Feel free to post tobaccos (no weed allowed), pipes, collections, pics of favorite combos for going /out/, pics of what you're doing with your pipe and any questions you might have.
Want to get into smoking pipes without spending too much cash?
Get a Missouri Meerschaum Legend corncob pipe and a pouch of either Prince Albert, Carter Hall or Half and Half tobacco, available at most drugstores.
What you'll need: pipe, tobacco, lighter or matches, pipe cleaners, and either a regular old nail or a pipe tool (combination tamper, scoop, and small pick).
All of these together should run you less than $20.
Having trouble keeping your pipe lit? Fill it with less tobacco and smoke it slower than you think you need to, lightly tamping as needed when the smoke starts thinning out.
If you're still having trouble, try filling your pipe this way:
https://youtu.be/0XHYPso7TXs Old thread
>>1630670 Come on in and get comfy.
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I'm getting better at packing my pipe, and usually can get through at least half a bowl before needing a relight, but can't seem to get the last half to stay light as well as the first. Any tips?
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>>1667465 The back half is when most all of the problems seem to show up, at least for me.
What gets me through: light the tobacco more firmly, smoke slower, puff lighter, and tamp less hard.
Without knowing more details of what kind of problem you’re having, that’s about all i’ve got.
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What is your favorite tobacco for smoking when it's snowing?
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>>1667493 Nightcap makes a nice snowy smoke imo, enjoyed a bowl on the front porch yesterday morning. I also like Durbar or C&D's Rajah's Court.
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>>1667465 How's the ash level?
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>>1667465 Likely packing too hard.
Put less tobacco in and pack it less than you think you have to. When in doubt, test draw your pipe before lighting. If you sense any restriction at all vs an empty bowl, you’ve packed it too tightly. Dump and refill with less until it draws with no perceptible restriction.
Try a straight gravity fill. Just fill up your pipe bowl to the top with loose tobacco, no packing allowed. Then light it. This won’t win you any smoking competitions, but it will give you a baseline that works. Do you still have the same problems? If you do, something else is the problem, like smoking too fast or tamping too hard.
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>>1667959 >If you sense any restriction at all vs an empty bowl, you’ve packed it too tightly I always pack it a bit more if I thought it was too unrestricted. I will give this a shot. TY
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Finally got around to trying Orlik Golden Sliced.
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>>1668159 hmm, ive heard this before, do you perchance, also thing koriander tastes like soap?
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>>1668159 >tastes like soap to me That's strange. OGS tastes like hay and grass to me, which is the most common flavor reported for Virginias. Soap seems to be the standard descriptor for Lakeland blends, which I have yet to try.
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>>1668166 Nope, I don't have that gene, I like the taste of coriander.
Not sure why it tastes like soap to me but it's quite overpowering.
Anonymous
God bless Pipe smoking and tobacco smoke, it helped me overcome much a much worse habit that I do not want to mention. To all a happy new year and to all a good night.
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>>1668375 Good for you anon, glad you stopped sucking dicks.
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the zippo seems like a good lighter, but it does use flints. you can get like 12 for 5 bucks. so still better than lighters
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>>1668375 We’re glad you’re here, anon.
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I'll be taking my pipe to the NYE celebration tonight.
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>>1668482 Launch a firework from your pipe, it'll be awesome.
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>>1668482 I vote gaslight.
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happy new year!*
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>>1668512 Happy new year, anon. Gothenburg?
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This isn't really an /out/ question but I've been a very happy pipe smoker for a while and tobacco storage is simple, just put it in a jar, stick it on the shelf and it's all very easy.
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>>1667493 Nightcap, Plum Pudding is too sweet.
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>>1668527 Basically unless you're trying to have something fancy, just stick them in any airtight container and they'll be fine. If you're using a humidor, then most are sold unseasoned. You got two choices; muck about with distillated water and wipe the inside of the humidor with it and wait until the humidity is about 70 or so or just use one of those humidor bags a certain company makes, then use the normal one, remembering to soak it in distilled water when it no longer works anymore for a bit.
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>>1668527 Any container works, the humidity itself is provided by your humidification pack/gel beads/whatever. I use a coolerdor because I'm cheap and don't give a fuck, but chink humidors will work just fine. Or get something more expensive if that suits your taste. Getting a proper humidor is about aesthetics, not necessity.
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>>1668607 >>1668616 Gotcha. I might just stick them in jars then and only put a few out in a small box on my desk when I know I'm going to be smoking them then.
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What do people here do to carry their pipes around? I have a Big Ben Pipo I carry in its little sunglasses case type thing, but it'd be nice to have a bag or roll or something I could put everything in.
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>>1668625 I have a cheap knock off Savanelli pipe pouch that I use and you can pick those up off ebay for fairly cheap but honestly, I tend to just shove it into a jacket pocket. There's one I tend to use to avoid ash getting elsewhere.
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>>1668625 I stuff it in my pocket, before I use it I blow it out, and clean out the ash after smoking it.
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Bros, Im a little confused about pipe packing.
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>>1669155 Do you do a charing light before you light it to smoke?
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>>1669159 Yep, but I really can't tell the difference between a good charring light, one that's not charred enough, or one that's torched the tobacco.
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>>1669155 The draw should have some resistance, like sucking up a drink through a straw. You may be packing too lightly as the tobacco does have to make contact in order to light. Take some photos and show us what's going on.
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>>1669171 When the entire surface of your tobacco glows red when you're in the process of lighting your bowl, you're set. Obviously once you start smoking it, it won't be as hot as that, but that's how you guarantee that the tobacco is lit evenly. Scorching the tobacco is a meme, in the context of the initial light. Don't be shy with the lighter.
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>>1669653 This. I basically light the whole bowl, making sure it's glowing even, then tamp. If it's still going, great no need for a relight. If it goes out, I light it again.
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>>1668482 Were you in Dekalb, Illinois?
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What's a good bowl diameter if i want a half hour to an hour smoke on average? What' the average bowl diameter?
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1670130 thats incredibly hard to say, really depends on how you draw, how hot you smoke and your tobacco
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>>1670132 All good points, but would say a .7 in diameter pipe even be enough for 45 min smoke with a light draw and typical tobacco?
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>>1670140 Diameter is not the only dimension that accounts for smoking duration. Depth of bowl is important too. A narrow but deep bowl like a poker may smoke differently from a wide and shallow one, like a prince. As the tripfag said, pace and tobacco also affect it. I find flake lasts much longer than ribbon, just because there is far more density.
In my experience, every pipe I had, even the narrower ones from Mr Brog, have lasted at least 50 minutes with a relaxed pace and flake tobacco. I prefer a wider bowl as it's more forgiving of pack irregularities and potential airflow issues, but most production pipes should meet your target duration.
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>>1669886 Nope, I'm in the mountain west.
I went with Gaslight in the end.
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>>1669653 >>1669733 How do you avoid burning the shit out of your tongue during charring then? I tend to use matches for the charring light and find I have to puff a decent amount to get to that point, which inevitably gives me tongue burn.
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>>1670341 You're packing too tightly.
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>>1670341 You're puffing for like 5 seconds tops, if your tongue is getting burnt from just that, how are you going to smoke a 45 minute bowl? Yes, it'll be briefly hotter than normal smoking, but unless you have the most sensitive tongue in the world, it shouldn't matter.
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>>1670340 Stepped outside a party in a ballroom and some guy was smoking a pipe, i asked what tobacco he prefers and he offered to give me a pack if i had mine on me, which i did not. I just got the Missouri Meerscham Dagner Poker corncob pipe. Got a tool too but no tobacco yet.
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>>1671025 Nice, I always make sure I carry a pipe with me. I have a Big Ben Pipo (think I mentioned it somewhere else in the thread) which makes it easy to do.
