It came to a 'head' when I noticed that my Jerry Crawford squashed bent apple stem was sticking out way farther than the picture shown here. I looked under a microscope and it was easy to see that lately I've not been paying attention and the stem is sticking out around 3/8 of an inch furthur that it should be-I can see the 'line' of where the tobacco stain is inside the stummel and a nice distance from where it should meet the correct area
I store my pipes in my lower level of the house (I live in the Northeast) where the temp is about 66 degrees.
I thought this issue of sticking stems was mostly in the humid summer, not the winter.
Any ideas?
Thanks