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tfdickson

Lifer
May 15, 2014
2,375
47,927
East End of Long Island
Brown Flake in my MarTelo bent billiard.

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OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
6,864
37,049
72
Sydney, Australia
I would say probably none whatsoever from the porcelain. If any, it would be from the internals that were gunked up for 100 years; I have a Royal Copenhagen porcelain pipe designed by Jørn Micke that might be the most neutral pipe I have. I believe @OzPiper who also has a Royal Copenhagen might have the same opinion.
Porcelain is THE most neutral pipe material, in my experience.
The bowls wipe back to bare porcelain easily with moist, scrunched up kitchen paper towels
Clay can have a "clay-ey" taste when new.
As can virginal meerschaum.
 
After a long day in the big city and several cigars lost to a series of small fires while doing all the driving today, i'm happy to be back in the lounge with my whisky and pipes. Pouring a dram o Johnnie Walker 15 after finishing off my bottle of Compass Box Story of The Spaniard (which is excellent). And for the leaf accompaniment...Hu Aus Dem Krater in a CAO.

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,821
654,815
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am off to the studio with a bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Golden Sceptre in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner British Thorn 495 (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
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