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I dont know why you guys keep deleting my post, I smoke TOBACCO out of this when I go on heights. I'm sorry I can't afford a real pipe
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>>1671298 oh comr whone men, git yuu're like togither, do yuu own ah pocket knif or somthin? at teh's point juss carve whone men, its knw dat hard, git sum reed 4 teh stem nd somthin lkie birch or beech 4 teh bowl, its knw very hard! or juss git ah Missouri Meerschaum lagend, thay coasted lkie 9 bucks nd smoke fantastic
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>>1671321 im jus saiyan Missouri Meerschaums ate pritty dame cheap, smoke fantastic. n carving ur own pipe isnt taht hard, jus git ah knif, ah section iph wood por teh bowl, carve out teh bowl, mak ah hole near teh bottom por teh stem, sumome reeds wonk weel or bamboo, sumome aother plants wiv pith in teh midle kan b used bt it kan b dificult 2 remove all teh pith, heating ah piece iph wire in ah fire n burding it threw iz teh best method i find, bt thay tend 2 b fragile afta, soo i wood haiily recommend sumome form iph reed, liie dried cattail or bamboo iph yew kan find it. i guess yew kould also use willo branches por somat stronger jus, plz find a alternative 2 smoking out iph literal grabage, yew ate worth moar thn taht son
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here its outside now is this good enough for you
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Have a Peterson Silver Army Mount 86 coming in tomorrow, should be sweet.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
Nice walk, misty weather, Orlik in the country gentleman, smokes great
As one guy asked I timed it with my podcast and when packed with whole flake (not crumbled) and smoked slow it lasted about an hour
Also collected some sloe for a buddy
>>1672257 Pics when you get it? Been interested in the army mount myself, Havnt you had a sinus infection for months or are you a different poster
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>>1672517 That shopped pipe isn't to scale, I'm pretty sure those things are just big enough to squeeze a pipe and some tobacco in it. Looks to be the size of a women's wallet.
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>>1672517 There's pretty small. You can stuff it in a pocket. It fits two pipes in there, just about.
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>>1672758 Fancy but it looks heavy for no reason. When backpacking, I carry mine in small pouch inside a zip lock bag with my tobacco and a few pipe cleaners.
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>>1672935 It's super thin leather. It's not heavy at all.
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>>1672936 Ok, you do you. I just don't see the point of a travel case for your pipe.
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>>1672939 To stop it from getting damaged when you shove it in a pocket.
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>>1672935 What do you think about those White Elephant filters? I can't stand them, they restrict the draw too much and don't really fit my MM cob even if they are supposed to. Had much more luck with Dr. Perl Junior filters.
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>>1672949 Not a fan. I just picked a pipe from a box at the store, I didn't realize it took filters, I didn't even know they were a thing. It's just more crap to buy and carry, next time I buy a pipe, I'll pick one that doesn't take them.
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>>1672949 Also, they're the only ones stores carry over here, if you're lucky enough to find one that sells pipe tobacco and supplies.
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>>1672950 >next time I buy a pipe, I'll pick one that doesn't take them. I have a couple pipes that have space for a filter, and I don't use filters. They work fine without, I've never seen any of the issues people claim happens when you do.
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>>1672955 >>1672950 Like
>>1672974 said you can just drop it all together if you'd like. Personally I use some cheap balsa wood filters I ordered from ebay instead. Restricts air flow a little and keeps bits from getting in your mouth.
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>>1672365 Pipe finally showed up, no thanks to USPS. It's a beaut, can't wait to smoke it.
Different poster, this sinus infection has only been around a few days, looks like it might clear up in a few more, with any luck.
Anonymous
>local independent tobacconist in continuous operation for 100 years getting shuttered this year because the son won't take over the family business
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>>1673214 Such is life. That's a better outcome though than the business going to shit because the family pressured him into running a business against his will.
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>>1673160 looks great! sorta goofy looking with the softy bit on
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>>1673160 The pouch looks nice too.
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I found one of you out pipe guys the other day. I was hiking a local stretch we call "the tractor" because a sight on the trail is an old broken tractor half buried in the ground. I hiked almost to a creek on the trail I fish when I heard a faint crying. I followed the sound and found a guy with his pants down and his dick in the dirt. He was crying. He looked up at me and tried to stop crying and asked me for help hiking back to his 1998 Honda Civic. I asked him what happened. He said he was raped and injured. I said what. He said he was smoking his pipe and Cody Lundin jumped out of the bushes and kicked him in the face. Then he said Mr Lundin shoved his pipe up his ass and it was stuck and hurting. I said holy shit dude why. He said Mr Lundin said it was a fire hazard and a bad way to survive. Anyway I helped him back to his Honda.
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>>1673499 Why did you go into a thread on something you didn't like and make up a clearly fake story? Furthermore pipes are the safest way to smoke as the flame is contained and no embers spark from the bowl.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1673502 >not enjoying a harmless shitpost once in a while the term "blowing smoke up your ass" comes from the old practice of blowing pipe smoke into the ass of a drowning victim
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>>1673465 Yeah, the softy bits kinda ruin the nice lines of the p-lip but I clench and don't want teeth marks all over the stem, so needs must
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>>1673499 Was he smoking a churchwarden?
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
>>1673692 Hopefully not a calabash!
Anonymous
>>1673502 It's a thread-specific pasta, m8.
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>>1673499 I told that guy Cody didn’t like Latakia, that he’s a Lakelands man.
But did he listen? NOooooooo...
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>>1673499 >going /out/ in the woods, down the trail >knowing damn well that goblin is /out/ there >not setting up a 3f wide fire circle so Cody's bare feet wont be able to get him near you you are doing it wrong. But yeah that's what you get for smoking funky blends in a wood.
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>>1673549 >>1673866 Fair enough, my bad. Other boards are getting pretty bad so I took it at face value.
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Just bought Molina's beginner set with some Presbyterian tobacco
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>>1674270 Congrats, let us know how you get on
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Best maple smoke blend? Been smoking Sutliff Rum & Maple and its delightful but i‘d be interested to try Wilke or something else if there is better?
Anonymous
How much do I need to worry about unburnt leaves being stuck to the inside of the bowl when breaking in a new pipe? I can't really get them out without applying force, don't want to fuck up the bowl.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
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>>1674330 ive never run into this problem before, could you provide pictures?
its probably just going to get burned next time you smoke man
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>>1674330 You really don’t. If you want to knock the bits off by rubbing the side of your bowl with the scoop of your pipe tool you can, but it’s not really going to hurt anything.
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>>1674330 Not. Scrape off what you can, the rest will eventually get burnt. I found this to happen more with aromatics than with English, but it can be a sign that your tobacco is a bit too wet.
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does any one in this thread have sex?
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>>1674651 Yes. I even smoke my pipe afterwards. If a woman doesn't like you smoking something good, she's not a keeper.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
thoughts on pibe bags? kinda been looking for a solution to not have all the stuff, cleaners, tool, tobacco, pipe .etc just loose in my pocket.
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>>1674660 The savinelli knock off I have works very well. It fits into a jacket pocket, external or internal. It is a bit bulky if you have two pipes in there, but not much of a hassle. The inner tobacco pouch works well enough but I've not tried it over a long period of time. I prefer just reusing a tin but might work nicely. I suggest using it with one pipe if you want to keep it as compact as possible.
Note this pipe bag has tobacco and a zippo pipe lighter and two pipe tools in it as well.
Anonymous
>>1674660 I carry this
>>1673160 It's a waxed canvas pouch I got off amazon, supposedly handmade and pretty cheap.
it's made for rolly tobacco/cigs but perfectly fits a pipe and a baggy/rectangular tin of tobacco as well as lighter, pipe cleaners, pipe tool, wind cap etc.Pretty small as well, about the size of a paperback book. Here's another pic of it closed up, I like it, nice quality and small.
I put my tobacco in little mylar baggies made for weed. Doesn't dry out and keeps the package pretty small, especially since I mostly carry flakes or coins.
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>>1674660 >>1674675 Another thing to add:
I didn't have a lot of luck with the rubberized pouches. The tobacco tends to dry out too fast relative to the amount you put in there.
I don't have this problem any more, but I also generally only smoke a bowl or two when I'm out and don't carry around monstrous amounts of baccy.
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>>1674651 Are you offering? Because I totally would.
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>>1674676 >didn't have a lot of luck with the rubberized pouches. The tobacco tends to dry out too fast My experience as well. I have a leather tobacco roll-up pouch with rubber lining, and no matter how tightly I wrap it, it still dries out within 4-5 days. For now, I just stuff a ziplock bag of tobacco beside my pipe inside the cloth pouch that came with the pipe. I should probably get an actual pipe case, the chink ones are cheap.
