Which are Your Least Favoured Shapes

[OzPiper]

Following from the "Anyone Dislike Billiards" thread - name your 3 most disliked shapes.

There has been previous threads on this theme, but not recently. I appreciate that "one man's meat, etc". This is not intended to belittle anyone's tastes or aesthetics.

This selection is based solely on looks and nothing to do with smokeability or performance/engineering

1. Hungarian/Oom Paul
2. Hawkbill
3. Countryman (as per Charatan)

 

[Chasing Embers]

1. Bulldog
2. Rhodesian
3. Billiard
4. Hungarian
5. Pot
6. Hawkbill

 

[shanez]

Let's see now. Shapes I don't like...

We'll, triangles, as useful as they are, just don't do it for me.

 

[OzPiper]

Let's see now. Shapes I don't like...

We'll, triangles, as useful as they are, just don't do it for me.

I should have specified "Pipe Shapes" ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Let's see now. Shapes I don't like...

We'll, triangles, as useful as they are, just don't do it for me.

?

 

[OzPiper]

1. Bulldog

I was waiting for that ! ?

 

[username]

Hungarians and horns don’t do anything for me.

 

[Latakia Dave]

Canadians
Lumberman
Calabash

 

[STP]

Hard to say as I don’t really dislike them, but like them the least:

1) Oom Paul
2) Author
3) Poker

 

[mso489]

Some shapes don't usually catch my eye, like blowfish, but I've seen examples that I thought were handsome. Same situation with hawksbill and eskimo. Sometimes when the pipe is visually pleasing, the chamber is too small, or the pipe is too heavy for the size chamber. Cavalier seems a bit theatrical, though again I've seen them I like.

 

[olkofri]

Cutty.
Pot.
Acorn.

 

[sandollars]

Zulu
Oom Paul
Hawkbill

YUCK!

 

[tobefrank]

Dublin
Hawksbill
Oom Paul

 

[mso489]

I savor a good freehand, but when the Danish freehand craze was big, slapdash freehands were turned out like donuts and they haunt antique stores and eBay to this day. You can tell they were turned out in factories and have the minimal shaping and craftsmanship possible. That's probably the worst shape in my book. I think my big freehand with plateau on the brim and shank is pretty wonderful, a sort of pickax shape.

 

[solideogloria86]

Right now

Author
Pot
Freehands

I really like the look of a lot of pots, but I know that I don't like to smoke shallow and wide bowls.

 

[newportpipe]

For me:

1) Cavalier
2) Cherrywood
3) Horn
4) Blowfish
5) Tomahawk/Pick Axe

 

[sablebrush52]

1. Bulldogs
2. Dublins
3. Lovats
4. Blowfishes
5. Ramses
6. Ballerinas
7. Countryman
8. Tadpoles

 

[autumnfog]

Dublin
Blowfish
Hawkbill

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

1. Any Nosewarmer (only good if you like extra smoke in your face)

2. Full Bent (same problem though I still have a few for the novelty)

3. Cutty (the slanted bowl makes it look like a defective pipe)

 

[bullet08]

Don't really have one since I don't buy what doesn't interests me to experience the dislike.