I had a bad experience with an expensive, 1" wide and 2" deep bowl pipe made by a famous Danish pipe maker. It smoked fast and intensive, and it wasn't a pipe you could sip. So far pipes with 0.75 - 0.80 wide bowl have given me my best smokes. Maybe it was just a bad pipe, or maybe I did not know how to pack it. I still feel like I might be missing something not having a wide bowl pipe, but I just can't get another one after what happened.