I thoroughly enjoy 2 pipes that I crafted specifically for flakes and crumble cakes. If you already own small-bowl pipes, you need not read further.
I always noticed that Va/Vapers tasted best to me near the end of any pipe.
I had read articles that state:
A. Smaller pipes are best for flake tobacco
B. Bowl cake makes a pipe perform better
Of course, the bowl caking provides better burning characteristics to any pipe, much like a
blackened WOK makes better stir-fry.
Could smaller bowl diameter contribute a taste-factor that bowl-cake is coincidentally helping?
All pipe bowls taper somewhat at the bottom; but not very much. Long before I started the
flake-pipe-quest, I experimented and found that the best compromise of rim diameter for draw on any pipe is 3/4 inch. I stayed with
that here. But beginning from half-way down, I drilled an ever smaller severe taper, so that approaching
bottom, the cavity size was a cup just under 1/4 inch diameter. (After break-in), what a
difference in captured flavor!
I made another pipe, this one also a nose-warmer, but full-bent. Same success.
If you do not make your own pipes, perhaps you may try employing a cob, or "beater-pipe. The use
of pipe-mud to line the bottom half to a severe taper may work equally well.
I'm curious if others will agree, but You know what? I'M ALREADY THERE!
I always noticed that Va/Vapers tasted best to me near the end of any pipe.
I had read articles that state:
A. Smaller pipes are best for flake tobacco
B. Bowl cake makes a pipe perform better
Of course, the bowl caking provides better burning characteristics to any pipe, much like a
blackened WOK makes better stir-fry.
Could smaller bowl diameter contribute a taste-factor that bowl-cake is coincidentally helping?
All pipe bowls taper somewhat at the bottom; but not very much. Long before I started the
flake-pipe-quest, I experimented and found that the best compromise of rim diameter for draw on any pipe is 3/4 inch. I stayed with
that here. But beginning from half-way down, I drilled an ever smaller severe taper, so that approaching
bottom, the cavity size was a cup just under 1/4 inch diameter. (After break-in), what a
difference in captured flavor!
I made another pipe, this one also a nose-warmer, but full-bent. Same success.
If you do not make your own pipes, perhaps you may try employing a cob, or "beater-pipe. The use
of pipe-mud to line the bottom half to a severe taper may work equally well.
I'm curious if others will agree, but You know what? I'M ALREADY THERE!
