Lost my Favorite Pipe Tool

[LuckyGlenn]

So today I came home from work and packed a cob with Epiphany. Completed the charming light. Reached for my tamper. It was gone. I keep it in the same spot all the time. I believe my cat might have stole it. She loves checking out my pipe gear almost as much as I do. Anyway, have you ever lost any of your favorite pipe accessories?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Excluding being involved in another industrial accident, mine are hard to lose.

 

[warren]

Excluding being involved in another industrial accident, mine are hard to lose.

Exactly! There's one that'll fit whatever pipe you are enjoying.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Probably, but nothing painful. Sorry for your loss!

 

[mingc]

Yes, I lost my favorite tamper. It was silver and had a cupped tampering surface and sharpish edge that I like. I just couldn't find it one day and that was that. It was years ago and I'm still bummed! Here's a photo of one exactly like it. I keep hoping that I'll find another one for sale one day.

 

[bullet08]

I don't know. Never had any charming light. My lights are usually not very charming. If they were, I would be staring at them longer than my pipes. No, no cats. And my dogs are not very interested in tobacco, coffee, and alcohol related items. They sniff and turn away rather quickly. Rarely miss place anything. If something is missing, I'm sure to find it that day. Some days are longer than 24 hrs.

 

[Egg Shen]

Yes of course like 3 or 4. Part of the hobby. It’s impractical to get too attached to them IMO. I also hold out hope for the possibility of finding them someday. I lost a cool Savinelli (I think) and a cool Butz C and some nails/Czech tools/that ilk. So a $35-45 hit on each nice one and $2 on the others. What can you really do after turning the place upside down a few times and traced your previous movements? Pack up a pipe, poke it down with your finger, and decide that you don’t give a sheesh. life will go on.

 

[AJL67]

Hopefully it's under a couch to batted under the fridge, under the bed and all the other places packcats hide their stollen loot. I moved once an there were 14 of those red milk carton top rings and three pens under the fridge and more under the bed including 7 bucks in cash she stole and hid there. lol

 

[BriarsAndBottles]

Yes, I lost my favorite tamper. It was silver and had a cupped tampering surface and sharpish edge that I like. I just couldn't find it one day and that was that. It was years ago and I'm still bummed! Here's a photo of one exactly like it. I keep hoping that I'll find another one for sale one day.

Just get a dentist’s mirror lol! Jk hope you find another.

 

[warren99]

Speaking of cats and disappearing pipe paraphernalia, several years ago I inadvertently left a couple of packages of pipe cleaners on the kitchen counter. We had a cat at that time who loved to play with them. My wife found a few pipe cleaners around the house and told me that Tess must have gotten them from the packet I left in the kitchen which she put back in my office where I normally kept them on a bookshelf. I asked my wife if she found two packages and she said she found only one. I responded that I was pretty sure I had left two packages in the kitchen but she assured me that she only found one so I assumed I must have been mistaken.

Over the next couple of days, individual pipe cleaners were showing up scattered all over the house and we couldn't figure out where they were coming from because the package my wife recovered was only short a few pipe cleaners. A day or two later, as my wife was cleaning up around the house she discovered that Tess had stashed the second package of pipe cleaners in her little cat house, where the scattered pipe cleaners evidently came from. At long last—the mystery was solved!

 

[mingc]

Just get a dentist’s mirror lol! Jk hope you find another.

It was a lot daintier than a dentist's mirror! And made of semi-precious metal! Hrmph!

 

[crashthegrey]

I've oddly never lost a single one.

 

[captpat]

Czech tool for me losing one is no big deal I have several new ones ready to go at a moment's notice. In a pinch, I've been known to use a golf tee, roofing nail, finger, etc. Lo

 

[RookieGuy80]

Oh yeah. I lose my roofing nails all the time. I guess that's why they come in 5 and 10 pound boxes.

 

[didimauw]

Excluding being involved in another industrial accident, mine are hard to lose.

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Except, for the chamber sizes you like, you have to ball that up into a fist, in order to tamp all the tobacco down at once!

 

[didimauw]

I actually did lose my favorite tamper. My very first old man tamper I had made for me, from Ireland. He went on vacation, as he had a hard life. But I have his wood cousin, and his meerschaum nephew haha.

 

[JC4life]

Lost my knfe / tamp tool. Id had it for years before I started smoking pipes, a gift from an uncle long since gone home. We used it for opening green walnuts one long afternoon and he gifted it to me then. Stayed the man draw as a slightly useless penknife for 20 years and then i ditched cigarettes and pot and discovered the now much better hobby of burning tobacco in a brier! Was most disappointed at losing it after having it for so long. One day this march just gone my wife was sprig cleaning and found it dropped behind a little cupboard we keep at the top of the stairs, hurray! Moral of the story is it may well turn up again, and hopefully not at the vets inside the cat! Good luck

 

[kcghost]

I generally just use a simple pipe nail, but when push comes to shove, I will use the appropriate finger if necessary.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I had a tamper a buddy made for me that I really liked. Basically just a polished stick, but it was cooler than my 3-in-1. Went missing about a month ago. Probably in the bottom of a toy box.

 

[Kirklands]

I use the knife end and the curved back of a blade of my Old Crafty pocket knife that I've carried for 30+ years. I lost it for a year or so but then found it in the basement under a shelf. Otherwise, I've carried it almost early day.