I have a few Savinellis, a Stanwell and a Brigham, that are built to accept filters. Some include an adapter or reducer to use when not using a filter. Whats the purpose of these? Are they needed or recommended? Thanks for your comments !
Smoking Filter Pipes Without a Filter - why the adapters ?
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I always remove filters or adapters and smoke my pipes wide open , they smoke like a charm
You can smoke without the filters but that will give you a very open draw. The adapters will give you a "tighter, more normal draw"
Experiment smoking with and without the adapters to see which you prefer.
Definitely no right or wrong.
Sometimes filter pipes will gurgle without an adaptor in place, the now empty chamber can accumulate moisture.
Most filter pipes smoke well without an adaptor, so the adaptor is just a way of tuning the draw to your satisfaction. Some filter pipes may have eddies of air around where the filter fits that might give the sense of too open a draw, or slight whistles, and an adaptor will even that out and restrict the draw slightly, but not too much. I use some adaptors, but I think most filter pipes smoke just fine without filter or adaptor. Try it both ways and go with what pleases you most. I've heard Brigham pipes smoke well without the rock maple inserts. I like fewer things to buy.
The wide open filter chamber allows for more of the tobaccanite compound found in the smoke to soak into the briar. Easily removed with a pipe cleaner when the adapter is in place or a filterless pipe but in an empty filter chamber, can build to hazardous levels after just one smoke. Being and unstable compound when dry, tobaccanite can explode when exposed to heat or an open flame effectively destroying the pipe and causing possible injury to the smoker and those around them.
Every filtered pipe that I owned, I would always throw out the filter and adaptor. All I needed to do was to pack the pipe firmer and I got a great smoke. It didn't matter if it was a 6mm or 9mm filter and adaptor. Just toss them and enjoy your pipe.
I love filters but only for half a bowl then they get plugged and drive me nuts so I gave up on them.
Of my 14 Filtered pipes pipes 12 get smoked without an adaptor and 2 with. My Savinelli Marte 121KS and My Vauen Fuego both require the adaptor to be pleasant otherwise they both get HOT HOT HOT and The Sav will spit crud in my mouth within moments.
Of the 12 I smoke without 11 smoke equally well with or without so I just don't bother as it adds another part to clean or loose.
My Brebbia 602 Sun on the other hand is truly awful when smoked with an adaptor and turns into this gurgling spitting monster that refuses to stay burning.
Without that adaptor or with a filter it's one of my most simple and pleasant smokers in my collection.
I think one really needs to try each pipe each way and just see for themselves what that pipe likes when smoked by them?
Of my 14 Filtered pipes pipes 12 get smoked without an adaptor and 2 with. My Savinelli Marte 121KS and My Vauen Fuego both require the adaptor to be pleasant otherwise they both get HOT HOT HOT and The Sav will spit crud in my mouth within moments.
Of the 12 I smoke without 11 smoke equally well with or without so I just don't bother as it adds another part to clean or loose.
My Brebbia 602 Sun on the other hand is truly awful when smoked with an adaptor and turns into this gurgling spitting monster that refuses to stay burning.
Without that adaptor or with a filter it's one of my most simple and pleasant smokers in my collection.
I think one really needs to try each pipe each way and just see for themselves what that pipe likes when smoked by them?
Me too! I bought a bunch of filtered pipes just because I like how open the draw is. Not worth messing around with filter and adapters, unless you like using either of those but you certainly don’t have to. Some people say filters help curb tongue bite/burn. I can’t stand anything that interferes with the draw though.
I’ve only had 3 or 4 pipes explode in my face, I lost a few teeth along the way but damn, it’s worth that open draw! Smoke filter pipes without an adapter/filter at your own risk.
Tobacconite >= Dynomite
Is that for real or are you pulling my paw?
I've only lost one so far and luckily the pieces only hit my glass eye or there could've been some real damage. Sounded like an M-80 firecracker going off. Lesson learned!
Saved by your glass eye! You are one lucky man!
It was a strange set of events. One of the rare times I smoke on the right side. Had been smoking on my regular left, I'd be blind!
Doesn't smoking a filter pipe without the filter make it a Reverse Calabash?
The stem goes too far into the mortise for there to be an effective cooling chamber. A reverse calabash tenon barely extends into the mortise.
I'm going to give up pipe smoking right now! Maybe chew bubble gum or something...
did someone switch embers mountain dew with old 4 loko