Challenge to New Pipe Smokers
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With match, just a wooden smell. With butane gas, It's more difficult the of fragrance change. Perhaps my short experience in this world of tobacco pipe.
It was good to get back home to my pipes and have a couple of bowls last night, and a new box of Diamond matches of course.
I use matches when I’m home and a lighter when I’m driving or outdoors. I’m still a cig smoker so I doubt my taste is as sensitive as I could be so I don’t notice a difference. Unless the match goes out and I sip some match smoke into the pipe then I get a different taste lol
Actually the plasma lighter works pretty well to light up, but relights are a no go. I usually use my Xikar butane lighter most of the time. I have not yet been able to get a satisfactory light without touching flame to tobacco. Perhaps I worry too much about rim scorching and I'm too impatient 
Sorry, no thanks. The tactile nature of matches enjoyment is too good to pass up.
If you need a plumber's torch to light, yeah the tobacco is too wet .Unload, dry and reload!
I'm also an outside smoker, or in my truck while simultaneously driving, eating, texting, and gesticulating, so matches don't work for me. But I've just begun planning my attic man-cave, where I'll make my wife let me smoke, and then I will buy some expensive foreign-made matches and get smokey.
I use matches exclusively. I’m also in the habit (though no longer necessary) of letting the sulfur burn off before putting flame to tobacco.
Oh look I already replied to this thread!
Bic lighters for the win, I buy the big ones in 10-piece sleeves. I do however RELIGHT as cosmic suggests.
I get antsy if I have the refrigerator door opened for more than 15 seconds, or if I have the water on longer than necessary, and I turn out my led lights if I'm going out for more than a walk.
I started with matches, switched to lighters, went back to matches and then discovered hemp wick.
With a bulk spool of hemp wick, I load one or two sticks that double as tampers, with hemp wick and use the butane of a bic to light the wick.
If I'm going outside, I stand where there is no wind in an alcove before heading into breezy conditions, and light up there.
The wick serves the purpose of easing my fears of wasting fossil fuels, and is quite handy for any lengthy lighting or re-lighting requirements as you can feed the flame as you go by simply unwinding the wick on a stick. tm.
The wick is also more wind resistant than a match in the case of my current batch of wick, anyway.
For me, a nice soft, leisurely and more guilt free way to get it going.
I started with matches, switched to lighters, went back to matches and then discovered hemp wick.
With a bulk spool of hemp wick, I load one or two sticks that double as tampers, with hemp wick and use the butane of a bic to light the wick.
If I'm going outside, I stand where there is no wind in an alcove before heading into breezy conditions, and light up there.
The wick serves the purpose of easing my fears of wasting fossil fuels, and is quite handy for any lengthy lighting or re-lighting requirements as you can feed the flame as you go by simply unwinding the wick on a stick. tm.
The wick is also more wind resistant than a match in the case of my current batch of wick, anyway.
For me, a nice soft, leisurely and more guilt free way to get it going.