That's just an amazing ode to briar. At 501 grams, I don't think is a clencher. Radice is the only company that I've seen output a pipe with this particular grain configuration.
What Are Your Largest Pipes.
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I never wanted a 2 hour smoke.
My John Middleton 1x2 bowl and an 11" stem. Great for Watch City flakes.
Smoke that one across from the Proctologist in the pipe club meeting and he'll leave the room or come sit next to you.
Mine is nothing fancy but HUGE, to me anyway, Rossi Lucca 8111EX. 1.9+ deep / .9+ diam.
100% agree, it really is stunning to look at. For what it is, it’s honestly not priced THAT bad at just north of $1,000.
This Viprati is by far my largest pipe. One bowl lasts me at least 3 hours! I need to take a picture of it next to another pipe to give you all an idear of how big this thing really is. It’s definitely deadly, if I ever catch a scumbag ripping a purse off a poor old lady, I’ll just chase after him with this... he’ll drop that purse in no time!
I’m the same to be honest. I love the Viprati I have but I don’t smoke it that often, it feels like quite a commitment and I’m not big on the whole DGT thing. One bowl in that pipes ends up lasting me a week. I just set it down until I can puff on it some more. From time to time it is nice to sit down with if I know I’m gonna have a lot of time on my hands though.
That thing is really... interesting. I would never buy something like that but it is nice to look at.
My little Ardor, over 250 grams. Football game smoke.
Whoa! You’ve just got really small hands right?
That thing is enormous!I'd post some photos....but I don't know how.
It's a custom-made (briar) slightly tilted, rusticated, magnum Dublin with a heel. (It looks like an old, vintage Charatan shape). Tobacco chamber: 2-1/4" deep by 1" diameter, across the top. Bowl width at top: 2-7/8" diameter. OAL: 9-1/2" (25 cm) 3" X 7/8" shank (70mm X 23mm) )...saddle stem: 4-3/4" (118mm).
Absolutely, the best pipe I own, and a joy to smoke. Worth every cent I paid for it, 35 years ago. It's better today than when I first smoked it. The unfinished briar has now taken on the most beautiful, deep, Cordovan brown patina. The finger-rubbed bowl feels like silk, after rubbing the bowl over the last 35 years, with a homemade pipe-balm concoction that I make from pure bee's wax that's melted into some olive oil.
The pipe is long, and heavy. I get stares. I don't care. I love it and that's what counts. I can load it for a nice long, slow smoke, or shove just enough tobacco down the hole for a quickie. It's at it's sweet best during Autumn, when the chill is in the air and the leaves are painted by God in heaven. Ahhhh.....sweet solitude, balmy Autumn breezes, and a perfect pipe loaded with perfect tobacco. What more can a man ask for?
It's a custom-made (briar) slightly tilted, rusticated, magnum Dublin with a heel. (It looks like an old, vintage Charatan shape). Tobacco chamber: 2-1/4" deep by 1" diameter, across the top. Bowl width at top: 2-7/8" diameter. OAL: 9-1/2" (25 cm) 3" X 7/8" shank (70mm X 23mm) )...saddle stem: 4-3/4" (118mm).
Absolutely, the best pipe I own, and a joy to smoke. Worth every cent I paid for it, 35 years ago. It's better today than when I first smoked it. The unfinished briar has now taken on the most beautiful, deep, Cordovan brown patina. The finger-rubbed bowl feels like silk, after rubbing the bowl over the last 35 years, with a homemade pipe-balm concoction that I make from pure bee's wax that's melted into some olive oil.
The pipe is long, and heavy. I get stares. I don't care. I love it and that's what counts. I can load it for a nice long, slow smoke, or shove just enough tobacco down the hole for a quickie. It's at it's sweet best during Autumn, when the chill is in the air and the leaves are painted by God in heaven. Ahhhh.....sweet solitude, balmy Autumn breezes, and a perfect pipe loaded with perfect tobacco. What more can a man ask for?
I love big pipes, especially bib bowls. This one I commissioned from our forum's very own Dan Chlebove. I asked for a bulldog with a massive +1" sized bowl. It dwarves my other straight bulldogs. I like to smoke my strongest blends in it mostly.
This is a Hilson Giant... Coming in at 7" long, it is another monsterdog. I have a few more, but I need to get good pics of them.
This is a Hilson Giant... Coming in at 7" long, it is another monsterdog. I have a few more, but I need to get good pics of them.
This Rad Davis is a group 6.
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The Brian Ruthenberg is an ODA. Those are my 2 biggest.
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On this new site, it's dead simple. Click on the little image with a mountain and sun, and follow directions.
I smoke my 2013 Capstan Gold Ready Rubbed in both of my big pipes. Stuffing them with 3 or more flakes would make the smoke a bit too long.
I've found that with my Wellington Giant, I have to do the packing of the very top of the bowl's load with more pressure than I do with any other pipe. When I don't do this, tamping down those first ashes after the charring light pushes the top of the tobacco load down about 1/2" into the bowl.
Thanks much. I didn't know how either, and I'm a Luddite. When I bought this IPad, my carrier pigeons shat on it.
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