Ok so somebody asked me about pipe screens today. What would be the purpose of such a thing? In a briar?
Pipe screens?
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I have a green planet cheapie pipe that has a air passage drilled straight down in the bowl, then the air passage from the shank meets with it. No matter how I tried to pack the bowl, tobacco still eventually was drawn into it, and clogged it up. So I grabbed a 5 pack of them from my local B&M, and tried them in the pipe. It works great, up until the point that the excess moisture from the tobacco starts to fill the air passage, which is when I just give up smoking it. (Usually about the bottom of the bowl anyway) I also use them in my MM cobs, as I cant stand the filter and don't like sucking in hot dottle or unburnt tobacco leaf.
The only experience I have with pipe screens is from back when I was younger and smoking the kind of pipes we don't typically discuss here :lol:
As for briars, I've never found a pipe or type of tobacco that would benefit it at all. If anything I would think the screen would just get in the way.
As for briars, I've never found a pipe or type of tobacco that would benefit it at all. If anything I would think the screen would just get in the way.
I have a bad habit of re-lighting to the last dottle. I own two (straight, non-filtered) pipes that had once allowed a burning ember to the roof of my mouth. I must say it was unpleasant. They each now have cheap brass screens pressed into them for any further usage. I don't bother on other pipes for tobacco blockages, as I always keep a pipe-cleaner handy for that.
bobby, you are not a pipe smoker until you suck in a mouthful of flaming embers. We all do it at some point.
LOL @ Cigarmater! I have done it once when I was smoking a clay and kept relighting the dottle until I unfortunately found out there was none left 8O They hurt and they taste really bad, whole body goes into a state of shock partly from how dumb it was and part due to the discomfort. I don't think I would keep a pipe if it drew in tobacco through the stem often, but then I smoke a lot of cobs and clays which have ENORMOUS draws and I have never had this issue with them, unless I don't clean out the stem with a pipe cleaner very well, then tobacco trapped in the stem fro a previous smoke sometimes does it.
One of my law enforcement friends, has told me that if a screen is found in your pipe... they will arrest you.
It's considered drug paraphernalia... Here any way.
It's considered drug paraphernalia... Here any way.
After careful consideration, I think I will forego membership in the "brotherhood-of-the open-sore" and leave the screens in place. I accept the risk a policeman might jump out of his car, climb up to my front porch and inspect my pipe-bowl.
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Uh, the scary thing bobby46 is that happened to one of our former members. Actually, when he reached down to get his crutches so he could stand up the officer thought he was going for a gun. Good times! 8O
Tried them on e when I started pupe smoking, and that was the last. What's wrong with a bit of tobacco in the mouth??
Shouldn't need a screen. I thought, what's that? That's for sloppy smokers. It's just more to fiddle with.
In my experience screens only have a purpose if smoking tobacco out of a non-glass pipe that's not designed for tobacco, no matter what they label them as at the head shop.
With that in mind, I did once smoke regular pipe tobacco out of a metal "toke" from the head shop just out of curiosity, and the screen was a must. However, in addition to trapping tobacco chunks, it also accumulates the oils and juices and must be disposed of after a couple smokes.
With that in mind, I did once smoke regular pipe tobacco out of a metal "toke" from the head shop just out of curiosity, and the screen was a must. However, in addition to trapping tobacco chunks, it also accumulates the oils and juices and must be disposed of after a couple smokes.
I don't do this, but a screen placed low in the bowl could save tobacco by eliminating the dottle.
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