I'd like to make a hard case for my churchwarden, so I can take it /out/. Last time I took a churchwarden on a trip, it ended badly for the stem.
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>>1674829 The thing about these tobacco pouches is that I've never used them for more than a day or usually an evening or so. If I'm going out for more than a week or so, I'll take a jar or if I'm going camping, a sealed tin and a ziplock bag for when I pop it.
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>>1667459 nothing relaxes me like a puff from a pipe when i steal natural gas pipeline from /out/
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
Biking and piping, first drunken ride home for the country gentleman, it did very good
Anonymous
>>1674971 Biking without a wind cap?
Madman!
Anonymous
isnt smoking a pipe bad for you? and the high isnt even that good compared to what you can get thats healthier
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>>1675178 it's actually the safest way to smoke tobacco and it's not about the high, it's about the taste.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
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>>1675101 you get to pretend your a steam train, its great
Anonymous
>>1675179 who cares about taste?
name one reason to use a pipe over my juul
/grabs psa ar15/
/dabs/
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>>1675184 If you don't care about taste, and just want nicotine, vape.
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>>1675178 This man has never smoked an English blend after the gym.
I vape constantly but something about that bowl....... got me feeling some type of way. Think I made an audible uuuuogh.
Anonymous
I bought a used Ropp church warden a while ago, but I’m not 100% sure how to clean it. The shank is very long, and I’m not sure how to clean it. I was thinking about just smoking through it so the moisture would loosen it up, and then scrubbing it with a bristle pipe cleaner. Would this work?
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>>1674651 I convinced a woman to marry me. She smokes with me sometimes.
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>>1675246 >I was thinking about just smoking through it so the moisture would loosen it up How do you think the moisture got there in the first place? Smoking again when you know you've got a wet stem would only aggravate the problem.
Much better off buying some churchwarden pipe cleaners. Yes, it's a tremendous pain in the anus to have to buy pipe cleaners ONLY for one example in your collection, but you save yourself a lot of trouble in the long run.
Also don't smoke churchwardens, shit's kind of goofy.
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Can i use pipe tobacco to roll cigarettes
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>>1675299 >don't smoke churchwardens, shit's kind of goofy. You're kind of goofy. Churchwardens are god-tier when smoking and reading in the garden. They're not an /out/ pipe, but they have a specific purpose and they achieve it better than any other pipe.
>>1675246 Churchwarden pipe cleaners for the stem, a skinny bristle brush for the shank, and whatever you want for the bowl. Doing an initial clean on a churchwarden is no different than cleaning any other used pipe.
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>>1675184 >psa ar15 >Juul Poorfags, not even once.
>>1675248 Mine used to smoke cigarettes, but doesn't smoke anything anymore out of fear that she might want to start again. She doesn't mind being around pipe smoke though, especially the lighter blends. Besides, I find women smoking pipes or cigars to be a weird look.
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>>1667459 >Want to get into smoking pipes without spending too much cash? >Get a Missouri Meerschaum Legend corncob pipe and a pouch of either Prince Albert, Carter Hall or Half and Half tobacco, available at most drugstores. >What you'll need: pipe, tobacco, lighter or matches, pipe cleaners, and either a regular old nail or a pipe tool (combination tamper, scoop, and small pick). >All of these together should run you less than $20. Just making the note that this is active shilling done by tobacco companies to get more folks to do muh traditional smoking.
For this the I only have to say that Tobacco as produced by our friendly tobacco companies is generally filled to the brim with additives, from added nicotine to anti-cough medicine. On top of this the tobacco they produce is bred to contain the least tar and the most nicotine. You might say that this is good, but tar has the 'beneficial' quality that you start coughing and your body starts to tell you that you should not be smoking this stuff. That's the sole reason tobacco companies breed it out of their plants, to make you smoke more.
'Organic' is a bullshit term. You need tobacco that is uncultivated or only cultivated for a few generations. Any more and professionals will try to get out all the tar and increase nicotine levels through breeding programs.
Fuck tobacco companies. Best would be to make your own Tobacco. Fuck you tobacco shills.
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>>1675299 I have them cw pipe cleaners. I meant the stuff left over from before I bought it.
>goofy Dude you’re in a pipe smoking thread.
>>1675359 Mine worries that it isn’t “lady-like”, but who cares.
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>>1675493 >>1675494 either that or a tobacco shill thread
I'm not opposed to tobacco. I prefer pipe over cigs any day. But make a note which 'brands' being reported as good and which as bad. There's most likely an artificial pattern trying to get you hooked on one brand.
That being said. I do want to get into pipe smoking, which tobacco would you recommend?
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>>1675493 i understand the other stuff but why would you even want tar?
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>>1675499 >But make a note which 'brands' being reported as good and which as bad. There is no pattern. The brands listed in the OP are poorfag drug store brands, I'm pretty sure nobody ITT actually smokes them. Carter Hall and PA are made by Altria, Half and Half is made by STG, so if one of them was making shill threads, why would they also shill for their major competitor?
>>1675493 >Fuck tobacco companies. Why? The treatment and processing of cigarette tobacco is different than for pipe tobacco. Companies that produce pipe tobacco, whether they're independent or owned by a parent tobacco corporation, still produce tobacco as they always have. That's what their brands rest on. Pipe tobacco is a small enthusiast market at the best of times, and top-end brands are run by those same enthusiasts. They generally don't want to fuck their customers over because unlike with cigarettes, those several thousand people globally are keeping the business afloat.
>Best would be to make your own Some of us do. I got into it last year because someone posted about their own experiences. More should grow at home, but that doesn't mean brand name pipe tobacco companies should disappear.
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>>1675578 then you know you're getting lung cancer and your lungs are dying from the stuff. I'm not saying I want it but it's one of those stuffs that stick for a long time in your lungs so inhaling will cause your lungs to cough and tell you to quit smoking, something you would ordinarily listen to with normal levels of tobacco. Tobacco bred over the course of multiple generations contain less tar and more nicotine, so you will smoke more and want to smoke more. In the end you'll have more tar in your lungs because chain smoking is so much easier to do.
Look at it like this, if there was double the tar in your tobacco, you'd only be able to smoke maybe a quarter of it. But because there's so little, you can smoke much more over a longer period. You end up with more tar in your lungs and way more nicotine
>>1675584 You're right, not everyone is a 'tobacco shill'. But you have to realise that 4chan and imageboards in general are one of the few places left where smoking is more accepted. On top of that advertising shilling is way more common than you think. It would be stupid for tobacco companies not to shill here, honestly. Just have an employee post here for fun, integrate, then slowly push towards a number of brands.
>The treatment and processing of cigarette tobacco is different than for pipe tobacco. Companies that produce pipe tobacco, whether they're independent or owned by a parent tobacco corporation, still produce tobacco as they always have. That's what their brands rest on. Pipe tobacco is a small enthusiast market at the best of times I honestly want to believe this and definitely not all of them are bad. It depends on their marketing strategy and long term breeding strategy. But the larger the worse is generally true.
Grats for making your own! I hope it tasted better than anything store bought! I do hope some larger companies disappear, smaller, product oriented businesses ought to profit. Luckily pipe tobacco is small market else it'd be hard.
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>>1675618 >pipe smoking=guaranteed lung cancer. Not according to the 1964 Surgeon General’s report.
You know, THE study that established a link between cigarettes and lung cancer? That same report had this to say about pipe smoking:
>For current pipe smokers (Table 5), men smoking less than 10 pipefuls per day have death rates very close to those of non-smokers.
>For heavy pipe smokers (10 or more per day) two studies show increases of 15 and 12 per- cent in death rates, but the other two studies show little or no increase. >The over-all mortality ratio of 1.05 does not differ statistically from unity. -1964 Report of the US Surgeon General on Smoking and Health, Page 86 (Page 93 on PDF file)
Apparently, the requirement to have smoking fuck up your lungs is to have said smoke inside your lungs in the first place. If it isn’t, your lungs don’t get fucked up. Who knew?
But don’t take my word for it, go look it up yourself:
https://biotech.law.lsu.edu/cases/tobacco/nnbbmq.pdf Also, as OP of the thread, if i’m a shill, you’d have thought the big tobacco companies would have paid me more than the $0 they have already.
