Check out these measurements

[forsooth]

Weight: 10 oz. or 285 grams
Height of bowl: 3-1/8"
Tobacco chamber diameter: 1-1/8 "
Mouthpiece is 1-3/8" wide.




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[Cody V]

whoa

 

[LIPIPE]

That's a beauty. I'm smoking a large pipe now also. They become your favorites because they enable a very long slow smoke. Mine is a straight billiard and I'm a clencher. My jaw has the strength of a pit bull and there is no going back to a small bowl especially for a latakia man. Enjoy your new pipe thoroughly!

 

[forsooth]

Hi, LIPIPE --

Oops! I didn't mean to imply that I purchased the pipe, only that I was taken aback by the size! The pipe, a Boswell, has been purchased by a lucky owner (not moi). The price listed was right at $500.

(Heh. That used to be a lot of money. )

 

[LIPIPE]

I wondered about that. I had just checked out the Boswell site a day or two ago and noticed no available large pipes for sale. As a matter of fact they have posted a message that there will be no future large pipes for the time being. I do love large pipes though. My avatar shows a large billiard pipe I own. Unfortunately my hand is covering the bowl so you really cannot tell, however, when I smoke this babe I get alot of attention. Large bowls are the way I like to go. My other large bowls are two oom pauls and a Jobey Band. All treasures in my collection. Get one if you can.

 

[MartinH]

Woha! That's a monster! Although very intriguing. I smoke only "average" sized bowls, but have to say that I rather enjoy my pipes that are a tad larger. I guess thi just mean more PAD in my future. LOL!

 

[Tim_Haggerty]

That Boswell looks like a Jumbo; JM Boswell makes a fine pipe and has a niche market in big pieces. For comfort and affordability, I'd put his pipes up against anyone's. Particularly if you clench his wider stems distribute the weight of the pipes beautifully and his rustic style on his big pipes is immediately identifiable. Other makers -- notably Italian carvers, such as Mario Grandi, Ardor, Ser Jacopo and Radice -- make larger pipes regularly, perhaps because they have better access to briar. A local carver said that making bigger pipes is easier, which I can also understand.

Over time, my pipes have grown on me, and the first decent pipes I bought tend to gather dust in favor of the bigger bowls that form the core of my rotation, with a steadily growing collection of Ser Jacopo Maximas in particular. Part of the attraction comes from the way I smoke, which is somewhat fast and hard, which a big bowl helps, since the volume of the smoke is determined by the chamber diameter more than anything else, like a cigar's ring gauge (interestingly, cigars have also gotten bigger on average in the past few years; a cigar with a 60 ring gauge used to be almost unheard of, now everyone manufactures one. If I could smoke more regularly, I'd imagine I'd smoke smaller bowls or cigars throughout the day, though that might be a rationalization).

As LIPIPE stated, big pipes smoke longer and cooler generally. They're not for everything: I prefer a smaller bowl for flakes or stronger tobacco, such as Peterson's Irish Flake, but for a good ribbon with a substantial amount of Latakia, a large bowl works better for me. "Smaller" here has become relative; I frequent a pipe club here and I've noticed how a lot of guys -- particularly younger pipe smokers -- seem to favor pipes that I'd finish in a few minutes

Of course they take a little getting used to, but that's part of the hobby -- all pipes have their rhythm and take some breaking in. The largest of my pipes -- a Jumbo, a Bari Wiking and a Ser Jac double Maxima might draw some attention, but pipe smoking does in any case. Not that that's a bad thing.

Despite LIPIPE's warning, Boswell still seems to regularly post Jumbos on their site; I think their moratorium refers to their Grizzlies and Magnums mostly, which are even bigger and which are generally ordered as custom pieces and appear on their pipe gallery.

 

[Cody V]

(Heh. That used to be a lot of money. )

It's amazing that I used to think Peterson's were expensive.

Now I tend to buy a $250+ pipe a month

 

[Harlock999]

Say hello to my little friend...

 

[forsooth]

OMG, Harlock -- looks like one of those "trick perspective" photos (where, in real life, they're actually the same size). How big is the biggie? Or, put another way, how small is the little guy?

 

[onabullit]

You can kill someone with that thing

 

[Harlock999]

OMG, Harlock -- looks like one of those "trick perspective" photos (where, in real life, they're actually the same size). How big is the biggie? Or, put another way, how small is the little guy?

The big guy sold for over $1500.00 recently, just a little out of my price range, and I think the small one is a group 4, which is not that small...