One Light Wonder!!!

[lonefrog615]

Let it be chiseled deeply into the hallowed marble stones of pipe smoking history that on this day, January 20th in the year of our lord 2017 that I, Stephen Wilson of Atlanta GA, have finally, after 20 years of pipe smoking, have experienced the utter joy of smoking a bowl of tobacco all the way to ash and nothing but ash utilizing just a single charing light and a single true light! (Insert trumpet fanfare here)
Location: Lounging with my pipe sitting on my living room floor with a comfy pillow to ease my back against my couch.

Pipe: Stefano Santambrogio poker (chamber approx. 7/8" × 1.5")

Tobacco: Full Virginia Flake (air dried 6 hrs as a whole flake then rubbed out)

Lightning method: matches

Packing method: traditional 3 pinch method.

Total smoking time (approx): 1 hr 23 mins
Wow. Just wow.

I got a smile a mile wide

 

[tbradsim1]

I applauded you. Life's little treasures, doesn't cost anything but means a lot. :clap:

 

[coffinmaker]

I raise my glass to you.

 

[aldecaker]

Congratulations. This should make some of the newbies feel better; some are concerned if they can't do it in their first week!

 

[ashdigger]

Congratulations. I've been smoking for a little over 5 years and I'll churn through several lighters some days.

 

[bassbug]

WOW!!!
I takes me 3 or 4 relights to achieve the same ash results and its all over in about 50 minutes.

 

[jerwynn]

SUPERB!!! Congrats and kudos!!!

:clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[snoopy311]

Truly an achievement worth celebrating. Congratulations! I’m quite certain I will never achieve that milestone.

 

[cranseiron]

I've been at eight years and was wondering just today why I have to relight so damn often. Congrats and thanks for the perspective.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Soon to hit 26 years smoking here, and have done that under 10 times myself. :clap:

 

[jpmcwjr]

I've been at eight years and was wondering just today why I have to relight so damn often. Congrats and thanks for the perspective.

Cause you're either not paying attention or your tobacco needs much more drying before loading!
Yes, congratulations!

 

[ophiuchus]

:clap: -Another milestone reached! Maybe we should have a one-light badge minted.

 

[ashdigger]

FWIW, I rarely get the opportunity to smoke anything in one go. I smoke up to 8 bowls a day, but between interruptions and other distractions, I actually never see a one-light one-bowl in my future.

 

[beefeater33]

I've been at it for 32 years, minus a few spells when I was "cigar-only"......... I think I can count on one hand when that has happened... usually when I wasn't even trying...... Congrats... ::

 

[dottiewarden]

I believe a single light smoke has happened to me just once, however I would be more likely to win an award for most relights!
Congrats on your milestone!

 

[jkrug]

Well done sir!!

This day shall forever be etched in the pipe smoking history of your soul. :clap:

 

[cossackjack]

The Universe paused & held its collective breath.

Well played sir, well played!

 

[mawnansmiff]

This suggests that if one has to relight then one is not doing it right. This is not the case, relights are part and parcel of pipesmoking surely?
FWIW, I have done (not achieved!) this a couple of times, purely by accident, when smoking some Dunghill ribbon cut blends, the char light taking me right to the bottom of the bowl.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[aldecaker]

No, Jay, we're just saying it's pretty neat when it happens. Familiar with golf? If you don't get a hole-in-one every swing, it doesn't mean you're "golfing wrong". But it's still pretty damned neat when it happens, isn't it?

 

[lonefrog615]

Thanks everybody

24 hours later I am still telling anyone who will listen. My non-pipe smoking friends think I've lost it!
@Aldecaker-

Best analogy ever...it's like a hole in one in golf. If you don't get it every swing it doesn't mean you are doing it wrong but it is still pretty neat when it happens. Brilliant. That's excatly what it is. A hole in one in pipe smoking