There's no pretense inside or outside the bowl. There's the cob, the tobacco, and the smoker. It may not be the most efficient or prettiest smoker, but I'm certain that, with my cob, I'll get a true impression of the tobacco from first light.
With my first meer, an old acquaintance recommended that I handle it with a cloth the first two or three times I smoked it. This was to avoid unwanted marks or stains. Now that I have several (having forgotten about the cloth), I'm not sure it matters if one is careful.
Another New Orleanian! Welcome to the forums.
I don't have any special techniques for drying out tobacco, other than using a paper towel to soak up excess moisture before I smoke. We keep our house in the mid-70s and, thankfully, not much moisture makes it inside. I do keep my tobacco in a...
Excellent job on the stem! And with Chapstick, I get the unflavored sort, apply a coat to the entire stem, leave it on for a few minutes and buff it off.
I have a friend that ordered a pipe from that exact maker. The problem is (if it is, as I'm thinking, the same pipe) the metal bowl is an insert and it's a decent height above the draft hole. Moisture and tobacco casing drains to the bottom, leaving the good stuff up top, and forming a...
I wouldn't recommend using carnuba from a can. I experimented with it once and the results were less than pleasing.
The reasoning is this: the form of carnuba we're talking about is a moist wax. It's meant to go on and be wiped off materials that are less porous than wood. Some may use it to...
I always try new tobaccos! Even the ones I don't care for get cellared to try at a later date. But I do tend to keep a bit of Lane's 1Q on hand. It's a good tobacco I can smoke out of my cobs while working, saving my tinned tobaccos for evening when I can sit and appreciate them.
I think so. There was obviously a rock in the cave that he had claimed for himself and you stepped on it. Watch out or big flash of light from sky will strike you!