Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by Razorfaust

Smoking Frog Morton cellar and things are going almost well . The blend is delightful but slightly prickly on the tongue. This doesn't bother me but my pipe is sounding like a hookah off and on for most of the smoke and in trying to go slow. What gives?

Sounds to me like your tobacco is a little too moist. If it is not too humid where you are, trying leaving out a bowl or two to dry some and then try it. A good test for the humidity of the tobacco is to press some up into a ball and set in down. If it stays in the ball, it is too moist, if it immediately falls apart, it is too dry. If it sort of relaxes out of the ball shape when set down, just right.

Tobacco always seems a little too moist in the summer and dries out too fast in the winter.

Aromatics seem to always cause a wet pipe. Technique plays quite a role too. A draft hole that is too narrow also leads to the "gurgle". Lots of possibilities.

Originally Posted by Suticat

Vauens Auenland Eron churchwarden. Hitting a bowl as I type and watching The Battle of Five Armies.

Looks like a very nice "hobbit" pipe. J.R.R. Tolkein would approve.

Originally Posted by Razorfaust

Smoking Frog Morton cellar and things are going almost well . The blend is delightful but slightly prickly on the tongue. This doesn't bother me but my pipe is sounding like a hookah off and on for most of the smoke and in trying to go slow. What gives?

Frog Morton blends tend to be very moist, I leave the top of mine for a few days when I first open them

Originally Posted by Ezekiel81

I think I know this one. So they walk into the Finnish bar and behind the bar is a duck with a cigar hanging out his mouth. The guy from Iowa says "What the heck?" The duck replies "Quack" and drops the cigar. The Coloradan picks up the cigar and hands it politely back to the duck. "No really. What is this?" says the guy from Iowa. "I dunno" says the guy from Missauri. The Coloradan shrugs while the duck wipes the bar with a grubby cloth. To get to the other side.

Okay !! Hahaha that works for me !!

Originally Posted by apipeguy

Looks like a very nice "hobbit" pipe. J.R.R. Tolkein would approve.

A good reason why every pipe smoker should have at least one straight stem 'Dad' pipe in their arsenal . Just look at ol JRR.

I've got a few churchwarden mouth pieces on the way. I seem to prefer the longer stems. I'm going to see if they change the way a few of my other briars smoke.

I would to find a stainless steel pipe stand/rack. If anyone has a lead on one, please let me know.

A Castello Fiammata with gold band. Has a pretty nice straight grain, the flash kind of washed it out a little, a photographer, I'm not.

I almost finished a reverse calabash egg and i am almost out of briar . I order from a new suplier this time so i am waiting in pains .
They say that Amadeus is one of the best supliers and few of my colegues work with this briar and are super happy .Did someone order from them ????
Man those pipes - everything alround them is pasion .
Pasion in waiting , in making , in smoking them .
I even dream pipes somethimes ha ha ha .

Originally Posted by NoseWarmer

A few things, smoking to fast, but you said you were going slow, tobacco too moist or you have moisture in the shank and bowl... Run a pipe cleaner down the stem... Might work for you...

Oh, and outside humidity can have some effect on your pipe too...

Does the shape of the pipe affect it too? I have three pipes that I smoke more than the rest, all bent. One hardly seems to get any juice in it, while the other two get loads. One of the juicy ones I can understand collecting a lot of juice (it has a chamber for a filter which collects it), but there doesn't seem much difference between the other juicy one and the dry one.

I haven't looked much at the humidity here, but checked it out online a year or two ago when I was first beginning to explore cigars. It was recorded at 10% in my town one week and 98% the next. I don't remember getting much moisture in the winter, but in the spring I'd be getting through ten pipe cleaners in a single bowl just so as not to get a mouthful. In the end I started letting it drip out of the mouth piece with one of my pipes. I'm smoking more plugs and twists now, so maybe I just need to let them dry a bit more before smoking them.

Originally Posted by Ezekiel81

Does the shape of the pipe affect it too? I have three pipes that I smoke more than the rest, all bent. One hardly seems to get any juice in it, while the other two get loads. One of the juicy ones I can understand collecting a lot of juice (it has a chamber for a filter which collects it), but there doesn't seem much difference between the other juicy one and the dry one.

I haven't looked much at the humidity here, but checked it out online a year or two ago when I was first beginning to explore cigars. It was recorded at 10% in my town one week and 98% the next. I don't remember getting much moisture in the winter, but in the spring I'd be getting through ten pipe cleaners in a single bowl just so as not to get a mouthful. In the end I started letting it drip out of the mouth piece with one of my pipes. I'm smoking more plugs and twists now, so maybe I just need to let them dry a bit more before smoking them.

Hard to say on shape as My BC Diam is bent.When I first got it , it got lots of dottle(Juice) but now it's a dry lean mean smoking machine and probably my favorite pipe. Sometimes after your pipes develop a decent enough cake, they'll start to smoke better.