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>>1675618 >Look at it like this, if there was double the tar in your tobacco, you'd only be able to smoke maybe a quarter of it. But because there's so little, you can smoke much more over a longer period. You end up with more tar in your lungs and way more nicotine You realize pipe smokers don't inhale, right?
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>>1675618 >i want tar because... thats the stupidest reasoning ive ever heard man. you need to get your head on straight and going for less tar doesnt beget more nicotine
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>>1675682 don't be a fag. See this is why I think there's shilling. If you have smoke enter an orifice, it will cause damage. If it doesn't cause lung cancer then the hot smoke stays in your mouth where it will do damage there. Stop being obnoxious and realise that smoke always causes damage to whatever interior your pour it in.
>>1675683 So it sticks to your mouth and the front of the throat? Same reasoning, will also cause dry mouth and coughing.
>>1675755 lol? I never said less tar means more nicotine. But what a professional company will do is breed natural tobacco and try to do two things, increase nicotine, and decrease tar. Both lead to more people smoking your product. Less tar means less irritation, sticking of nasty particles, and thus less coughing induced by the body to try and expel it. You'll feel better about smoking and in the end you'll smoke more because it's easier to smoke. Sort of like vapers claim that vaping is totally safe and cool because the smoke is differenr so instead of smoking the same as before they suddenly start sucking their vape off every single moment of their day. They'll do more damage to their lungs, throat, and mouth than had they just continued their smoking habit since then they would smoke less and inhaled fewer damaging particles in total.
Nicotine has the obvious 'addiction' effect so they'll always try to breed it to increase it. It's one of the first things a decent tobacco company will try, or should try, to do. More nicotine means stronger effect means more people coming back for your stuff and not the competitors. This obviously leads to a cold war where every competitor is trying to stay relevant by breeding their pls ts to contain even more tobacco.
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>>1675770 >i never said Yes you did, no backing out now.
>but company bad I'm not a company, next.
>vapers Strange, irrelevant.
Can you fuck off? You dome into the pipe smokers thread and want to start shilling against smoking? What the fuck is wrong with you?
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>>1675618 >then slowly push towards a number of brands. I've been here for most of these threads, and I haven't seen any trend of shilling for any particular brand. People tend to just suggest/post what they like. The benefit is that it's a niche industry (a dying one at that), so there's less corporate shenanigans going on, and any such attempts would be rather transparent.
>I hope it tasted better than anything store bought In the middle of harvesting and curing my first run (started way late in the season so they're finishing off in pots indoors). Once they're all cured, I'll ferment them, make some cigars out of the most presentable leaves, and turn the rest into flake. I have no expectation that it'll be better than actual cigar/pipe tobacco companies who have blenders with decades of experience, but at least it'll be mine and I'll smoke it even if it tastes like dogshit. It's not rocket science, but growing and blending does require knowledge that gets accumulated over time. It's like making your own wine and expecting it to compete with top-tier vineyards. If it was easy, everyone would do it.
Anonymous
Why do these faggots insist on coming into one of the chillest, quietest threads on here and shitting it up?
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>>1675493 Paranoid delusions. Most pipe tobacco blenders are tiny. My two favourite ones, Gawith Hoggarth and JF Germain are tiny concerns and I recommend them because they make good tobacco which I enjoy. My pipes are either made by a single craftsman or are old production runs from companies out of business. There is no grand shilling of tobacco by the likes of British American or such going on in these threads. Furthermore you are absolutely wrong about pipe tobacco versus modern cigarette tobacco. They are completely different beasts, to the extent where I don't think it should be legal to call cigarette tobacco tobacco.
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>>1675334 yes, but unless you somehow make it finer grained it's not going to burn very evenly and you have to relight it pretty often. Great taste though
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>>1675334 Yes, but it burns so quickly that it's really a waste. They will be the best cigarettes you've ever tasted however.
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What's everyone smoking lately?
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>>1675772 >Yes you did, no backing out now. quote me faggot.
>Can you fuck off? You dome into the pipe smokers thread and want to start shilling against smoking? I'm pro pipe smoking. I only meant to make a note on the fact that Tobacco companies shilling is not as uncommon as people think.
>>1675785 From what I've read it looks like this. Very little pro- a certain brand shilling which is great to see.
>it'll be mine and I'll smoke it even if it tastes like dogshit I'm sure it's like the tomatoes I grew once. Smaller than the stores but good enough
>It's not rocket science, but growing and blending does require knowledge that gets accumulated over time. I agree, this stuff is definitely not easy. Nice to see it panning out for you. Hope to do this too one day, but I don't currently have the space for it. How many plants did you grow and did you treat some differently than others to test how the tobacco leaves would end up? I don't suppose so since it's a first run, but keep in mind this even varying one variable can yield more valuable information than you think
>>1675789 a-are you referring to me? I love this thread...how is criticising something trying to fuck it up? If anything I hope to learn and try to help out in my own way (advertising shilling should be public knowledge)
>>1675802 >Paranoid delusions. Wouldn't say that. Advertisement shilling is done on alot of boards because 4chan is so mainstream.
>Gawith Hoggarth and JF Germain I'll be sure to write these names down anon, if I ever get tobacco I'll get either of these to test them out first.
>Furthermore you are absolutely wrong about pipe tobacco versus modern cigarette tobacco. They are different and pipe tobacco is less harmful I agree with you on that.
>I don't think it should be legal to call cigarette tobacco tobacco. Also agree actually.
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>>1675820 >I love this thread If you love this thread, shut the fuck up and post about pipe smoking or fuck off. Nobody cares about your /x/ tier schizophrenia and tiny boutique manufacturers like GL Pease and Samuel Gawith aren't hiring people to fucking shill on 4chan. They don't even pay people to review blends on Youtube for fuck's sake.
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>>1675820 No one is shilling tiny blenders who are only known amongst pipe smokers. There's a difference between, say, some publisher shilling a game on /v/ and people talking about pipe tobacco. The fact that this is the major thrust of your argument rather than, say, people who smoke pipes (not exactly mainstream practice these days) wanting to talk about it, and tobacco blenders and blends can taste remarkable different. You can compare the bog standard English tobacco offerings from STG, Gawith Hoggarth, Cornell and Diehl and so on and they will taste quite different from each other, so tastes in this narrow are alone can differ extensively.
Now the reason why those drug store blends are in the OP is because for an American (and the site is predominantly American), those are the easiest to get. Personally I wouldn't touch either of them, but that's why they're there. Same for as MM pipe with a caveat I don't own one, but they're cheap, good pipes that are readily available.
As for the particular blends, Gawith Hoggarth took Samuel Gawith under it in 2015 (the two companies were based in the same town and had been from the same family but split in the 18th century due to two brothers wanting to focus on different things). So my favourite blends from GH are the Samuel Gawith blends. Skiff Mixture, Virginia Flake and Winter Time Flake being my main from them. In regards to JF Germain, it's 1820 Flake (not the tinned ready rubbed stuff though that is nice, but the loose flakes, which are sold in the US as part of the Esoterica Tobaconnia line, apparently), 1820 mixture (which is nice but I prefer the flake) and King Charles Mixture. I say this not to advertise as you seem to think some peoploe are, but to advise as those are my preferred. I'm not a fan of aromatic tobaccos for instance and while I do enjoy it, Kendal Dark Plug is not an everyday smoke.
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>>1675822 This. I don't think people who aren't familar with pipe smoking know how very small these companies are. It's often just a half dozen men in a shed using equipment that's been running for two hundred years.
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>>1675820 What is wrong with you? You're like an edgy teenager who cuts the flters of cigarettes because he wants to suffer more...man...
Being this autistic about keeping tar like you're some kind of evangelist is ridiculous. You're a complete conspiracy nutter.
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>>1675820 genuine autistic. not in the meme insult way. you should look into testing.
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>>1675494 The pipe in question. Service wasn’t good enough at work to post.
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I was enjoying a new blend by a rock overhang in Oklahoma yesterday. We had a lot of rain and the overhang kept me dry. All was well until Cody Lundin came running at me outta the rain and tackled me. He took my pipe and dumped the ember out into a fire bundle he had then blew it into flame. Mr. Lundin made me go out in the rain and finds sticks for the fire. I returned soaking wet with sticks and asked for my pipe back. He said no. He forced me to get naked, butt naked, and spoon with him. I was little spoon. I fell asleep. When I awoke Mr. Lundin was gone and I was naked with my pipe up my ass. He took my clothes and all supplies. Written on the cave wall in blood was the words pipe smoking is no way to survive kid.
