Why Does One Pipe Get so Much Hotter Than Others?

[jaytex1969]

Closest I have to a hot smoker is my 1 and only meer. Yet, prevailing wisdom is that they smoke cooler.

Same I heard about the morta. Maybe the SMOKE to reach our face is cooler because all the heat stays in the chamber material??

 

[Chasing Embers]

My meers just get warm to the touch. AKB and IMP.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Closest I have to a hot smoker is my 1 and only meer. Yet, prevailing wisdom is that they smoke cooler.

Some talk of heat of the stummel, others about the perceived temp of the smoke and steam at the button.
Edit- What Jay says makes sense.

 

[jaytex1969]

Someone needs to do a Star Wars themed pipe shaped like a Tie Fighter, where the solar panels are actually heat sinks...

 

[jaytex1969]

Edit- What Jay says makes sense.

I sense a disturbance in the Force....

 

[jpmcwjr]

Been thinking about hot stummels. (!)
It occurred to me that I automatically hold the pipe by the top of the bowl when the middle or heel get warm, and vice versa. And sometimes by the stem. So, heat of the vessel doesn't come into play much. The hottest bowl I have is of cherry.

 

[Chasing Embers]

it's the conductivity of the briar. Density

Isn't that what I said?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Are the bowls that are getting hot smooth, or blasted/rusticated?

 

[irishearl]

Now that I think about it, every meer I've ever owned got warmer than my briars. Just not unduly hot.

 

[brian64]

Isn't that what I said?

You mentioned density first...then conductivity. That's only applicable at sea.

 

[derekflint]

All my pipes get hot..........

 

[slowroll]

My experience of 40 years of Pipe smoking is that it doesn't matter if the bowl is hot as long as the smoke is not uncomfortably hot. I have hot bowl pipes wherein the smoke is fine, so it doesn't concern me

 

[bnichols23]

"Clay pipes are nearly always too hot to hold by the bowl" -- "nearly" @mso, you have some very thick skin! :rofl: