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After restoring the Peterson system pipe I bought, I’ve found that small bowls (this being the smallest bowl I think is practical) really aren’t forgiving of bad packing technique. With big bowls you know you can make up for it by fighting with the ember for 20 minutes. But with small bowls, that 20 minutes of work is most of the bowl. With that said, the ability to smoke a bowl of Irish flake when all you have is 30 minutes is wonderful. Sometimes I’d like a bowl before work, but I can’t go through an entire bowl of it in my cob country gentleman in less than an hour, and I don’t want to smoke half of it and then force myself to finish it in the evening when I might prefer something different. I don’t know about the US, but these old Peterson pipes are readily available online in the UK, and are generally a third of the price of Peterson’s contemporary equivalent (317) shape. If anyone has questions about restoring estate pipes, I’ll try to give an answer and provide some of the resources I used.
