Today I am at my gf's house and getting ready for a nice smoke but I dont have a tamper! So I had to use the tip of a drumstick I got from the lead singer of the B52's. I was in the front row of a concert when he was playing the cowbell in that song Rock Lobster. After the song, he handed me the drumstick. It turned into today's tamper. 
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What is the Most Unusual Thing You've Used as a Tamper?
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Posted 3 months ago #
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Lol! I just stick my finger in there. I usually have a lighter/tamper combo with me though.
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Nothing unusual, deer antler, pipe tool, homemade wooden tampers.
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I've used my finger once or twice. I've used a nail. A stick or twig. That's about it.
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Small engine valve.
For whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking...
A.A. MilnePosted 3 months ago # -
Index finger mostly.
Russ
Smoking a pipe is true relaxation. Everything else is work.Posted 3 months ago # -
I used a (closed of course) tube of Chap Stik today ont the way home from work. I forgot my tamper on my desk and it was handy, so...a tamper it became.
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B52s drumstick takes the cake! A stick from the yard for me.
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I used a battery once. I twas the best thing I could find.
As long as I got a pipe full of baccy and a nose full of snuff, I'm a happy camper
Cigarettes are an addiction, cigars are a hobby, pipes are a religionPosted 3 months ago # -
If I'm lighting up at work (jeweler) I often use a small bezel mandrel end as an initial tamper before I go outside.
Allan
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3 kitchen matches held together Wood end of course.
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I've used a trumpet valve stem with a brass cap.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.Posted 3 months ago # -
I've used a trumpet valve stem with a brass cap.
You are my new hero, brilliant, and with me being a trumpet player I've been wasting a perfectly good golf tee on my pipe.
Want to get raped? bank with Wells Fargo, the worlds biggest Criminals
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 3 months ago # -
The bottom of a small axe body spray (as seen in this video) that i keep in my work van due to being smelly in hot weather. i use it a lot actually.
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Well before I grabbed the drum stick, I saw 3 .9mm rounds on the dresser and I'm embarrassed to say my first thought was "hummmmm... just maybe".
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coalsmoke said:
"Index finger mostly." Even though I always have a tamper handy in one of my pockets, coalsmoke and I use the same method.
"I'm always easy to please since I'm always satisfied with the very best." - Oscar WildePosted 3 months ago # -
Toilet plunger,,,big pipe,,,,
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If I told you... I'd have to kill you.
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I honestly never use a tamper, it's always my index finger. Once or twice I've used a nail but my finger seems to work best for me and I never forget to bring it when I want a smoke.
BLACKBLOODs for life...just please keep making Black House!Posted 3 months ago # -
three inch deck screws work when in a pinch
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A golf tee, the end of an ink pen, the flat end on the handle of a letter opener, Chapstick, a twig, pretty much anything at my disposal that will fit in the bowl. Lol
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth." - C.S. LewisPosted 3 months ago # -
Several times I had misplaced my tamper but used a fired 45 ACP case...works well using the primer end. Spent primer of course.
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A gopher.
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I always have my Peterson pipe knife (tamper on one end), but it's not uncommon for me to just use my finger.
The redhead hates it when I do that (ash often gets under my fingernail) and says "you have a tool for that, why didn't you use it?" LOL
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and with me being a trumpet player I've been wasting a perfectly good golf tee on my pipe.
Now I just keep a couple Blessing trumpets around for "tamper parts". 
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and with me being a trumpet player I've been wasting a perfectly good golf tee on my pipe.
Now I just keep a couple Blessing trumpets around for "tamper parts".
Darn, all my trumpets are good ones, I don't have any parts horns.
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10 mm socket was all I used for a while. Always smoked in the garage..
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Brake shoe hold down pin
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A golf tee works great.
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so... how do you use your finger without burning it? I must be doing something wrong with my Tamp Technique because it would definitely burn my finger.
@hunter185: A gopher?
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I was gonna say the bowl of a small clay pipe, used as a tamper for a larger briar.
After reading the rest of the thread, I'd say the most unusual thing I've used for a tamper is a tamper.
The true measure of a mans worth is how he chooses to chance his mortality
Junior Member of the Black BloodsPosted 3 months ago # -
The filter end of a friends unsmoked Marlboro.
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A carrot.
Never used a golf tee. Have a smoothed piece of stick in the breast pocket of my coat that will serve in a pinch. Usually have multiple tampers with me, in the jar of pipe cleaners, at my desk, and in the bookshelves. I have a small army of tampers.
-----ATBOTH
Boring wafflegab about tobacco.Posted 3 months ago # -
Whoever says tampon wins.
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
Mark Twain - Eric (taerin): nickname (username)Posted 3 months ago # -
+1 Eric.....
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So I see we have some trumpet players here. I know its not part of this forum subject, but I just have to know. You guys pros? Classical, jazz, club dates?
Me, MMA from Manhattan School of Music way back in 1975-classical on full scholarship. Original dream-play in the NY Philharmoic. Truly another life time ago.
Allan
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So I see we have some trumpet players here. I know its not part of this forum subject, but I just have to know. You guys pros? Classical, jazz, club dates?
Sorry to derail your topic, but formerly played in (2) 18 piece Big Bands, small jazz groups, Classical Trumpet& Organ Baroque music all on piccolo trumpet, Salsa Bands, Elvis Impersonator Bands, a true Commercial player who obviously "played if they paid"...
Use to play on a Shilke Gold Plated B6L tuning bell model Bb, Sherzer Piccolo rotary valve trumpet, Rose brass bell Flugelhorn by Courtois 154, and many others that are long gone that I should have kept.
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Teddy - where can I find those clothespins these days? I often use twigs when I'm out and about. I just scrape and smooth the business end on cement or a rough stone. One day I was preparing for a fly fishing presentation at a venue that was also a Boy Scout camp. Those durn scouts did too good a job of cleaning up the dead wood in the forest around, and as I was scavenging in the random artsy craftsy stuff in the room, I came across what turned out to be a clothespin with the ends cut cleanly off. The diameter was almost the regulation 17mm and the open groove made for an interesting dynamic in the tamping process.
hp
lesPosted 3 months ago # -
...It's not uncommon for me to just use my finger. The redhead hates it when I do that [...] and says "you have a tool for that, why didn't you use it?"
What was the topic again?
(Sorry. I thought it and felt compelled to say it.)
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@hobie1dog: Thats ok. Im a music lover myself so that topic usually finds its way in somehow.
Posted 3 months ago # -
Lestrout , I think you can still buy them in a hardware store.
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