In praise of chimneys?

Sorry Scrooge....just noticed your request.  I’ve made a few in the past. A simple notch on the bottom of the bowl wil an O ring holds the bowl in very tight. Never had an issue with poor draft and the O rings last over a year. Common O rings found at any Home Depot or Lowe’s Hardware. I’ve posted this bowl prior on another forum after completion. Also fits on older model Falcons 👌👍

Thanks Ted! Have been eye balling some at GQ.

OK folks. I got me a Peterson 2016 Pipe of the Year - rustic.

I love this pipe. It is like if you love a certain kind of music, and then you listen to it with headphones. The pipe just makes the taste, whatever it is, more present. And you can really distinguish the three phases of the smoke, the first third through the last third. (Like a cigar in that way. There are cigars that I love for the first and or second third, and i ditch it after that.)

Yea, like headphones, you can hear the french horns clearly, the oboe comes through.

So I am not sure what other pipes have this great chimney stack, but I may just have to get a few more, so as to avoid over using any one of them.

Nobody cuts threads for Falcon bowls except Falcon. The interrupted 1/4 thread will drive the best machinist nuts. Every other maker of similar pipes used a standard thread. I used to be able to buy bowls for my Grabow Vikings from Ozgur, but he cheaped out and now just sticks an O-ring on everything. One size fits all.

       I just put a simple groove while still on the lathe and use a simple O ring. I’ve smoked the rusticated chimney I pictured above over 200 times and have yet needed to replace the O ring. I cup the top of the bowl and give a strong puff inwards, no sucking air at all. I’m very pleased with how mine hold up so far and smoke👌👍

Another Peterson?

I like a man who knows what he likes. Congrats.

superb.