Hello Everyone, Wrong section to post this but i'll introduce myself a little in short i've been smoking pipes for 6 months i am pretty new to it but i've smoked cigars for 16 years. I recently started to smoke corn cobs after buying a dozen Briar Pipes. Last week i watched CaneRodpiper video about pipe mortar to Mod one of my cob. I mixed everything right with precision but everytime the mix is drying it all crumble back to powder is the plaster bad or something. I tried everything more water less water..... Sorry for my English im French from Canada. Thank You All
Pipe Mortar problem
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Did you use a scale to weigh the ingredients for the pipe mortar? I have used CaneRodPiper’s mortar with success before.
Maybe post a picture of or let us know the ingredients you are using.
Maybe post a picture of or let us know the ingredients you are using.
Nice to have you in the forum. I'm from Paris and split my time between there and NYC.
Using a scale as @BrightDarkEyes is what you need. A list of ingredients and pictures always helps.
Something broken in your cob? Usually, I just smoke my cobs without much bother. Typically, it smokes fine without any help.
Tbh, if I broke a cob or had a bad smoker, I'd bin it and buy another.
I mesured everything right with a scale im doing the experiment by curiosity the cob is new. The plaster looks hard and smooth by itself but when i add in the charcoal its like there is to much of it its flaking of and breaking. I will try too cut back on charcoal and disolve the salt in water before hand.
The list is 1g plaster 0.6g activated charcoal and 0.5g table salt his original recipe
The list is 1g plaster 0.6g activated charcoal and 0.5g table salt his original recipe
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I don't know if this will help or not, but the format of the charcoal can affect the results as well. One time I tried with activated charcoal sold as "odor neutralizer." The grains are much larger than those in the dietary capsules. My results looked a lot like yours. Too much clumping. Grainy mixture. Flaking. Not enough substance integrity. I think the dietary pills are the only thing that really works well.
That said, like a few others in the thread I also mostly leave cobs as they are now. Compared to a well made briar, a cob is a crude tool, but even so, it does the job just fine.
That said, like a few others in the thread I also mostly leave cobs as they are now. Compared to a well made briar, a cob is a crude tool, but even so, it does the job just fine.
After trying a few different methods over the years, my preference now is to mud new cobs in situ. I'll smoke each bowl down decently far, then tap on the side a bunch to settle the ash in the bottom of the chamber (under and around the spoon.) I'll scoop out any remaining dottle and add a few drops of water around the spoon to turn the ash into a slurry, then dab into the chamber with a paper towel to wick up excess water and set the pipe aside to dry overnight. Over the course of a few bowls, the ash and charred bits of tobacco build up, and eventually the bottom of the chamber takes on a rounded shape like any briar.
That may sound complicated when written out, but it's just a little poking around after each bowl, most of us have some kind of upkeep ritual after each bowl anyway.
That may sound complicated when written out, but it's just a little poking around after each bowl, most of us have some kind of upkeep ritual after each bowl anyway.