The OomPaul is a rare shape in the Meerschaum world. I only have
one, an estate Paul Fischer. It smokes well and I cannot say that
I've experienced getting smoke in my face from smoking it. The
shape is notorious for being difficult to pass a Pipe cleaner, which
is what I believe the previous owner experienced, as I cleaned the
Pipe up. On top of that, Paul always used bone screw joints. Fortunately,
I've been smoking Meerschaums with bone screw connectors since '69,
so I know a few Pipe cleaner tricks.