How satisfying.
A while back I got a Doug Finlay pipe I named Chonky Boi (for obvious reasons), and smoked it hard. It was perfect in every way, but gradually drifted away from that perfection in one detail. After a hundred bowls or so, I decided it needed a larger diameter chamber.
(For fizziks reasons, some combination of the tobacco I smoke plus my habitual puffing rhythm and draw-strength works best with a large chamber).
So, since I could, I did.
I knew it would be a difficult and messy business, so waited until I was in just the right mood and dove in.
Did anyone ever tell you that quality briar is insanely tough stuff, and unusual shaping like smoothly and evenly removing material OUTWARD is psycho-ward-inducing effort? If not, there you go. It is.
The result was entirely worth it, though.
Went from .85" diameter to .96" diameter---a 25% increase in surface area---and everything improved. Flavor, bowl duration, etc.
No worries about bowl wall thickness either, cuz, well, Chonky Boi is chonky.
I love the smell of briar dust in the morning...
It smells like victory.
A while back I got a Doug Finlay pipe I named Chonky Boi (for obvious reasons), and smoked it hard. It was perfect in every way, but gradually drifted away from that perfection in one detail. After a hundred bowls or so, I decided it needed a larger diameter chamber.
(For fizziks reasons, some combination of the tobacco I smoke plus my habitual puffing rhythm and draw-strength works best with a large chamber).
So, since I could, I did.
I knew it would be a difficult and messy business, so waited until I was in just the right mood and dove in.
Did anyone ever tell you that quality briar is insanely tough stuff, and unusual shaping like smoothly and evenly removing material OUTWARD is psycho-ward-inducing effort? If not, there you go. It is.
The result was entirely worth it, though.
Went from .85" diameter to .96" diameter---a 25% increase in surface area---and everything improved. Flavor, bowl duration, etc.
No worries about bowl wall thickness either, cuz, well, Chonky Boi is chonky.
I love the smell of briar dust in the morning...
It smells like victory.