Pot Shaped Tobacco Pipe Isn't One Thing

[newbroom]

I've got a couple and only recently started to work em.

I guess I thought I'd have trouble burning the tobacco completely due to the large diameter, but I was surprised to find that I could manage quite nicely.

A little experience goes a ways to help. A slow even light with my hempwick. Confident, slow sipping...

I like their ease of loading!

I smoke burleys and lats in mine. One is a cheap MM Maple Pot that I don't see on their product list any more.

The other is an algerian briar, made in France and called a Swiss Dry Smoker...They're GREAT!

 

[lasttango]

It's my favorite shape to smoke.
50% of my pipes are pots.
my newest:

 

[hawky454]

I've never really been attracted to this shape but I'm not opposed to acquiring one, someday, although I would probably rather just get a classic billiard.

 

[forest7]

Need luck to enjoy every each shapes of pipe.

The right time, right tobacco, right packing, right drinks and may be little bits of sunset light.

So I do keep trying for the best point of pipe smoking and to enjoy every shapes of pipe.

 

[mso489]

I have a Luciano blast that was sold (new) as a billiard, but has a fairly short bowl with a distinctly wide chamber and a saddle stem. It's somewhat the best of both worlds, between a straight billiard and a classic pot.

 

[shawnofthedead]

I don't get why people say pot shape is better for complex blends (or indeed any short and stout shapes), when some of the pots I own have almost the same chamber diameter and depth as some of my billiards, they merely have a thicker wall. So in what way can these pots smoke any differently from a thinner pipe is a mystery to me. Talk about judging a book by the cover...

 

[mso489]

Shawn, I think it's a generalization. You're right many billiards have wide chambers, but most run around the .77 inch point, whereas some (but not all) pots can run a little higher, .80 and up.
Here's an example of the Sixten Iverrson design pot that he did for Stanwell years ago that is still used by Stanwell and influences many other pipe makers. But it is a pot of a somewhat different design. I have a Stanwell of this design -- it used to be called an shape 86.
Here's the link to the example, a smokingpipes.com estate pipe.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/denmark/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=191775

 

[jpmcwjr]

I don't get why people say pot shape is better for complex blends (or indeed any short and stout shapes), when some of the pots I own have almost the same chamber diameter and depth as some of my billiards, they merely have a thicker wall.

I don't think it's the thickness of the wall that makes a pot a pot. It's the large width of the chamber and a somewhat shallower depth in relation to said width.