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>>1675913 > rock overhang > Oklahoma Anonymous
>>1675820 >How many plants did you grow and did you treat some differently than others to test how the tobacco leaves would end up? I had six plants, two each of a Havana hybrid, Burley, and Virginia brightleaf. Seeded a bunch, then picked the biggest two sprouts from each. Fucked up right off the bat by not having enough nitrogen or sand in the potting soil, so the retarded amount of rain last summer ended up washing it away and the plants started to bleach. Ended up with two surviving Havanas, one Burley, and one Virginia. The Virginia managed to get some infestation of industrial-strength aphids that took forever to finally kill off, so it ended up being only like 2' high before the leaves started yellowing and I had to pick them. Didn't even get a chance to produce flowers. The other 3 are at the end of their flowering stage and I'll get some seeds for the next round, but it's slow going because I'm doing all this indoors under my poverty grow light setup. All of them were sun-grown while it was summer, and then partially shaded when I took them indoors. Leaves get air-cured in ziplock bags because it's so dry here, and I don't want to constantly spray them with water to maintain humidity. Once everything is cured, I'll throw them in a kiln (which I have yet to make) and ferment them for a few weeks to rapidly age them.
Major lessons learned: start seeding earlier than halfway through the summer (should start sometime soon, since our growing season isn't very long), add sand to the potting soil to improve drainage, and add fertilizer regularly. I need to get at least a solid year of growing before I consider doing fancy stuff like comparing shade grown to sun grown, or messing around with boutique cultivars or some shit like that. For now, my main goal is to produce usable tobacco for free.
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>>1676017 It may look small to you, but what you’re doing is still awesome to me.
>>1675913 We told you, anon. Lakeland blends.
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>>1675178 All told, smoking anything isn't really good for your health. As far as smoking tobacco goes, pipes are probably the least harmful method due to temperature, duration of exposure to carcinogenic compounds, ease of forming habits, and a few other factors. Also, the nicotine rush isn't the point (although you can certainly find blends that will have Big Nic punch you in the gut), but taking time to slow down, relax, and contemplate while you enjoy a smoke.
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>pipe smokers who dont inhale had a 0.8 mortality rate to a nonsmokers 1.0
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>>1677146 regular relaxation / active stress reduction perhaps
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>>1677146 Statistical significance comes into play here. It's safe to say that at minimum, casual pipe smokers are indistinguishable from nonsmokers.
Also, tobacco consumption is known to correlate with a reduced risk of certain cancers (though obviously an increase in others). I don't know of any studies that looked at this interaction as a function of dosage and frequency though.
Anonymous
>>1677146 Pipe tobacco is higher quality, smoked slower, not inhaled, no tobacco is coming into direct contact with the body and generally leads to a more relaxed, happier state when smoking it reducing stress and other factors.
Anonymous
>>1677192 >not inhaled Faggot.
Anonymous
>>1677229 >Inhaling pipe/cigar smoke You're an idiot, it's not meant to be inhaled.
Anonymous
>>1677231 >not meant to be inhaled By the International Pipe Smoking Authority? It's up to the smoker, my dude. Inhaling is less common than not, but plenty of people do. Cigar smoke is rarely inhaled just because of the harshness and strength.
Anonymous
>>1677507 Nope, you're not meant to inhale pipe tobacco. Enjoy your lung cancer.
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>>1677523 >you're not meant to inhale pipe tobacco. You are a moron. I don't inhale, but I don't presume to tell everyone else about how my method of pipe smoking is the One True Way.
Anonymous
>>1677507 If you're going to inhale pipe tobacco why not just roll cigarettes and cut out half the cleaning? It's not like you're actually enjoying the smoke at that point, you're just chasing a buzz like a soccer mom downing a glass of wine.
Anonymous
>>1677654 It isnt meant to be inhaled.. same reason I tell kids rolling blunts that they shouldnt. Snoops lungs are trashed from years of inhaling cigar wraps.
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>>1677686 >It's not like you're actually enjoying the smoke at that point Inhaling and enjoying the smoke are not mutually exclusive, you do realize?
>>1677765 Pipe tobacco is not worse than cigarette tobacco. I'm not sure if inhalers do it through the entire bowl or once every few puffs, but the only difference in this regard relative to cigarette tobacco is the quantity and (generally) lack of additives. It's not as though pipe tobacco is deadly poison and cigarettes are fine.
Anonymous
>>1677832 >'s not as though pipe tobacco is deadly poison and cigarettes are fine. Cigarettes have filters for a reason.
Anonymous
>>1677908 >filtered pipes don't exist Also, filters do not reduce cancer rates. They don't make the cigarette any less harmful.
Anonymous
>>1677913 Filters on pipes do help remove some compounds from the smoke, but are primarily there to wick up moisture that can cause the tobacco to burn hot and unevenly, and reduce pipe gurgle.
Anonymous
>>1675860 She's a beauty anon, I've been looking for a new warden and that's similar to what I'm looking for.
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>>1677832 >Chugging the wine and savoring it aren't mutually exclusive you know Sure they aren't
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>>1678124 Neither cigarette nor pipe filters reduce the risk of cancer from tobacco smoke, which is anon's original implication.
>>1678152 >the smoke doesn't enter your mouth to be savored if you inhale it How are you this stupid and still alive?
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>>1678159 >the wine doesn't enter your mouth if you chug it Anonymous
>>1678334 >take smoke into your mouth, savor it >inhale for a few seconds >exhale, repeat Just stop, this is embarrassing.
Anonymous
Been deep into cigars for a few years now but always wanted to try a pipe (mainly due to cost). I'm well aware to check out meerschaum cobs but I don't want to spend months again just to find a tobacco I like. I usually prefer maduro cigars; is there anything comparable in the pipe world?
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>>1678352 Not as embarrassing as you're utter delusion. You're chasing a high, like Suzy chases her buzz, and like her you tell yourself you're "enjoying" you "glass of wine". If you wanna waste money burning good tobacco, go ahead it's your money, but don't kid yourself on what you're doing.
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>>1678408 >you're chasing a high because you inhale your smoke >I am a superior, cultured gentleman who savors its delicate nuances, an activity that is ruined if the smoke touches your lungs Absolutely fedora-tier. Also, like I said, I don't inhale.
Anonymous
>>1678414 Don't inhale pipe tobacco, it's literally how not to smoke a pipe.
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>>1678365 My cigar knowledge is lacking but as I understand it, maduro primarily describes that the tobacco has been cured for a longer time than some other blends. What flavors or characteristics do you look for in your maduros? Strength, complexity, certain flavors?
You might like English blends, but if you can elaborate on your preferences, it will be easier to narrow things down (or suggest other kinds that you might also want to try).
Anonymous
>>1678729 Maduros tend to be deeper flavors. Usually sweeter, earthier, woody, nutty, leathery, etc. I can handle nic strength just fine but it's not something I go out of my way for.
Anonymous
>>1678414 The literal only reason you inhale smoke (be it a pipe, cigar, or cig) is to get a nicotine high. Are you unironically not aware of this?
Anonymous
>>1678745 It's a bit of a meme, but you might want to give Seattle Pipe Club's Plum Pudding a try. It has a bit of everything (Virginia and cavendish for sweetness, latakia for leather and smoke, perique for a bit of spice, and some orientals for added depth to the flavor profile). You'll want to take a piece of the crumble cake, rub it in your hands until the leaves separate out, and let it sit for 15-20 minutes until it starts to dry out a bit (it tends to ve a bit moist). Peterson Nightcap, or Three Nuns (orange or green) might also be worth experimenting with.
Maybe also get some Prince Albert burley to practice with. It's a bog standard tobacco, but it is dirt cheap and will let you get used to packing a pipe before you use up your nicer tobacco on trial and error runs.
Anonymous
Does anyone know if there's somewhere that sells tobacco twists and unrelated, seeds?
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>>1678797 Appreciate the help.
