How does that beauty smoke temperature-wise?
@OzPiper
The double walls make for a cool smoke - just warm to the touch.
It is quite a heavy pipe for its size. So definitely one to hold in hand.
I clean the chamber out with moist kitchen paper towels after each smoke and can get it almost completely back to bare porcelain.
It is a very neutral pipe - just pure tobacco flavour.
The Frankenclay was bought new and has only been smoked on 2 previous occasions. So the chamber walls are not fully carbonised.
I can definitely taste clay on top of the tobacco flavours
Cube cutting the flakes delivers a very slow smoke - just under an hour for that small sized bowl
The ivory pipe smoked a lot better than my memories of it.
Because of its very poor drilling moisture and gurgling is the main complaint.
I will use meer chips at the bottom of the bowl in future.
It was the coolest of the 3 pipes in hand - barely warm.
I put it down to the deep carved surface of the bowl.