What Is This Shape Named?

[buroak]

I have seen this shape before, and I once knew its name. For the life of me I cannot remember what it is called.

 

[wayneteipen]

Isn't that called a Bilbo?

 

[mso489]

How does it work? It looks like it's drilled wrong with the airway in the middle of the bowl, with a bilge valve on the bottom. Some guys here know all about it.

 

[buroak]

Hmmm, I do not know about "Bilbo", but your guess is as good as mine.
I know nothing about the engineering. I am trying to help an eBay seller who was good to me learn about this unmarked pipe. The design is intriguing, though.

 

[elbert]

As soon as I saw that thing on the bottom I thought 'carburetor!'

Common on "pieces", considerably less so on tobacco pipes. In fact I've never heard of one.
I'm always shocked by old pipe ads, and the marketing effort that was expended to 'sell' customers a "cool, dry smoke". This could be something like that.

 

[jonasclark]

Except that, in that Kaywoodie, the point of the "carburetor" is apparently to cool your smoke. In the "pieces" Elbert mentions, one is supposed to fill the thing with smoke, uncover the carburetor, inhale deeply, and have the huge influx of air shove it all into one's lungs in one big hit-- as far as I understand, always resulting in a horrible, hacking cough lasting for several minutes.
As for Buroak's pipe, my guess is that it's one of those designs where, for the purposes of both cooking and filtering, there's a hollow chamber inside the body, surrounding the bowl (or else the draft hole would enter the bowl about halfway up the side), and that plug is for de-gunking said chamber, where tar and juices would collect. I have no idea what the shape is actually called, but I'd agree on "Bilbo."

 

[iamn8]

To me it looks like a Chuck or a Dave maybe. I'd have to talk with it before I could be sure.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Put it in the middle of the floor and just start calling names till it responds to something. That's how all of my dogs get named.

 

[iamn8]

That's a really a bad idea! I'd end up with a pipe or a pet that responds to Pookie Von Trousersnake or some such nonsense and end up resenting it its entire life.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Pookie Von Trousersnake or some such nonsense

Then, I'll not be telling you the name of my hamster.

 

[iamn8]

Let me guess... Ummm... Stupid Ass Rhodent I Can't Believe I Wasted My Money On A Fancy Rat? Or just Stupid Ass, for short?

 

[elbert]

That's probably a better guess, jonasclark. To be honest I never knew what the purpose of the carb was (as I do not partake). In any case the kaywoodie strikes me as rather gimmicky!

 

[buroak]

Well, the responses have been interesting. The pipe looks like a "Doctor" shape, but my understanding is that design involved a threaded, removable bowl.

In any case the kaywoodie strikes me as rather gimmicky!

And wonderfully so.

 

[blendtobac]

That looks like a Dawes to me.
Russ

 

[buroak]

blendtobac, Thanks for that suggestion. I had forgotten about the Dawes/Lyon pipe names. The Dawes, Lyon, Underslung (Wally Frank) and Campaign (WDC)are all in the right neighborhood, except for this pipe's lack of a removable inner bowl. Still, having some shape names to reference will be much appreciated by the seller.

 

[tuold]

I saw a shape like that in an old Wally Frank catalog once. I think it was called a "Boer" shape.

 

[buroak]

tuold, I figured all the Boers smoked Oom Pauls. This just keeps getting more interesting...

 

[tuold]

Here's a very small photo of it right here at Pipes Magazine on Fred Brown's blog, top left of page. It's not an exact match, but sort of the same design idea.
Boer Pipe