Cork to tap pipe on - what kind?

[jpmcwjr]

I just bought a pre-made "knocker" from a B+M I visited in Santa Monica, but I like the re-cycling ideas better. Great thread! Now I need to find one of those big heavy hunks of glass ashtrays that were everywhere in the house I grew up in.

 

[okiescout]

"Now I need to find one of those big heavy hunks of glass ashtrays that were everywhere in the house I grew up in."
Oh yes, Jpmcwjr, and every place else you went. Civilization done swallered them up. :D
You can see them on ebay, but I would like to know what the going cost on one was back in the 60's?
Brad, what is the lighter you have there on your table?

 

[tbradsim1]

Okie the thrift stores sometimes have those heavy ashtrays, and the lighter is a Corona Pipe Master that one is my favorite. In the yard and pasture I use a torch lighter.

 

[shutterbugg]

I don't always tap my pipe on a knocker, but when I do it's a 38DD.

 

[agnosticpipe]

Here's my porch smoking station, and, I'm like Brad, need the bug spray here in MS too. I don't have one of those fancy custom made ashtrays, but have to make do with my 30 year old pewter made in Sheffield ashtray. Also my wife won't let me anywhere near her knockers with my pipe!
Seriously, if didn't have the old pewter ashtray, I'd be using whatever I could cobble together. Just about any cork should work.

 

[jpmcwjr]

To each his own. Humongous breasts remind me of cows in a pasture. Give me medium and perky any day. (note to Peck!)
Back to topic- I will be scouring thrift shops this week in the San Diego area for ashtrays as well as pipes.
Odd side note: I found a lighter this morning, (a cheap butane one, but it works) and it is the third lighter I have found in the last six months. Is the universe telling me something?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pewter ashtray! Damn, that sounds good. Reduces the knocking onto the floor problem. Photo?
Also thinking about an empty tin and a champagne cork, would want to weight it somehow. Maybe pouring lead in the bottom? Gluing an iron disk to the underside?

 

[davedan]

A champagne cork with its big rounded top and wide skirt of a base does nicely glued to the bottom of an ashtray or ceramic bowl (fancy or from Walmart). I always prefer to scoop out the bowl with the scoop end of a pipe nail, but I am of the minority that prefers not to build much cake, just leaving a thin layer of carbon. This does the job of cake but preserves the pipe nicely and eliminates the need for a reamer which, if used wrong, can do damage, slight or serious. After scooping, I wipe out the bowl with a paper napkin, paper towel, or tissue. Some of my 30 and 40 year old pipes "say" this suits them well.

MSO, that's interesting...I have two cobs and have ordered a savinelli. What I bascially do after each smoke is: scoop out the tobacco thoroughly but gently with the spoon tool and then, after running pipe cleaners through the stem/shank, I also wipe the internal bowl with pipe cleaners...pipes look clean and dandy afterwards. Could I employ the same procedure with my very expensive sevinelli briar and not worry about reaming? Also, would that eliminate the ghosting issue? I could smoke whatever blends I want in it aromatics/english etc.? How many bowls a day can I smoke in the sevinelli cos I heard you're only supposed to smoke a briar once per 48 hours although you could abuse the cobs all you want? THanks for the help and advice!!

 

[carbonmated]

I feel like I am doing something wrong now. I just tap into the palm of my hand and let it fall to the ground 8O

 

[fnord]

Davedan:
Buy a cheap bottle of Southern Californian bubbly and glue the wider end to an even cheaper ashtray you purchase from the Salvation Army or Goodwill store.
Don't be a piker like this guy from Louisiana who parks a Cumberland stemmed Dunhill, next to a Corona Pipe Master lighter on a well used patio table supporting a can of Raid Wasp and Hornet killer and a bunch of clothes pins.
Seriously, Bradley?
This is the best you could do?

I sent this to Ben at Quantico and called in Sam from the next room. Thank you for the best laugh ever from 2016.
Fnord

 

[stephenw]

I find that the cork from a bottle of Martini and Rossi Asti Supmante works very very well. I level the bottom just a bit and then use Gorilla Glue to glue the cork to the bottom of a terra cotta planter tray. It is a perfect pipe ash try and since the trays come in various sizes, I can make them as small or as large as I need. Gorilla Glue seems to be the very best for gluing cork to terra cotta. I don't drink the Asti, but my wife loves it, so when I need a new ash tray, she gets a real treat.

 

[hawke]

Daveinlax,

I've fashioned some custom cork knockers out of craft cork bulletin board sheets. I cut out and glue together the rough shape then shape it on a sanding disk.

I'd like to see some of those, pictures?
Here's mine, but I use the cork for gravity packing the pipe. Like carbon I used my hand for final dumping.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I do have a factory made ashtray with knocker, but for the most part, I tend to use the heel of my boot more often.

 

[cigrmaster]

I have been using this style of cork knocker for 15 years now. They stick to the ashtray for a real long time.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/accessories/pipe-supplies/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=1199

 

[tennsmoker]

You can find a variety of sized corks at your friendly Ace Hardware for pennies on the cork. I have used them for years for many a job.
And, if you live in the South like Bradley, Orley and me, Ace carries a nice selection of bug killer. Honest, I have no stock in Ace. I just like the guys at my Ace, since they help me with all my home repairs and the like.
I bought a mosquito light zapper from Wal-Mart. Never worked well. The mosquitoes loved it, set up inside and started partying using the different light colors for disco dancing.
Went to Ace, and the guy handed me some super killer mosquito spray, a la Bradley.