Whats the Coolest Smoking Pipe?

[Lumbridge]

+1 for a natural unfinished cob. I don't know if they're the coolest, but they seem to smoke pretty cool. Try one - it won't set you back much.
The most important thing is slowing down, and you'll get better flavor that way too. Choice of tobacco is also a factor. Black cavendish, perique, and latakia are widely believed to bring the temperature of a blend down.

 

[crashthegrey]

It is barely discernable between pipes, mostly in our heads. The coolest smoking pipe is the one we smoke the slowest.

 

[Swiss Army Knife]

In my experience the blend being smoked is much bigger factor than the pipe itself. Latakia heavy englishes tend to be pretty cool smoking and more immune to freight train puffing where as a sweet blend puffed quickly will get very hot. For example I recently put some heat blisters in my Ebony Spigots black lacquer because I really went hard on a bowl of Glengarry Flake. Lessons learned!

 

[bullet08]

Water pipe.

 

[Chasing Embers]

An unlit one.

 

[Mike N]

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but nothing says “cool” when it comes to styling any better than a Tom Eltang bamboo billiard. Aesthetics aside, it always delivers a cool, smooth smoke due to Tom’s briar selection, drilling and stem work.

 

[Auxsender]

 

[Sobrbiker]

Whichever pipe I am smoking at any given time.

 

[Searock Fan]

One with a removable meerschaum bowl. Highly recommended for ease of cleaning out the gourd chamber.
Only disadvantage is the small chamber size
These come up frequently on EBay
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One with fixed chamber.
Looks great with the metal rim, but not at all practical
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They're good smokers, but in my experience they burn the tobacco very fast.....

 

[OzPiper]

They're good smokers, but in my experience they burn the tobacco very fast.....

Pretty small/shallow bowls

Suits me as I am a Nic whimp and I use my gourd calabash for higher Nic blends eg Peterson Irish Flake

 

[walkingpipeguy]

I just got a Nording Eriksen and like it quite a bit. I don't know about THE coolest smoking pipe, but it's definitely my coolest smoking pipe. I also really like the Missouri Meerschaums with small barrel-shaped bowls, the Eaton, Huck Finn, Pony express, etc. I find them cooler and easier to smoke than the larger cobs.

 

[bullet08]

Iced Water Pipe.

 

[tobakenist]

If you can find a Menthol tobacco, it's the coolest tobacco, used to have one in the UK in the late 60's and early 70's. mates of mine used to smoke it, I smoke only English and Lakelands, both smoke cool as long as you smoke it right.