Chronic wet smoker

[tartanphantom]

I've been reading this and not wanting to say it but it may be the pipe. If you have a restricted airway you need to open it up, then I believe you will have less dribble, worked for me,".

That's actually a heckuva good point.

 

[timt]

A Peterson System would be my suggestion.

 

[HammerandPipe]

I've been smoking a pipe for 2 years and a few months ago I was having the same issues as you. There's lots of good advice. You seem to be doing a lot of things right.

What helped me was switching to a gravity fill with infrequent and super light tamping, which you are already doing. This alone got rid of almost all of the moisture for me. But, I also about a week later took sipping to an extreme. To compensate for the significantly lighter draws, I increased my cadence an insignificant amount. This got me to basically bone dry smokes top to bottom with flavor through and through.

I don't dry my tobacco at all, but I don't jar my tins. I get through a tin in about 2 weeks. So, it does dry some naturally that way. I mostly smoke flakes and I break them up pretty good by hand so that there are no long "strands". I find that long strands prevent me from doing a true and proper gravity fill. Biggest pieces go in first, then the smaller bits, and I top it off with whatever dust is left in my tray.

Since you are presumably packing and tamping the way I am, but still getting moisture... I can only assume one of two things. You aren't sipping as lightly as you could be. Or, you are drooling into the stem. If you avoid clenching, this would eliminate the drooling part assuming the pipe is still wet. And then, you have the challenge of learning to really truly sip a pipe.

I thought I was sipping for 2 years and I was not. Or maybe I was, but you can almost always smoke a little bit slower. One day, I stumbled upon the video below. And, my mind came back to a comment from someone in this community. "Wisps not clouds." While I find this youtuber's cadence to be pretty slow compared to most youtuber's (my reason for linking it), I think I smoke even slower than him these days. But again, it was me re-evaluating things at a basic and fundamental level about 2 months ago that led me to where I am now; 2 years after picking up a pipe for the first time. Rethinking my packing methods and what a true gravity fill actually means. Rethinking what people mean when they say sip and go slow. Don't give up. You'll figure it out.

(To be clear as well, I don't agree with everything in this video. But, it is one of the best long form media demonstrations of cadence I've found on youtube to date. And rest assured, if he wasn't talking and recording this video, his cadence would likely be more frequent but his draws even more wispy.)

Coming back to this comment to say that it has been a game changer. Still some adjusting to do on my pace. But my relights have been fewer and the moisture control has went up. Ill keep messing around with this until it better.l Thank you again for this.

 

[Smokeybandit]

A Peterson System would be my suggestion.

Yay After some quick research, I have one on the way now.

Thank you so very much.

 

[Smokeybandit]

Coming back to this comment to say that it has been a game changer. Still some adjusting to do on my pace. But my relights have been fewer and the moisture control has went up. Ill keep messing around with this until it better.l Thank you again for this.

Sorry to have hi jacked your thread, I’m glad you’re figuring it out. I think my only option may be the Peterson systems pipe mentioned above.

 

[Smokeybandit]

Funny story. When I visit the dentist I have to warn them about my overactive salivary glands as I’ve been known to squirt them in the face when they say, open wide.

 

[HammerandPipe]

Funny story. When I visit the dentist I have to warn them about my overactive salivary glands as I’ve been known to squirt them in the face when they say, open wide.

Im not that bad

 

[lithicus]

Coming back to this comment to say that it has been a game changer. Still some adjusting to do on my pace. But my relights have been fewer and the moisture control has went up. Ill keep messing around with this until it better.l Thank you again for this.

Nice!! Glad you are making progress!

 

[ThermionicScott]

Funny story. When I visit the dentist I have to warn them about my overactive salivary glands as I’ve been known to squirt them in the face when they say, open wide.

We used to call that “gleeking” in high school.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

As you smoke more often you should you should slobber less.

I know over the years when I've picked up dip or chewing tobacco the first few weeks I have to spit all the time... and with more time I barely need to spit at all.

If you keep at it, it'll get easier all the way around.