My first pipe

[MrSnusNSnuff]

A while back, I loved loading up the ol' corn cob pipe with Vanilla and Cherry Cavendish. Thinking about it makes me drool. I upgraded after a while and bought a cheap briar pipe that worked reasonably well.

However, pipes required a lot of maintenance and cleaning, something that wasn't so attractive to me.

[chadizzy1]

Chad, I'd like you to do nasal snuff reviews like you do with snus.

That, in addition to the podcasts, are the new additions coming to the website. Very excited

(sorry to hijack your thread, sage.)

[sagedil]

A while back, I loved loading up the ol' corn cob pipe with Vanilla and Cherry Cavendish. Thinking about it makes me drool. I upgraded after a while and bought a cheap briar pipe that worked reasonably well.

However, pipes required a lot of maintenance and cleaning, something that wasn't so attractive to me.

But that is part of the ritual. Get a beautiful pipe, one that you just can't help but love to handle, and cleaning becomes a simple act of love. And takes me less than 3 minutes to clean my pipe. A few pipe cleaners, a bt of 100 proof vodka, honestly, less time than it takes me to fill my snuff bullets.

Really good Brier pipes can be found cheap used. I paid about $30 each for two pipes I hope to be smoking for the next 30 years. Pipes I would have paid $150 for new, both n amazing shape, both being sold on the Smokers Forums classified section, so know they would be good.

[daruckis]

A while back, I loved loading up the ol' corn cob pipe with Vanilla and Cherry Cavendish. Thinking about it makes me drool. I upgraded after a while and bought a cheap briar pipe that worked reasonably well.

However, pipes required a lot of maintenance and cleaning, something that wasn't so attractive to me.

But that is part of the ritual. Get a beautiful pipe, one that you just can't help but love to handle, and cleaning becomes a simple act of love. And takes me less than 3 minutes to clean my pipe. A few pipe cleaners, a bt of 100 proof vodka, honestly, less time than it takes me to fill my snuff bullets.

Really good Brier pipes can be found cheap used. I paid about $30 each for two pipes I hope to be smoking for the next 30 years. Pipes I would have paid $150 for new, both n amazing shape, both being sold on the Smokers Forums classified section, so know they would be good.

good point, i love scraping my glass bowls, just because i have a love affair with them, just holding them, looking at them, makes me happy.

[cj]

every time i smoke my pipe it always goes out and i cant seem to get it packed right so it just sits on the table been there for months now

[sagedil]

cj, the standard advice on packing is pack it in thirds. The first pack, pres down lightly, "as a child would". Then pack kit a bit harder, "like a woman". and lastly, pack it a third time but press down even harder. "like a man"


So basically cj, you want the tobacco the least packed on the bottom, and packed harder and harder the closer to the top of the pipe you go.

but the pack the first like a child, the 2nd like a woman, the third like a man is the standard advice given for hundreds of years. If done right, the tobacco should be slightly springy if you press on the top after you have packed it.

But just accept the relights as normal. On my pipe forum, even folks who have smoked for 30 years say they relight all the time. Yes, if you pack right, it minimizes it, but never eliminates it. The worst thing you can ever do is try to smoke the pipe in a way to try and ensure it doesn't go out. That s how you can make it too hot, get tongue bite when steam is produced. if the ppe goes out, and t will, just relight and go on.

[cj]

oh i see now i was jamming it in as tight as i could get it then puffing up a storm to try to keep it light then it got so hot i couldn't hold it lol next time i go in to town i will pick up some tobacco and try it again thanks for the info sage!!

[lxskllr]

In addition to what Sage said, lightly tamping it as you go helps. Fill the pipe per Sage's instructions and light it. When it's drawing well, lightly tamp it with your pipe tool. Do that a couple of times, and it should stay lit pretty well, though you can expect it to go out, it's just the nature of the beast.

[Premium Parrots]

good thread, thanks

[sagedil]

I am already developing a reputation on SF as someone who s learning fast. I had to laugh today and tell them who I am here, how am the guy who is always helping newbies jump through the snus hoops, how I had to do pipes well,, read the forum, learn all, so as to not be a hypocrite.

