Pipe smoking/making
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As I asked earlier, is it true that you do not inhale? Or are there different pipes or tobacos that one does inhale!?
I ask as one who is looking for a change from my expedition roll up! ( three aloud on a one week trip,one on an overnighter! )
What sort of pipe for a beginer?
Any tips?
Cheers.
Chris.
I ask as one who is looking for a change from my expedition roll up! ( three aloud on a one week trip,one on an overnighter! )
What sort of pipe for a beginer?
Any tips?
Cheers.
Chris.
I recently started so I am no expert. All I can say is that I found one that felt good to hold and made me look intelligent (well Ok so I wasnt successful on that point), i did some surfing and found out the key to a good smoke is how you fill the pipe - not too packed otherwise its hard to draw and not too loose at it burns too quick. If it gets gurgly just gently blow down the pipe so the goo goes back into baccy and evaporates with the heat. You need to smoke it gently for the first few times to build up a protective layer of carbon in the bowl. Keep it clean with a pipe cleaner and dont knock it about when its hot as you might damage the stem fixing. When you light it you should do it once and then let it go out quickly this forms a layer of ash on top, then light it again after tamping down this layer into the baccy underneath.
Its great fun and very relaxing after a hard day or during a good walk. You may feel everyone is looking at you - they are! And most blokes look on with envy wishing they had the b*?*s to do it - he he.
Maybe we should organise a pow wow for all the pipe smokers on here - anyone going to Kelmarsh this year?
Andrew
Its great fun and very relaxing after a hard day or during a good walk. You may feel everyone is looking at you - they are! And most blokes look on with envy wishing they had the b*?*s to do it - he he.
Maybe we should organise a pow wow for all the pipe smokers on here - anyone going to Kelmarsh this year?
Andrew
I really wouldn't recommend inhaling pipe tobacco (or even the smoke thereof). Treat it like a cigar.
I had a look at pipes today.
Here in Canterbury there is a traditional tobacconist and they sell all sorts of pipes.
I saw an absolute doozy in the window - it was nearly a foot long with a long drooping, thin stem. It was £55.
They did many others as well.
We are going out birch sapping this weekend, and I like the idea of having a pipe so that when we have a brew-up after setting up the tubes and bottles I can pull out the pipe and totally out-phase everyone.
Ah, sitting beneath a tree on a Spring day, a small fire on the go, a cup of tea infusing, and a bowl of Mr Emsworth's No5 smoking tobacco...
That's civilisation.
Here in Canterbury there is a traditional tobacconist and they sell all sorts of pipes.
I saw an absolute doozy in the window - it was nearly a foot long with a long drooping, thin stem. It was £55.
They did many others as well.
We are going out birch sapping this weekend, and I like the idea of having a pipe so that when we have a brew-up after setting up the tubes and bottles I can pull out the pipe and totally out-phase everyone.
Ah, sitting beneath a tree on a Spring day, a small fire on the go, a cup of tea infusing, and a bowl of Mr Emsworth's No5 smoking tobacco...
That's civilisation.
Ach - I smoked a pipe for years and inhaled every sniff of baccy smoke - same with cigars - only those brought up on "superlightweight" baccy and little boys cant handle it!
Ach - I smoked a pipe for years and inhaled every sniff of baccy smoke - same with cigars - only those brought up on "superlightweight" baccy and little boys cant handle it!
Hahahahaa - lights blue touch paper and runs...
I must admit to inhaling both as well, though just about coughing a lung or two at times.
Nice one John.
Right enough, so you have, at the top of the goat track!!!!
Scared off every seagull within 5 miles that did.
I kick myself for missing you doing the "blow poker" inhalation.
Snigger...
coincedence or not im not sure but i sure have had a sore throat and catarrh ever since,some of drift wood did have a rather high tar content!
Hahahaha - I can imagine.
The fires we've lit on that beach were certainly more benches and hedges than benson and hedges.
Smoking a pipe takes time, it cant be rushed like a fag - that's what is so good about it.
