Bowl coating olive wood...

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Bowl coating olive wood...

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I searched and found no answer...

I just recently made my first two olive wood pipes and am curious as to what the prevailing opinion is regarding bowl coating.
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I've only had one olive wood pipe and it tends to have an olive oil flavor that it imparts to the smoke. That does grow faint, but I suspect that coating the bowl would greatly reduce if not eliminate the olive oil flavor. I like to coat my bowls for consistency of flavor except by customer request. It's really up to you, though.
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Thank you for sharing your opinion Jeremiah. I appreciate the assistance.
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An olive wood pipe does taste different at first. Personally, I don't mind it, but in any case it goes away quickly. I'd say fewer than 10 bowls. It's been my experience that olive wood breaks in and cakes up faster than briar.
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For me, bowl coating saves me from having to replace a pipe that burns through related to bad smoking technique.With the taste of Olive wood , coating appears to moderate this somewhat. :D
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Thanks for weighing in on this Mark B. and pipedreamer.
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I've made exactly one olivewood pipe to date. I coated the bowl. I thought it looked better.
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Thank you Wayne for sharing your experience.
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I have made and smoked a lot of olive wood pipes.
I believe is better to coat them and if posible
to make them with fat walls. :D
At the beginning I burnt out and broke couple of them.
Also is very important the way you drill because is very easy to brake if you go wrong .
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For what it's worth i think that while i like coatings for the resilience, much of the pleasure of olive wood is in the unique smoking experience. A coating would lose that.
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Oakbear wrote:For what it's worth i think that while i like coatings for the resilience, much of the pleasure of olive wood is in the unique smoking experience. A coating would lose that.
You are right Sir but i think olive need a coating more than briar.
Ecsept the costumer nows how to take care of the olive .As i said my opinion is to make the bowl walls fat ,that gives more time to the wood to build a cake.
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Thank you for your thoughts and opinions Effe and Oakbear.
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