Kaywoodie question

it seems that might be a trend...dr. Grabows are really small as well...and all of the really old pipes I have seen were small too..it also might have something to do with cost...as the larger bowls require more selective use of briar...but I wonder what others have to say that is more than just my idle conjecture...

and contrary to what I have just said...the kaywoodie that I bought (from what I understand...it is from ca. 1939) is 6 inches long and 1.8 inches tall in the bowl...so that doesn't fit so well does it?...

Cheers,

Josh

I can't speak for other brands but the older Kaywoodies do seem to have smaller bowls (generally but not always). This makes them very utilitarian good working and doing something else pipes. I've recently purchased a couple old Kaywoodies that were small even by comparison to my other old Kaywoodies. The reasons? Well here's my theories.

1. People tended to smoke stouter tobaccos back then. A small bowl of 5Bros is plenty.

2. Unlike our antiseptic, smoke free world of today, pipe smoking was done all day every day. Smaller pipes were much less intrusive, much more portable and could be smoked by everyone, all the time, as was the custom back in the Golden Ages of Pipes (man wouldn't that have been the poo!)

3. And now probably the biggest reason old Kaywoodies are smaller. Kayoodie and Codger Burley guys don't have compensation issues....GOTCHA!!!!

I have a handful of Kaywoodie small bowled pipes which I smoke once in a geat while. Whatever the design reason though, it's like drinking beer out of a shot glass IMO.

that I want to load a pipe and sit for a couple of hours happily puffing away. There are other times when I am more playful where I want to smoke 3 or 4 blends over the course of 2 hours. While I can do it with half bowls I usually grab my prince, grabow and a small cutty and go at it. It looks like this KW 5150b is going to fit in that bunch also.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

were CustomBilts and some of the DeMuths, which many times resembled Petersons. These two brands could easily be Group 5 bowls. I have a few CBs that would rival the Dunhill ODAs. Most of the other brands (like KWs, Sterncrest, Mastercraft, and Webers) had smaller bowls. Very easy to tuck in one's vest or shirt pocket.

Although I normally like estate pipes, (better value & workmanship) I have bought a few new Kaywoodies in the last several years. I sent away for a Relief grain, and received a very small bowl in relation to the 1970's relief grain that I've had since new. I was even tempted to send it back, but with return postage, etc, I decided to keep it

This little pipe smokes great, excellent choice for an occasional bowl of Five Brothers. I have several Kaywoodies from the 1930's and the bowls are normal size. However, I have a pre Kaywoodie KB&B Dublin which is very small. Smokes great.

Probably, the smaller bowls had something to do with the strong tobacco men used to smoke, as someone else has pointed out.

My four-digit pot has a pretty big bowl, but it is a pot. It is a little short for the bowl size, though, so it can easily be tucked away into a shirt pocket.

The new super grain billiard that I have is much longer than the four digit, but its bowl is much smaller.