What’s Your Favorite Pipe Shape for English?

[jameshsi]

There is another thread talking about your favorite English blend, and I just wondering do you use specific pipe or shape for your favorite English blend ?

 

[disinformatique]

An Italian briar flame grain straight billiard with a lenticular shank, sandblasted exactly 4.5 times and a chamfered bowl.
4.75" in length, 1.45" chamber depth with an exact inner diameter of 0.764".
Must weigh exactly 1oz with a saddle stem made only of 16 swirl SEM Limited Edition cumberland rod, fully funneled and slotted. Button thickness of exact 3.87mm
Cheers,

Chris

 

[jaytex1969]

I have a large straight billiard that I use for most English blends, a Savinelli 111KS.
Occasionally, if a blend seems overbearing, I can load it in a Savinelli 606KS, a bent variant, and this pipe seems to tone down the impact of the latakia.
Some insist that the pipe has no impact on flavor. That has not been my experience with all other factors controlled.

 

[jameshsi]

Some insist that the pipe has no impact on flavor. That has not been my experience with all other factors controlled.

Me too.

 

[npod]

Bigger billiards = English for me.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I'll use anything for them, but I do generally stick to wider bowls. When it comes to english blends I often find myself gravitating toward short wide pots/princes if it is a flake or plug, and a large billiard or dublin if it is ribbon cut. Maybe my palate isn't mature enough yet, but I have not noticed any tremendous difference in flavor based on the shape, other than the fact that larger/deeper bowls provide another layer towards the end due to the additional quantity of tobacco that has been smoked prior to it burning.

 

[prndl]

Apparently, shape means nada to my palate.
That said, back in my Nightcap days, a Pete spigot 68 was the way to go.

 

[mso489]

Wide bowls are a good idea -- pot, author, prince, etc. But just for grand tradition, maybe billiards, and especially bent billiards speak with a distinct British accent, even if the English has a little burley.

 

[olkofri]

Same as Alaskanpiper: wide bowls, and I want small ones in all my pipes (limited to short smokes, I am).
I bought an Al-Pascia Curvy for English blends, but the bowl turned out to be too deep: thinking of dedicating it to something else.
All that being said, my "Englishes" pipe is a cheap bent billiard cob.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Any pipe with a round chamber.

 

[ray47]

Any shape will do for me, but I do prefer the Savinelli 320 for English blends.

 

[disinformatique]

I am smoking Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend in a medium size bent egg by Daniel Mustran.

Chris :puffpipe:

 

[crawdad]

I tend to use my Savinelli 320 KS author. Plenty big enough to handle any English.

 

[litup]

Pots are my first choice for an English. Comoy's makes some cheap ones with chamber diameter's in the .80 to .85 range that seem just perfect to me for smoking English blends.

 

[olkofri]

Any pipe with a round chamber.

So, the pocket, swivelling-stemmed pipes are out? :P

 

[canadianpuffer]

I like English blends in wide bowls. My preferred shape is a pot. I figure I get more flavours at once. More narrow billiards for Virginia’s to let the flavours develop. My logic anyway

 

[jpmcwjr]

Any pipe with a round chamber.
So, the pocket, swivelling-stemmed pipes are out? :P

Heh. I do have an "opera pipe" or maybe it's a "theater pipe". Narrow chamber (oblong), smallish, to fit in one's vest or suit pocket, so I was told.

 

[Chasing Embers]

One blend tastes exactly the same to me regardless of which pipe I smoke it in, so any pipe will do.

 

[milehighpiper]

I enjoy smoking english blends while walking the dogs so I often smoke them in small nose warmers with wide bowls. Or maybe i enjoy my english blends in a nose warmer because I enjoy walking the dogs... egg before the chicken?

 

[jameshsi]

I enjoy my English in pot, author, bent brandy, and waiting for my Dunhill prince coming on his way from UK.

My Peder Jeppesen bent brandy

Recently change this acorn from BriarWorks bought in Houston The Briar Shoppe, to smoke English blend, and found it’s so great, although chamber size isn’t as wide as my other pots, and it’s coning…