As a mild start I would go for Craven Aromatic which you can find in tesco. If you have a decent tobacconist ask their advice. Any by petersons are worth a puff!
http://www.peterson.ie/pipes/index.html
again no connection other than satisfied customer
As a mild start I would go for Craven Aromatic which you can find in tesco. If you have a decent tobacconist ask their advice. Any by petersons are worth a puff!
http://www.peterson.ie/pipes/index.html
again no connection other than satisfied customer
Totally self indulgent filthy vile repulsive habit that renders the smoker nothing more than a stinking ashtray, and everyone around them wanting to spew.
It aint big and it certainly aint clever.
Grew up with my Grandfather blowing the crap all over the house, and loathed it ever since.
Two of his Sons grew up to be smokers and they both lie in graves at the bottom end of my lane, both dying needlessly of smoking related disease, one had lung cancer and the other emphysema.
Hence why I hate the sh*t
It aint big and it certainly aint clever.
Grew up with my Grandfather blowing the crap all over the house, and loathed it ever since.
Two of his Sons grew up to be smokers and they both lie in graves at the bottom end of my lane, both dying needlessly of smoking related disease, one had lung cancer and the other emphysema.
Hence why I hate the sh*t
I take it you are a non-smoker then......
Certainly right there John, each to their own though.
If you smoke, well I take my hat off to you, because you are a very very brave person indeed.
Dug out my pipes today (not touched them since the holidays at the end of August) and added 5 cuttys I picked up for 50p each in a charity shop in Accrington, still in the sawdust, top ones in this pic.
I don't think a single one of those came from a tobacconists, all from carboots, charity shops and junk/bottom end antiques shops. Usual price is 50p to 1.50 although I did pay 3 for the big one. I've broke a fair few over the years , and hid the remains in dry stone walls we were building up on the Snake Pass, just to confuse the archeologists in a 100 years time!
Carboots are a great source and its pretty easy to tell if a pipes been too abused to restore, the damage is usually pretty obvious.
Much to my (gormless) suprise I actually have 4 not 3 brier chuchwardens
2 the wife bought me (bizarely to encourage me to smoke less as you can't wander around smoking something that long) and two came from charity shops that I've done up and which smoke as well as the ones I've had from new. The Duncan Dental second from the top was £1.50 in a house disposals shop and cleaned up lovely. One day a Dunhill will turn up... You can polish the stems with toothpaste but the dedicated polish you can get in the better tobacconists (read "poncier") works really well. The corn cob a mate sent me from America, not a bad smoke.
ATB
Tom
I don't think a single one of those came from a tobacconists, all from carboots, charity shops and junk/bottom end antiques shops. Usual price is 50p to 1.50 although I did pay 3 for the big one. I've broke a fair few over the years , and hid the remains in dry stone walls we were building up on the Snake Pass, just to confuse the archeologists in a 100 years time!
Carboots are a great source and its pretty easy to tell if a pipes been too abused to restore, the damage is usually pretty obvious.
Much to my (gormless) suprise I actually have 4 not 3 brier chuchwardens
2 the wife bought me (bizarely to encourage me to smoke less as you can't wander around smoking something that long) and two came from charity shops that I've done up and which smoke as well as the ones I've had from new. The Duncan Dental second from the top was £1.50 in a house disposals shop and cleaned up lovely. One day a Dunhill will turn up... You can polish the stems with toothpaste but the dedicated polish you can get in the better tobacconists (read "poncier") works really well. The corn cob a mate sent me from America, not a bad smoke.
ATB
Tom
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Totally self indulgent filthy vile repulsive habit that renders the smoker nothing more than a stinking ashtray, and everyone around them wanting to spew.
It aint big and it certainly aint clever.
Grew up with my Grandfather blowing the crap all over the house, and loathed it ever since.
Two of his Sons grew up to be smokers and they both lie in graves at the bottom end of my lane, both dying needlessly of smoking related disease, one had lung cancer and the other emphysema.
Hence why I hate the sh*t
So what point are you making?
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