I've read that bookSkip at the Briary said that Rick Newcombe was the worst influence on pipe smokers ever with his book Pipe Dreams.
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Don't recall seeing any cobs in it.
I've read that bookSkip at the Briary said that Rick Newcombe was the worst influence on pipe smokers ever with his book Pipe Dreams.
No, not cobs, but he did advocate for redrilling drafts. He has a whole chapter called "Your Pipes Should Have an Open Draw," which led to people taking drill to their pipes.I've read that book
Don't recall seeing any cobs in it.
I think that draw also can effect the way the smoke tastes too. I find the more restricted draws seem to concentrate and marry flavors more. I find open draws to taste slightly muted and to have more individually discernable flavors. How much do I notice this difference? Not enough to care one way or the other.What are the effects of the size of the draw?
This is what I know (or think I know) so far.
The draw is the size of the hole. The bigger it is, the easier it is to suck.
Corncobs seem to have a bigger draw than a briar. Some briar owners sometimes make the hole bigger.
I assume pipe makers have a range of drill bits and consider the size hole they will drill.
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so glad I am not the only one. I have had so many pipe smokers insist that I somehow don't know my own experience with pipes. The number of times I've been told something doesn't mute flavor or alter it, when it's pretty obvious to me what I taste. Reminds me of that vegan that told me it was in my head that I could tell the difference in taste between soy imitations and real meat. Or in other words I am waiting for a blind person to tell me what I can and cannot see in a painting. "You idiot you can't create an illusion of dimension and space"!!!!The fact that so many people modify airways is one of the worst things to happen to my pipe buying. With all the other things that affect a pipe from the maker, I now have to worry about consumers screwing with them. They have every right. I'm not saying anything to the contrary. But it is something of modern times that I have to consider. I never ran into this problem until sometime in the 2000s.
I don't care for the modern perspective of wide open draws. For me, they're like smoking through a McDonald's straw. I get muted flavor. I like some resistance, and I like how a traditional diameter concentrates the flavor. I'm not talking about any struggling, but I know I'm pulling through a bowl of compacted leaf and then through a smaller airway than when normally breathing. I like and prefer that.
I am kind of sick of the right way smokers. That's a bad pipe. The only way to pack the pipe is....No, not cobs, but he did advocate for redrilling drafts. He has a whole chapter called "Your Pipes Should Have an Open Draw," which led to people taking drill to their pipes.
Ah cosmic, always ready to play the provocateur. Well done!not every pipe smoker wants to have that airy, tasteless smoke that a wide open draw gives. Some may love it, and I assume most of these are newbies that aren't quite sure what they prefer yet... maybe not yet developing a preference.
I've wondered where this crap started. F*#K!Skip at the Briary said that Rick Newcombe was the worst influence on pipe smokers ever with his book Pipe Dreams.
So, you disagree that at some point of openness the flavor can decrease? I didn’t specify how open, nor do I know at what point.Ah cosmic, always ready to play the provocateur. Well done!
I’ve never bothered to alter a pipe but I love a wide open airway. Can’t say I buy into the flavorless smoke of an open airway theory but I’m willing to pay more attention and report back…scratch that, I’ve been paying attention and I’m not buying it.
No, I haven’t noticed that at all. If I’m getting thin smoke it’s easily addressed with a little tamp.So, you disagree that at some point of openness the flavor can decrease? I didn’t specify how open, nor do I know at what point.
I have some pipes more open than others, and, for me, there is a point where flavor diminishes. For you, maybe not so much. YMMV
Tobaccanite is definitely a risk to the filter crowd.
Based only on my subjective experience, this just doesn't seem to be true. A larger channel in the shank on a filter pipe seems to create a more open draw even if the stem is the same as on a non-filter pipe with a narrower channel.The draft seems to be determined by the narrowest passage in the pipe. Sometimes it's the shank, sometimes the stem, sometimes both.