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I'm glad mine is smaller than yours. *ROTFLMAO*

I've had bigger pipes (though not as big as THAT monster) and didn't care for them. I like diversity. I'd rather smoke two group 4 pipes with different blends in the same time it takes you to huff on that monster. Of course I could always load the same blend twice in a row I guess ... but its not my way.

Mr Reynolds: I am most enamored of the size of pipe which you created for me and which I routinely fire up, furiously puffing and trailing smoke like some demented Baldwin locomotive. A pleasant grp3-4 sized bowl that permits flavors to develop yet never allows boredom to appear. So, nothing larger than a grp4 is my choice. The size of the pipe which you describe seems gargantuan to me, Kong among the dwarfs, intimidating, cumbersome, seemingly requiring a Herculean effort to manage. Thanks, but no. I will stand awed by your dedication.

My "hand-holder" is a half-bent L'Anatra "Gigante" and I generally smoke it once per evening. I swear it must hold a half ounce of tobacco and is a joy to smoke. You gotta know that anyone who brags like I do, about a seven-incher Hayes Custom Canadian, is gonna really appreciate a pipe larger than the standard five and three-quarters! For me, a "coffee break pipe" is at least a six incher.

enjoy a large bowl every once in a blue moon. No, not on a routinely bases, however, my personal big fish is a custom one made at my local tobacco shop here in town. It is a 6 1/2 incher, bent billiard. When full of leaf, it can hold approx. .75 ounces.

There is no better golf round than one that starts with a light at tee one and goes to the 17th or 18th hole

I used to smoke Half & Half (for about 40 years of my forty-two of piping). H&H is not a "large" cut, It is a relatively "small" cut. I would go to the pipe shop and purchase an absolutely beautiful "large bowl" pipe that cost big bucks and then I would find that I just didn't like how it smoked. I repeated that for years. All my really nice pipes were expensive and not good smokers. I kept going back to the "smaller" bowl (cheaper pipes). Then a couple years ago when I started ordering tobacco from C&D (www.cornellanddiehl....) I discovered their cut of leaf was generally and considerably "larger". So, I started smoking the C&D Blends in those nice expensive pipes I had been collecting. "Wha-la" suddenly those pipes were really good smokers!

My point is simple. At least for me, a larger leaf smokes better for me in a larger bowl than a "smaller" leaf. This may not be your or anyone elses experience, but it is mine. If I ever smoke H&H again, it will be in a small bowl not a large one. Just something to consider.

just kidding...though with all the 7 inch, six and a half talk...haha

I usually go for dunhill group four or five...I have never been content with the way the flavor of VAs develop in small pipes...though...for OJK and such...I really like a smaller pipe...I several little princes that work very well for a stout burley.

Cheers,

Josh

of that monster, Chris. 9.5g of OG is a serious smoke! That's Ben Hur stuff! Like load up on Monday & finish on Friday. I have a Pete SH Watson, which is my biggest pipe. It's clenchable because of the near Oom Paul shape & is good for a looong smoke. Even with ad breaks. It's my EMP pipe. I too prefer the biggies, but because I'm a clencher, not too big. Much after an hour & I start getting bored. In fact, when I have to start mopping up operations with pipe cleaners, I start becomong distracted. I want to smoke the thing, not keep cleaning it. Like Josh, I'm also finding (contrary to what I originally thought) that bigger pipes are working better on Va flakes. Better draught. That almost certainly is the death knell for small pipes & Muddler.

Sorry about the delay but my camera was down cellar.

Muddler is right. This baby is a monster.

uhhh....

did I miss something?...or are you messing with our minds...that is one seriously tiny pipe...

Cheers,

Josh

Chris is all about messing with peoples heads.

Or is that just a really large penny?

and I thought you were all sleeping.

guess I better bring a bag of salt whenever this man recommends a blend cause of it's ultra strength and full taste ;)

nice joke tho :)

The large penney is about the size of a small coffee table! Hey, is the effect of inflation?