Hemp wick

[growfood]

Anyone using hemp wick instead of lighters or matches?

 

[lraisch]

I tried it. Works OK, but what's the point of lighting a wick first and then your pipe? Why not just go directly to the pipe? Maybe if you have a candle already lit or a fire going, but then I'd prefer a spill.

 

[warren]

Anyone using hemp wick instead of lighters or matches?

To light their pipe? Why? This subject has been discussed ad infinitum on the site. The responses stay pretty much the same, why complicate a relatively easy process?

 

[growfood]

To light their pipe? Why? This subject has been discussed ad infinitum on the site. The responses stay pretty much the same, why complicate a relatively easy process?

Not sure the science behind it, but I find a cleaner taste when I use the wick over a lighter. Maybe the lower temperature of the flame. I also tend to fill half a pipe or less so it makes lighting deep into the bowl easier.

 

[warren]

To each his own, I guess.

 

[bullet08]

Not sure the science behind it, but I find a cleaner taste when I use the wick over a lighter. Maybe the lower temperature of the flame. I also tend to fill half a pipe or less so it makes lighting deep into the bowl easier.

You do know light inhale will pull the lighter flame into the chamber as needed, right?

 

[growfood]

You do know light inhale will pull the lighter flame into the chamber as needed, right?

Quite, as well as potentially some unspent butane. I understand it to be clean burning but I still prefer what I find to be a cleaner taste by using the hemp wick. I do recommend trying it to anyone who hasn't.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Quite, as well as potentially some unspent butane

Any burning plant materials creates carcinogens. The tiny amount of butane exposure would be less of a health risk though I've never heard of inhaling to light a pipe. A bigger change of scorching a pipe rim with a solid ember versus a flame as well.

 

[olkofri]

I tried it. Works OK, but what's the point of lighting a wick first and then your pipe? Why not just go directly to the pipe? Maybe if you have a candle already lit or a fire going, but then I'd prefer a spill.

This.

I tried it when I was first starting to smoke a pipe in an attempt to stop burning my tongue. I eventually got things working with the lighter and the ball of wick has been sitting there unused.

Don't see the point in "lighting the lighter".

 

[64alex]

In the past I was using matches which I found better than lighters to better control the flame and also burning cooler. I found hemp wick having the same advantage of matches without the mess of having to deal with them and I like them. I really feel the difference of a cooler flame (even if you can achieve the same temp with a lighter holding it a little bit more far away but so with less control of the flame) and the easier way to go deep in the bowl. I also found a flickwick dispenser which is very handy as it is a one hand operation which makes very easy the lighting of the wick. At the end it is a personal preference and whatever works for you it is fine.