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Olle0047

Olle0047

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Hi! This little weird looking thing dumped into the mailbox today! I am soft for weird looking things and this is my weirdest pipe to date.
I cant find much on this one online, only one YouTube vid and a page on Smokingmetal.
However if you smoke it like the guy in the vid, the writing on it is upside down, i think it should be smoked with the windcap down.

Here is the weirdo:
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0193.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0194.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0196.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0197.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0198.jpg

I will restore it sometime i get the time for it, and try a couple of ways of smoking.
What do you guys think?

-Ole
 
When i first saw the stem, something looked familiar. And i was right! I have another pipe with the same golden R on the stem, and here it is:
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0200.jpg (Bottom one)
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0202.jpg
https://2img.net/h/i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk82/olle0047/DSC_0203.jpg

It originally came with a screw in briar bowl, but it got burned and broke apart, so i shipped it to Norways only pipemaker. His name is Bård Hansen, and he fitted it with a meerschaum bowl instead. Smokes like a dream!
 
Are the bowls really shallow or something? The draft would have to be at the bottom of the bowl to get any draw off the pipe. They are most assuredly both interesting pipes. I don't have any info on them but let us know if you do find something. Good luck brother.
 
Yes, on the screw in bowl one its very shallow and narrow. Only works for flakes i think.
The perpetual drysmoker are bigger, but still small in american standards.
 
Americans and their size fetishes... :lol:

...that's a cool, curious little device. Do your best to fire it up, and let us know how it smokes!

8)
 
I apologize if this is in some of the other materials you posted, but the idea with this pipe is that you load and light it "upside down" as it were, and the turn it over to smoke it.The end with the holes is essentially a windcap, so the fire goes on that end. But then that end points down as you smoke it.

The design combines a few different things: a windcap, which is common enough. It's also an old pipesmoker's trick to turn a straight pipe upside down in the rain to keep the tobacco from getting wet. I suppose there might be some physics argument to be made for having the heat from the ember travel up through the tobacco about to be ignited, rather than escaping into the ambient air. Finally, of course, there's the "drysmoker" part: because of the orientation of things, it's supposed to be harder for condensate to collect at the bottom of the chamber.

So yeah, the draught hole is at the top of the bowl, although it is still at the end opposite the ember. That's why the stamp is "upside down."

I'd be curious to hear whether this design in fact works for someone who usually smokes wet, although I've never seen such a report. But it's a neat little attempt at innovation.

Best,
.cyb
 
Wow! Thank you former lurker for shedding light on this one. When you consider the ol' trick mentioned (which I've contemplated a few times living in the Pac NW), it makes a heap of sense.
 
cybil hamartia":4jaqpucm said:
I apologize if this is in some of the other materials you posted, but the idea with this pipe is that you load and light it "upside down" as it were, and the turn it over to smoke it.The end with the holes is essentially a windcap, so the fire goes on that end. But then that end points down as you smoke it.

The design combines a few different things: a windcap, which is common enough. It's also an old pipesmoker's trick to turn a straight pipe upside down in the rain to keep the tobacco from getting wet. I suppose there might be some physics argument to be made for having the heat from the ember travel up through the tobacco about to be ignited, rather than escaping into the ambient air. Finally, of course, there's the "drysmoker" part: because of the orientation of things, it's supposed to be harder for condensate to collect at the bottom of the chamber.

So yeah, the draught hole is at the top of the bowl, although it is still at the end opposite the ember. That's why the stamp is "upside down."

I'd be curious to hear whether this design in fact works for someone who usually smokes wet, although I've never seen such a report. But it's a neat little attempt at innovation.

Best,
.cyb
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Thank you for the answer, this is what i meant in my first post by smoking it " with the windcap down " i will try to make time to clean it out next week, will give a report when smoked :)
I altso read or heard somewhere that the screw on bottom make you able to fill the pipe from the top while still alight, will try this aswell!

-Ole
 
That's funny, Cybil. I'd seen one like that before and thought I remembered the way it was meant to be smoked, then I thought: "No, that can't be right. I'd look like a fool for posting that." :p
 
Olle0047":ah6r2qf9 said:
I altso read or heard somewhere that the screw on bottom make you able to fill the pipe from the top while still alight, will try this aswell!
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Of course! I was thinking about that side of things, and you're right. That, presumably, would be the "perpetual" part of it. I wonder how this works, though. I would doubt you could unscrew it while the bowl is hot, so I guess you'd have to smoke part of the bowl, let it cool, and then top it off (or "bottom" it off) before relighting...

.cyb

PS. I hadn't realized that I had never actually posted here before. I tend to read these groups a lot more than I post in general, but I've been looking for a good group lately. I read alt.smokers.pipes quite a lot around 1998-2001, before dropping out of online pipe stuff for awhile. ASP doesn't really seem very active at all these days, but maybe this group will replace it as a way to while away a bit of time!
 
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