Drum is good, Samson even better.
I always rolled my own . Till I quit , quite some years ago.
How Wide Is Wide Enough?
- Thread starter crawdad
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
I always rolled my own . Till I quit , quite some years ago.
Drum wasn't available in the US (or at least in my area) back then. But, it wasn't long till it did become available after the trip. I switched between Drum and Camel Lights for years, up until I started smoking pipes. Now, I don't touch the cigarettes. I just can't control myself... says the guy who smokes 10-12 pipes a day, ha ha.
Wow . I smoke 12 pipes 6 months.
" I can resist anything except temptation ".
I'd say .80 up should give the desired effect of letting all of the tobaccos in a complex blend burn at once. Purists should go for a full 1.0 or more, but it may not make for a pretty pipe.
I like a wide pipe, basically for more volume of smoke in my mouth at a time. Some Virginias get too bitey for my Virginia pipes, which are more narrow and way taller. In a squat wide pipe, the fuller smoke allows me to enjoy them more. And, for a latakia or cigar blend, it only makes sense to me to go for a more fuller robust pipe.
I mean, size doesn't turn a tobacco into a completely different tasting blend, but it does affect the taste and affect some. Variety is the spice of life, IMO.
Last edited:
Maybe I should have said what I wanted the pot shape in the first place. It’s my understanding that a wide pot is good for blends that have several several constituent tobaccos and the wide chamber allows for these tobaccos to burn in a way to allow these tobaccos to shine on their own so has to enjoy a more flavorable smoke.
For some yes, for others no. Give one a try just to see, but a lot of pipe dogma is subjective to the individual.
Yeh, I think that the problem is when people will post on a thread that this or that tobacco is better in a pot-shaped pipe (for them). What they mean is a wide bowl, but the reality of pot-shaped pipes is that not all of them have wide chambers. Maybe they aren't aware of this.
I do like certain blends in certain bowl diameters, but I am not going to make a blanket statements about all complex blends in this or that pipe. Some I just like in wide bowls, even some single leaf tobaccos. That just comes with personal experience.
But, I wouldn't put too much stock in the assumption that all pipes with pot shapes have wide diameter bowls, just as I would assume that all dublins have narrow ones, nor all bulldogs having cone shaped bowls. The pipemakers have the luxury of making a pipe based on whatever dimensions they think fit whatever aesthetic they have in mind while making the pipe.
Uggg, my biggest problem with the pot, is that searching ebay for a "pot-shaped pipe":, immediately triggers you to see thousands of marijuana pipes used for paraphernalia.
Reading this got me curious. The biggest bowl diameter of the pipes I currently have is my WDC Wellington Giant, so grabbing it and a ruler brought the "revelation" that it is 15/16 inch. Outside diameter at the top is a tad under 1-3/8 inch.
Since there is no official sanctioning body for pipe shapes and chamber diameters, you get to be the decider. I always thought it should have a chamber of .90 or larger, but then I saw this Northern Briars. The chamber is .81 and the walls are over .50 . Smokes like a dream. Tomato, tomahhhto, who cares ?
