There I am on the patio, lightly packed new cob in hand, the gentlest of tamps, half a box of matches later, I've given up........every time I sucked the pipe it sucked the flame out, or, the breeze blew the flame out. Gonna get me a lighter!
Jeez, This is Trickey!
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Bic or Zippo. Or clench the pipe and cup the match light and face the wind so the wind is blocked.
This wasn't a gale, but a breeze. There are tricks you can use. Use the thick back on a chaise lounge as a windbreak, or part of the nearby structure, or a tree, or a jacket, etc. Wind caps might help. All I'm saying is, if you make a sport of it, you will find you can light a pipe with a match in a wind. Keeping it going is another set of tricks, even if you use a lighter. But it can be done. The bowl will burn faster, so flake/coin/plug/rope may work better as cuts to smoke in a breeze.
Sounds terribly frustrating. I may just be an uncultured brute, but I don't really find much benefit in using matches over a Bic. You can feather the flame from a distance if you want to really take it easy.
Good luck!
Good luck!
If you need a lighter, I say go big or go home.
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Might be easier if you were smoking a lark smaller bowl might be easier to light
Zippo pipe lighter! It’s not the prettiest. It’s not the most convenient. It’s not the cleanest or purest. But when nothing else will work, it will do just fine. That’s my experience.
Cup your hand in front of the bowl and face the wind.
Too funny. I too am brand new but have smoked in a shed each time. But totally get the 'sucking the flame out' thing though. I find that particularly when down to the last 3rd. Hard to see into the bowl and perhaps more focused air moving past the flame then when it is hovering above the bowl at the beginning of a smoke...?
If I'd been at work, I'd have lit my acetylene torch!! so, tonight, it'll be half a gallon of petrol n me bic lighter................not gonna let the thing mug me off!!
I was a little worried about it singing the front of my hair, but then I remembered...........it's conveniently already fallen out!
Wise words MSO..............last night with the lighter got me through a bowl...............whilst burning on side of me cob!!
The real answer of course is to hold the pipe upside down!!
The real answer of course is to hold the pipe upside down!!
I have two of the “faux pont” lighters. THey are really made quite well. I have been using for 6 months zero issues. I know they are not 5he real deal and I don’t pretend they are.
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