A Match or a Lighter?
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Q: Got a match?
A: Yeah. My ass for your face.
(Joke from my childhood, long ago. You're welcome.)
A: Yeah. My ass for your face.
(Joke from my childhood, long ago. You're welcome.)
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Matches are the still the best way to light a pipe, closely followed by the Old Boys.
zippo and matches ... always back and forth between those two for me
The least expensive method is my preference. If I'm smoking in the tobacco shop, then I'm using their lighters. If not, I prefer the solar energy method, using a magnifying glass. But if I'm in a hurry, then a large wooden kitchen match. Of course, I'll also pick up lost or discarded Bics from the ground and use those, when luck is with me.
Except when first filled fumes from a zippo are gone by the time the lighter gets to the bowl. My Zippo is so wrong, I have to use it. 
Where do you find the RB Plug?
I'd love to find some. Best tobacco ever made.
Oh, and I use matches almost exclusively, although an old dupont ligne 2 with pipe flame rides in my pocket for when I just can't.
Prefer matches, but also a fan of the long, grill lighters. Easy reach down in the bowl for relights. I don't smoke in public so who cares what it looks like.
Are you sure you’re from Florida and not Yorkshire? You take frugality to the God tier!
How was copper wire invented?
Two Yorkshiremen fighting over a penny!
From the tobacconist, I bought a few ounces a week or so ago. It is wonderful stuff.
Ring of Kerry, most likely. Just like to see who's paying attention, and how much blarney I can get away with.
Sounds like a great excuse to watch so old Bing Crosby movies!matches and if you use them enough you figure out how to use them in the wind. Pro tip watch old Bing Cosby movies when he lights the pipe.
I thought I'd posted on this, but I don't see my post, so I guess not. I've always used matches. I have several lighters, and I love them as gadgets, and back-up to matches, but I like the extra soft flame of matches, the sense of control, and even more, the sound, smell, and feel of matches, and the sense of ritual they lend to the lighting of a pipe. My wife got me a matchbox cover case made of metal that exactly fits matches sold as wedding giveaways bought by the box of about fifty. The match case adds another element of ritual that i enjoy. It's all about aesthetics and subjectivity, in this case. But lighters are engaging. A Formums member sent me a lighter engraved with an image of my minesweeper, U.S.S. Gallant, MSO 489, which i cherish.
I believe we have exhausted every form of lighting a pipe, and whatever you like that works for you, great. It seems that almost all methods are useful for varied situations.
A problem with grill lighters is that people are tempted to do just that. Big risk of over torching the chamber and tobacco. Drawing the flame down works for 99% of pipes. The rest would have chambers of over two inches.
Just want to make one thing clear, his estate didn't ask me to say this. Though it totally is a good excuse to watch them. Another is that old movies are better then modern movies.... Because even if they are stinkers they're interesting in the you don't see that everyday kind of way. But it seriously is a good way to see how to use matches with a pipe.
No doubt. I only use the adjustable ones, the flame is much smaller than a standard bic on the lowest setting (which I will use in a pinch if neither matches nor grill lighter is available).
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