Meerschaum Lined. Best Of Both Worlds? Or, "Drawbacks Of Both Materials"?
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IMO, resting a pipe is not a myth completely, but it is greatly exaggerated. I have had a pipe suffer in taste with daily smoking, but it took a while. Also IMO, cobs can take more before souring and recover more quickly. I smoke cobs mostly. I just grab a different pipe very day or two and have no problems
Two to four times per day cleaning after each smoke.
Certainly. The company that would become Dr Grabow started in 1898 and though they moved from their original facility to Sparta North Carolina, they're still producing and selling pipes.
Bad drilling is something I won't tolerate. I traded one Dunhill and trashed two for that reason. Other than the Omega, for obvious reasons, I've never had a Grabow not pass a pipe cleaner. My only issue with them are the small chambers.
I never call a chamber a bowl, but the pipes would only need a few days rest, if any. My main reason for switching pipes is to go to a different tobacco as all of mine are genre dedicated or blend specific.
Well, we say," I smoked four bowls yesterday", not "I smoked four chambers."
I totally agree on good and clear use of terminology, but sometimes it's fine to say" bowl" when referring to the chamber.
I totally agree on good and clear use of terminology, but sometimes it's fine to say" bowl" when referring to the chamber.
But that's suggesting a different one each time, which may or may not be the case. Especially since you've oft stated you can smoke one pipe for days.
Well for starters, you put a foreign substance inside it, then LIGHT IT ON FIRE!!! That can't be good for the poor wooden object. Then you repeatedly do it day after day?
You deserve a blue sock....
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(Should have added a sarcastic emoji in the first message haha)
I've sometimes just been too busy to change out pipes and clean them, so I've occasionally, sometimes more than occasionally, smoked several bowls a day in the same pipe for a week or more. Just keep your tobacco dry and keep your pipe clean.
That said, I don't think resting a pipe to dry it out is entirely a marketing ploy. Too many overused pipes with shank splits around for that to be the case.
That said, I don't think resting a pipe to dry it out is entirely a marketing ploy. Too many overused pipes with shank splits around for that to be the case.
Another thing with Meerschaum-lined pipes, one that would be a concern to me, at least, is whether it's block or pressed Meerschaum. I wouldn't buy anything made from the latter (well, maybe a filter). Even Vauen uses pressed Meerschaum for their Meerschaum-lined pipes. I'd just buy an actual (block) Meerschaum pipe instead.
Yeah, since reading about the pressed meerschaum I have thought that I would prefer to buy block. Although when hunting around on ebay, it's almost impossible to tell (not so much with the pipes clearly stamped, but certainly with those meerschaum lined).
I disagree. I think so many pipe rules are based on knowing people will not follow the rules and also the protecting pipes against idiots someone that thinks a pipe is dry after five minutes for example. And if you smoke a wet pipe it will get gunky and nasty.
Disassemble after a smoke, run a pipe cleaner through the stem and draft hole, wipe the mortise with a Q-tip, and wipe the chamber out with a paper towel. Reassemble and allow to cool for an hour or two and it's good to go. There have been multiple water tests done and documented by forum members that prove briar isn't terribly absorbant. Like I said before, I've smoked my pipes like that for decades. No sour or wet smokes and no burnouts.
same here. I found if I clean the pipe including wiping it out after a smoke I can smoke it again a few hours later with no problems. If I don't wipe it out and smoke it anyways it eventually gets a little sour which is the easiest thing to fix. I think so many pipe rules extend from two major factors. One is that cheap pipes used to be worse (same thing with cheap wines, it's easier with technology to control without extra expense the quality of either), Even in the time I've been smoking burn out seems less common, like a lot less common (but people haven't changed that much so I assume the pipes have). The other thing is I think all the rules are presented in the most extreme form, knowing somebody is going to take the rule as a guideline, and then when someone ignores the rules they can't complain about the shoddy pipe you sold them if you ask if they smoked the pipe twice a day. That's my opinion on the whole boondoggle.
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