What Do You Smoke Out of Your Biggest Bowl?

[OlJawBone]

You may run into this issue with many pipes. MM cobs have a wide open airway that many makers don't live up to.

But it is a MM Freehand

 

[olkofri]

Aromatics, of course.

 

[Chasing Embers]

But it is a MM Freehand

That's unusual. Is it one of the newer ones with the acrylic stem?

 

[OlJawBone]

That's unusual. Is it one of the newer ones with the acrylic stem?

Yeah brand new with an acrylic stem. The hole at the tip is only a couple millimeters across

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yeah brand new with an acrylic stem. The hole at the tip is only a couple millimeters across

The older ones still had the vulcanite one. Very open draw.

 

[thedoc333]

Half and half. Burns at a nice pace through 2+ inch depth bowl on a custombilt style poker.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Half and half. Burns at a nice pace through 2+ inch depth bowl on a custombilt style poker.

I think we need to develop a forum specific size chart. A 2 inch chamber is the bottom end of my chamber size scale.

 

[HitchensDog]

Balkan or English blends go in mine. I mostly smoke cobs, but I do have a Schneiderwind pipe with a decent sized bowl that I like to smoke Balkan Supreme out of.

 

[OlJawBone]

I think we need to develop a forum specific size chart. A 2 inch chamber is the bottom end of my chamber size scale.

What kind of pipes have a longger chamber than that? Specialty ones? Seems like most briars online and between and inch and a half and two inches deep

 

[wilblee]

Whatever blend catches my fancy when it’s that pipe’s turn.

 

[Charlie718]

I just pack whatever I feel like smoking in whatever I feel like smoking it out of lol. Although if I feel like a good long smoke I’ll pack two slices of Peterson or 3-4 slices of HH in a Rossi 8320, that bowl has plenty of room for it to expand.

 

[Chasing Embers]

What kind of pipes have a longger chamber than that? Specialty ones? Seems like most briars online and between and inch and a half and two inches deep

Magnums



I rarely smoke briar anymore but have several with 3+ inch depth chambers.

 

[OlJawBone]

Magnums

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I rarely smoke briar anymore but have several with 3+ inch depth chambers.

For when u wanna smoke half a tin. I get it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

For when u wanna smoke half a tin. I get it.

That one can get 2 1/2 fills from a 50g tin and is about the average sized pipe that I usually smoke.

 

[OlJawBone]

That one can get 2 1/2 fills from a 50g tin and is about the average sized pipe that I usually smoke.

Twenty gram bowls. Wow.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Twenty gram bowls. Wow.

They last all night on a 12 hour shift or around 4 hours on a hike.

 

[OlJawBone]

They last all night on a 12 hour shift or around 4 hours on a hike.

Is the bottom of the twenty gram bowl a lot more seasoned or different in some way than a three gram bowl?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Is the bottom of the twenty gram bowl a lot more seasoned or different in some way than a three gram bowl?

I gravity fill all of my pipes so not a lot of change happens due to compression or moisture build-up.

 

[OlJawBone]

I gravity fill all of my pipes so not a lot of change happens due to compression or moisture build-up.

Ok one more question about large pipes. Seems like they would be too lrge to fold and stuff flake into, since the depth of the bowl is longer than a folder flake. Do you tub out the flakes before smoking them in large pipes?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ok one more question about large pipes. Seems like they would be too lrge to fold and stuff flake into, since the depth of the bowl is longer than a folder flake. Do you tub out the flakes before smoking them in large pipes?

Mac Baren flakes in the one pound boxes are twice as long as the ones in the tins as well as Newminster's Superior Navy Flake. 2 1/2 of those fill the chambers in most of my pipes when folded together. For regular sized flakes, I got four fully rubbed out flakes of Rustica in this thing. Don't do that.?