Please Don't Do This To Your Pipes

[anotherbob]

I've never experienced either.

seriously. It's easier then a bic for both. In fact if you have a pipe insert it would be really hard to scorch the rim.

 

[anotherbob]

I stand corrected.

a rare thing a person that can admit a mistake while on line. Thanks for that.

 

[Chasing Embers]

seriously. It's easier then a bic for both. In fact if you have a pipe insert it would be really hard to scorch the rim.

Hard to scorch the rim with Zippo's advised modification for their regular insert as well.

 

[workman]

Different fuels burn at different temperatures. Someone has posted numbers here before, but I can't recall who, or in which thread.
I do recall that Zippo fuel was very low, as were matches. Butane lighter gas was way higher, and of course when used in torch mode it breaks the charts. Those torch lighters will char anything.

 

[Perique]

I never minded a burnt rim. If it makes an otherwise desirable estate pipe less expensive, all the better.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I never minded a burnt rim. If it makes an otherwise desirable estate pipe less expensive, all the better.

This was exactly what I was thinking. If it means that I get an Eltang at a huge discount (but I doubt it is a significant discount), I say keep scorching them rims. It wouldn't bother me at all.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

People simply need to learn how to properly light their pipe. The flame should be held above the rim and tobacco and drawn into the tobacco to light. The flame should never touch the rim and cannot using this method. Simple.

 

[hairvise]

It's not the view that's the challenge. It's one hand on wheel, one hand on lighter and the lack of a steady clench while driving on the post Chicago winter (potholes) roads.

These challenges hold true during coitus as well!!

 

[Chasing Embers]

These challenges hold true during coitus as well!!

Not if you tell her you're too busy smoking tonight.

 

[Chasing Embers]

People simply need to learn how to properly light their pipe. The flame should be held above the rim and tobacco and drawn into the tobacco to light. The flame should never touch the rim and cannot using this method. Simple.

If you wait and apply the flame during the draw, you can bring a lighter down into the chamber, remove it while still drawing, and the flame will never touch the rim.

 

[jaytex1969]

I never minded a burnt rim. If it makes an otherwise desirable estate pipe less expensive, all the better.

This was exactly what I was thinking.

Reminds me of my crazy uncle. He'd see something he wanted in the grocery. He'd bang two cans together and sit them back on the shelf. The next day, he'd grab them off the "dented discount" rack... ?

 

[hairvise]

If you wait and apply the flame during the draw, you can bring a lighter down into the chamber, remove it while still drawing, and the flame will never touch the rim.

Once again, chasingembers with such simple and yet brilliant advice! There are so many ways to make incremental improvements on smoking technique, and it’s thanks to folks like you that each time I smoke, my ability and enjoyment increases. Kudos to you, sir!

 

[bullet08]

People who use Zippos (without the butane pipe insert) tend to deface their briars rather quickly. I have never understood the appeal of using the Zippo because it torches the briar and leaves an awful taste.

No such problems.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Any lighting medium can scorch a rim, even char it. And any lighting medium can be safely used with care and a bit of knowledge. The flame needn't even touch the tobacco; it's plenty hot a few millimeters off the tip.

 

[instymp]

Congrats on being the exception ?

I think you would have to try very hard to scorch one with a zippo. And it would have to be deliberate.

 

[logs]

I have the opposite problem, I love old pipes that look like relics. If they're going to be scorched, I don't want just a little blackening on the bowl, I want them to look like they've been smoked long, hard and weathered every trial and tribulation. I want a pipe that's had a life. They're hard to find man, they're really hard to find.

 

[Scottishgaucho]

Call me a cretin but if the price is right I'm not at all put off buying an estate pipe with some rim scorch. Reason being, I buy pipes to smoke so chances are they're going to end up in a worse state anyway....especially if I've been at the whisky.

 

[didimauw]

Doubt that I am. Many say the same.

Agreed. It's a very safe lighter to use.

 

[snagstangl]

[QUOTE I have the opposite problem, I love old pipes that look like relics. If they're going to be scorched, I don't want just a little blackening on the bowl, I want them to look like they've been smoked long, hard and weathered every trial and tribulation. I want a pipe that's had a life. They're hard to find man, they're really hard to find. ][/QUOTE]

You must not have access to ebay. Look at used Dr. Grabows , above $50 and you should be able to find them that are nearly smoked to death, yet marked "rare" and " barely used" or "near mint/minty" .

 

[02Knight]

It's not the view that's the challenge. It's one hand on wheel, one hand on lighter and the lack of a steady clench while driving on the post Chicago winter (potholes) roads.

I take both hands off the wheel and drive with my knee, works well for me. Of course during my younger years of throwing a paper route from a 1955 Ford Truck improved my knee driving skills tremendously. I could fold, put a rubber band and throw the paper to the house without using my hands to drive!