Re: What makes a pipe a great pipe?
Sometimes it's just a hunch. maybe something to do with the grain pattern or design or brand name, but I have several pipes I've purchased that I knew would be good smokers and I'd say I was right about 95% of the time...and sometimes when one isn't smoking that great, it's just a matter of switching the type of tobacco (eng/balk, aro, VA & VA/Per) that you're smoking in it...Marie bought me a beautiful Dunhill Churchwarden that I thought would be great for VA's, Va/Per's, and flakes of those blends and that pipe was just never happy...I switched it to premium aromatic blends and it just puffs away now like a happy little camper...you get a feel for it after a while...
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"...pipe smoking is properly an intellectual exercise." ~ Christopher Morley, 1916
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