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Personally I don't think they are worth much.  Bowl coatings, I mean.  Yes you can taste a little briar on the first bowl, but after that it is diminished.  By the third bowl I don't taste briar at all.  On pipes without a coating, that is.

Personally, I dislike bowl coatings.  They do “spiff” up the chamber, but I am always thinking that it’s there to cover something up.  I think that most, if not all bowl coatings cause a wet smoke and stem gurgle.  I remove them from any pipe as soon as I get them.  I have had a couple of EBay refurbs that had that ‘Water Glass” bowl coating, that stuff is just not right, it is impossible to remove.  One might as well smoke a porcelain or glass pipe.  Peterson recently started using a new bowl coating that is what I believe to be gum Arabic and activated charcoal.  I like it a lot because it is easily removed with warm water😉.  I did try smoking one of my new Peterson’s that had it, it made the pipe smoke wet, and it just kinda balled up and got sticky.  I cleaned the ash and removed the coating and the pipe instantly smoked much better.  Bowl coatings won’t stop me from buying a pipe that has it though🙂.