Make your own dry rings with a fluffy pipe cleaner, twist Around btm bowl , cut and place, your own dry ring.
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Mail call from the UK - GQ Tobaccos, to be specific. 2 Falcon stems and 4 bowls. With shipping it was fairly inexpensive, especially since you can’t really get stems in the US at the mo. Packing was great but I think one of the mail services took the “fragile” label as a challenge. 
Dang those bowls look to be good quality. Maybe they’ve upped their recent game!
people I know who work in mail service say the fragile label is seen as an insult. Now if you want them to treat it with care put little kid drawings on it and it will be handled very gently.
I like the look of the Hunter finish but they didn’t have a snifter in the Hunter. Everything seems to fit nicely. They are very different from the early one that I got from you. The bowl and air hole sit down low on the central “nub” in the old style. The new bowls ride high so there is kind of like a chimney in the bowl to the nub in the humidome rather than the nub rising through the opening.
That’s because the humidome on the old ones is much deeper
I have a few Falcons, really like them, I'll see if I can post a picture of them later, a for the dry rings I never use them, if the stem starts to get wet I just unscrew the bowl and flick out the moisture, quick and easy fix.
Ah. I haven’t seen that on these. One has a standard mouthpiece the other was supposed to be multi-use (whatever that is) but appears to actually be a Dental. Haven’t tried that before.
I really would like to get a falcon but can't seem to find any kept in stock anywhere in the US.
I ordered these from GQ Tobaccos in the UK. Prices were great, even with shipping. A complete Falcon cost about $32 and shipping was maybe $15? The total bill was about $128 for 2 stems, 4 bowls, some GH Flavour sprays and shipping. Shipped fast and got through no problem.
I was comparing my Falcon stems and bowls today (might need to take pics). I have a vintage straight stem with vulcanite bit and two new stems The vintage humidome is only slightly deeper than the new ones. All bowls fit all stems. The main difference is in the bowls - the vintage bowl has a low floor. The wood at the bottom of the chamber is relatively thin. The nub in the humidome sits nicely in the hole in the chamber and is just shy of flush. My meer bowl has a slightly thicker bottom wall so the floor of the chamber sits higher and the nub does not come close to the floor of the chamber. The new bowls have extremely thick bottom chamber wall. The floor of the chamber sits waaaaay above the nub and the hole can only be described as a shaft. I wonder what the change is about? Too many burn-outs? How do you keep tobacco from clogging the shaft in these newer bowls? If I smoke my meer down to ash in allows some into the humidome. Not a big deal, especially with a dry ring. The vintage bowl doesn't have that issue. Can't wait to try the new ones and see what they're like.
Mine seem to fit both. Weird. I like the softer vulcanite stem vs the plastic which is pretty hard. Smoking the snifter bowl today. Smoke is “eh” with OGS. Maybe it’s bc of the big bowl it it’s not broken in. Guess we’ll see.
Well I went ahead and purchased one. I was able to find a bent chrome stem at SP, as well as 2 snifter bowls, one lined with meer. I would have liked to purchase one through GQ but was hesitant.
