Type Of Pipe Paired With Tobaccos

[Chasing Embers]

I find a slightly to more noticeable different flavor from different types of pipes, bowl sizes and bowl shapes. If you don't, you should consider scraping your tongue.

Unless the draft hole are of varying sizes, you're getting the same volume of smoke. The taste wouldn't change unless the pipe has a ghost.

 

[Cotton1]

Unless the draft hole are of varying sizes, you're getting the same volume of smoke. The taste wouldn't change unless the pipe has a ghost.

Now I'm curious about Cobb vs Briar vs Meer propensity to ghosting.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Now I'm curious about Cobb vs Briar vs Meer propensity to ghosting.

Both are highly absorbent and prone to ghosting, they may as well be sponges.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Unless the draft hole are of varying sizes, you're getting the same volume of smoke. The taste wouldn't change unless the pipe has a ghost.

You're making a case the only thing that matters in a pipe is the size of the draft hole? I don't think so.

 

[Cotton1]

I can say that leaving my cobbs out in the sunshine for a few hours seems to air them out pretty good. Not as much opportunity to do that this time of year though.

 

[tschiraldi]

I buy pipes based on what tobacco I am going to smoke. Since I smoke flakes and plugs 99% of the time, I buy pipes that I know will make the tobacco taste great because of the technical criteria I stick to on my pipes. Almost all of my pipes are group 4-5 with a few 6's mixed in.

For example a basic group 5 pipe has dimensions like these. Bowl height 2.0", inside bowl depth 1.5", inside bowl width .75-..90. I like a pipe that is 5.0=6.5 in length and weights of around 40-60 grams. I fold and stuff all my flakes and these dimensions work great almost all the time. A few of my flakes they are wrap arounds and those can be a little tricky. Plugs I cube cut and pack them so there is some resistance and a bit of moisture. All of these criteria took years to figure out and yes I butchered plenty of bowls. I now never light a pipe until I check the draw. If it is too tight, I run a pipe cleaner through it and that usually opens it up just fine. If it is too loose I just tamp down some. Yes there have been times when it is way to tight and I have to start over again, but that is a rare occurrence .

All of my pipes except 2 are all classic shapes like Billiards, Apples, Dublins, Brandy's, Rhodesians, Bulldogs, Lovats and I think that is it. My collection could be called boring, but these pipes smoke my flakes great and I like the way they look as well. There are probably more shapes I dislike than there are that I do like. Here are a few of classic shapes I really like.
Here are is a Jack Howell Billiard

Here is a Rad Davis Rhodesian.

Here is a Larrysson Dublin.

You have a beautiful collection, sir, and it's much more diverse than mine!

 

[tschiraldi]

I find a slightly to more noticeable different flavor from different types of pipes, bowl sizes and bowl shapes. If you don't, you should consider scraping your tongue.

+1

 

[cigrmaster]

Excellent post! Highly regarded, thanks!

Edit: love the looks of the Howell. I like the pitch or Kant(?) of it's bowl.. something else of interest to me. I think the Bings Sav should be tilted a bit more.

Thanks very much, I appreciate the nice comments. Call Savinelli and suggest it to them, they might just do it.

 

[cigrmaster]

You have a beautiful collection, sir, and it's much more diverse than mine!

Thank you for the kind words. You should ask Bradley aka Old Cajun to show you some pictures of his over 300 pipes or Peck who might have even more. I am just a lowly piker to some of the guys on this site.
There is a guy Rich Friedman who has a collection based on fish and it is one of the most incredible collections I have ever seen. I don't know how to search for it or how to get in touch but it would be worth some effort to see it. I personally would love to see it again. Maybe someone who knows him will see this post and ask him to post his collection for all of the new guys who would literally freak out at how amazing it is.

 

[cigrmaster]

There’s also merit to knowing the dimensions of pipes you have become comfortable smoking. The following are four of my recent pipe acquisitions.
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Notice anything? They’re all the same size. I shop them that way. .78 to .80 chamber diameter. 1.5” depth and 5.5 to 6” length, non-filtered so I can get a pipe cleaner to the bowl while smoking.

That’s it. All my pipes fit this criteria. It lessons the variables, and they still each smoke differently.

That is what I am talking about. Great looking Billiards and all are different. I think I have more Billiards in my collection than any other shape. I have my 1966 Dunhill LB Billiard that shape wise is I think the best shaped billiards you can get. The blast is nothing special, it is the shape that just says pipe to me. Here is the Dunhill.

 

[tschiraldi]

Thank you for the kind words. You should ask Bradley aka Old Cajun to show you some pictures of his over 300 pipes or Peck who might have even more. I am just a lowly piker to some of the guys on this site.
There is a guy Rich Friedman who has a collection based on fish and it is one of the most incredible collections I have ever seen. I don't know how to search for it or how to get in touch but it would be worth some effort to see it. I personally would love to see it again. Maybe someone who knows him will see this post and ask him to post his collection for all of the new guys who would literally freak out at how amazing it is.

I'd love to see it! I'm not looking to diversify, myself. I have VERY narrow parameters regarding pipes. Mine truly are boring to most.