I smoke the same pipe every day, sometimes twice a day. It's mostly bronze with a cherry bowl. A quick blowout and occasionally a swab around the bowl wall is all it needs to keep from getting stinky.
I imagine the more organic material you have in a pipe the more moisture it can absorb...
I rest my pipes in between my top and bottom teeth with most of the weight actually on my lower lip and chin. My teeth act like your hands on a fast-rope, they don't bear much weight but they keep it from moving around.
Greetings all. I am a pipe smoker and pipe-maker in Houston Texas. Don't know why I have never made an account, I have lurked here for quite a while. Anyway hello!
Currently smoking Haunted Bookshop and Lane 1q out of one of my bronze cherry pipes.