Thread: Pipe of the Day

Just got my P&C catalog in the mail the other day. There are a lot of neat goodies in there this month.

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Originally Posted by spacemonkeyjon

Attachment 233898 sitting on the couch with the puppy and mrs smoking some royal yacht in a rossi vittoria

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Originally Posted by wrxguyusa

I think you have it figured out. Break-in methods are good as a safeguard, but ultimately it just come down not letting the bare briar get too hot.

I'm one of those that never builds up a cake on my bowls, but I smoke so infrequently that the pipes always get plenty of rest.

I think break in is one of those personal things... It seems as if there is etiquette and then there is the real world

I am also like you, very infrequent, but I have lots of choices when it comes time...

If I stopped buying tobacco as of today (that will never happen), I have enough that my grandchildren will be sorting through it when I die...

Same with pipes, some smoked, most unsmoked but I sure do like looking at them...

I guess I was lucky with all my pipes in terms of break in ,I just smoked 'em with whatever tobacco I bought and was gentle enough with them that they all have a decent cake now. Sip and rest is my motto. I started out on sweet aromatics though and I suppose after enough tongue bite and gurgling you learn.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

+1, also.IMHO stay away from flake for breaking in a pipe, unless it is really rubbed out. A ribbon cut, or a cube cut tobacco like Early Morning Pipe, or 965 will burn better for break in. There are many others, but those are the two that come to mind right now. A slow burner like a flake may concentrate too much heat for too long on new wood where it would be fine on a caked bowl.

Makes a lot of sense. The only time I've had a problem breaking in a pipe was a new falcon bowl where i used a virginia flake. I would never have made the connection is you hadn't said this.

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Another mini cob full of "Nougat" trying to get going for the day. Have to change the oil in my truck & wife's van. Also on the agenda is stacking firewood for the "burn pile", go to the dump, zero my son's single shot .22 for squirrel issues. Soon....

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