Pipe smoking is supposed to be about patience and relaxation, right?
I fired up my first bowl last night and did it all wrong.
GLP's Gaslight needs to dry out first. And it needs to be loose packed.
I did everything wrong and was left with an unsatisfying experience. I jammed the tobacco in one of my favorite burners, an Elliot Nachtwalter poker, and started huffing. A few minutes later I realized that I'd screwed the pooch, like an FNG, but instead of setting everything aside I pushed ahead trying to make it work.
Wrong.
What an asshole.
Numerous relights later I finally finished the bowl more annoyed then when I'd started.
Twenty minutes later I pulled an old soldier out of the rack - a forty year old, thick walled Irwin's pot - and did it the right way. The leftover Gaslight was drier, the bowl was gravity fed and I was a much happier man.
I learned yet another last night. My bull in the china shop way rarely wins the day. I hope I can remember it the next time I've got a self inflicted GSW.
Fnord
I fired up my first bowl last night and did it all wrong.
GLP's Gaslight needs to dry out first. And it needs to be loose packed.
I did everything wrong and was left with an unsatisfying experience. I jammed the tobacco in one of my favorite burners, an Elliot Nachtwalter poker, and started huffing. A few minutes later I realized that I'd screwed the pooch, like an FNG, but instead of setting everything aside I pushed ahead trying to make it work.
Wrong.
What an asshole.
Numerous relights later I finally finished the bowl more annoyed then when I'd started.
Twenty minutes later I pulled an old soldier out of the rack - a forty year old, thick walled Irwin's pot - and did it the right way. The leftover Gaslight was drier, the bowl was gravity fed and I was a much happier man.
I learned yet another last night. My bull in the china shop way rarely wins the day. I hope I can remember it the next time I've got a self inflicted GSW.
Fnord