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>>1678595 There is no "correct" way to smoke a pipe. Who decides this, you?
>>1678771 People still get nicotine highs when they smoke nicotine-heavy blends without inhalation. Evidently you consider this method of nicotine intake acceptable and proper, but not if one were to do the same thing but also inhale periodically?
Anonymous
>>1678954 Are you that same autistic wanker who was arguing about tobacco company shilling earlier?
Will you all fuck off and go argue about anime figurines or some other gay hobby you have so that we can all get back to chilling in here?
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>>1678856 Your local tobacconist might have twist. Mine has rope from Samuel Gawith, the Kendal twist, in a couple of different versions. For seeds I'd call a botany store or order online. Do your research, for there are lots of different species of nicotiana. Only familiar with tabacum and rustica myself, but there are plenty more.
>>1678745 I associate Virginia with sweetness, burley with nuttiness, perique with spice and latakia with a bonfire. You can't really expect to get cigar flavors from pipe tobacco, however. I think you'd set yourself up for disappointment. Still,
>>1678797 offers good advice. If you can, try to get a few samples of different tobaccos so you aren't stuck with a tin you don't like. I would recommend a Virginia Perique (VaPer) blend with some latakia as well if you like Islay scotch and dark flavors in general. Latakia heavy blends like Nightcap might be a bit much though, depending on your frequency. I wouldn't call it an every day kind of smoke.
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>>1678969 No, I was arguing with that guy because it's retarded to think tobacco corps hire paid shills for a thread on /out/.
We were chilling just fine until the current faggot started whining about people inhaling their pipe smoke.
Anonymous
>>1678954 Do you have brain damage or fetal alchohol syndrome?
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>>1679020 >I started shit not once but twice, just to display how autistic I am Ah yep it is you.
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>>1678141 Thanks m8. If you don’t mind some cleaning then I’m sure there are some Ropp’s available on eBay that would do the trick.
Here’s another one of mine. A Fader’s RCP.
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Has anyone else been hassled while outing with your pipe? I was perched up on a boulder like a majestic falcon enjoying the sweetest blend this side of Arizona! Then some barefoot hippy guy started circling me saying I was gonna learn a proper way to survive and demanding I throw my pipe down. I refused and told him I was calling the cops when I treck back to my Honda Civic (99 year model, 4 door). And that dirty hippy waited me out until I climbed down 6 hours later. Long story short, I'm in the hospital with my pipe stuck in my colon.
Anonymous
>>1679064 There's no point, you're stuck in a circular logic loop and are clearly not mentally capable of comprehending what anyone is putting down.
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>>1679416 You have yet to present any coherent argument that inhaling pipe smoke is sacrosanct. All you've been doing is screeching autistically that it's wrong.
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>>1679422 >sacrosanct anathema, fuck
Anonymous
back in college after a while boys, appalachia this time
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>>1679604 >college Oof. It was bad enough when I was in college 10 years ago, can't imagine what it's like now.
Anonymous
>>1679604 What, no smoking on balconies or something?
Anonymous
>>1679652 Most dorms are like retirement communities with the level of hassle and bullshit you have to wade through.
Apartment living is where the college experience gets good.
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
Anonymous
>>1679821 Damn dude, how did that happen?
Anonymous
anybody recommend a churchwarden style?
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>>1680186 Like, a particular style? Just pick whatever shape you like, it's an aesthetic choice...
On that note, my calabash (similar to pic related) has replaced my churchwarden for home smoking. Turns out Butz-Choquin has gone bankrupt too, shame.
Anonymous
>>1679424 You never started with an argument to begin with. You stated your opinion that inhaling isn't specifically for achieving a nicotine high. Which is factually incorrect.
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>>1680313 >You stated your opinion that inhaling isn't specifically for achieving a nicotine high Where? Quote me.
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>>1680281 never smoked before, but the churchwarden style looks comfy for lounging in my van
no idea where to look for something that won’t give me cancer by way of chinese sewage, could you recommend a brand/site to shop through?
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>>1680348 Any of the main sites, like smokingpipes or pipesandcigars or cupojoes or whatever. I have a Savinelli churchwarden, they're decent and not pricy.
>>1680348 Quote where I said inhaling isn't specifically for achieving a nicotine high, you dishonest goddamn faggot. All I've been saying, if you've bothered to actually read, is that inhaling isn't wrong, it's merely a personal choice. You're the autismo screeching about how that upsets you so.
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>>1680373 >where I specifically said it's not for a high So exactly what I said here
>>1680313 Glad were in agreement
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>>1680387 Are you retarded or just illiterate? This whole boomer forum-style personal argument has been cringe enough, but goddamn dude. What is so upsetting to you about people inhaling their pipe smoke?
Anonymous
>>1680388 Since you can't read I'm not going to repeat myself. So here reread this
>>1678408 Anonymous
>>1680388 Will you let it go, you absolute fucking turbofaggot?
Anonymous
>>1680445 In your stupid analogy, Suzy would only be able to enjoy her wine if she spat it out after taking each mouthful. If it enters her esophagus, though, she's clearly an alcoholic chasing a buzz and is entirely unable to enjoy the taste of the wine. It's as if her taste buds simply turn off. What a waste of good wine! Doesn't she know you're not supposed to ingest?
>>1680488 You seem upset about this. What is it about inhalation that drives you to such fits of rage?
Anonymous
>>1680508 Do you just enjoy being mocked for your room temp IQ? Serious question.
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>>1680508 Your autistic faggotry is shitting up one of the only decent threads on this board. Nobody cares about you or your gay opinion about inhaling or not inhaling pipe smoke, so take it somewhere else.
Anonymous
>>1680513 Do you enjoy being btfo, or are you too retarded to understand?
Anyway, shut up about this shit and post pipes.
Anonymous
>>1680519 >thinks he btfo anyone with his non-argument and factually incorrect claims Ah so you do enjoy being mocked.
Anonymous
Can anyone tell me why this happens?
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>>1680537 >factually incorrect >no proofs, just shitposting this beaten horse to death Are you actually autistic?
>>1680568 Is it an aromatic? The propylene glycol used as a humectant tends to make them smoke wet no matter what. Either way, use the Frank method or equivalent packing technique so you have less density at the bottom of the bowl, this should let air flow through better and allow the bottom tobacco to burn properly. Also, smoke slower, so the moisture has time to evaporate instead of collecting at the bottom.
Anonymous
>>1680577 The fact you ask for proof on how inhaling tobacco is purely for getting a nicotine high (common knowledge since 1990) shows you're either underage or have a room temp IQ. Probably both.
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>>1680578 Inhaling tobacco smoke increases the absorption rate of nicotine from smoking. Regular pipe smoking delivers nicotine through the mucous membranes in the mouth, albeit less efficiently. Neither process precludes the ability to taste and smell the smoke. What is the issue here?
Madsen Maskingevær !!o9Rj2xAYif5
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>>1680119 sneezed and dropped it, now im just gonna practice carving on it
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>>1680577 Nope, it's not an aromatic. I think smoking slower and improper packing are why though, thanks
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>>1680568 Flake and coin have less surface area than loose ribbon cut, and so dry out much slower. They also oxidize slower, which is why they taste better too.
Anonymous
>>1680568 Never had that before and I've been smoking for 6 years. Goopy mess?
Anonymous
>>1681736 Yeah, I'll get to a point where I just end up relighting constantly and say "fuck it," start emptying the bowl, but the dottle is sticky as fuck and takes tons of effort to get out.
Anonymous
>>1682069 I've had damp dottle at times but never that bad.
Anonymous
>>1682074 I've had this happen with all sorts of blends, from Capstan to Squadron Leader, from flake to shag.
I wonder if it could be the coating on the bowl creating the goop? I don't think I've burned it all off yet.
Anonymous
>>1682075 Sounds like it might be the pipe itself then. Is it very humid where you live?
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>>1682087 Nope, it's high desert. Super dry.
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>>1682075 How moist is your tobacco? Also, what pipe do you have? Coatings shouldn't be goopy.
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>>1682091 I think it's tobacco moisture that's the problem, probably combined with crappy packing/tamping. I have a really hard time judging what the correct moisture is. I've nailed it a couple times and managed to smoke down to the heel and been left with nothing but ash, but most of the time I seem to end up with "crispy" tobacco that burns super hot or "moist" tobacco that burns fine at the start but ends up as a sticky plug half way down the bowl.
