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So, few weeks back I cleaned my pipes and dried my tobacco. In another thread I mentioned I kept the mosture discs in my jars and was told not to. Found out what the moisture levels should be so laid my tobacco out on paper towels to dry out and put back into jars. All now around 55-60% down from 80%.
I don't smoke much. I bought a few lots of pipes years back, restored them all and sold about 60, keeping 5. I'm in Canada so, none of that grain alcohol I see mentioned (Everclear?) so I used Vodka and cotton balls. Lightly packed the bowls, added vodka, waited until dry and pulled the cotton out. Used my reamer to clean the bowls and when done I used fluffy pipe cleaners soaked in dark rum to give everything a final cleaning.
Can't put my finger on "how" it's different but, everything tastes different now. Just, flavour is "off".
So, question I guess is... why?
Is it normal after cleaning and just needs a few bowls to get rid of the vodka? is it because I dried out my tobacco?
I read somewhere that you can re-line the bowls of pipes with charcoal and sour cream? I never tried that, not sure if will help or worsen... whould I be doing that regardless?
Unrelated as well... I have a nice little Brigham 2dot which I like but I want to reduce the draw on it, like, make the hole smaller or something. I prefer a bit more resistance. Any suggestions? It takes those hollow maple filter tubes, maybe slip something in there?
So, few weeks back I cleaned my pipes and dried my tobacco. In another thread I mentioned I kept the mosture discs in my jars and was told not to. Found out what the moisture levels should be so laid my tobacco out on paper towels to dry out and put back into jars. All now around 55-60% down from 80%.
I don't smoke much. I bought a few lots of pipes years back, restored them all and sold about 60, keeping 5. I'm in Canada so, none of that grain alcohol I see mentioned (Everclear?) so I used Vodka and cotton balls. Lightly packed the bowls, added vodka, waited until dry and pulled the cotton out. Used my reamer to clean the bowls and when done I used fluffy pipe cleaners soaked in dark rum to give everything a final cleaning.
Can't put my finger on "how" it's different but, everything tastes different now. Just, flavour is "off".
So, question I guess is... why?
Is it normal after cleaning and just needs a few bowls to get rid of the vodka? is it because I dried out my tobacco?
I read somewhere that you can re-line the bowls of pipes with charcoal and sour cream? I never tried that, not sure if will help or worsen... whould I be doing that regardless?
Unrelated as well... I have a nice little Brigham 2dot which I like but I want to reduce the draw on it, like, make the hole smaller or something. I prefer a bit more resistance. Any suggestions? It takes those hollow maple filter tubes, maybe slip something in there?