Ligne Bretagne Standard Shapes 1-5
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Bowl Height: 4.5 cm
Chamber Width: 1.85 cm
Notes: This stummel is ideal for churchwarden use. It has a nice deep
bowl of group 5 capacity and is virtually weightless. The shank is thin
and will only allow a narrow tenon. The light weight comes at the price
of thin walls, however, and it is a pipe to smoke carefully until a
good cake has developed. Aggressive puffing could easily burn one of
these out.
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Bowl Height: 5.4 cm
Chamber Width: 2 cm
Notes: Like the #1 shape above, these Oom-Pauls have thin walls so they
require a bit of careful break-in to avoid burning, but the bowl
coating should help greatly. The design of these stummels makes a
centered, connected airhole impossible - the degree of the airhole
drilling must be so extreme as to disallow a centered tenon fitting.
Instead, I am making each of these pipes with 9mm charcoal filters and
a system-style moisture well, for maximum moisture handling. I've been
smoking a sample of this setup for months now and it has become a
favorite smoker, especially for very sweet Danish-style blends..
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Bowl Height: 5.2 cm
Chamber Width: 2 cm
Notes: A slightly flashy straight poker design. Unfortunately, the
stummels are so light that unless a reed-like stem is used, they will
not stand on their flat bottoms. Nonetheless, a great poker shape IMO.
The walls are decently thick though not enough to support deep blasting
or craggy rustication.
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Bowl Height: 3.2 cm
Chamber Width: 1.8 cm
Notes: A great little prince/apple shape. Emily used this first in
designing a practical ladies' pipe - something that was elegant without
the usual fragile, hot walls. These stummels are sturdy and
thick-walled, and for some reason they seem to frequently have much
better grain than some of the others - they tend toward tight
flame-grains and cross-grains.
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Bowl Height: 4.8 cm
Chamber Width: 2.1 cm
Notes: This is a large, group 5-6 size Canadian with an oval shank and
a large tobacco chamber capacity. I have a wide variety of
Canadian-style shapes which vary in small ways. Some are shorter of
shank, smaller of bowl, or have slightly different bowl shapes and
angles.
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