Packing Pipes with Small Bowls

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olkofri

Lifer
Sep 9, 2017
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What's the best method to pack pipes with very tiny bowls? Can you do the 3-layer method on those ones? How about packing a flake in them?
My new pipe has a chamber 18 mm deep with a 15 mm diameter. I don't want to be relighting ad tonguem burnem.
Thanks!

 

wizhunter

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 31, 2017
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I have a small Falcon and also wondered on the packing method for small bowls.

 

mawnansmiff

Lifer
Oct 14, 2015
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7,295
Sunny Cornwall, UK.
Packing a small bowl is just the same as packing a larger bowl only you use less tobacco. It's rather like pouring a beer in either a pint pot or a half pint pot...you just fill it to capacity.
Regards,
Jay.

 

wizhunter

Starting to Get Obsessed
Oct 31, 2017
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Cheers Jay, in fairness i would of thought it would be the same.
Wiz

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
I tend to put the pipe bowl in the tobacco jar or pouch and tuck in the tobacco, usually in two or three layers, but mostly packing it by feel, not too tight but full enough. Same with rubbed out flake, but flake (plug, coin, rope) usually give a noticeably longer smoke, often what a packed medium size pipe might do. You want to feel a little sponginess and give in a nicely filled bowl, room for air and fire flow, but not so loose as to burn too fast. In really small pipes, sometimes the pinky finger is best for pressing the leaf down gently so you can feel the tightness, not too tight.

 

jorchamp

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 21, 2016
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Feeling the spring in the packed tobacco I think is the key to a good smoke. Small bowls are for short smokes. Think which tobacco would please you more for a quick smoke. And pack for the type of tobacco cut you got. Enjoy the smoke and let it be the guide.

 

tslex

Lifer
Jun 23, 2011
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I tend to favor larger pipes. When I have the chance to smoke I want to SMOKE.
But I have a Sasieni that is a Group 2.5 or so. I normally load with the three layer method, but for that pipe I take a firm pinch, put it in, then tamp with my thumb. My charring light is really the true light on that pipe and it seems to work. First light to all ash and dottle in 20 minutes.

 

samugeki123

Lurker
Nov 26, 2017
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I made a cob pipe, and it has a relaticely small bowl. I have had my best luck using the Frank method to pack the bowl.

 

blueeyedogre

Lifer
Oct 17, 2013
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Are we talking flakes? Loose cut? Shag? For flakes, fold and stuff, but stuff lightly. For loose cut and shag follow the best advice I ever received..... Use less tobacco then you think you need, pack it looser then you think you need, and relight it more then you think you need. There is a complete art from to smoking a small pipe, so take your time and don't get discouraged. I used to have a Tsuge Blowfish and sold it cause I couldn't keep it lit, but after a few month playing with small meerschaum and clay pipes I really wish I still had that blowfish. My smallest pipe right now the chamber it 7/8" deep and 1/2" deep and just a hair over 3" long.

 

samugeki123

Lurker
Nov 26, 2017
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I have been blessed with a small pinkie thrn. Probably also helps that my job had damaged enough nerves I hardly feel heat in that hand

 

tslex

Lifer
Jun 23, 2011
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13
Plus, warren, you get puzzled looks from those who see you do it.
"Isn't that stuff sorta . . . on fire?" is how one shooting buddy asked about it the other day.

 
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