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    When Building Cake

    Yes. I will generally wad up the paper towel and just twisted in the bowl. Of course I always run a pipe cleaner through the pipe after each smoke as well. If you do this religiously after each smoke, your pipes will last for a lifetime.
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    When Building Cake

    Exactly what I do. I have pipes that I've been smoking since the mid 70s and I rarely ream a bowl.
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    How Do You Store a Lit Bowl

    There is rarely a day that goes by that I don't extinguish a pipe mid smoke to finish it later. I usually do this by covering the bowl with my lighter. It extinguishes the ember and just a few seconds. I usually cover the bowl with a wind cap and stick it in pocket until I'm ready to finish it...
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    Is It Really Necessary To Rotate Pipes? My Opinion!

    Haha. True. I've had these boots for 15 years and it shows.
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    Is It Really Necessary To Rotate Pipes? My Opinion!

    I've always thought that the need to "rest" a pipe for 24 hours before you smoke it again evolved so that pipe makers would sell more pipes. I started to smoke a pipe in the 70s when I was in college and smoked the same pipe multiple times a day for a couple of years. I always cleaned it with a...
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    My new Wittluck's pipe.

    I own several high-end Artisan pipes, which I bought purely for aesthetic reasons. Of course I smoke them because what else is a pipe for but I own many factory estate pipes, which I paid very little for and they smoke every bit as good as my high-end pipes. If a pipe is well drilled and the...
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    What Kind Of Pipe Purchaser Are You?

    You expressed your restoration process much better than I did but I think our goals are similar.
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    What Kind Of Pipe Purchaser Are You?

    Just curious...what shapes do you avoid?
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    What Kind Of Pipe Purchaser Are You?

    I have been smoking a pipe for over 40 years and, as you can imagine, over that time I have bought many pipes. I also restore estate pipes to either trade or sell. because of my long history with pipes and my interest in restoration I'm sure I have moved over 1500 pipes through my house. In my...
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    A Tale Of Two Pipes

    I stopped at the yard sale with the Mrs. this past Saturday and I saw two pipes bound together by a rubber band. I never see pipes at yard sales so I was intrigued. I inspected them and quickly put them back down. These pipes were in horrendous condition. I bought and restored hundreds of pipes...
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    Pipe Cleaning and Maintenance

    I always run a pipe cleaner through the stem, mortise and shank. I wipe out the bowl with a wadded up paper towel after every smoke, even if I smoke the same pipe multiple times a day. I rarely do anything else. Every once in a great while I will have to use a high octane booze for a bit of a...
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    Smoking Entire Bowl

    When I started smoking a pipe in my late teens(over 40 years ago) a codger told me to think of the tobacco at the bottom of the bowl as the heal of a cigar and to not expect to smoke it. I mostly smoke a pipe to ash but occasionally I am left with dottle. I don't worry about it!
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    How Do You Pick Your Next Smoke?

    After 40 years of pipe smoking, I try to keep it simple. I generally smoke 6 to 8 bowls a day. Almost every day I smoke the following 1. One bowl of Carter Hall. 2.One Aro 3. One bowl of Pegasus 4. 3 or 4 VaPers including Elizabethan Mixture, Orlich Golden Sliced, Boswells Private Stock, Escudo...
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    Smokin and Walkin

    My morning ritual. Wake up about 6am, bathroom, get dressed, put on a pot of coffee drink a glass of water, load up 2 pipes, and go for an hour walk. Slowly...just to get moving. By the time I am back my wife is up, bed is made and we have coffee together as I smoke my 2nd pipe. The early...
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    Vapers? Hmm.. Yes!

    I smoke Orlich Golden Sliced and Boswells Private Stock but the pound!! In fact I always have at least 10 tins of OGS in my cellar. For a special treat, I will smoke Escudo.
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    Issue Smoking Flakes

    I dry all of the tobacco that I smoke overnight. Usually, I'll take a decent quantity, maybe 3 ounces, lay it out on a couple of paper plates and in the morning I transfer it to a mylar bag. My personal preference is for extremely dry tobacco. It works well for me. Then, I do the three pinch...
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    Best affordable pipes?

    I have a couple hundred estate pipes( been collecting for 40 years) and about 20 Artisan pipes. To be honest about 90% of them smoke very similarly. Some have a slightly tighter draw, etc. but very few of the pipes I own are poor smokers. For the new pipe smoker I always recommend buying estate...
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    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    I started my morning with a bowl of Northwoods in this really old Savinelli that was gifted to me by a neighbor lady.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

    Smoking a big bowl of Orlich Golden Sliced in this beauty. 2 hours of bliss! Anyone else enjoy OGS?
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    Pipe Relights...Don't Worry About It!

    I've been smoking a pipe for a well over 40 years and I've gotten pretty good at it. I have dependable technique, decent pacing and a good packing technique. Generally, when I smoke a pipe at most, I have two or three relights. However, on occasion, even with all my years of experience, I smoke...
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