[Mister Moo]

Getting/keeping the threads and the sealing pad on the underside of the bowl clean are key with a Falcon. It's easy enough to keep a Falcon clean with a tissue or two but it is a process you need to execute after each smoke.

The often mentioned issue of hot smoking is not resolved with a heavily caked bowl anyhow - most of the bowls are too small to allow much cake. A cool smoke from a Falcon was, for me at least, a matter of making slight tamp- and puffing adjustments to conventional pipe smoking techniques. Pleasurable Falcon smoking (for those not born in Britain with a silver one in your mouth) seems to evade a lot of folks; it took me several visits to the genre to figure out this light, bulletproof instrument was an all-around great smoker once I adjusted to it. Be sure it will not adjust to you.