Pipe Lighting Techniques, Reality or Left Handed Pipe Wrench?

[anotherbob]

I just want to post a video showing how easy it is to light a pipe. Some call it put up or shut up. But, I just don't have any idea how to get a video from my phone to here.

you need a teenager or 20 year old. If you worked a regular job you could solve that problem easy.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Oh, right. I suppose I should share how I'm lighting my bowls. Cosmic can rest easy knowing that he's not the only one who can't upload a video, but in my case I just can't be bothered!

I light my bowls by giving it just a touch of flame and a few quick puffs, then I'll use the ambient heat of the flame to bring up an ember. Only takes a moment or so of actual flammenwerfering. Then I let that ember go out, tamp and relight.

I was going to be cheeky and say I used a pipe wrench to light my tobacco but, eh...

 

[olkofri]

Just use the Frank Lighting Method.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Just use the Frank Lighting Method.

Does it involve a skyhook?

 

[olkofri]

Does it involve a skyhook?

A torch lighter.

 

[tobefrank]

Just use the Frank Lighting Method.

Is this when you light the tobacco from the side while turning the pipe...? It gets a nice even rim char going.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

Soooo, like no one on here knows how to post a video?

Upload it to YouTube and link it would be the easiest.

Ive definitely found I’ve been getting a better light/experience recently while I’ve been consciously moving my later further away (than I was) from the tobacco whilst lighting it.

I suppose it all comes down to how big your inches are as well.....

 

[newbroom]

I use a length of bee's waxed hemp wick which is wrapped around a stick I found in the yard and de-barked and cut the ends 'square'. I've been using hemp wick for years and it reduces the use of butane and the accumulation of waste. It takes about the same effort to use as striking a match, with the added (!) benefit of having a convenient tamper in your hand. The lights I get are soft and as long or short as I want. I can reach into the deepest bowl to get those obstinate last few draws smoldering again, with ease.

 

[boatme99]

Well, there was no interweb when I started smoking pipes. I just learned by trial and error. It didn't take me long to figure out what worked and what didn't but maybe I'm just more intelligent than everyone else.
I mean I do get an urge every few months to implement one of my myriad plans to achieve world domination.

 

[brian64]

Just use the Frank Lighting Method.

That can only be done with a vertical bowl pipe like Ash posted recently.

 

[bullet08]

I think I saw WWII flame thrower on flea bag few weeks ago. Guarantee to light the tobacco AND pipe also.

 

[krizzose]

The costs of not busting out the micrometer when lighting one’s pipe are all too real. This homey, lived-in effect can appear, showing every gory detail of tools well-used, and memories of perfect smokes evoked as gut-wrenching warnings every time you pack a bowl. The horror, the horror.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

I use a length of bee's waxed hemp wick which is wrapped around a stick I found in the yard and de-barked and cut the ends 'square'. I've been using hemp wick for years and it reduces the use of butane and the accumulation of waste. It takes about the same effort to use as striking a match, with the added (!) benefit of having a convenient tamper in your hand. The lights I get are soft and as long or short as I want. I can reach into the deepest bowl to get those obstinate last few draws smoldering again, with ease.

What do you use to light the wick?

 

[mso489]

Or ... spend two hours smoking with an old codger who's been at it since Hector was a pup, and pretty soon the process will imprint on you like an ear-worm tune. You won't be able to do anything but what he did.

 

[OneGoodBulldog]

Or ... spend two hours smoking with an old codger who's been at it since Hector was a pup, and pretty soon the process will imprint on you like an ear-worm tune. You won't be able to do anything but what he did.

Ah... Kinda miss hanging out with humans sometimes these days.