What is a too Large of a Bowl
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Substitute "woozy" for me.
Bowl size is relative to the cut of the tobacco.
If it's a slow burning flake then packing a 3"x1" bowl would be a big mistake, even if you have the time to smoke it all most likely you'd end up with an inch of dottle.
Oppositely that bowl would be perfect to gravity feed some cube cut Burley.
If it's a slow burning flake then packing a 3"x1" bowl would be a big mistake, even if you have the time to smoke it all most likely you'd end up with an inch of dottle.
Oppositely that bowl would be perfect to gravity feed some cube cut Burley.
Not at all especially if it's bone dry when packed.
The largest acceptable size, as we see from this thread, depends entirely on the smoker. I do think that everyone should own a pipe with the biggest acceptable size bowl/chamber for them, for those long meditative sessions, or for those instances where you may smoke the pipe intermittently for a day or two without taking time to pack it again.
I don't have any giants, but I have a few that fill the bill. And I do smoke them in turn, in rotation.
I don't have any giants, but I have a few that fill the bill. And I do smoke them in turn, in rotation.
My opinion is not many blends taste good without some moisture, maybe a Burley flake or something specifically formulated by the blender to be smoked that way, but I would never smoke an English or Virginia dry.
Principle is the same as cigars, everyone would cry bloody murder if you smoke a bone dry cigar.
There's always some that will cry over anything. I let cigars air for about an hour before I smoke them.
Back in the 1980s, Eric Nording did a sculpture of a pipe made from pipes. It was about 4 ft tall and was mounted on a pedestal of some sort and put on display in the Copenhagen Airport. He had constructed it with a bowl that would actually hold tobacco and tubing that came out to the mouthpiece so it could theoretically be smoked. As part of the publicity around the sculpture Eric actually filled the bowl with a pound of tobacco, someone used a torch to light the tobacco and Eric puffed on the mouthpiece to prove that it was a smokable pipe.
There were publicity pictures of the pipe and Eric standing next to it in the Copenhagen Airport. Eric brought several of the pictures to a RTDA show in the late 1980s.
I don't recall for sure, but it seems to me like it was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest smokable Briar pipe.
As cool as that was, IMHO, a pipe that holds a pound of tobacco and must be mounted on a pedestal is probably too big.
There were publicity pictures of the pipe and Eric standing next to it in the Copenhagen Airport. Eric brought several of the pictures to a RTDA show in the late 1980s.
I don't recall for sure, but it seems to me like it was in the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's largest smokable Briar pipe.
As cool as that was, IMHO, a pipe that holds a pound of tobacco and must be mounted on a pedestal is probably too big.
Thank you for finding that video.
I had not seen the video before. It like like my memory was yet again a bit fuzzy, the bowl doesn't look like it will hold a pound of tobacco!
1" is the widest bowl that I have, 2 pipes. I have several Toppers, but all of them are just shy of 3" deep.
Some of these guys are showing us regular sized pipes, but it is just the proportions that make them look large...
Some of these guys are showing us regular sized pipes, but it is just the proportions that make them look large...