Mostly smoke out of a Peterson system, but now that I think of it, I've had similar problems with a MM cob.
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>>1682097 if you pinch the tobacco with your fingers, it shouldn't stick all together nor should it crack and break down.
If the first happens, too moist, if the latter, too dry
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>>1682069 Flakes and coins need to be packed less tightly for best results. Try using just one coin, or half of a flake, in a bowl.
Anonymous
YOU PIPE SMOKERS COME TO MY AREA AND YOU WILL PAY. Pipe smoking is no way to survive you guys.
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>>1682421 Hey Cody!
I got the Ennerdale flake you like. Come on over and we’ll talk about good times.
Anonymous
>>1682524 Speaking of, does Ennerdale really taste like soap?
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>>1682778 Some people get that. Others get a floral taste.
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>>1682524 THANKS FRIEND, DO YOU WANNA FROT WITH ME?
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>>1667459 I gotta know what kinda coat that dude is wearing and where I can get one
Anonymous
>>1682966 How good are you at drinking gasoline?
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>>1683379 >gasoline Lysol and stolen printer toner are the indigenous traditional beverages of choice in leafland. Gasoline is for abbos down under.
Anonymous
>>1675352 Churchwardens are the fedora of pipes... and pipes in general already have a fedora type vibe if you are under 60...
Churchwarden, not even once.
Anonymous
>>1683521 Churchwardens are to regular pipes what Stormtrooper costumes are to normal clothes.
They’re cosplay.
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>>1683521 >>1683582 i think they are just proportionally more annoying then they are worth
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>>1683521 >>1683582 Churchwardens aren't for public use you goddamn faggots. They're for sitting at home and smoking.
>>1683584 How? You use a long pipe cleaner for the stem, that's the only difference.
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>>1668625 I keep mine in a tea tin
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>>1668625 literally just in my front right pocket like a pleb that i am
Anonymous
Any tobacco recommendations? I'm going to try some borkum riff because I know a cool old guy who used to smoke it. I don't know much about pipe tobacco, but when I smoked cigarettes I preferred export A green.
Anonymous
>>1683679 Well pipe tobacco has a lot more variety to it than cigs, so you've got a lot of room to experiment and find wht you like (or find if you even like pipe smoking). First thing to decide would be if you want aromatic or non-aro blends.
Since you mentioned Borkum Riff, that and Captain Black (white pouch) are some okay/tried and true drugstore blends. For some similarly priced, but better made aromatic options, consider taking a gander at Lane 1q or CAO Eileen's Dream. Both are quite pleasant, and are genrrally crowd pleasers even if you have people around that get agitated by smoke.
What kind of beer or liquor do you like?
Anonymous
>>1683679 Can't go wrong with a solid english blend. Peterson Standard Mixture, SG Squadron Leader, Planta Presbytarian Mixture and JF Germain King Charles Mixture all solid entries.
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>>1683700 >Lane 1q I've found it to be too mild, virtually tasteless. Smells really nice though, and lots of people seem to like it, but IMO it's a tobacco that's best for adding to other blends. For a cigarette smoker, it's probably not strong enough.
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>>1683679 Borkum Riff is a cheap aromatic. Nothing particularly wrong with that if it’s your jam, but it wasn’t my thing. I found it was hard to light and keep lit, and really hard to get good flavor out of it.
For cheap blends, something like Half and Half was much better, and more expensive blends like 965 and Royal Yacht were worlds better.
Anonymous
in some occasions, I need a more discreet way to consume some tobacco, and I have been considering rolling some cigarettes with rolling tobacco, but smoking it just like I smoke pipes, that is, not inhaling it.
Anonymous
>>1683848 >will I get the relaxing and soothing effects of the tobacco? No. I started smoking the pipe to quit cigarettes, they're nothing alike. Cigarettes aren't soothing or chill, you just run through them without even thinking about it. They're the candy or cheetos of tobacco.
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>>1683853 I see what you mean, but it would be a different approach.
I've smoked commercial cigarettes once, inhaling and all (threw up even, lmao), and I didn't like it nearly as much as smoking a pipe.
However, I'm not addicted, so my approach to cigarettes (and, again, I would be rolling my own, with good rolling tobacco) would be similar to how I smoke pipe, that is, really appreciating every puff (and not inhaling), even if just for a few minutes, as would be the case with cigarettes, as opposed to 30~40 minutes with the pipe.
Pipe will remain my main choice, but when I can't use the pipe I'd have an alternative, even if just to appreciate the smell and taste of tobacco, which I adore, as well as the ritual, instead of packing the bowl, would roll my a cigarette and smoke it.
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>>1683857 Just smoke the pipe for a bit then let it go out then.
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>>1674651 Yes but I'm not one of these pipe dorks lmao
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>>1675184 I dont care if you use a pipe or not, though so why bother?
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>>1683848 The taste will be different because you're also smoking paper.
If you dont "need" the tobacco and only smoke for the flavor or whatever, I wouldnt even bother.
But if you do need your tobacco, and time to time you need a quick smoke, a couple rolled ones will be more convenient to pull out and smoke wherever you need to without having to break out the pipe and tools and pack etc etc
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>>1683882 It takes less time for me to pack a pipe than it does to roll a cigarette, plus I could always pack a pipe, smoke it for five to ten minutes, then put a cap on it or put it down somewhere and return to it later.
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>>1683679 I‘ve been really into sutliff rum maple this season. Nothing like strolling through the snow covered forest under the full moon with the old dog and smoking a pipe of that stuff.
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>>1683521 You know how moist a woman gets when you‘re fit, well groomed and light up a rich masculine smelling aromatic and stare off into the world pondering your thoughts for 20 minutes, ignoring everything? Pipes can be alpha as fuck. If you‘re a basement dwelling neckbeard who takes a sweaty, mouth breathing a 1 mile hike once a week with his naruto ninja stars when his divorced mom kicks him out of the house to have some alone time with her new boyfriend, nothing you do will look cool and every half-witted internet diss is a projection.
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I smoke cigars occasionally, never a pipe. But cherry cavendish is probably one of my top 5 favorite smells in this world so I wanted to bring a pipe on summer hikes to ward off mosquitoes. Is that type of tobacco too sweat? Does it end up attracting bugs? That would be my main MO: smoking cavendish to keep mosquitoes away.
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>>1683968 >You know how moist a woman gets when you‘re fit, well groomed and light up a rich masculine smelling aromatic and stare off into the world pondering your thoughts for 20 minutes, ignoring everything? Pipes can be alpha as fuck. Anonymous
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>>1683968 No more Jack Kerouac for you THREE WEEKS
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>>1679043 God damn this is a cozy scene.
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>>1684229 >not fit >neither well groomed nor well dressed >improperly packed pipe with tobacco overflowing out of the bowl >taking a selfie to immortalize this embarrassing, womanless moment of his life (one of many, to be sure) Anonymous
>>1683902 does it not taste like shit to return to it later?
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>>1684498 >improperly packed pipe with tobacco overflowing out of the bowl Tobacco can rise above the top of the bowl, it's not a big deal. You can tamp it down as you smoke.
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>>1684726 This is true, however you really should tamp it down after your first light.
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>>1683857 Imagine being such a beta that pipe smoking becomes a gateway to cigarettes
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>>1683491 Greenland coffee
Take a large coffee cup and put a coin in it, pour in black coffee until you can't see the coin, then pour in aquavit or vodka until you can see the coin again. Baneappletea
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>>1684840 /out/ tripfaggot
Take a normal person and put a tripcode on it, pour faggotry in it until they approach janny-like mass, then pour in AIDS until they are useful again. Boneapplesneed
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>>1684877 Literally go literally back to literal reddit.
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im getting ready to test the ice so to speak, lakes finally froze and i can go explore islands for 3-5 days
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>>1679043 How are you liking the "winter" Hearth & Home blends? Was thinking of picking one up.
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is it normal for corncobs to have this "sawdust" thing? I'm guessing it is to keep the tobacco from passing through and getting to my mouth..?
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Anyone have any recommendations for what to stain a corn cob pipe with that won't make it harmful to smoke out of? Or at the very least, no more harmful than smoking a pipe already is.
