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Paul Tummers
Member
Username: Paul_tummers
Post Number: 175
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 05:15 pm: | |
Just a thought;
I never ever had a bulldog-or pot shape that were bad smokers, is this co-incidence or has the shape of a pipe more to do with its smoking qualities? |
Todd Bannard
Member
Username: Sasquatch
Post Number: 702
Registered: 05-2006
| | Posted on Friday, October 02, 2009 - 08:07 pm: | |
Outside shape of a pipe has nothing to do with its smoking properties. INSIDE shape (mechanical setup, if you will) determines darn near everything. If your bulldogs smoke well, it's because they are drilled well and the airways line up. It's a relatively easy shape to do perfectly, from a mechanical perspective. |
Mark Combs
Member
Username: Jazzmoose
Post Number: 15
Registered: 04-2009
| | Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 07:22 am: | |
I don't know about those two shapes being the best, but I think there's more to the classic shapes than aesthetics. The classic shapes have stood the test of time because they work, in my opinion. |
Paul Tummers
Member
Username: Paul_tummers
Post Number: 176
Registered: 12-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 09:03 am: | |
I was thinking about the fact, that a pot and a bulldog shape do have a part of the bowl/total bowl which are thick-walled.
The Bulldog shape has for me the disadvantage, that Ihave to be carefull when smoking the lower third of the bowl because of the relative thin part caused by the flattened side panels.
I do own a couple of nice, light, thin-walled pipes too, but those pipes all are not as good as the robust pot/bulldog shapes. |