What Are Your Largest Pipes.

[B.Fee]

I have two large pipes. The top one is a Mario Grandi, the middle cob for size relationship and the bottom one is a Heisenberg pipes. I've been intimidated to give them a go as I'm only now figuring out my "regular size" pipes. Will a large pipe load and smoke the same as a smaller one? Tell me about it. Thanks ?

 

[anotherbob]

I say with a bigger pipe you need to pack lighter then with a smaller pipe. With my nosewarmer I cram the tobacco in and it smokes great with a perfect draw with my biggest pipes I pack with a much lighter touch and they still smoke for a really long time. And also some blends really really go great in a bigger pipe. Certain tobaccos are more reactive to a long smoke then others as in the flavor will evolve and deepen over a smoke. A really good example of this is G.L.Pease Key Largo. After a really long smoke of that the end of the smoke is just kind of perfect and sublimely beautiful.

 

[jerseysam]

Excluding some of the more exotic bowl shapes, I actually found larger pipes to be more forgiving/easier to learn proper packing on when I re-started with pipes. With small/mid sized chambers, starting out I could over-compress trying to get in what felt like 'enough' tobacco for a good sit n' smoke. With a larger pipe, I had more confidence to simply small-pinch fill and tap level with one top off. Maybe it filled the pipe up, maybe I stopped 3/4....but by nature of greater capacity it gave me more confidence playing with my pack. In terms of smoking....you shouldn't need any big change in approach. Light n' go.

I tend to stick with chambers around 2 inches to this day.......I can keep most all size pipes smoking cool, but just like to be able to sit and smoke for a while if I'm going to take the time to prep a pipe.

 

[jerseysam]

Forgot the pic....here's a Bill Walther horn that just over 2 inches for chamber depth. This size pipe has become my favorite.

 

[edger]

Sorry to be a contrarian but for me large (capacity) pipes exhaust my palate. I quite like the middle and bottom of a bowl as the flavors and aromas concentrate, but I have to put a large pipe down before I get there. I guess I'm not big on relighting a pipe either. Some blends allow that but others don't. I like to enjoy a bowl from false light to bottom in one go.

 

[SoddenJack]

I’d feel Col Hans Landa with a giant oversized pipe.

 

[warren]

Large pipe, smallish tobacco chamber.

 

[ashdigger]

Devil Anse for comparison

 

[B.Fee]

My Heisenberg pipes chamber is 1"x2 1/2", the Mario Grandi is also 1"x2 1/2" . Thank you for the comments so far. I'm going to load a bowl and give it a go.?

 

[jpmcwjr]

I’d feel Col Hans Landa with a giant oversized pipe.
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The calabash is large, but the Meer chamber is small. Great for a brisk hike or untangling halyards in a sail race.

 

[mso489]

My biggie is not a monster pipe, but sufficient for a deep mediation or brain storming session or a sequence of shorter smokes over a couple days. It is an honest Group 6, a semi-rusticated Johs quarter-bent apple that was given to me by my wife, Christmas 2010.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I’d feel Col Hans Landa with a giant oversized pipe.
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The actual chamber depth of the meerschaum cap is probably no deeper than 1.5 inches, if that.

 

[B.Fee]

The actual chamber depth of the meerschaum cap is probably no deeper than 1.5 inches, if that.

I've seen some of your large pipes.??
Do you load your larger bowls the same as your smaller bowled pipes?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Most of my pipes have 2-3 inch deep chambers.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Do you load your larger bowls the same as your smaller bowled pipes?

My smallest regular smokers are right at 2 inches deep. I gravity fill all of my pipes. The only difference in chamber size is the length of smoking time.

 

[Tommy Boy]

My largest pipes are my 2 P.Jeppesens bowl wise. But that's about as big as i need or want for now.

 

[B.Fee]

My smallest regular smokers are right at 2 inches deep. I gravity fill all of my pipes. The only difference in chamber size is the length of smoking time.

Thank you for your response. Gravity IS my friend. ?✌

 

[Chasing Embers]

Thank you for your response. Gravity IS my friend. ?✌

Easiest way to go!?

 

[mtwaller]

Speaking of large pipes, I stumbled across this monster today. 17.99 oz ?

 

[samuelgawith01]

This one.James Upshall Dublin "Old England"
It's a large pipe.These images don't do it justice.