I have a Mario Grandi Poker with Massive walls. I do not think I could get this pipe to heat up if I smoked the bowl as fast as possible. I keep the smoke fairly cool but how do I know if I am damaging the inside of the bowl?
Question About Pipes with Thick Walls
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If it is briar the chances of you damaging the bowl are slim to none especially on a pipe with thick walls. Its really only when there is a major flaw in the briar when you see burnouts or cracks.
Unfortunately when people get pipes with really thick walls, they feel like they can smoke as hot as they want because the pipe does not get very hot, but the tobacco will not taste as good as it can because it is being smoked much too hot. One of the things about thinner walled pipes is that it forces you to smoke slowly and thereby you get a better smoking experience.
The slower the smoke, the greater the flavor. Shoot for a cool smoulder. A clenched pipe will help you regulate your cadence (breath smoking), so that you eventually pay less mind to it. Less mind means greater smoking enjoyment. That's why its called "the gentle art of pipe smoking".
Some pipe carvers really emphasize think walled bowls. There is an elegance to having a lot of
insulation so that you are barely aware of the heat in the pipe at all. However, sometimes carvers
will sacrifice bowl size and Group size for really thick walls. It looks elegant, but it makes a smaller
tobacco capacity and increases the weight of the pipe, sometimes quite a bit. So these are all
considerations in looking at pipes, how insulated do you want to be from the burning tobacco itself.
In rotation, I like my thick bowled pipes, for their heft and elegance, but then I enjoy getting back to
the thinner bowls for their light weight, and for a sense of what's going on with the fire itself. I
never smoked cigarettes, and have a pretty relaxed cadence in sipping a pipe, but the thickness of
the bowl is still a consideration. I have a Joh's freehand tomahawk on which the bowl is mostly quite
thick, but one part of the bowl curves in so you can run you thumb across that part and get a read-out
on the temperature. That is an especially pleasing nuance in that one pipe.
insulation so that you are barely aware of the heat in the pipe at all. However, sometimes carvers
will sacrifice bowl size and Group size for really thick walls. It looks elegant, but it makes a smaller
tobacco capacity and increases the weight of the pipe, sometimes quite a bit. So these are all
considerations in looking at pipes, how insulated do you want to be from the burning tobacco itself.
In rotation, I like my thick bowled pipes, for their heft and elegance, but then I enjoy getting back to
the thinner bowls for their light weight, and for a sense of what's going on with the fire itself. I
never smoked cigarettes, and have a pretty relaxed cadence in sipping a pipe, but the thickness of
the bowl is still a consideration. I have a Joh's freehand tomahawk on which the bowl is mostly quite
thick, but one part of the bowl curves in so you can run you thumb across that part and get a read-out
on the temperature. That is an especially pleasing nuance in that one pipe.
One of the first things I figured out is that rarely will a good quality pipe or tobacco smoke hot. Smokers (myself included) sometimes do.
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