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A certain amount of condensation is produced by smoking even fairly dry tobacco. Notice that your
pipe cleaner is almost always a little damp after being run through the airway. This isn't so much
saliva as water condensed by the burning tobacco. Likewise, the filter on your cob pipe will get a
little damp. After a few smokes, replace it, or try it without. (I find that the airway is a too open and
it diminishes the flavor, but some people really like it; your choice.)
pipe cleaner is almost always a little damp after being run through the airway. This isn't so much
saliva as water condensed by the burning tobacco. Likewise, the filter on your cob pipe will get a
little damp. After a few smokes, replace it, or try it without. (I find that the airway is a too open and
it diminishes the flavor, but some people really like it; your choice.)
Some blends will let you go three smokes on a filter. I find two is usually the max (if you're smoking the same blend back to back). I always use filters with pipes that were designed to accept filters. Some might tell you other wise. Try everything and decide for yourself.
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The moisture of your tobacco will have almost no effect on the condensation in your pipe. Even when I smoke a bone dry, crunchy tobacco, there is a lot of water in some of my pipes. The filter actually creates turbulence which draws the water out of the smoke. Some like this as reducing the moisture of the smoke curbs the bite that some blends give.
The moisture of your tobacco will have almost no effect on the condensation in your pipe. Even when I smoke a bone dry, crunchy tobacco, there is a lot of water in some of my pipes. The filter actually creates turbulence which draws the water out of the smoke. Some like this as reducing the moisture of the smoke curbs the bite that some blends give.
If the OP is referring to MM cobs I have all of mine with Forever Stems which will not allow a filter. I may be wrong, but it seems as though the Forever Stems have a smaller diameter hole and reduces a very open draw as opposed to the plastic stems that come with the MM cob. I've never been a fan of filters as it's just too much bother and only some unseeded thing to fuss over. But, be that as it may.
If you insist on a filter just simply cut about a 2" piece of a pipe cleaner, fold it and place that in as a filter. It absorbs the moisture quite well and when you're finished you simply toss it out. No muss... no fuss and very cheap. :wink:
If you insist on a filter just simply cut about a 2" piece of a pipe cleaner, fold it and place that in as a filter. It absorbs the moisture quite well and when you're finished you simply toss it out. No muss... no fuss and very cheap. :wink:
2 bowls on the same filter? Terrible idea. It'll gurgle like a bastard halfway into the second bowl.
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