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The nosewarmer trend and a Peterson pipes success story.
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<blockquote data-quote="Zeno Marx" data-source="post: 453749" data-attributes="member: 1211"><p>This has been my experience for sure. The distance smoke travels in...say...a 4.5" pipe vs even a large 7" pipe doesn't leave a noticeable impression upon me. The diameter of the airway absolutely does. To get sidetracked a little here, and to throw a diatribe into the mix, I really cannot stand the trend of huge airways. I remember a beautiful Boswell rhodesian (I bought here, and then sold here) that had an airway the size of a McDonald's straw. That thing smoked cool as a refrigerated cucumber, but the consequence to that was a less dense smoke and less condensed flavor of smoke. Didn't matter what I put into it, I could barely taste it. No hyperbole. Personally, I'd rather a traditional --dare say, more restricted-- diameter of airway. Pull a slow, dense, condensed, robust column of smoke that is cool by nature because I'm not gasping at trying to find flavor. What I'm not so succinctly saying is, give me flavor over coolness eight days a week. If the diameter is overkill, there's nothing I can do to find that flavor. I can never pull slow enough. However, in a smaller diameter airway, I can adjust my pull to find a balance between flavor and coolness. Technique vs engineering.</p><p></p><p>One of my fears...yes, fear...is the possibility of all those great smoking pipes of years past being bought by the new smoking crowd on the estate market, and then them modifying the airways into the fast-food straws of today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zeno Marx, post: 453749, member: 1211"] This has been my experience for sure. The distance smoke travels in...say...a 4.5" pipe vs even a large 7" pipe doesn't leave a noticeable impression upon me. The diameter of the airway absolutely does. To get sidetracked a little here, and to throw a diatribe into the mix, I really cannot stand the trend of huge airways. I remember a beautiful Boswell rhodesian (I bought here, and then sold here) that had an airway the size of a McDonald's straw. That thing smoked cool as a refrigerated cucumber, but the consequence to that was a less dense smoke and less condensed flavor of smoke. Didn't matter what I put into it, I could barely taste it. No hyperbole. Personally, I'd rather a traditional --dare say, more restricted-- diameter of airway. Pull a slow, dense, condensed, robust column of smoke that is cool by nature because I'm not gasping at trying to find flavor. What I'm not so succinctly saying is, give me flavor over coolness eight days a week. If the diameter is overkill, there's nothing I can do to find that flavor. I can never pull slow enough. However, in a smaller diameter airway, I can adjust my pull to find a balance between flavor and coolness. Technique vs engineering. One of my fears...yes, fear...is the possibility of all those great smoking pipes of years past being bought by the new smoking crowd on the estate market, and then them modifying the airways into the fast-food straws of today. [/QUOTE]
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