Brief History

The Falcon pipe was created in 1936 by the American engineer Kenly Bugg. However during WWII the production of the Falcon was limited.

In 1949 George Hunt took over production and marketing and by 1954 6 million Falcon pipes had been sold in the U.S.A. By 1961 production started in England.

In 1964 the Alco was launched. In 1967 the Brentford was launched but in 1979 it was withdrawn from the market. In 1968 production of the Falcon in Chicago, U.S.A. stopped. The Falcon International was introduced in 1977, which featured a removable mouth piece and filter.

Like so many fine things, the Falcon Pipe is an American invention, patented by Kenley Bugg of Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1936.

Bugg's desire was to create a pipe that smoked consistently cool and dry. His engineering background directed him toward designing a corkscrew aluminium stem system that would twist and cool the smoke, causing the moisture to condense and be trapped in a sink he incorporated below the interchangeable briar bowl.

His patented Falcon Pipes were first produced and marketed in limited numbers in 1940, but the lack of raw materials due to the War hindered mass marketing. In 1949, with materials available, real production began.

The Falcon was an immediate success with 6,000,000 units sold in American alone by 1954. In 1963, this great American Pipe moved production to its present large plant in Britain where most of the 44,000,000 Falcon Pipes in circulation continue to be produced.

The superb Falcon Pipe is manufactured with the 'Falcon System', which represents a partnership of modern technology and traditional craftsmanship.

The 'Falcon System' produces a Falcon Pipe with a cooler, smoother cleaner smoke, through its aluminium stem. All these pipes have interchangeable briar bowls made specifically for the Falcon Pipe.

The Falcon Pipe

The Falcon pipe features a metal stem onto which removable briar bowls are screwed. The Falcon gives a very cool and dry smoke due to its metal construction.

When smoked the smoke is drawn through a hole in the bottom of the bowl into the metal humidome below where moisture collects, drying the smoke.

The smoke is then cooled as it passes through the metal stem. Because the bowls are removable they can be unscrewed during smoking to shake out any moisture in the humidome and then screwed back on to continue smoking.

The Falcon, being mostly metal is also easy to clean. The bowl is removed and cleaned like any other briar pipe; the humidome can just be swabbed out with an alcohol soaked cloth and the stem can be cleaned with a pipe cleaner like any other pipe.