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I sold a couple more items and have been talking to Paul Menard of Paul's Pipes. He is making me a squatted tomato reverse calabash with an off the wall stem. He just eMailed to that it's in the mail...... Can't wait. Pics when it arrives.
What's the difference between a calabash and a reverse calabash?
 
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I can't say enough good things about Paul. I told him I wanted a squashed tomato, but it had to be short, under 4 1/2", big body, crazy shaped and colored stem, and a reverse calabash. If I were a pipe maker, I would have ran screaming. But you see what he did... Amazing.
 

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What's the difference between a calabash and a reverse calabash?
A Calabash is what you might see in many Sherlock Holmes portraits, many times fashioned from a gourd, but now carved from briar as well. The bowl is a separate piece that rests inside the body of the pipe, so the burn happens in the bowl and the smoke cools and dries in the main chamber below. The reverse Calabash has a cooling chamber basically behind the bowl, in the shank and stem joint, but it's also a place to cool and deposit moisture.
 
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