What Do You Use When You Can't Find Your Tamper?

hextor · Sep 4, 2016

My kid got a hold of my czec tamper and he had misplaced the darn thing, now I have resorted to using a honey dipper, I must say it makes a pretty good tamper, prehaps I can cut it in half and put a nail in the end to make it into a proper tamping tool.

mayfair70 · Sep 4, 2016

I use my finger. Works really well.

ashdigger · Sep 4, 2016

I use the finger of a cadaver I carry around....for security purposes.
I guess you can call it a digital device.

tinsel · Sep 4, 2016

I use one of the 10 tampers I was born with :D

warren · Sep 4, 2016

I've never been without my left index finger. I tamp all but a couple of small meers with it. For the small bowls I use my pinkie. The beauty of using one's finger is only one hand is required to hold the bowl and tamp, I never have to put my drink or book aside and hunt for a gadget. Very infrequently do I use a gadget for tamping.

randelli · Sep 4, 2016

How do you keep from burning your finger?
I have read about using your finger several times here - are we talking about the initial tamp only?

rfernand · Sep 4, 2016

When you tap the top it just feels like ash... Don't leave the finger in there.

mayfair70 · Sep 4, 2016

How do you keep from burning your finger?

Oh crap, THAT'S what that smell is.

warren · Sep 5, 2016

You soon develop a wee callus. One or two crispy critters a year with winter house fires and you begin to not notice the sweet smell of burning flesh.

Chasing Embers · Sep 5, 2016

Yup, fingers here too.

dottiewarden · Sep 5, 2016

How do you keep from burning your finger?

Who said it doesn't get burned?

cossackjack · Sep 5, 2016

The bottom of my Clipper refillable butane lighter which is circular & fits almost all of my pipes. I rarely need to use it as I keep it & a 3.25" wooden golf tee tamper together in a small nylon lighter sleeve, always with e while smoking
@hextor:

Had to chuckle as in these parts a honey dipper is the septic tank clean-out truck. Not a good mental image for a pipe tamper.

hextor · Sep 5, 2016

wow every one uses their finger, count me in on that one too, I use my pinky to tamp when I am to lazy to get my tamper.

sablebrush52 · Sep 5, 2016

I give my pipe the finger. So far it hasn't turned into the flaming finger of fate.

mawnansmiff · Sep 5, 2016

I'd sooner use someone elses finger : puffy

:
Regards,
Jay.

noquarter · Sep 5, 2016

Golf tee or some nail.By habit, i use my forefinger to stoke and a czech tool to re-arrange the tobacco in the bowl while smoking.

hakchuma · Sep 5, 2016

Fingers. But I got bit the other day while in the car.

pagan · Sep 5, 2016

One of the digets I was born with, but just the tip

derfatdutchman · Sep 5, 2016

Real nails, large wood screws, bolts, and fingers.

jerwynn · Sep 5, 2016

I found that once I started in seriously with pipes and tobaccos, there was a miraculous multiplication of tampers, pipe-tool like objects, and the ever present mother-of-inventions. Such things seems to reproduce around my little slice of heaven and I never find myself alone!(in that sense!)

What Do You Use When You Can't Find Your Tamper?

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