Like many pipe smokers my primary lighter is a Zippo with a pipe insert. I always carry an inexpensive but dependable BIC backup though just in case the fluid runs short. Sort of like a cop on patrol who carries his duty weapon but also his back-up gun just in case. I have found though, that there is a definite purpose for the back up light and I do use it as my primary lighter on specific occasions so I thought I'd share my experience. A Zippo does not go out if dropped. A BIC does not stay lit if it is dropped, hence the purpose of each. While driving I never use the Zippo. I also never use the Zippo for a relight if reclining in my La-Z-Boy lounger. On more than one instance I've accidently fumbled with the Zippo and I've learned to use caution with it although it is a great piece of equipment and it is my primary source of heat. Have any of you men ever dropped your lit Zippo?
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Lighters - Your main and your backup
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My main lighter is a Colibri but I carry a cheapy disposable as spare for the same reason,if my main is out of gas.I buy the cheapies for a £1 a pack ( 6 ) in my local £1 shop.
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I purchased a Xikar pipe lighter about 6 months back and couldn't be happier with its performance. I use disposable lighters or matches as well.
I have a Xikar cigar lighter and a couple cutters and I can highly recommend their products based on my experience using them.
"United States"
As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.Posted 11 months ago # -
bics and matches.
Posted 11 months ago # -
I use a Zippo pipe lighter as my only source of heat. I don't drive and haven't dropped the zippo (yet).
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I personally use the BIC lighters, they have a soft flame and clean taste to me, and I buy them by the gross and am never without a lighter, they are also very convenient and efficient as a pipe lighter, in my opinion.
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In olden days I used Crickets.They were round I used them as a lighter an a tamper.These days it's Bics and a tamper.
Life's most valuable treasure is..LovePosted 11 months ago # -
Just bought a Vector pipe insert for my Zippo...... Gonna light up a bowl of CAO Cherry Bomb in a few minutes..... always have a Bic disposable nearby too.......
Posted 11 months ago # -
my main lighter is an Old Boy and backup is a pair of jetline lighters one in the truck and one at home.
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I own a couple of Zippo's, this one is my favorite. I had Zippo put in a cigar insert, but also recently bought a Vector butane insert. The Vector does a better job lighting the tobacco, but blows out easily. Most of my smoking is outside, so the fluid insert gets a lot of use. Good reminder on dropping lit Zippo! As Rogers Waters/Pink Floyd said, "you like the feel of steel"
Al
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Posted 11 months ago # -
Martin, thanks for the heads-up. That really applies to me! I use a Zippo with a gas insert,
and it doesn't go out until the case is shut. I've noticed that as I age, both arthritis and
drying skin have me fumbling around more often because of the shiny smooth lighter case. At
home it's not a problem, but I'm definitely gonna get a BIC for the car. Thanks.
I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- ThoreauPosted 11 months ago # -
Zippo pipe,Bic and matches.
I will give up my pipe when they pry my cold dead fingers off of it!Posted 11 months ago # -
Xikar Pipeline, then a Zippo w/ pipe insert.....and a matchbook in the pouch.....just in case.
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I am matches all the way getting pretty good at lighting up out doors with them . but am looking at getting a zippo for those windy times
New Zealand
Peter Piper.
Give me the weed, the fragrant weed, My wearied brain to calm; In a wreath of smoke, while I crack my joke, I'll find a healing balm.Posted 11 months ago # -
Cheap Bic lighters backed up by cheap generic lighters
If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.Posted 11 months ago # -
My steely gaze backed up by a bic.
"To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there."Posted 11 months ago # -
Posted 11 months ago # -
Zippo pipe lighter backed with matches.
We are Tottenham, we are Tottenham
Super Tottenham, from the Lane.Posted 11 months ago # -
Zippo Pipe Lighter..backup Bic
Posted 11 months ago # -
It's been bic all the way for me, until Friday when I got a Zippo pipe lighter in the mail.
In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society.
{o,o}
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I have owned Zippo's for all my adult life, so I am not bashing them in general. I have my Grandfather's and my Uncle's he carried in vietnam, but the Zippo pipe lighter sucks IMO. I can't light the bottom of a bowl with it. The 14 dollar IMCOs that run on butane have a replaceable flint, an angled flame that you can make as long or short as you want. These work best for me.
Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straightPosted 11 months ago # -
I have owned Zippo's for all my adult life, so I am not bashing them in general. I have my Grandfather's and my Uncle's he carried in vietnam, but the Zippo pipe lighter sucks IMO. I can't light the bottom of a bowl with it. The 14 dollar IMCOs that run on butane have a replaceable flint, an angled flame that you can make as long or short as you want. These work best for me.
You're holding it wrong.
-Steve Jobs
Posted 11 months ago # -
Haha, I hope not.
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My steely gaze backed up by a bic.
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Kitchen matches all the way.
RLTWPosted 10 months ago # -
i like to use matches but usually if there is some wind i can't light my pipe so i use this one instead... David Ross household lighter - very cheap, very reliable, refilling is possible - very good especially to light pipes that have a very tall chambers...
perfect for me 
„What we do in life echoes in eternity“.. Gen. Maximus (Gladiator movie)Posted 10 months ago # -
Nice one, Mukihr. I use an orange Bic lighter, backed up by a red Bic lighter, backed up by a barbeque lighter, backed up by a blowtorch. I rarely have problems because the pipes are afraid of the blowtorch and they know I'm not afraid to use it.
