EDITOR'S NOTE: Believing that break ing in a new pipe is of primary interesttoallreaders.PIPELOVERSpresentsin this column each month the recommendations suggested by America's leading pipe and tobacco manufacturers. This month's sug gestions come from The Brown & Wil liamson Tobacco Corporation of Louis ville, Ky.)
APIPE can be a real joy . . . or it can be a nuisance. It all depends on you . . . how you smoke your briar and the care you give it.
Learn to smoke a pipe correctly. It should be smoked slowly and evenly. In this way it stays cool and develops the full flavor of the tobacco. Don't worry if your pipe goes out occasionally. You can keep lighting it repeatedly with out loss of taste.
M any pipe smokers scrape the inside of the bowl of a new pipe and then moisten it with water. In an inexpen sive pipe this gets rid of the varnish and fuzz (fine grains of wood and dust left on the inside of the bowl when it is bored). If not removed they may char and result in a scorched bowl. Besides, they won't improve the taste of the tobacco in your first few pipefuls.
Don't do anything to the bowl of a good pipe. Better grade pipes are put through special processes to make the wood porus, with no varnish and fuzz inside the bowl. Just pack well, but not too tightly, then light evenly all around. Uneven lighting causes "burned spots."
Then smoke slowly. Don't let your pipe get too hot or the tobacco will "bake" into the bowl before it is prop erly seasoned.
Don't switch tobaccos when you break in a new pipe. Stick to the same brand for 30 or more pipefuls. Mixing tobaccos makes a pipe either strong or flat.
The perfect pipe is sweet from top to heel. To make it that way, smoke all the pipe load when you break it in. Some men fill the bowl only half full the first few times, so that the "heel" will be properly broken in and not merely the top.
Don't work a new pipe too hard. Don't smoke one pipeful right after an other. Make sure the bowl is cool and dry before loading up again. Break in your new pipe properly and it will reward your efforts by giving years of smoking enjoyment.
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Pipe Lover’s Magazine Feb 1948
APIPE can be a real joy . . . or it can be a nuisance. It all depends on you . . . how you smoke your briar and the care you give it.
Learn to smoke a pipe correctly. It should be smoked slowly and evenly. In this way it stays cool and develops the full flavor of the tobacco. Don't worry if your pipe goes out occasionally. You can keep lighting it repeatedly with out loss of taste.
M any pipe smokers scrape the inside of the bowl of a new pipe and then moisten it with water. In an inexpen sive pipe this gets rid of the varnish and fuzz (fine grains of wood and dust left on the inside of the bowl when it is bored). If not removed they may char and result in a scorched bowl. Besides, they won't improve the taste of the tobacco in your first few pipefuls.
Don't do anything to the bowl of a good pipe. Better grade pipes are put through special processes to make the wood porus, with no varnish and fuzz inside the bowl. Just pack well, but not too tightly, then light evenly all around. Uneven lighting causes "burned spots."
Then smoke slowly. Don't let your pipe get too hot or the tobacco will "bake" into the bowl before it is prop erly seasoned.
Don't switch tobaccos when you break in a new pipe. Stick to the same brand for 30 or more pipefuls. Mixing tobaccos makes a pipe either strong or flat.
The perfect pipe is sweet from top to heel. To make it that way, smoke all the pipe load when you break it in. Some men fill the bowl only half full the first few times, so that the "heel" will be properly broken in and not merely the top.
Don't work a new pipe too hard. Don't smoke one pipeful right after an other. Make sure the bowl is cool and dry before loading up again. Break in your new pipe properly and it will reward your efforts by giving years of smoking enjoyment.
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Pipe Lover’s Magazine Feb 1948
