Anyone Use Gauzes?

[Seeker81]

Hello. Pretty basic question is all. Does anyone use gauzes? and if so, how do you rate them?

I was really enjoying some 1792, when it started to become hard to keep it lit towards the end, it also started to bite a bit...
I emptied out the pipe to see quite a bit of (imo) "good" tobacco left unsmoked. I wonder would using a gauze help save tobacco. Just a thought. Thanks.

 

[olkofri]

Hmm? What's a gauze in piping matters?

 

[alaskanpiper]

WTF is a gauze? Like a screen?

 

[perdurabo]

Gauze as little metal screen? I used one on my meerschaum, kept the tobacco from clogging.

Its not going to help your issue. 1792 is hell when it gets to the heel of the bowl. Try smoking slower, is the best advice I can give you.

 

[Seeker81]

Hello. Pretty basic question is all. Does anyone use gauzes? and if so, how do you rate them?

I was really enjoying some 1792, when it started to become hard to keep it lit towards the end, it also started to bite a bit...
I emptied out the pipe to see quite a bit of (imo) "good" tobacco left unsmoked. I wonder would using a gauze help save tobacco. Just a thought. Thanks.

Thought I might also add that I was talking to someone recently that mentioned that their grandfather used gauzes when smoking his pipe.

 

[Seeker81]

Gauze as little metal screen? I used one on my meerschaum, kept the tobacco from clogging.

Its not going to help your issue. 1792 is hell when it gets to the heel of the bowl. Try smoking slower, is the best advice I can give you.

Do you think that the 1792 will not be helped with the use of a gauze though?

 

[perdurabo]

Do you think that the 1792 will not be helped with the use of a gauze though?

Are you puffing more at the bottom of the bowl trying to get every last bit of tobacco to burn. If you are that’s where the bite is coming from.

 

[Seeker81]

Yes. A little metal screen, to use the correct technical term.

 

[perdurabo]

Smoking slower is going to stop that bite, unless it’s the Tonquin bean flavoring that is burning your tongue.

No I don’t think a gauze is going to do anything for you.

 

[perdurabo]

You can always experiment and see if it does what you want it to. Mostly it’s going to keep the tobacco from clogging and even then it could still clog.

 

[Seeker81]

You can always experiment and see if it does what you want it to. Mostly it’s going to keep the tobacco from clogging and even then it could still clog.

I'll think I'll give it a shot at some point... why the hell not suppose.
I sometimes get a bit, maybe, overly cautious when it comes to re-lighted the tobacco at the bottom of the bowl due to my concern with damaging the heel. I've heard smoking aggressively at the heel can cause damage. I'm sure a gauze would prevent this at the very least.

 

[Magpiety]

I was picturing the medical wrap. You could use it on your tongue after I guess lol.

I've been able to smoke bowls all the way down by tamping a lot less than I thought I needed to.

 

[3rdguy]

 

[BROBS]

Hello. Pretty basic question is all. Does anyone use gauzes? and if so, how do you rate them?

I was really enjoying some 1792, when it started to become hard to keep it lit towards the end, it also started to bite a bit...
I emptied out the pipe to see quite a bit of (imo) "good" tobacco left unsmoked. I wonder would using a gauze help save tobacco. Just a thought. Thanks.

That’s called dottle and you’ll damage your pipe trying to torch it with or without screen. To avoid it dry your tobacco more and tamp less.

 

[condorlover1]

Try Philt Pads

 

[dunnyboy]

When I owned a vintage meer cutty, I used metal mesh to keep the the tiny draft hole from getting clogged and to aid the coloring process. I never got more than one or two uses out of each mesh but they're inexpensive if you add them to a larger order.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

As condorlover1 suggested Sharrow Philtpads could be worth a try. They are made of clay, inexpensive and absorb moisture also.
I use them on one of my calabashes that was having problems with the air hole blocking, I've found they work a treat with this problem.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Gauze like VanGogh had around his head might make 1792 taste better, ha ha.

 

[condorlover1]

Traditionally people used silver three penny pieces with a couple of small hole drilled in them or small silver buttons. Over the years I have found small bronze buttons used on shirts and even steam engine bolts with a washer used since I have had to extract them from pipes. These 'Rube Goldberg' solutions were in essence the Coloring Bowl of yesteryear and I have a few pictures of these things on my 'All things cutty' blog that I infrequently update. You can use gauze circles that can be purchased at Head Shops but it is the devils own job to form them into little bowls and then seat them at the bottom of the pipe. I have found that Philt Pads work really well and aid coloring, however I have recently been introduced by Weezell to a new style of 'Philt Pad' made from meerschaum which are far superior to the one manufactured by Sharrow Mills and do not require frequent replacement. During the Victorian era you could buy glazed china versions of the 'Philt Pad' which I assume were used in meerschaum and clay pipes and they can often be found in the gardens of old Victorian Public Houses or jammed into the bowls of broken clay pipes. I assume this was more to do with avoiding airway blockages but who knows after all this time.

 

[jeff540]

That's what my 5-year old never ending tin of SWR regular is for: guilt free dottle disposal. Just put a small pinch in the bottom of a big bowl and then load with the good stuff on top. Once you start to taste the burley funk, time to dump.