The Lovely Squash Of Low-Slung Squatters

[misterlowercase]

I've really been getting into squat shapes as of late, like bigtime, and I've been looking at a lot of them. They're sometimes called "squashed", but "squat" seems to be in more popular usage.
Anybody else here dig the squat stuff?
Here's a small visual compilation from the SmokingPipes archive - I chose images from there because they offer such a wide spectrum to browse through as well as good specs, plus, SmokingPipes.com rules!
I consider anything under 40mm bowl height to be squat.
Perhaps the most iconic squat of all time is the Dunhill bulldog,

a stone cold classic.
Dunhill ODB 838

Bowl Height: 1.50 in./38.10 mm.

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Michael Parks

Bowl Height: 1.22 in./30.99 mm.

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Peter Heeschen

Bowl Height: 1.30 in./33.02 mm.

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Nate King

Bowl Height: 1.49 in./37.85 mm.

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Chris Asteriou

Bowl Height: 1.15 in./29.21 mm.

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Don Carlos

Bowl Height: 1.43 in./36.32 mm.

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Gian Maria Gamboni

Bowl Height: 1.36 in./34.54 mm.

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Gian Maria Gamboni

Bowl Height: 1.29 in./32.77 mm.

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Becker

Bowl Height: 1.39 in./35.31 mm.

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Becker

Bowl Height: 1.21 in./30.73 mm.

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Becker

Bowl Height: 1.18 in./29.97 mm.

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W.O. Larsen

Bowl Height: 1.34 in./34.04 mm.

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Tokutomi

Bowl Height: 1.17 in./29.72 mm.

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Tokutomi

Bowl Height: 1.49 in./37.85 mm.

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Ichi Kitahara

Bowl Height: 1.05 in./26.67 mm.

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Lomma

Bowl Height: 1.40 in./35.56 mm.

 

[seacaptain]

I like that first Becker!

 

[misterlowercase]

No doubt.
I think Becker came up with the best Rhodesian design of all time,

even better than the Bo Nordh BooDog!

 

[buroak]

I love Squat Bulldog pipes, especially with a gentle bend. BBB's shape #428, Bent Scotch Bulldog is a personal favorite, as is the Kaywoodie #99B.

 

[cigrmaster]

I am not a fan of the squashed bowl for a couple of reasons. One is that to my eye it just looks weird. Secondly the chamber just does not hold enough tobacco for my taste. For a squashed chamber to hold enough tobacco, it would have to have an inside bowl diameter of about 1 inch and I just don't care for a chamber to be that wide. I prefer my inside chamber to be at .75-.82 tops.

 

[darwin]

MLC my hat's off to you for your tasty title riff on The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

 

[docwatson]

I love squat bulldogs, and have seen some great collections of that shape at pipe shows. A fellow that many will know is Paige Warren Simms who has displayed his collection of Squat Bulldogs that he has amassed over many years of collecting. Competition can be pretty stiff to try and acquire examples of this shape that are truly squat and dimensions are critical. The example in this thread showing the Dunhill ODB is a prime example. Awesome pipe IMO. Great for short smokes.

 

[ssjones]

Those are some great examples. That Parks is so low, it needs hydraulics! I better que up the National Anthem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro4yhp9L6Ok
Oddly, I only have two semi-qualifiers.
Taylor Ashton Pebblegrain XXX

Mark Tinsky 2008 Christmas Pipe

 

[ericthered]

MLC my hat's off to you for your tasty title riff on The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys.

He's just looking to generate some "Traffic". Now I'm going to have that song stuck in my head for the rest of the day.

 

[dmcmtk]

Troy, what a great group of pipes! A fantastic virtual collection. Need a picture of a Ukelele, if you follow my thinking......

 

[misterlowercase]

Right you are Dave,

here's a couple of allbriar versions!

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Tom Eltang

Bowl Height: 1.40 in./35.56 mm.

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Todd Johnson

Bowl Height: 1.48 in./37.59 mm.

 

[misterlowercase]

...and for Harris,

here's a few Rad Davis squatties!

