Italian pipes for aromatics only?

[Hermit]

But to assert that English pipes are for English mixtures is utterly moronic.

I have a Pete that I smoke nuthin' but University Flake in.
Does that make me a moron? :lol!:

 

[Maiser]

I mean, it sounds like it makes a little sense.

Tobaccos that are made in a country smoking better in pipes that are made by that country, because they are designed to smoke that way.

But then again each pipe is different in it's own way, and it'll smoke what it wants how it wants.

 

[Nitschke066]

I'm sure glad I have a pipe with no nomenclature so I can smoke anything in it! :lol!:

 

[Rad Davis]

I mean, it sounds like it makes a little sense.

Tobaccos that are made in a country smoking better in pipes that are made by that country, because they are designed to smoke that way.

I don't know of any pipe maker who designs pipes to smoke a specific style of tobacco. Pipes are made to smoke whatever you like in them.

The fact that some pipes smoke better with certain styles of tobaccos is pure chance, and has nothing to do with design.

Rad

 

[Anonymous]

I'm sure glad I have a pipe with no nomenclature so I can smoke anything in it! :lol!:

Dude... you're a Legend..... now why did I not think of that....... "basket Pipe" sales will soar thanks to this thread!!!! :lol!:

 

[babysinister]

I have several pipes made by Sasquatch, but I haven't been able to find any Canadian blends to smoke in them. So I feed them VaPers, Scottish blends, and straight Virginias.

 

[skaukatt]

This is complete rubbish.

 

[Sasquatch]

The fact that some pipes smoke better with certain styles of tobaccos is pure chance, and has nothing to do with design.

Rad

I don't agree with this, Rad, and I don't think you actually do either... If someone asked you for a pipe that they could really taste the subtle components of a virginia flake with, what would you build them, a smallish pipe with a slightly narrower bowl or a great huge 3" stack with a 1" bore?

Now, if someone said "make me a pipe that brings the subtle spice in Maltese Falcon to the forefront" I would quickly admit that I couldn't necessarily do that.

But the suggestion that certain pipes take to certain tobaccos by pure chance is an assertion of magical powers or uncontrollable variables rather than an assertion that pipes smoke the way they do based on briar and physics, both of which the pipe maker controls.

 

[Sasquatch]

PS Babysinister you have wrecked those pipes and should buy new ones. :cheers:

 

[Justpipes]

I recently visited a smoke shop and I was told that Italian pipes are designed for smoking aromatic mixtures and British pipes are intended for smoking English mixtures. I have several Italian pipes and I have had no problems smoking English mixtures through them. Does the country in which a pipe is manufactured have any bearing on the type of tobacco that should be smoked or is the guy at the smoke shop trying to move his stock of Dunhill estate pipes?

That all depends on what tobacco he had on the shelf and from which country the pipes he was trying to move were from. :roll: :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

I am the first one to weigh in and advise new guys who ask that a pipe in the (bent) bulldog/author/Rhodesian/prince genre with a +/-19mm. bore is the optimum way to get acquainted with Virginia flakes. Because, all other things being equal (and they never are in practice), it is.

But with that said, LL put one of his custom stems on an old group 6++ size Stanwell for me that was two and a half hours of glorious excess with FVF (since gifted to a dear friend). And a similarly old Savinelli Nonpareil Dublin with a wide, conical bore was a flake champion also.

Magic (like love) is where you find it.

:face:

 

[DoverPipes]

Time to find a new tobacco merchant. :roll:

 

[Rad Davis]

I don't agree with this, Rad, and I don't think you actually do either... If someone asked you for a pipe that they could really taste the subtle components of a virginia flake with, what would you build them, a smallish pipe with a slightly narrower bowl or a great huge 3" stack with a 1" bore?

We're getting a bit off track here, Sasquatch. I've never had a customer ask me to make a pipe for tasting the subtleties of certain tobacco types. They ask for a size and shape.

What they smoke in it is up to them.

The idea that pipes from different countries are meant to smoke certain tobacco types is ludicrous.

Rad

 

[Sasquatch]

Agree totally.

And now I gotta send you a PM and learn ya all about makin' pipes, I guess.

 

[Buddy Springman]

Unfortunately I haven't had the experience of going to a knowledgeable tobacconist yet. All of the ones I've visited the people behind the counter were not only ignorant but usually condescending...

A few years back I was in a shop - whose ads you've all seen - and heard the clerk tell someone that Nightcap was light in latakia so you could sleep and EMP was high in latakia so that it could wake you up. I almost fell over.

Buddy