Gravity filling. How I usually do it.Just sprinkle it from above and whatever falls into the bowl you smoke?
I just rap the bottom of the bowl against my thumb knuckle to pack it.I do too but then use my finger to pack it.
It's similar to packing a cigarette, you can get it as tight or loose as you need it.How broken up is your tobacco? Seems like it would still just sit loosely in the bowl?
Why is anything on here a discussion?Why is this even a discussion?
The root of the confusion lies in a fundamental error, watching pipe videos. 99.9% of them are made by drooling cretins who delude themselves that they have a clue and are not a complete waste of time. At least the percentage has improved a little bit. It used to be 99.99% were drooling cretins.While watching random pipe smoking videos, I have heard it said never put your finger in the bowl of your pipe.
Can anyone say why not?
Beside the obvious reason that you might forget to take it out and smoke your finger.
The only pinch point with these folks is a lack of capacity for neural processing of any measurable amount.Ive heard people claim that when you put your finger in the bowl you're creating 'pinch points' that will cause your pipe to go out
Man, this is a pet peeve of mine. A lot of self-proclaimed pipe 'experts' can't even correctly label the anatomy of a pipe.
Geez, how did my great grandfather, grandfather, father, and I many years ago ever manage to smoke our pipes without the internet!
The root of the confusion lies in a fundamental error, watching pipe videos. 99.9% of them are made by drooling cretins
The root of the confusion lies in a fundamental error, watching pipe videos. 99.9% of them are made by drooling cretins who delude themselves that they have a clue and are not a complete waste of time. At least the percentage has improved a little bit. It used to be 99.99% were drooling cretins.
There are a few videos that are useful, like the restoration videos that George Dibos makes, but they are the extreme exception that proves the rule.
Do yourself a service by checking in with us cretins and reclaim your precious and irreplaceable lifespan by avoiding pipe videos, especially “random” pipe videos.
The degree of dependency on the internet across the board for routine economic/social functioning that has developed in such a short time span is staggering.
We now have people of adult age who have never known life without it. If it suddenly disappeared, it would be generally a good thing in regard to the social aspect...but the economic impact would probably be catastrophic at this point.
Cretins are bad enough...but the drooling ones are really scary.
I don't know what percentage of cretins drool, but likely it's primarily the pipe smoking ones.
There’s a whole generation of kids coming up that can’t change a tire, an air intake vent, or mix up gas & oil and start a weed-eater, etc. /facepalm
That's what youtube videos are for.