BTW, I'm not a badass, I'm just socially awkward. – BillyZoomPosted 10 months ago # -
baronsamedi - thank you...
a blowtorch torture man, that was funny
... to be serious - that green lighter is a perfect one for me for sure... cheap and effective
:hehehehehehhe
Posted 10 months ago # -
Matches, and a Colibri for windy days.
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I keep a small 32 count box of wooden matches (primary), two paper matchbooks, my zippo with a pipe insert, a zippo without the pipe insert, and at least one bic on hand at all times. Of course here at home I have umm. . .. About 200 of those boxes of matches, a case of the matchbooks (no idea how many are in there .. . a lot) 30 or 40 black bics, those two zippos and my third one I rotate with the non-pipe zippo.
My preference is absolutely to use matches, but it gets far too windy for that to be effective quite often around here.
For the most part I just use whatever is handy really >.>
Sincerely,
YoruPosted 10 months ago # -
I keep a couple of 10 packs of the cheap Wally World butanes. (which I modify)
And, I keep several 10 packs of wooden matches.
I prefer the matches, but I (pardon the pun) burn through one of those lighters every couple of days.Posted 10 months ago # -
speaking of lighting pipes with blowtorches.
Marry the right person, this one decision will determine 90% of your happiness.
Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?Posted 10 months ago # -
Hmm,
Corona Old Boy, backed up with Dunhill Rollergas, backed up with matches...
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Zippo, backed up with hi-way road flair for bad winds.
U.S.M.C. (SEMPER FI)Posted 10 months ago # -
Bic followed by "can I borrow your lighter, mine isn't working"
Posted 10 months ago # -
zippo and a bic here, i use the bic for the "false light" to get everything packed down right, then use the zippo till probably 1/2 to 2/3 of the bowl is gone, then i go back to the bic because i can't draw the zippo flame down that far (really deep bowl, almost to my second knuckle)
but i have noticed i will do some crazy puffs to get a light with the zippo when i'm driving because no A/C means no BIC lol
Posted 10 months ago # -
I'm with jayh - I only used wooden matches from Penny or Diamond matches. It just seems to go with pipes, for me.
Posted 10 months ago # -
IM Old Boy- Main, Zippo w/pipe insert-backup always does the trick for me
Posted 10 months ago # -
Large kitchen matches, and my backup is small kitchen matches.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Matches backed by a bic until I get my Zippo back from the repair shop
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I picked up a Zippo with the pipe insert yesterday. Just couldn't keep the matches lit outdoors except in a dead calm. Had a POS cheap pipe lighter that couldn't reliably light gunpowder, let alone tobacco.
Simon
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My main is a zippo that was part of the Peterson Pipe / Zippo gift pkg. I have a Vector pipe lighter (which I am not thrilled with), then a bic, then if absolutely needed, stick matches.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Lets see here... My main lighter is a cheap one that I got from smokingpipes.com (it is like a refillable bic pipe lighter) and I use that because I have no fear of breaking it. After that it is my Zippo, then my two Old Boy knockoffs and then matches!
Mason jars and bale top jars, mason jars and bale top jars.... that is all!
"There’s truth in the statement that pipe tobacco will never be any less expensive than it is today, so think of your cellar as a cost averaged investment" - G.L. PeasePosted 9 months ago # -
Bic with Bic as a backup
Snus, snuff and briar.
Not much more required in a day.
Brian from Oregon USAPosted 9 months ago # -
My Sherlock Holmes zippo!
The Swede
Snus and Pipe smoking <3Posted 9 months ago # -
My main pipe lighter is a XIKAR resource with a Nibo pipe line as my back up.
Posted 9 months ago # -
My main lighter is a Bic because I usually only smoke while driving. (The car is the last refuge of a smoker, isn't it?) It doesn't blow out as easily with the sunroof open. I also have a 60+ year old Nimrod I use when I smoke on the deck. It doesn't like the wind very much.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I use a Bentley, and a bic.
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
- Benjamin Franklin
Posted 9 months ago # -
Bic. Plan on buying an Oldboy soon, but will always have a bic for back up. I have a Zippo but the flavour throws me too much to be used on a regular basis.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Top, my main. Bottom row, backup
Posted 9 months ago # -
Xikar Pipeline Main. Backup Matches.
"The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected..."
-William Makepeace Thackeray, from The Social PipePosted 9 months ago # -
My latest acquisition, "Our Lady" and my other Zippos. I use a combination of Vector inserts and the Zippo fluid pipe insert.
Posted 9 months ago # -
I have and old boy that I keep on the table of the house, and two Zippo's with vector pipe butane inserts. I have had several Colibri's in the past...but they never stay working.
Posted 5 months ago # -
Colibri, then restaurant box matches whenever I can snag them, then I rub the tobacco really fast between my fingers. The last method mostly makes a mess.
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods.
To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.Posted 5 months ago # -
My Zippo with a pipe insert is the main source of heat, a bic as a backup and matches as my backups backup!!!!!!
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
(Robert Kennedy)Posted 5 months ago # -
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My main lighter is a box of wooden matches.
Thought in the early morning, solace in time of woes,
Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close
Rudyard KiplingPosted 5 months ago # -
In the house....kitchen matches....outside one of my Zippos
Sir Walter Raleigh, name of worth, how sweet for thee to know.
King James, who never smoked on earth, Is smoking down below.Posted 5 months ago # -
Zippo, backed up with hi-way road flair for bad winds.
If you can't fix it with a hammer, then it must be an electrical problemPosted 5 months ago #
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