A line from the movie Gone with the Tobacco, Starring Clark Gravityfill?Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn about the Frank method.
Hahaha! I love it! Sounds like you’ve totally got it down to a fine art! Bravo man, bravo!I fine tuned the Frank Method into something I could use, as detailed in THIS POST of yesteryear.
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Never heard that description before. No wonder it didn't work.The general idea behind the Frank Method is great, and made my pipe smoking much better. It should be taught to all beginners. Before I learned about the Frank Method I was told, “Hand of a child, hand of a mother, then hand of a father.” This caused me to pack so tightly that I barely had any airflow.
Hey! That's my method, and anyone is free to use it, with or without attribution. Only variance is I like refillable butane lighters.The Frank method is fine until you learn the far superior Logs Method. Tobacco is shoveled into the bowl until you have as much as you feel like smoking and then you light it on fire with a Bic lighter and carry on with whatever you happen to be doing.
Pretty much!I'll never use it, but I still find the physics of this method interesting. On one hand, beginners often need some sort of method, and on the other, it's neat to imagine the forces you are building while packing the tobacco. I never really thought about it, but the forces must be down and sideways, and this method actually considers that.
I think the easiest way to teach pipe packing is to explain the result, rather than the technique. You want the pressure even, top to bottom, but remember that the bottom gets tighter as you pack.
I think anyone with a functioning cerebellum can figure that out in whatever way by feel.