>>2834796
If you're enjoying your pipe then thats great and keep with it, It's just small nitpicky things you pick up after smoking from so many different pipes over the years you tend to learn what you like more and like less. There is a certain airflow, feel, construction and materials I tend to prefer more and find that at my point in time and can't go back to the other pipes as they just don't smoke the same for me. Honestly if I stuck with my first meerschaum pipe I would have been content with it as I never experienced higher quality builds. Say for example my Canadian shaped Black meerschaum pipe I posted under my main post doesn't have the screwed in fittings that cheaper pipes have, its internals are constructed like a good briar pipe, the airflow is perfectly calibrated so my cadence while smoking is far more enjoyable than my starting pipes, the Meerschaum material is very light for such a large pipe meaning they are using top grade Meerschaum as the more dense meerschaum is of lesser grade, curing for the meerschaum material is spot on not too hard not too soft and it absorbs all moisture when I smoke and it always remains a cool smoke. Bowl never gets hot and most of all the tobacco always tastes good and never had a bad bowl. Now compare that to my Ahmet Govem meerschaum which looks nice on the exterior but internally the build was questionable ,Bowls of tobacco were not as enjoyable, If I smoked too fast it always ran hot, airflow was beyond restrictive and was just not as enjoyable. In turkey when they mine the Meerschaum they assign a grade to the meerschaum and sell it based off that grade. The difference in some pipes are drastic and I wish pipe makers would disclose what grade the meerschaum is so people knew what they are buying. There is no way in hell Black and Ahmet Govem are using the same grade of meerschaum. The density and feel of them are very different.