Metal screen filter? Yes or No?
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In my half-century of tobacco pipe smoking, I have never used a screen, or felt the need for a screen. With my few pipes that came with a metal stinger inside the stem, I have removed it. To my thinking, all of that gimmickry is clever marketing. Any item (such as a screen or stinger) will make little difference in smoking tobacco in a pipe, and will need to be either cleaned or replaced frequently. A pipe properly packed with tobacco will smoke just fine without a screen.
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I agree, the metal junk in the stem is junk.
I am not talking about that but the metal screen that one puts in the bowl.
It makes a nice air/smoke flow, one can burn with a lighter and burn whole bowl at once almost.
I don't need it but it can be nice, it is nice to variate IMO.
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That one left me shaking my head in amazement and amusement. Obviously written by someone who’d spent a little too much time “testing” in bongs.Why Stainless Steel Screens Are Better Than Brass Screens for Pipes
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For the OP, while ive known a lot of people who use screens in various pipes, I’ve never in my life heard of anyone using a screen in a pipe used for tobacco.
Maybe it is unusual then but I have seen Missouri Meerschaum sells corn cobs with filter so I thought it was for both.
It tastes less gunky at the end with a filter. I think corn cobs with a filter is great for tobacco also.
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Yep... "multi-purpose" for tobacco and ahem, "natural herbal relief". MM sells filtered pipes that use a regular 6mm paper or balsa filter. The screen is more for keeping burning bits of your finely ground "herb" from burning your tongue.
No reason you can't use a screen if you want, I've just never seen a purpose for it when smoking tobacco. It won't do the same thing a filter does, which is to absorb much of the moisture and some of the tar from the smoke.
No reason you can't use a screen if you want, I've just never seen a purpose for it when smoking tobacco. It won't do the same thing a filter does, which is to absorb much of the moisture and some of the tar from the smoke.
