After 1 week. Things I noticed..

[Jacob74]

I appreciate your choice of SWRA for working this out!

 

[hauntedmyst]

3. My bowl is loaded 3/4 - 4/5 full but I finish it in 10 minutes or less. Where is the 30 minute bowl?

4. I smoke in mornings and flavor is pleasant but I do taste tobacco / burley but not sweetness. But WOW in the evening my mouth has this sweet flavor sensation (like mild swisher sweet flavor) that I enjoy and frankly it’s making me not want to brush my teeth.

Um, First, #4 Brush anyways. You still have to talk to people even if it's just thanking them for getting your fries and coke and you don't want your breath to smell like a hobo's. You'd be shocked at how quickly consistently smoking will stain your teeth, especially if you combine it with coffee/espresso.

As for #3, you can't compare yourself to embers and his pipe smoking times. When he posts a pic of himself with a large pipe in his gob, keep in mind that those are his small ones. When he's working, he basically has a hollowed out watermelon filled with tobacco hanging from his jaw and it lasts him 8 to 10 hours.

 

[DanWil84]

Ok I have now smoked 3-4 times in past week. I have the MM cob with Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic. I am figuring it out and so far it’s good. Below are some things I have noticed or experienced. Are these normal?

1. After first light my bowl seems to always need another light about every 1/4 of bowl? Tobacco is more dry than moist.

2. Bottom 1/6 to 1/4 bowl never burns. I do remove the top ash after half+ bowl and light it again but I just suck air and it goes out.

3. My bowl is loaded 3/4 - 4/5 full but I finish it in 10 minutes or less. Where is the 30 minute bowl?

4. I smoke in mornings and flavor is pleasant but I do taste tobacco / burley but not sweetness. But WOW in the evening my mouth has this sweet flavor sensation (like mild swisher sweet flavor) that I enjoy and frankly it’s making me not want to brush my teeth.

1. You found out to tamp, so good
2. Last 1/6 or even sometimes 1/4 depending the bowlsize is normally the ash without fuel/tobacco to burn
3. Slow down. Maybe beating a dead horse, but slow down. Did someone mention to slow down? Maybe one noob to another, but also not compressing the tobacco can also burn it faster as oxygen has more room to flow, so that could also be attributed to 1. Maybe a more "expert" pipesmoker can chime in on that.
4. Maybe something you ate or drink at night amplifies the flavor again which you might attribute to your morning pipe and really doesn't have anything to do with it. I also got a longer aftertaste when I ate certain food, I'm still not getting which foods exactly.

 

[Old_Newby]

This all sounds really normal. I remember my main thing was slowing down. It's hard, you'll be puffing away thinking that you can't go any slower, but alas you can. Now, my bowls last about an hour a piece, sometimes way longer if I am enjoying it.

Very little smoke... some are going to bawk at this, but once you've got everything right, you can see then if you prefer choo choo'ing the bowl again... my guess is that you won't.

You don't mention which blend, so I have no idea what all of your ramblings about burley not sweet, and then too sweet to brush your teeth is about.

Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic.