A sad surprise today.

[Buffalo]

After being my faithful companion over many miles, I discovered that my Rockwell tamper decided it had had enough of my shenanigans and split on me. Literally. I'll remember him fondly and all the bowls we enjoyed. I knew that only those on this forum would understand the grief I am feeling.

 

[bullet08]

Didn't know there was such a thing. But seems like very useful with corkscrew and bottle opener.

 

[Buffalo]

Didn't know there was such a thing. But seems like very useful with corkscrew and bottle opener.

It was even more useful when there was a tamper attached to the end of it.

 

[didimauw]

You sat on it didn't you?

Time for a Sheffield pipe knife!

 

[Buffalo]

You sat on it didn't you?

Time for a Sheffield pipe knife!

A very real possibility. Actually, I think the little torx screw must have worked it's way loose and fallen out. I didn't realize it until I went to tamp a bowl I was smoking last night and discovered that the tamper was gone!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Though I've got tampers in many sizes, shapes, and colors, none work better than my fingertips.

 

[captpat]

Funny how we develop deep attachments to the simplest of tools.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Funny how we develop deep attachments to the simplest of tools.

Lifelong, even.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Funny how we develop deep attachments to the simplest of tools.

If you mean detached tools, lol, yep, I've got a little pocket knife I've had since I was 9 that still gets used, nothing special as a knife at all but I occasionally get anxious looking for it when I forget where I left it. A padlock I bought when I was 12 to put on my locker in junior high and then used in 9th grade and then on my trunk at home the rest of HS that had all my stuff that was nobody else's business is around the garage or basement somewhere. After decades of non use and often years in between sightings, I still know the combination is 3-27-1.

 

[ray47]

After having several tamper heads fall off those pipe shaped tampers, I switched to golf tees. I buy them by the bag and if I lose one, no big lose.

 

[mso489]

Metal fatigue is a terrible thing. I like pipe nails a lot, though i have a row of other pipe tools that are more elaborate, and of course Czech tools. Though pipe tools have a way of getting lost, a pipe nail, costing a buck, seems to be impossible to lose. I do have to hunt through my pocket to find it among the keys and match box, but if I scoop everything out, there it is. I think it has cab or uber fare to find its way home if I drop it.

 

[telescopes]

Pipe tampers are destined to find a path of their own. I have owned and lost so many. Why? Why do they leave us?

 

[kcghost]

This is the price we pay for carrying our tampers with us. I got some fairly expensive tampers, but they are all boxed up except for the never been lost pipe nail.

 

[MacMarty89]

I‘ve never lost a tamper in my life. I offer a crash course in not losing them. $100 per 5 minutes.

 

[anotherbob]

really dig my 8 deco tamper. And it looks cool too and works better then I thought it would. I only bought it under the theory that I would be less likely to misplace it in a permanent way (which is true) and safe money instead of buying another three or four chezch tools. But it does work better for me. Not only does the contact lense shape of the foot help but the ridges are great for the way I pack flakes (pulled apart not rubbed out) as it can kind of file down the more stubborn bits.

 

[Buffalo]

Good news this morning, I realized I had a spare Rockwell tamper in my desk at work. It is now residing on my Keychain and all is right in the universe again!

 

[FurCoat]

Though I've got tampers in many sizes, shapes, and colors, none work better than my fingertips.

Same here.

 

[edger]

I have a Rodgers PipeKnife that I want to love, but the bloody tamper is too small. The ubiquitous pipe nail has a good sized tamperso I go to that moreoftenthan that. WhenI was a carpenterI'djust buy a pound of 3" smooth copper roofing nails.
Shit! Why does my space key on this damned IPad never work? A grubby screen is probably the culprit.

 

[dadbobcat77]

I just use a pipe nail. does the job quite well.