Pipe Without Carbon Liner What I Need to Know

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easterntraveler

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Dec 29, 2012
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I bought my first pipe that did not Com with a "pre-carbon" liner in it. Atleast that is what I always thought it was. Anyway is there anything I need to know during the break in process? Don't want to damage the inside of the chamber.

 
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I've never had a burn out regardless of coating.

If you're really worried and you want a good head start on the cake, smoke pure Burley and smear the ashes around. I've used a thin sugar coat on occasion as well, which mostly seems to just help the ash stick.

 

philobeddoe

Lifer
Oct 31, 2011
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Just smoke it like normal and enjoy the taste of the raw briar for a few bowls! Most artisan pipes come without any bowl coating and they do just fine.

 

cigrmaster

Lifer
May 26, 2012
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The covering the bowl with ash is an old wives tale. There is nothing in ash that will help build a nice hard cake.
Smoke as you normally would and if you want the quickest and hardest cake, smoke Va, Vaper and Vabur flakes in it. I get a nice hard cake after 12 bowls in a naked bowl.

 
The first few smokes out of an uncoated bowl are my favorites. It's like I am tasting the aroma of future smokes, bonding with the briar, getting the pipe ingrained into my DNA. It's not unpleasant to me at all. It's like a clean wood taste. I love it, and it keeps me buying more new pipes.

Enjoy!

 

jpmcwjr

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May 12, 2015
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The covering the bowl with ash is an old wives tale. There is nothing in ash that will help build a nice hard cake.
To underline this, I can confirm that cake builds up in a new pipe even when the smoker rinses and wipes all the ash out before a re-load. I think cake is the coating of solids released by combustion, and which precipitate out on the relatively cooler briar wall, and there harden. At the same time, I suppose that some ash could be incorporated into the cake if the precipitate (probably the wrong word) coated it. But who wants to start a bowl with ash all down the chamber?

 

shutterbugg

Lifer
Nov 18, 2013
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I remember when the popular advice from B&M sellers was to coat the inside with a thin film of honey. I tried it once. What a horrible taste! After that I just smoked them. Never bothered to do the partial-fill thing either, just filled to the top and smoked. Never had a problem.

 
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