I had planned to smoke a pipe along with my father on Canada Day for multiple days now, and it happened today.
anyways my dad has a torch lighter so we used that. I did see some people say not to use torch lighters because they may burn the rim of the bowl, but he had the flame dialed back a lot and, so it was small.
but guess what happened anyways, even with the flame being small?
This:
Obviously the damage done to the briar is obvious, and the cob is a little bit damaged from it as well. I smoked the briar, he smoked the cob. After this, I think I may become a "matches only" person after all.
Even though I was smoking $50 tobacco ($50 canadian for 50g), I still couldn't taste anything but just a regular smokey taste. Also, I had to relight multiple times.
My father only had to relight once, but he did used to have a beard and smoke pipes in his younger years, before I was born.
I'm still learning of course, but I think I'm drawing not too fast, and not too slow, considering I experienced virtually no tounge bite. However, I think I may be packing things too tight, considering the thing that I put in a pinch, then tamp it, and repeat until the bowl is full and I can't tamp anything down anymore. My father just scooped the tobacco up with the pipe straight from the jar.
I'll smoke some of my cheaper, but aromatic tobacco tomorrow, and try the scooping method, maybe that will work. I'll use matches too.
anyways my dad has a torch lighter so we used that. I did see some people say not to use torch lighters because they may burn the rim of the bowl, but he had the flame dialed back a lot and, so it was small.
but guess what happened anyways, even with the flame being small?
This:
Obviously the damage done to the briar is obvious, and the cob is a little bit damaged from it as well. I smoked the briar, he smoked the cob. After this, I think I may become a "matches only" person after all.
Even though I was smoking $50 tobacco ($50 canadian for 50g), I still couldn't taste anything but just a regular smokey taste. Also, I had to relight multiple times.
My father only had to relight once, but he did used to have a beard and smoke pipes in his younger years, before I was born.
I'm still learning of course, but I think I'm drawing not too fast, and not too slow, considering I experienced virtually no tounge bite. However, I think I may be packing things too tight, considering the thing that I put in a pinch, then tamp it, and repeat until the bowl is full and I can't tamp anything down anymore. My father just scooped the tobacco up with the pipe straight from the jar.
I'll smoke some of my cheaper, but aromatic tobacco tomorrow, and try the scooping method, maybe that will work. I'll use matches too.