Marijuana Pipe as Tobacco Sampler?

[puff]

Does anyone have experince with tobacco in a marijuana pipe? I was browsing ebay, when suddenly I got this idea, marijuana pipes are often made from glass or metal, and so I thought they might be like clay pipes ie. perfect as a tobacco sampler: no ghosting, no burn-in etc.
What are your thoughts?

 

[daimyo]

Dear god no, buy a ceramic double wall or a clay if you want a tasting pipe. As cheap as clays are, I can't see a single advantage to the mary jane pipe, the airflow will be far to open IMO and don't they have a carb hole? Tobacco pipes are made for what we do.

 

[perlasca]

I would imagine the bowl would be too small, shallow.

 

[davek]

Which might be an advantage when wanting to have a quick taste of something different. It would definitely be a home pipe though. I've gotten some very curious looks smoking clays.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

For a sampler pipe I'd highly suggest the mini-cob from Missouri Meerschuam. It's a quick 10 minute smoke. You just load it up and go. There's no tamping or maintenance required. They're a bit over $2 each. You could get one for Virginia/VaPers, one for aromatics, and one for English/Balkan blends. You can also buy a few and leave them unsmoked for when a friend comes over and gets the itch to try it. That'd be my advice.

 

[andrew]

I always use a baby carrot pipe to sample tobacco

 

[tarak]

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it is against forum rules to bring anything marijuana related into conversation?

 

[mso489]

Old Dominion makes a fine little sampling pipe, the Chesapeake. It's suitably small, but big enough to accommodate the varying size pieces of many blends of complex tobacco. The pot pipe is a bad idea: the bowl's too small, the material is wrong, the draw is wrong ... just made for a different purpose. A few Chesapeakes will do the job.

 

[tarak]

I do remember listening to one of the radio shows and I think somebody from McClelland was on and they use all clay pipes to sample

 

[settersbrace]

Episode 3 I believe with Mary McClellend. She talks about the attributes of smoking un cured leaf in it and how nasty that can be. If you do get a clay, get one with a fired tip.

 

[puff]

oh, well so much for that idea.. Thanks for the input I guess the way to go is clay for home and corn for travel. Would've been cool though with a metal travel/sampling pipe. Oh, well.. close but no cigar (or pipe as it were ^^)

 

[rcstan]

A metal toke will not be suitable for tobacco since it burns too hot, plus you might attract unwanted attention. If said pipe had been previously used for other sorts of leaves, it will impart a taste on whatever tobacco you smoke in it, and it would also be considered paraphernalia in most states.

 

[mrenglish]

"Hey look, this guy has actual pipe tobacco being smoked in a glass pipe" said no cop ever.
rcstan is right, the metal pipe will heat up and mess with the taste of the tobacco due to it burning hot. Plus there is nowhere for the moisture to go so you can end up tasting that as well. This is why metal pipes like Falcon come with a briar bowl and a filter to absorb the moisture in the humidome.

 

[jeepnewbie]

Double for what rcstan says.

 

[bigpond]

I love all the speculation!
it's too big, it's too small....it'll taste nasty, metal gets hot... :rofl:

The pipes are quite variable, they can be cleaned and convection works both ways.
Here's what happens when you use those pipes with tobacco....it burns, you blow smoke and life is still good. Really guys.... :roll:
The interesting thing about pipes is how hide bound traditionalism masks itself as innovation. Overt innovation seems to have ended at the beginning of the last century and everyone else seems to be regurgitating the same design (more efficiently). I don't now of another hobby that is so static in this regard. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, it's just odd.
Briar is fine, but so are plenty of other materials. Research and innovation here are essentially left to the hobbyist as industry has no vested interest in such. Just look at what's new these days. Plastic bowls with disposable clay filtering agents?
What this hobby needs is that one guy from shop class that would turn everything in to a pipe with a phd in engineering....

 

[michiganlover]

I don't want any association between myself and pot smokers. No good can come from that. Their goals and mine are entirely different. Thus I would never want to use their paraphanialla and have everyone question what I was doing.
Just because you might be able to smoke tobacco out of a glass pipe, doesn't mean you should.

 

[tarak]

Bigpond I'm not sure saying a pot pipe won't work well can be equated with a lack of innovation. What so many of us love is the traditionalism associated with the pipe. It's a return to previous times, not a move away from. I don't want something new, I want briar.
I'm 32, just in case someone wants to rush to call me old.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Briar is fine, but so are plenty of other materials.

There are plenty of other materials used for pipe making already. There's clay, meerschaum, maple wood, strawberry wood, corn cobs, and whatever kind of weird mixture The Pipe was. I think some carvers have even toyed around with pear wood and olive wood for pipes as well.
Just doesn't sound like a good idea to use glass or metal for tobacco to me. I'd venture to say it'd get too hot. I mean, there's a reason why Falcons have a screw on briar bowl. As for glass, it'd weigh a lot if you made one big enough to have an average 45min smoke out of it.

Overt innovation seems to have ended at the beginning of the last century and everyone else seems to be regurgitating the same design (more efficiently).

A lot of the innovations in pipe making come in the engineering which you don't really see. Carvers making draft holes a bit wider, tapering the chamber etc.. Some you do see a bit if you look real close like a thinner cut bit to be more comfortable clenching. Then there's also things like the reverse calabash. I can't give a date on when it was invented, but right now it's quite the craze with carvers and collectors. If you don't know it's the idea of moving the expansion chamber from directly under the bowl like a regular calabash pipe into the shank to cool and dry the smoke right before it gets to your mouth.

 

[mso489]

Since anything written online is a public performance, I am always wary of writing about a pot shaped tobacco pipe, since it could be misinterpreted as a pot pipe by the ignorant or ill-meaning. So FYI, for the uninitiated, a pot shaped pipe is a specific shape of pipe made (most usually) out of briar for the purpose of smoking tobacco. Has nothing to do with smoking pot.

 

[northernneil]

I don't want any association between myself and pot smokers. No good can come from that. Their goals and mine are entirely different.

You do realize that pot smokers are looked at, by the public, in a better light than tobacco users. Pot is becoming more legal by the week, were tobacco is becoming more restricted.

Thus I would never want to use their paraphanialla and have everyone question what I was doing.

I have people come up to me thinking I am smoking pot all the time when I am enjoying my Briar pipes. Not a big deal really.