Every Previous Owner Of Every Estate Pipe...

[mortonbriar]

I think it is probably just the PG in any aromatic blend, rather than every estate smoking the same blend. I left some pipes in storage for a few years and they started to have that same musty smell even though I never smoked any of the blends that I had thought were the ghost-musters.

Isaac

 

[BROBS]

I think it is probably just the PG in any aromatic blend, rather than every estate smoking the same blend. I left some pipes in storage for a few years and they started to have that same musty smell even though I never smoked any of the blends that I had thought were the ghost-musters.

Isaac

Maybe the PG somehow carries the flavor into the wood?

 

[alaskanpiper]

 

[BROBS]

I consider it a Ghost Adventure everytime I smoke one.

 

[olkofri]

I ain't either because I refuse to buy used pipes! ?

 

[mingc]

I smoke SG and GH florals and I don't limit them to dedicated pipes. They're in my entire herd! All my estates are gonna stink. Bwahahaha! ??

 

[BROBS]

I smoke SG and GH florals and I don't limit them to dedicated pipes. They're in my entire herd! All my estates are gonna stink. Bwahahaha! ??

same here. FLORALS, NOUGATS, VANILLAS YUM

 

[jpmcwjr]

Latakia ghost?? That'd be heavenly.

 

[Pierre1965]

I just chase spirits with spirits.

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If you burn all your taste buds off the ghosts can't bother you!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Latakia ghost?? That'd be heavenly.

Not when it gets to the ammonia smelling point.

 

[Chasing Embers]

If you burn all your taste buds off the ghosts can't bother you!

I rarely drink it, I use it mainly for pipe restorations.

 

[craig61a]

Personally, I haven’t had the experience the OP writes of. And I’ve had a lot of (100’s) estates pass through my hands.

Soaking in cotton/alcohol or any other remedy works.

My own pipes, some of which go years between smokes, don’t have any smell.

A thick layer of ashy cake will hold smells for long time. Reaming/sanding will remove that.

I don’t get what all the fuss is about...

 

[BROBS]

no fuss. I just tend to find SWRA pipes.

and I do ream them and sand even to bare wood yet the smell can remain.

I don't put alcohol in my briars.. it damages the wood IMO. I use water.

it doesn't really bother me, just an observation and does go away after I get the pipe re-broken in.
but it's honestly in the wood, because I also clean the airway to bare wood with a drillbit.

 

[wulfheard]

In only buy estates from a couple of places that I trust, they come to me cleaned and sanitized. None of the used pipes that I have purchased have ever had any hint of a ghost. In fact, for the most part, they look and smoke like new out of the box.

Besides, if you think your pipe has absorbed some kind of aftertaste, it's generally not that difficult to remedy.

 

[rushx9]

I've gotten a couple estates that were ghosted heavily with either Captain Black or 1Q and a couple that were definitely used for Sir Walt predominately. The Raleigh was easily exorcised, but the CB/1Q had to be purged with black magic... AKA Latakia. I've never noticed if a pipe I received was ghosted with lat but I'm sure some of my own pipes are. Imho, lat by itself is easy to remove, but when it's combined with Cavendish, as with crossovers and many Scottish blends, it can leave behind a Lovecraftian demon that's the worst of both worlds - a horror from the zone between the zones. Luckily, no phantom is a match for a baptism in the holy rose-scented waters of the Lakeland district!

 

[fightnhampster]

I have had ghosting issues with the couple of estate pipes I bought. Never could get the previous taste out of them, even with salt and alcohol treatment. To me it was not worth the time, money, and number of bad bowls I would have to smoke in the estate pipe to overcome the previous flavor. I would rather just buy a new one.

 

[Magpiety]

yes Latakia ghost to me is the worst.. it makes all tobacco taste salty, smoky, and horrible.

Salty is dead on. If some of the savory flavor was there it wouldn't be so bad.