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>>1685580 No, its just poor manufacture or a defect. Is that a cheap Chinese corn cob or a Missouri Meershaum? Either way just use your pipe tool and clear the obstruction.
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Lots of drama on the pipe subreddit, some guy is just spamming selfies and other blog type shit, and other users are downvoting him, then they fight and threaten each other, guy got b& and evaded immediately and he's back on some bullshit. Kind of a trackwreck and bad for the hobby as reddit reaches a lot of people.
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>>1685643 No one cares about reddit.
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>>1685601 Tea or coffee maybe?
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>>1685605 It's a Missouri.
I figured I'd do that, but wanted to make sure since I've never had a corncob before.
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>>1685687 >>1685605 By the way, it doesn't feel like an obstruction, I feel no resistance when pulling the air through the stem
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>>1685601 Fiebing's leather dyes (the alcohol based ones) are really popular as a stain for briar pipes. Problem is that I believe cobs are coated with some form of resin to smooth out the exterior, so I'm not sure how much the stain would penetrate even if you sanded the surface off. You'd still have resin filling the low spots, but maybe that would give some nice contrast to the grain pattern of the cob.
Only one way to find out. Cobs are cheap, do it and post results.
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>>1685690 You could probably just stick something in there to clear the pieces out if it becomes a problem for some reason.
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>>1685580 >>1685687 Looks like production error. What type of MM cob is this? The bad experiences I've had with MM cobs have all been with their smallest and cheapest varieties.
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>>1685913 it's the Legend model
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>>1685580 It’s just stringy bits of wood in the airway from the drilling processes. Probablt the drill bit was dull and nobody can be arsed to fix because the pipes are so cheap.
If it bugs you, you can cut the strands away with a pocketknife, or you can just smoke it as normal and they will burn away with the first bowl of tobacco you smoke through it.
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>>1685601 As long as you’re not staining the inside of the bowl, you can use literally anything. I’ve used the Minwax stain pens before because they’re cheap and widely available. They don’t soak down to the inside of the cob unless you really douse everything. Usually you’ll want to stop well before that anyway.
>>1685643 Where?
>>1685939 Those are the super high production models that sell for $7 in drugstores. Just cut the bits off and don’t worry about it.
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>>1685580 Run a drill bit through it to clean it up, easy peasy.
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>>1686212 >>1686108 wasn't even needed to drill, as it was already loose, just poked it with the pipe tool and it came out with ease
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>>1686242 Yeah, it's just loose fibres from when they drilled through the corn cob.
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>>1686108 It's /r/pipes. They're doxxing each other, threatening, getting bans and coming back with obnoxious selfies. People are posting their own ID cards because two of them are accusing each other of stolen valor...it's weird.
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>>1686697 Sounds extremely cancerous. No pun intended.
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>>1686697 >R*ddit Not even once.
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Trails flooded, looks like hog damage too
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>>1667459 That's polar bear pants, he said if they make something better, he would wear them.
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I've just bought a pipe and I can never seem to get more tgan a few puffs off before the flame dies down. I've teied packing it looser, I've done the false flame thing, but I just can't seem to get it to last. Leaves me feeling foolish as I re-light it for the third or fourth time and then just dump it out when that flame inevitably dies as well. Any advice?
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>>1687926 Gravity fill to the top, then take a pinch of tobacco and push it into the top. Test the draw, it should be like drinking through a straw. Light the pipe, make sure the whole bowl is lit. Tamp, relight, puff slowly but continuously to keep it lit.
Also relighting isn't a bad thing. I often have to help a pipe along with a quick extra light about half way down if I'm not paying too much attention to it. If you're having problems, next time take photos of the pipe in every stage and post them here.
And stop posting wojaks.
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Orlik in the morning is a treat, rained a little around 04:00 but I saw a boatload of ravens before I went to bed, was pretty cool to see
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These threads have gotten me interested in trying tobacco from a pipe and I'm looking at ordering a Missouri Meerschaum Legend as mentioned in the OP. Are the different options just aesthetic or is there a bowl shape and bit style you guys recommend for a first timer?
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>>1688927 >just aesthetic Yes. Pick whatever one suits your fancy, it makes no difference.
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>>1688927 >>1688936 It's not just aesthetics. Different bowl sizes and stems can affect how much you can smoke in a bowl or how how/cool a pipe smokes. By and large it's not too much to worry.
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>>1689066 The pipes in question are basically identical, just a different external bowl shape and bent vs straight. They're all MM Legends made to the same spec.
>>1688927 To add, chamber depth generally determines length of smoke, as the tobacco burns progressively downward. A deeper chamber should also allow for more cooling, at least at the beginning. Chamber width determines smoke amount, since you have more tobacco surface area burning at a given time (and to some degree smoke duration, if the entire surface doesn't burn evenly and some areas need relighting later). Bent vs straight doesn't matter much unless you like to clench, in which case a full bent will bring the center of mass closer to the face. None of these factors really make or break a pipe's smokability though, aesthetics is usually the first priority.
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>>1685702 Turned out alright I think.
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>>1689510 Looks good. What did you end up using as a stain, and how did you do it?
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>>1689516 I used Fiebings, medium brown on the bowl and dark brown on the shank, just used a pipe cleaner, dipped it in and did a single layer and let it dry. It's an easy process.
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>>1688927 Bowl style doesn’t matter, they’re all mid-sized bowls.
As for me, I prefer the bent stem a little more. If you smoke it without the filter as I do, the slight bend catches more unburnt bits of tobacco than the straight stem as you get to the bottom of the bowl.
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>>1688724 cool. more pics of tent?
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>>1689530 Any sanding on the bowl and stem prior, or did you go on top of the varnish?
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>>1689510 gross trim your fingernails
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>>1689695 its the weschel aurora something something, got it in like 2017-18
good one man tent, works great in dry weather and in snow
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do you even get HIGH from smoking a pipe (no inhale)
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>>1689874 No.
Not sure, but I do get a mellow feeling while smoking my pipe, however that could just be from the flavour.
Yes, though take it slow and don't smoke multiple bowls, you'll likely have nicotine sickness. Have a can of something sweet or such to sip while smoking to counteract the nicotine.
We're all going to die, you're however unlikely to die from smoking a pipe.
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>>1689940 >No high whats the POINT MAN?
i just dont GET that boomer stuff
especially in 2020. you can get SO MUCH DROOGS BRO for like NO money
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>>1689948 Then do those drugs, don't smoke pipe tobacco.
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Unironically ONE WEIRD TRICK to make pipe smoking 100 times easier for a complete beginner. No wetness, no tounge-bite, super easy to keep the pipe lit for the duration of the smoke.
https://youtu.be/XggmvJUwmlc Anonymous
>>1689948 >you can get SO MUCH DROOGS BRO for like NO money But this isn't even true. Maybe for mushrooms, if you grow them yourself.
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>>1690285 >he doesnt have the right friends SAD bro mega SAD
>>1690078 but i wanna SMOKE its COOL
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>>1689842 I'm growing them out so I can sneak into your tent and tickle your feet
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>>1689840 Nah, just did it on top of the varnish.
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>>1690348 but smoking a pipe is not only BAD for me but it doesnt even get you HIGH
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>>1689874 Too bad. You’re gonna die anyway.
And something’s gonna kill you, whether it’s sun exposure, pollutants in your water, liver damage caused by alcohol and acetaminophen overuse, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or whatever.
No tobacco consumption is good for you. But as far as methods of tobacco consumption that are most bad for you, smoking a pipe is way down the list.
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>>1690555 There’s a high, it’s just mild. You feel super comfy for about an hour or so.
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>>1683700 >>1683727 >>1683753 I made a trip into town and found that hardly anywhere carried pipe tobacco any more. Even the dedicated smoke shop only had borkum riff and sail. I ended up going with the borkum for a whopping 35CAD. I also grabbed a couple cigars to try. Do you guys order tobacco online?
>>1683700 I'm a whiskey guy for what it's worth. Crown royal is great but I honestly really enjoy the cheap royal reserve stuff.
>>1683964 That sounds delicious and you painted a very comfy picture with your words, but I'm not sure if I can have this shipped to canada im afraid.