But I have learned much already, all the proper forms, so want to share that info back here for other folks who might be interested in ppes as I have become.

They have a small snus community there and just started a section for smokeless tobacco and a separate one for snuff too last month. So at least get to play the expert a bit there. But t is too funny to go there and talk about snus, and then come here and talk about pipes.

cj, I knew immediately what you were doing wrong when you posted. Like here, the same rookie mistakes get made over and over. You should always just "sip" the pipe. My ppe never gets more than a bit warm, and is in my hand for over two hours as I usually smoke 3 bowls when am at the cafe .If you are interested in really learning everything you need to do to do it right, to make t really enjoyable. Check out the New Smokers Questions sexton on Smokers Forums. It has a wealth of information that will really make smoking a pipe a truly enjoyable avocation. the link is here...

http://www.smokersforums.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=102

[chadizzy1]

Odd to think of you as a noob somewhere....

[justintempler]

My first pipe :?:

[sagedil]

Odd to think of you as a noob somewhere....

It is a bit strange but I did my work, I read a whole bunch before I posted at all, then posted in the introduction section, then read a bunch more, then posted my first newbie question, I just wanted to get good pipe book recommendations (and had checked first to make sure no one had ever asked it. I now have my very own "first pipe" thread there after I had finally smoked. Is good, an opportunity for me to repeat for newcomers that will follow me just how useful reading every thread there was. I also seem to be a bit of a shining example for "how to start right" , a number of folks have commented on that, which also pleases me of course.


I can never hope to have 1/20th of the experience of so many vets there, guys who have been smoking pipes for 30 or 40 years (and 20,000 posts too) But I can do whatI have always encouraged folks here to do. For the next 6 months, I will be the guy most qualified to help that next brand newbie that comes along. Unlike the guys who have been smoking for 40 years, I remember what it is like to start cause I just started yesterday. Almost literally too. So I get to at least make use of my extensive knowledge of how to word things to help other people learn. But get to do it as one newbie to another who just went through exactly what they did, I remember my questions easily, so know what I need to teach someone else who was where I was a few weeks ago.

I expect SF to be as important to me as Snuson. Plus, Istill get to play expert there in both the snus and snuff sections. I have already posted basically my exact standard new snus advice already for someone, and n a "how do you use snuff" thread, shared my trademarked hold your breath method as well

If you are really serious about smoking a pipe Chad, I can not encourage you enough to spend some time reading there.

[chadizzy1]

I smoked a few times, and then put it down, and went back to reading. There truly is alot more to it than meets the eye. I have a few books a friend loaned me, and I've been reading there a bit, and random articles online, taking notes...like I'm studying again. It's odd how something can be as complicated as pipe smoking when it's inhaling and exhaling, but I hear the results of a proper smoke are well worth it.

[sagedil]

There s a reason that smoking pipes has seen such a decline, especially here in the US. In the old days, the common gift a father would give his son upon confirmation was a pipe. Then father would share with his son everything HIS father had taught him about smoking.

But in past 30 years, that it became a "bad" thing in this politically correct world we live in. So that transfer of knowledge from generation to generation stopped. My Dad smoked a pipe, but never once told me anythng about it. But what then happens is folks figure they will give it a try, don't realize there are things to not do, t goes badly, and then just figure "it isn't for them" But why a site such as Smokers Forums, and the net in general, have become so important.

Again, I can't encourage you enough to go to SF and just read the newbie section. There are only 8 pages of threads, you know how to read through treads quickly. And within those treads, every possible question I might have had was answered. So my first attempts have gone so well, and it is something I am already in love with.

I know it will take me many, many years before my palate is truly trained, that part I can't rush. But at least I have been given the collected wisdom to start well, and the rest just becomes a happy adventure.

You just rushed headlong in with your charming eagerness. But as you keep getting older, you will learn to slow down and take more and more time to carefuly learn before you do. Just where you are coming from Chad. But this is a great opportunity to take a step back and really focus on learning something the right way. The rewards are well worth it.