Ridiculously huge pipes?

[dvorak]

Hey folks,
I recall a while back I was driving along the highway in Missouri. I passed by someone in a eye-worthy 70's station wagon who was smoking a RIDICULOUSLY huge briar pipe. The bowl was probably about the size of his hand. I didn't see if it was lit, but he had leather gloves on to hold it.
I'm just curious from a novelty standpoint; is this an actual pipe style or was he just trying to get some looks?

 

[blueeyedogre]

Does Brad drive a station wagon cause I know he has a few monsters?!? I have some pretty big pipes and smoke them often but none the size of my fist, but my fist is about the size of a small ham.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Some guys just like a really huge pipe for a long smoke. I doubt I'll ever get one. Don't find them too attractive.

 

[tbradsim1]

Damn I borrowed that Station so I could go incognito, Shhh!

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

J.M Boswell makes some ginormous briar pipes

 

[pipebaum81]

how would you tamp such a monster?

 

[phred]

how would you tamp such a monster?

Lag bolt, maybe?

 

[crimsonrat]

I tend to go for small to medium pipes myself, but to each his/her own. I tend to be a wet smoker, as well, so that further compounds the issue of a lot of wet dottle.
Fun fact: A subset of American(maybe abroad) male homosexuals known as bears and/or leather daddies often gravitate toward these monstrous pipes. @dvorak that may be what you saw.

 

[sablebrush52]

At the WCPS last month, Investment Grade Pipes had a display of truly huge bowls. Hefting one of them could give you a hernia. Perhaps it's just compensation for a lack of size in other areas.

 

[tbradsim1]

I resemble that remark! :rofl:

 

[wyfbane]

I don't think Brad is a bear nor a leather daddy. He may very well have been driving that Station Wagon though.

 

[boilermakerandy]

Fun fact: A subset of American(maybe abroad) male homosexuals known as bears and/or leather daddies often gravitate toward these monstrous pipes

TMI. Yechh!

 

[boilermakerandy]

Fun fact: A subset of American(maybe abroad) male homosexuals known as bears and/or leather daddies often gravitate toward these monstrous pipes

TMI. Yechh!

 

[eaglesfan90]

When I first started smoking I always wanted one of those jumbo pipes. I think of them as more of a novelty myself anymore. Except for a cob McArthur, love that pipe.

 

[dottiewarden]

My medium stature and sensitivity to nicotine keep me away from the Hercules.

 

[papipeguy]

My largest pipe is this Lorenzo Titania. Talk about an all day smoke.

Now this pipe takes the prize.

 

[okiescout]

papipeguy, I wonder if it makes a difference how they pack it? :rofl:
I have thought about a Boswell's. Some of their churchwardens look interesting.

 

[lochinvar]

I have one gigantic pipe, a Millville that looked perfectly proportioned on eBay, and it was when it got here too....the proportions were just Cyclopean. You could use the thing as a shillelagh. It's heavier than normal too, because even as big as it is, the chamber is relatively normal, the walls being 4/5" thick.

 

[huntertrw]

"Now this pipe takes the prize."
No, THIS pipe takes the prize...

 

[cortezattic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XigCvFf8AN4