:P
Bowl Height = 35mm

Bowl Height = 35mm

Bowl Height = 31.75mm

Bowl Height = 35mm

Bowl Height = 33.8mm

 

[seacaptain]

That first Rad there is a beauty.

 

[yazamitaz]

I am also becoming a fan of these pipes. I don't always get to carve out an hour for a bowl, so its nice to have some smaller bowls.

 

[ssjones]

Wait a minute, how did I miss a reference to Low Spark?????

 

[darwin]

Dunno SSJ. The word pattern of the post title made my brains itch and after a minute I realized it was probably a riff on Low Spark.

 

[settersbrace]

My Ferndown Bark 2 star. One of my favorite smokers and shapes.

 

[bigpond]

I dunno, these are pipes that are either tough (really, there's only one that qualifies, will the real b.dawg plz stand up?) or really effete, hovering dangerously close to dandyism. Not the sort that can be pulled off by say, someone like Prince E, but more in the territory of clownshoes. I mean, have you ever seen someone smoke an eskimo?

 

[misterlowercase]

Darwin - Although I've always loved long and poetic album titles, like Tyrannosaurus Rex with "My People Were Fair and Had Sky in Their Hair but Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows" or Killdozer with "Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite", I must admit to not being familiar with Traffic, but I think it's very cool you tipped us off to the similarity --- I'm always interested in the process of referencing that an engaged reader undergoes and all the personal/cultural implications of such.
Like reading Finnegans Wake, the reader can find every single thing we now know, but Joyce was writing it in the 20's and it wasn't published until 1939...

How could Joyce have known about the coming computer revolution? Res ipsa loquitor. How could he have known about the invention of L.S.D., three letters that recur throughout the Wake (pp. 68, 107, and 260 are only three examples), or the detonation of the atom bomb (on p. 353) and the subsequent destruction of Nagasaki (“nogeysokey” on p. 315)? Robert Anton Wilson, co-author of the best-selling Illuminatus! Trilogy, has even gone so far as to suggest that Joyce anticipated the structure of DNA in Ulysses over thirty years before Watson and Crick made their discovery (Wilson 169-70). But why should that be a surprise? After all, we know for a fact that Joyce discovered the quark (Joyce 383).

"In the heliotropical noughttime following a fade of transformed Tuff and, pending its viseversion, a metenergic reglow of beaming Batt, the bairdboard bombardment screen, if tastefully taut guranium satin, tends to teleframe and step up to the charge of a light barricade. Down the photoslope in syncopanc pulses, with the bitts bugtwug their teffs, the missledhropes, glitteraglatteraglutt, borne by their carnier walve. Spraygun rakes and splits them from a double focus: grenadite, damnymite, alextronite, nichilite: and the scanning firespot of the sgunners traverses the rutilanced illustred sunksundered lines. Shlossh ! A gaspel truce leaks out over the caeseine coatings. Amid a fluorescence of spectracular mephiticism there caoculates through the inconoscope stealdily a still, the figure of a fellowchap in the wohly ghast, Popey O’Donoshough, the jesuneral of the russuates. The idolon exhibisces the seals of his orders: the starre of the Son of Heaven, the girtel of Izodella the Calottica, the cross of Michelides Apaleogos, the latchet of Jan of Nepomuk, the puffpuff and pompom of Powther and Pall, the great belt, band and bucklings of the Martyrology of Gorman. It is for the castomercies mudwake surveice. The victar. Pleace to notnoys speach above your dreadths, please to doughboys. Hll, smthngs gnwrng wthth sprsnwtch! He blanks his oggles because he confesses to all his tellavicious nieces."

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It really is great to read it aloud,

or listen to it read aloud,

even better,

a cinematic version!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibQA_LNe9s
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Setter - Love the Ferndown,

what a good looker!

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bigpond - some of 'em are squashed tomatoes.
I've always dug the dandies, especially Billy Childish.
No, I ain't never seen nobody smoke an Eskimo, it'd be interesting to watch.

8O

 

[seacaptain]

Ah, misterlowercase, not only deft at etymology but also indulges in epistemology with a twist of pop culture thrown in for seasoning. 8)