Hi folks,
I've got a good rotation of pipes now and have learned a good basic technique for smoking (thanks in the main to these forums!). I don't let my pipes get hot, I smoke slow with gentle sips to just keep the pipe going, but there is one pipe in my rotation that always gurgles. It's a good quality pipe I think, a W.O. Larsen; it smokes cool enough, yet it will always gurgle after a while. Why will a pipe be prone to gurgling, even when the smoker is keeping it cool? Is it a design issue? A mismatch of tobacco to pipe? Is there anything that can be done to remediate it? Or is it just the way it goes with some pipes? It's not the end of the world, I still enjoy smoking it. I just put a pipe cleaner in when it does it and let it sit for a bit before I go back to it, but it is a special case.
I've got a good rotation of pipes now and have learned a good basic technique for smoking (thanks in the main to these forums!). I don't let my pipes get hot, I smoke slow with gentle sips to just keep the pipe going, but there is one pipe in my rotation that always gurgles. It's a good quality pipe I think, a W.O. Larsen; it smokes cool enough, yet it will always gurgle after a while. Why will a pipe be prone to gurgling, even when the smoker is keeping it cool? Is it a design issue? A mismatch of tobacco to pipe? Is there anything that can be done to remediate it? Or is it just the way it goes with some pipes? It's not the end of the world, I still enjoy smoking it. I just put a pipe cleaner in when it does it and let it sit for a bit before I go back to it, but it is a special case.