Old German Clay Model no.3 Pipe Review
BRAND: Old German Clay
MODEL: no. 3
SHAPE: Dublin
LENGTH: 5.01"
HEIGHT: 1.43"
BOWL DIA./DEPTH: 0.94/1.22"
FILTER: no
MATERIAL: Clay
FINISH: Black
The ultimate in "Put that in your pipe and smoke it" technology. Whatever you throw in it from plug tobacco to cigar butts, to perhaps the kitchen sink, gets incinerated. Also, the thing offers what I feel to be the straightest deal shoot in giving a blend a look-see. Big open draft draw. Does run hot hot hot, even for clay. [see incinerate]
Does also accumulate dottle as if dottle was going outta style; my best bet is the wide shaft allows for copious spittle opportunities as well as billows of smoke the other direction. The dottle is all the more fodder for Sherlockian's leaving the stuff out to dry on their mantle for the next morning's bowl in remembrance of the consulting detective's famed MO.
Plainly, my go-to work pipe for reviews--lesser so for R&R chillen. Indispensible if necessary, this. Brutally efficient, even.
I mentioned Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's model for his famed fictional character was the quite real Dr. Joseph Bell. The good doctor was a Scottish surgeon and lecturer who plied his wares and practice at the University of Edinburgh's medical school during the 19th century. At a particular lecture, he astounded the audience in a Holmesian way.
"Where did you leave your cutty pipe?" He asked a woman who he'd never met nor seen before. She had just been called up and hadn't yet uttered a single word. She slid a short-stemmed cutty pipe from her purse, astoundedly. A small ulcer on her lower lip. A burn scar on her cheek. These trifles were all Bell needed to offer a deduction amid his monograph.
I feel as tho her pipe was a lot like this pipe.
FINAL GRADE: A-
A 90-100 B 80-89 C 70-79 D 60-69 F 0-59
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