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Small Pipe Recommendations (30 min smoke?)

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I believe Al @AimlessWanderer has the sources with the widest selection available.

So... a store with BOTH Hunter stems and Bantam bowls... OK then.

Hunter stems (assorted) - Falcon Hunter Stems - J.N. Barber Limited - https://www.smoke.co.uk/acatalog/Falcon-Hunter-Stems.html

Bantam bowls (assorted) - Bantam Bowls (Small) - J.N. Barber Limited - https://www.smoke.co.uk/acatalog/Bantam_Bowls__Small_.html

The same store also has one of the oval bored pipes I mentioned above -

.... and a Nording Compass- Nording Compass Ref:07 - J.N. Barber Limited - https://www.smoke.co.uk/acatalog/Nording-Compass-Ref07-10343.html


... not to mention a couple of Savinelli Petite on clearance - 202 Savinelli Petit Rustic Pipe - J.N. Barber Limited - https://www.smoke.co.uk/acatalog/SAV116---202-Savinelli-Petit-Rustic-Pipe--12772.html

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I'd put another mention for the MM Huck Finn being a good quick smoker. Inexpensive as well. Sometimes a small Morgan Bones will make an appearance. Also inexpensive for briar.

Peterson Deerstalkers and the smallish line they have. Possibly.

I had a Parker that was tiny. It smoked well. Sadly it was left where a curious pup could get to it. She liked it ....
 
A Dr Grabow Lark might fit the bill. You can troll ebay or the estate pipe sites and find some nice older examples for not much $$, or buy a current production example from the usual online vendors including Amazon. WV Smoke Shop has them for under $35 bucks. They aren't especially handsome, especially the ones carved using the wrap-the-stummel-in-bacon-and-toss-it-to-the-dog method (or so it would appear), but the smooth ones look okay.

I have an old Grabow Savoy that just hits the 35-minute mark, you might try to find on of those. I really like mine:

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I love small pipes so much the rattrays mary line I can personally vouch for look full size or close to it and have small 20 min bowl sizes, I have heard their blowers daughter line and the new ahoy line have tiny bowls as well but I have yet to smoke one mary and ahoy both 9mm blowed daughter unfiltered but they mary even have special adaptors to allow them thin shanks still being 9mm. Awesome awesome pipes, love rattrays pipes and tobaccos
 
I love small pipes so much the rattrays mary line I can personally vouch for look full size or close to it and have small 20 min bowl sizes, I have heard their blowers daughter line and the new ahoy line have tiny bowls as well but I have yet to smoke one mary and ahoy both 9mm blowed daughter unfiltered but they mary even have special adaptors to allow them thin shanks still being 9mm. Awesome awesome pipes, love rattrays pipes and tobaccos
They are good-looking pipes!
 
I think Ropp still makes some classic looking pipes on the smaller side. They have a nice little story of how boxes of unfinished briars were found in storage years ago, and although I doubt you can still get some of those, I think they more or less produce a lot of the same shapes. Here are a few I picked up years ago with horn bits, next to a golf ball for perspective. They make for really nice short smokes. Other than that the MM Ozark I think was my go to for a short smoke or a tasting.



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Horn makes for a comfortable clench. To your fingers a horn stem feels much the same as an acrylic, but then between the teeth it's a little softer.
 
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