Thanks @halfdan Congrats on your win! I like having the arcrylic bit (it's attached to a metal band on clay pipe), but I think the drawback will be that I can't put it in coals or an oven to clean (bit isn't removable). It's cheap enough I guess I'd just buy a new one eventually, but first I'll look into other ways to clean a clay (if any).@--dante-- Welcome to the clay brotherhood from a clay pipe smoking Cavalier / Redcoat.
I've got a Markus Fohr clay pipe but haven't tried one with a regular stem.
Need to work on slowing my puffing down as I keep thinking it's going to go out; this is the real reason for puffing like a steam train in my early pipe videos.
The speed smoking was purely due to practice for the competition run by @Maddogsmokers and I won!
Still not heard anything about my prize due to Covid19 isolations...