Why's it called a "reverse calabash"?
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:30 am
What's reverse about it?
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Ok. Makes sense.e Markle wrote:I believe it's a reference to the large, bored out chamber. Normally this holds the bowl itself, but on the "reverse" calabashes the chamber is on the stem side.
Well, I suppose it would be more apropos if you loaded tobacco in the stem, and drew through the chamber. However, since you call the front of the pipe the "back", maybe you already do that?Tyler wrote:Ok. Makes sense.e Markle wrote:I believe it's a reference to the large, bored out chamber. Normally this holds the bowl itself, but on the "reverse" calabashes the chamber is on the stem side.
I was thinking about the path the smoke traveled, and couldn't figure out how it was any different than in a normal calabash. I wasn't thinking in terms of what part of the pipe the large chamber "held".
Don't knock it 'till you try it.e Markle wrote:Well, I suppose it would be more apropos if you loaded tobacco in the stem, and drew through the chamber. However, since you call the front of the pipe the "back", maybe you already do that?Tyler wrote:Ok. Makes sense.e Markle wrote:I believe it's a reference to the large, bored out chamber. Normally this holds the bowl itself, but on the "reverse" calabashes the chamber is on the stem side.
I was thinking about the path the smoke traveled, and couldn't figure out how it was any different than in a normal calabash. I wasn't thinking in terms of what part of the pipe the large chamber "held".
BJ Pipes wrote:Just throwing this out there, how about a "reversable" calabash? you can put tobacco in either side and the stem has a universal fit for either side?
It always does, Rad.RadDavis wrote:BJ Pipes wrote:Just throwing this out there, how about a "reversable" calabash? you can put tobacco in either side and the stem has a universal fit for either side?
That would be weird.
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Walle?BJ Pipes wrote:Just throwing this out there, how about a "reversable" calabash? you can put tobacco in either side and the stem has a universal fit for either side?