Questions You Thought Were Too Dumb to Ask (Pipes Edition)

[izkeh]

Never smoked a Brog, but I have been thinking about it. How are they?

I realize you weren't specifically asking me but I can tell you I have a #67 briar and it smokes wonderfully. The bowl is a little thin but it handles all my English blends (that's the only ting I smoke in it) like a champ. It doesn't gurgle. The stem is a little plasticky feeling but it's solid enough that I don't feel like it'll shatter if I drop it or something.

I dropped a whopping $25 on it and it's probably one of my better smokers. I'd grab one.

I also have the churchwarden #14. It's pearwood and it's kind of cheap feeling. Smallish bowl with a really plasticky feeling stem. I hardly smoke the churchwarden. It cost about the same ~$25.

[gigmaster]

OK, I was inaccurate when I said I never smoked a Brog. I was going through my pipes, and my one and only Churchwarden is a Brog. I got it at some little local tobacco store that sold inexpensive pipes that I thought were Chinese-made. I guess I'll have to remember where it was, and go check out their stock again. I think I paid $11.00 or so for it. Like you said, it has a smallish bowl, but I think all Churchwardens have smaller bowls, maybe because of the length of the stem (balance?). It's actually a good smoker, but I have to be careful turning my head. I have banged it into the wall several times, the dogs, one of the cats, and my wife. It's sort of like the old Benson and Hedges Cigarette commercials (remember when they could advertise on TV?). Oops, I guess I let my age show. Oh well.

I realize you weren't specifically asking me but I can tell you I have a #67 briar and it smokes wonderfully. The bowl is a little thin but it handles all my English blends (that's the only ting I smoke in it) like a champ. It doesn't gurgle. The stem is a little plasticky feeling but it's solid enough that I don't feel like it'll shatter if I drop it or something.

I dropped a whopping $25 on it and it's probably one of my better smokers. I'd grab one.

I also have the churchwarden #14. It's pearwood and it's kind of cheap feeling. Smallish bowl with a really plasticky feeling stem. I hardly smoke the churchwarden. It cost about the same ~$25.