Chronic wet smoker

[tartanphantom]

Keep your tongue off of the bit button as much as possible. Your tongue is the primary saliva conduit in the process.

It's a learned behavior, because it's only natural to rest your tongue against the bit to stabilize it in your mouth.

 

[Smokeybandit]

Keep your tongue off of the bit button as much as possible. Your tongue is the primary saliva conduit in the process.

It's a learned behavior, because it's only natural to rest your tongue against the bit to stabilize it in your mouth.

I can’t speak for the OP, but my tongue is no where near the bit as I don’t clench the pipe in my teeth whilst enjoying a bowl, the bit is barely between my lips, any further and it will get wet with drool.

The couple of times I did clench I had to use my tongue as a stop valve to keep from filling my bowl with drool

Thus why I don’t clench unless I absolutely have to.

 

[HammerandPipe]

Keep your tongue off of the bit button as much as possible. Your tongue is the primary saliva conduit in the process.

It's a learned behavior, because it's only natural to rest your tongue against the bit to stabilize it in your mouth.

Good point. Which is what try to do. But i drool anyways like the tobacco just makes water works happen. Its nuts. Sip and hold it in my hand for the length of time it takes to take a drink and then sip again.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I find the straights to be worse and have better luck with the bent.

It's funny -- I was going to ask the OP if his briar was bent, as bents always smoke wetter for me than straight pipes. Probably some confounding variables at play.

 

[HammerandPipe]

It's funny -- I was going to ask the OP if his briar was bent, as bents always smoke wetter for me than straight pipes. Probably some confounding variables at play.

Half bent and one bent . I do have a few straights. For the briars. Cobs vary.

 

[lithicus]

I've been smoking a pipe for 2 years and a few months ago I was having the same issues as you. There's lots of good advice. You seem to be doing a lot of things right.

What helped me was switching to a gravity fill with infrequent and super light tamping, which you are already doing. This alone got rid of almost all of the moisture for me. But, I also about a week later took sipping to an extreme. To compensate for the significantly lighter draws, I increased my cadence an insignificant amount. This got me to basically bone dry smokes top to bottom with flavor through and through.

I don't dry my tobacco at all, but I don't jar my tins. I get through a tin in about 2 weeks. So, it does dry some naturally that way. I mostly smoke flakes and I break them up pretty good by hand so that there are no long "strands". I find that long strands prevent me from doing a true and proper gravity fill. Biggest pieces go in first, then the smaller bits, and I top it off with whatever dust is left in my tray.

Since you are presumably packing and tamping the way I am, but still getting moisture... I can only assume one of two things. You aren't sipping as lightly as you could be. Or, you are drooling into the stem. If you avoid clenching, this would eliminate the drooling part assuming the pipe is still wet. And then, you have the challenge of learning to really truly sip a pipe.

I thought I was sipping for 2 years and I was not. Or maybe I was, but you can almost always smoke a little bit slower. One day, I stumbled upon the video below. And, my mind came back to a comment from someone in this community. "Wisps not clouds." While I find this youtuber's cadence to be pretty slow compared to most youtuber's (my reason for linking it), I think I smoke even slower than him these days. But again, it was me re-evaluating things at a basic and fundamental level about 2 months ago that led me to where I am now; 2 years after picking up a pipe for the first time. Rethinking my packing methods and what a true gravity fill actually means. Rethinking what people mean when they say sip and go slow. Don't give up. You'll figure it out.

(To be clear as well, I don't agree with everything in this video. But, it is one of the best long form media demonstrations of cadence I've found on youtube to date. And rest assured, if he wasn't talking and recording this video, his cadence would likely be more frequent but his draws even more wispy.)

 

[anotherbob]

I wish I could find a new, decent-sized, meer-lined briar bowl for a Falcon.

One of my older pipes is a falcon regular stem and a meer lined brandy hyperbole, and size is sadly small. 30 minute smoke 45 if a flake. The thing smokes great and is a real bite killer.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

I'm sorry to say that the problem is the same as it always is when we see threads like this....

You gotta stop drooling.

You've got a wet mouth.

 

[HammerandPipe]

I'm sorry to say that the problem is the same as it always is when we see threads like this....

You gotta stop drooling.

You've got a wet mouth.

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[HammerandPipe]

I've been smoking a pipe for 2 years and a few months ago I was having the same issues as you. There's lots of good advice. You seem to be doing a lot of things right.

