

[papipeguy]

First thing I do is pitch the filter. I use the adapter in most. Some I don't have the adapter for but it isn't an issue.

 

[gphenry]

No filter or adaptor.

 

[winton]

With filter

 

[dread]

No filter with an adapter.

 

[plateauguy]

I smoke my Savinelli pipes with the filter, in the shade, with a nice glass of Devils Cut on ice.

 

[blueeyedogre]

Sav Sport is one of my daily pipes and I use filters.

 

[prndl]

no filter.

no adaptor.

 

[curl]

I have just one savinelli, and I use the adaptor.