I am a big fan of Carter Hall to work on technique. My first tobacco was an aromatic, Lane BCA, and was a real challenge to learn to pack and keep lit.
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from snuffhouse? Heck yeah. The one that keeps pimping Toques bespokes! As long as you're not theoneandonly happy to have you here. If you are that person it's nice to see you not complaining
Hi Bob,
I haven’t complained much over there except maybe about American Scotches and Elmo’s Reserve. Do you pipe and snuff in equal amounts? I find I get compulsively about snuff (always reaching for my pocket) and hope that turning to the pipe slows me down a bit (I don’t mean in regards to consuming tobacco). Also, seems like a better habit to indulge in when waking my dog.
Re: Toque it’s always a mistake when I decide not to include them in my order, they really are well rounded yet interesting snuffs which never caused me (my nose) problems.
depends. Though lately been pipe smoking more then snuffing. Though I snuff at least once a day before work but not at work. Mainly cause I clean toilets and that's just gross to mix with snuffing.
Fair enough... but snuffing right before seems like a good idea.
helps not get those colds those crazy students give you.
I must say tobacco enthusiasts can be particularly kind people. I am still waiting on a pipe I ordered (had to be restored) which will be here on Tuesday and ordered Haddo’s Delight in the meantime but since then a member of a snuff forum I belong to who I have traded (for lack of a better word) snuff with sent me two sealed SG tins: Full Virginia Flake and Skiff Mixture. Not having any idea how fast I will be consuming should I still crack both of them open now?
You can, just to have a pleasant whiff of the tin note, as long as you jar them right after. I always jar my blends upon arrival, regardless of whether I'll smoke them anon or years later.
OK, thanks, will have to go buy some mason jars tomorrow a shame as I prefer the look of the tins.
Who says you have to chuck them?? I keep them all. If I have 'repeats' I can always use them to store hardware in.
You’re right and I won’t just worry that the tobacco will have separation anxiety.
Ok, so I finally received my pipe, a nice estate Comey and had a go at it... the first couple tries were frustrating to say the least and I put it down to run an errand and left some Squadron Leader out on a plate in the meantime. Anyways, came back to it a little while ago and this time packed it in the Frank method. What a difference, I perhaps made it 1/3 the way without needing a relight but some amount of anxiety prevailed. I think learning to drive stick shift is a good analogy, it’s when you don’t have to worry about the car stalling that you finally enjoy driving it. One thing I did not experience is tongue burn and I say that with a sort of catholic disappointment.
I'll give you a Catholic kind of response: if you didn't experience tongue burn then you didn't commit any pipe sins. Trust me, you don't wanna experience that.
I've been down with a nasty raw tongue since Sunday. I think I do need to go back to the Frank Method.
The tongue burn comment, not sure if it was meant to be a double entendre but I will leave it at that...
What I noticed, probably more useful for other novices who might read this post, is that when I used the Frank method I could see the tobacco burning below the surface while my other tries just resulted in a few points on the top smoldering. It’s nice to end the day with a success even if a very small one.
Nah, I don't like double entendres (Sir 23:13), so no worries there. I was just trying to be a bit humorous. Carrying along that sort of humorous line: pipe sins would be poor packing, poor technique, &c.
I've been using the 3-step packing method. Sometimes it works, but mostly it's too many relights. I've found that it's mostly the relights that will sear your mouth, not so much the fast cadence or the tobacco moisture (although these too can play a part).
I don’t have the experience or knowledge to really say but that never stopped me before... the Frank method seems to have a real logic to it. The thing about the tutorials I’ve watched is that they tend to tell you the steps but don’t really explain the things you should be observing as they’re probably taken for granted by the experience pipe smoker.
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The thing with the Frank Method and the swirl method is that you have to gauge pretty accurately, or know, just how much tobacco it takes to properly fill your pipe. With so many pipes and all of them having different capacity chambers, I've found this rather difficult, which is why I've strayed into the codger fill or the 3-step method. Laziness and convenience on my part, I guess. ?
Nope, you're most likely to scorch it if you fill flush with the rim or beyond that. No danger in underfilling as long as it's properly packed; you'll just have a shorter smoke. I underfill many times when I smoke my larger pipes (those with chambers deeper than ~35 mm).