What helped me was switching to a gravity fill with infrequent and super light tamping, which you are already doing. This alone got rid of almost all of the moisture for me. But, I also about a week later took sipping to an extreme. To compensate for the significantly lighter draws, I increased my cadence an insignificant amount. This got me to basically bone dry smokes top to bottom with flavor through and through.

I don't dry my tobacco at all, but I don't jar my tins. I get through a tin in about 2 weeks. So, it does dry some naturally that way. I mostly smoke flakes and I break them up pretty good by hand so that there are no long "strands". I find that long strands prevent me from doing a true and proper gravity fill. Biggest pieces go in first, then the smaller bits, and I top it off with whatever dust is left in my tray.

Since you are presumably packing and tamping the way I am, but still getting moisture... I can only assume one of two things. You aren't sipping as lightly as you could be. Or, you are drooling into the stem. If you avoid clenching, this would eliminate the drooling part assuming the pipe is still wet. And then, you have the challenge of learning to really truly sip a pipe.

I thought I was sipping for 2 years and I was not. Or maybe I was, but you can almost always smoke a little bit slower. One day, I stumbled upon the video below. And, my mind came back to a comment from someone in this community. "Wisps not clouds." While I find this youtuber's cadence to be pretty slow compared to most youtuber's (my reason for linking it), I think I smoke even slower than him these days. But again, it was me re-evaluating things at a basic and fundamental level about 2 months ago that led me to where I am now; 2 years after picking up a pipe for the first time. Rethinking my packing methods and what a true gravity fill actually means. Rethinking what people mean when they say sip and go slow. Don't give up. You'll figure it out.

(To be clear as well, I don't agree with everything in this video. But, it is one of the best long form media demonstrations of cadence I've found on youtube to date. And rest assured, if he wasn't talking and recording this video, his cadence would likely be more frequent but his draws even more wispy.)

This was interesting. I dont puff as much as him or you do apparently hand holding. When i clench my cobs I puff more. But i draw longer. I think i see the problem or at the very least a jumping off point to solving my problem. Thank you for this.

 

[tartanphantom]

 

[bullet08]

Couple of tampons in the mouth might be a suggestion. Nah. Too early for the silly jokes.

 

[SpuddsBuckley]

What kind of tobaccos do you typically smoke? If you're smoking goopy aromatics, you're gonna end up with a wet bowl.

 

[HammerandPipe]

What kind of tobaccos do you typically smoke? If you're smoking goopy aromatics, you're gonna end up with a wet bowl.

Burleys and some english’s mostly. Would like to get into VAs

 

[Sigmund]

I use the chips and Ive never had wet dottle...none. Get the tobacco off the floor of the chamber and it stays dry. I reuse the chips until they get lost.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Pack tighter. I smoke flake and I press quite firmly before lighting. I also think it may be a matter of experience. I used to have similar issues but don’t any longer. I can’t think of anything I’ve changed. Maybe pack tighter. Also, don’t be concerned if there’s a reasonably small amount of unsmoked wet dottle remaining. No big deal.

I seriously doubt it is your saliva.

 

[edger]

I wish I could find a new, decent-sized, meer-lined briar bowl for a Falcon.

All the Falcon lined chambers are too small. They seem to take the standard bowl and add the meerschaum rather than over ream the briar and then add the lining. Probably cost cutting issues. However, the Falcon pipes allow you to flick out the moisture on the carpet if your other half doesn’t catch you!

 

[Smokeybandit]

Pack tighter. I smoke flake and I press quite firmly before lighting. I also think it may be a matter of experience. I used to have similar issues but don’t any longer. I can’t think of anything I’ve changed. Maybe pack tighter. Also, don’t be concerned if there’s a reasonably small amount of unsmoked wet dottle remaining. No big deal.

I seriously doubt it is your saliva.

It’s my saliva, no doubt. Shortly after lighting up and taking a few draws, the moisture is only in the stem, I can remove it and shake out the drool.

I don’t have that issue as long as I keep the bowl above my mouth.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

It’s my saliva, no doubt. Shortly after lighting up and taking a few draws, the moisture is only in the stem, I can remove it and shake out the drool.

I don’t have that issue as long as I keep the bowl above my mouth.

Okay. Use a few pipe cleaners each bowl to soak up the moisture.

 

[tbradsim1]

I've been reading this and not wanting to say it but it may be the pipe. If you have a restricted airway you need to open it up, then I believe you will have less dribble, worked for me,".