What Are Your Largest Pipes.
- Thread starter B.Fee
- Start date
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
- Status
Not true my friend. I have 2 Strambach calabashes that both have giant bowls, my other 3 have big bowls as well.
Fair enough. I thought that pipe resembled the one Calabash I have, which does have a fairly small chamber in relation to the stummel.
I've heard people talking about Pioneer calabashes being on the smaller size bowl wise, I know they were popular in America at one time.
The deepest Strambach chamber I've seen was quite small at 38.1mm. How deep are yours?
One is 35 x 42 the other is 32 x 39
Being meerschaum I don't let any cake build up either, I've found that when I ream my briars they hold noticeably more tobacco.
A couple of pictures I took a while ago with a Peterson b10 to give an idea of scale, they are both pretty large.
Being meerschaum I don't let any cake build up either, I've found that when I ream my briars they hold noticeably more tobacco.
A couple of pictures I took a while ago with a Peterson b10 to give an idea of scale, they are both pretty large.
So around a small group 4. Sounds like a Pioneer I used to have.
I don't in any of my pipes. Really seems to serve no purpose.
All I know is I've got a Peterson XL02 and both of these hold loads more tobacco than that, they are huge bowls.
The largest I have is a new Savinelli Mega 315. I haven't decided what to smoke in it yet.
Seeing some of the pics, I've had to recalibrate my idea of what constitutes a large pipe. 
The Briarworks C151XLs and Moonshine Cannonballs are the biggest pipes in my collection, with chambers that are around an inch wide and 1.5-2-something inches deep. My Kirsten Designers are smaller, but came with gaping bowls that look like they hold roughly the same amount of tobacco as the C151XLs and Cannonballs, and the Don Warren XL bowls I replaced them with seem to hold about the same amount of tobacco as well.
The Briarworks C151XLs and Moonshine Cannonballs are the biggest pipes in my collection, with chambers that are around an inch wide and 1.5-2-something inches deep. My Kirsten Designers are smaller, but came with gaping bowls that look like they hold roughly the same amount of tobacco as the C151XLs and Cannonballs, and the Don Warren XL bowls I replaced them with seem to hold about the same amount of tobacco as well.
That's my biggest bowl briar so I used it as a comparison. I don't know what a group 4 looks like so I can't say if these are bigger or not.
The size groups are kind of a loose description. They can range from 35.56mm to 44.45mm to some, but to others can vary. Then there are monsters like this with depths of 76.2mm that the only class they have for are magnum.
I love that pipe. The shape, grain, colour and stem work perfectly together.
- Status