I stopped at;
- Remove the paint from the interior of the bowl with hot water and a cloth until it's gone AS NEEDED.
I’m not sure what sort of pipes you are smoking from, as I have no pipes with paint inside the ‘Chamber’. The interior is known as the ‘Chamber’.
This is all you need to do. (This is like Frank’s method)
1. Dry tabac out, give a pinch between index and thumb, should feel little to no moisture, tabac barely clumps together.
2. Gravity fill the chamber, dropping a little pinch at a time inside, and tapping the the pipe to help settle each pinch you drop in.
3. When reaching the top of the chamber, don’t pack the tabac in with a tamper, or pressing a finger down inside the chamber. Slide your thumb across the chamber, pressing with only the heal of the thumb going inside the chamber slightly. This is like Frank’s method, except he places a tin of tabac over the chamber and moves it around.
4. After filling the chamber, if you feel a need to pack slightly, let the heal of your thumb rest inside the chamber and twist the pipe 1/4 or 1/2 way around spinning the tabac, which will pack it slightly.
5. Light the tabac, after it’s charred you can then use a tamper to pack, but only allow it’s weight to press the tabac down.
When smoking, all you have to do, is blow back gently at times into the pipe, use the tamper only under it’s weight to keep the ember in contact with the tabac. You can also place your fingers over the chamber, covering it, then uncovering it, up and down, to also help keep it lit.
That’s about it.
P.S.
@frozenchurchwarden I do Frank’s method, I just substitute my thumb in place of the tin he uses.
