What is a too Large of a Bowl

[Searock Fan]

I have a tiroliche that is so deep that I am afraid I can hardly cling to anything when spooning the ceramic bowl. While tobacco gets very adhesive on the heel of thar pipe, I fear too much pressure will break the thing. I have some haunting memories with a clay pipe ..

I know someone who coated the "outside" of the removable ceramic bowl of his calabash with a thin coat of epoxy. It has held up for years.

 

[anotherbob]

If it causes you to topple over because it ruins your center of gravity. If when you drop the pipe your heart skips a beat not because the pipe might get damaged but you don't want to break a foot or two. If you have to make sure the cat isn't napping in the chamber before you light up. If it's too large to wear as a hat. It needs wheels like those suitcases you see at the airport. If you can't decide to just dump the dottle or try to light the last half but are afraid of falling in. If you just drilled a couple of holes into the earths core. And pretty much any pipe even the Kiseru if you're the size of an ant.

 

[proteus]

Personally I have not experienced too deep or too wide. My tamper is long enough and wide enough to handle any opening. I made it myself from oak. Nice and hard. Of course were talking pipe smoking...

 

[georged]

Any bowl that is larger than your head is probably too big.

Not necessarily

 

[Searock Fan]

The right size is a matter of taste. I like a 3/4" diameter or maybe a 13/16", with a bowl about 1 to 1.5" tall.

 

[telescopes]

The Marxman 400 has a bowl that is obscenely too large.

 

[RookieGuy80]

Anything the cat can climb in and nap is going to be too big for me.

 

[boston]

For me something close to 3/4 inch internal diameter is ideal. I don't prefer wider bowls; I have a few pipes with wider bowls and never can get the right burn going. Depth is less of a challenge. And tapered bowls are good for me as well.

 

[peejhunt]

Its just as I've always said, size matters.
My biggest is an Oom Paul. The bowl is just shy of 2 inches deep.