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  1. tomsmithusa

    Meerschaum Pipes

    fireman03 – another possibility for your pipe going out in the lower half of your bowl is not tamping. The heat and burn down separate the tobacco and so it goes out – sort of like a campfire, if you push the logs apart, the campfire will go out. When you first light the pipe, the heat expands...
  2. tomsmithusa

    Walker Briar Works' "Stem Restore Kit"

    Sanding with wet, 1500-grit sandpaper, Micromesh pads, vulcanite harder than sandpaper (who would have guessed and useful to know), and especially WalkerBriarWorks.com is a good source – very handy to know all of this. Thank you. Has anyone tried #0000 steel wool? I have some gifted pipes from a...
  3. tomsmithusa

    Walker Briar Works' "Stem Restore Kit"

    As I am taking all of this information in – I am getting years’ worth of experiences thank you -- I broke out laughing at lankfordjl’s signature line quote,
  4. tomsmithusa

    Meerschaum Pipes

    I appreciate the comments – I am surprised there is no cake and you literally “wipe the inside of the bowl” – back down to the meerschaum’s surface? That’s my biggest surprise, and that it does not need days drying out like the briars do. The second, one, and keith’s description and these other...
  5. tomsmithusa

    Meerschaum Pipes

    fireman03 -- Maybe your tobacco is too wet? Probably not by your description, but, just in case . . . If you lift a clump of it, say 4” - 6” in the air and drop it back down, if it stays together, then it’s too wet. It should separate a little. If too wet – let it air out. If too dry – it’ll...
  6. tomsmithusa

    Meerschaum Pipes

    I have never smoked a Meerschaum pipe. A comment on another thread prompts me to ask, are Meerschaum's much different than briar pipes for drying out between smokes? .
  7. tomsmithusa

    How many pipes do I take???

    I laughed out loud by the time I got to the bottom of this thread and read this one. Lots of good tips I echo, here: purchasing while on vacation, corn cob pipes travel well, cigrmastr's tips is how I roll, too, as a soggy pipe is not fun for me to smoke, but it sounds like you don't mind it...
  8. tomsmithusa

    Walker Briar Works' "Stem Restore Kit"

    I read a couple mentions of WalkerBriarWorks.com, here, then went to the site for the first time recently and was impressed. I eventually ordered his “Stem Restore Kit”. As I’ve not used it, I welcome anyone’s experience with it, good or bad. His explanations make sense. For example, I’ve...
  9. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    captainsousie -- that an was interesting article. I did read a range in another, just below and just above the acid-alkali, pH of 7 border – I don’t want to hijack my own thread, Ha! but I wonder if brewing method affects acidity – like a French press with less-than boiling water is a 7.1, and a...
  10. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    First I read a reference by tokerpipes and numbersix (thank you) to Walker Briar Works (WalkerBriarWorks.com), who then has a link to an article, Airflow: The Key to Smoking Pleasure, by Ken Campbell about wider, even, and unrestricted air flow as a key a good smoke and reducing tongue bite. He...
  11. tomsmithusa

    Pipe Mud and Pipe Cement (WARNING: GIANT POST)

    Dimm -- this is a great post. I just read it, and the lifetime utility it brings is much. Thank you.
  12. tomsmithusa

    Stem Whistling

    That sounds like much hard-learned experience (great diagram, too). Thank you.
  13. tomsmithusa

    Stem Whistling

    I should add and not assume someone knows, but when heating a stem, don’t keep the flame in one spot as it will burn. Keep moving the stem over the flame close enough to heat it but far enough away to keep it from burning . . . you may have to try a few spots, like start of bend, center of bend...
  14. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    jaywellington – thanks, Boss. You had a couple I forgot: frequency and water while smoking. If I smoke every day my wife says the smell is always on my breath, so I don’t have a pipe every day. Decreasing frequency keeps it special for me, instead of smoking and doing other things, I focus on...
  15. tomsmithusa

    Stem Whistling

    Good-to-read posts and recommendations . . . I’ve had good success with drill bits, too. But, it may be tougher with the bent stem. You might also try, with a coarse (wires & brush) pipe-cleaning brush inside the stem, heating the stem. With the stem nearly/at hot enough to bend, you can rotate...
  16. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    Looking a little at these numbers I see coffee is barely acidic: if distilled water is neutral at “7” (tap water can range from 6-8) and coffee is 6.9? Then, with tobacco smoke I am not finding an easy answer, especially pipe-tobacco smoke, as I am getting a range just below and just above...
  17. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    I’ve never tried the pipe cleaner left in the stem, as I read that it prevents the pipe from drying out, leaving it soggy (I don’t know if that’s true or not). I do, though, for your reasons, too (and for a cleaner smoke), clean out the pipes with alcohol (on pipe cleaners and Q-tips) after each...
  18. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    I’ve used isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) at 70% and 99%, if I remember correctly, and I’ve also used grain alcohol at 190 proof or 95% alcohol (similar to Everclear). For pipes, which I clean once they’re cooled and after each use, I noticed no difference in cleaning capability nor taste...
  19. tomsmithusa

    Advanced pipe cleaning!

    rothnh Thank you for sharing your successful experience with it.
  20. tomsmithusa

    Minimize Pipe Aftereffects

    hawk60ce – I think you just made my day. Since coffee leans toward alkaline I’ve never tried the two together. All of these years. Ha! Thanks. That will be fun to try.
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