Okay, if you are like me you use your thumb more often than not. However if you were going to buy one what would be your choice?
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Human bone is kind of a weird option.....
Personally, I'd got for Briar most out of the list
Personally, I'd got for Briar most out of the list
Isn't it though.
My preferred tamper is a wooden golf tee shape and size one. It was a gift from Tabaccheriacorti. Though as often I do not find it for the moment and have to use the Czech tool.
Golf tees are free and that's my preferred tamper, so if i bought one it'd be different to what i get for free but of a similar size
I don't see the point in a tamper. With my fingers and my czech tool I'm all set.
I use a Czech tool, a pipe nail or the pipe tamp built into the base of my lighter so I'd guess metal is my choice.
TBH a tamper isn't something I get overly excited about
TBH a tamper isn't something I get overly excited about
I like the looks and the idea of a wooden one, briar or otherwise. Also like the idea of metal ones, but they often are quite expensive for what they do. Kind of like a luxury product solving a simple problem.
i use the Czech Tool. Around $2 at most places.
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I have a bunch of purpose built tampers. But find myself using a wine cork most of to time. I find the fit satisfying. Anyone else have a repurpose item for a tamper?
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Human bone tamper? This warrants an explanation. Have you seen this on offer?
I use a lot of different tampers. Lots of times it is simply a golf tee. I also make a lot of tampers using a wooden dowel and empty handgun shell casings. Cheap and easy and can you have plenty of them for your use. I am considering making a few out of deer antler, maybe putting a little piece of brass on the end? We'll see.
I like to use a .308 casing. It's nice a nice lightweight item to carry around and has a good diameter base. A plus is that I have more of those these days than golf tees.
Czech pipe tool or a cheapo pipe nail. I have dozens of them and, if I lose it, no big deal.
Over three springs, I have gotten from Mardens (a Maine chain of surplus/salvage stores) a 100 count bag of 3", 3.5" and most recently 4" golf tees for about a buck each time. I have a few pipes with deeper chambers, and the extra length of the 4" leaves me something sticking out of the bowl to hold on to when using them.
I am using the shorter ones to outfit pipe-starter-kits for gifting to people who are interested in taking up the pipe. Given how many there are left in the two bags of shorter ones, that should last me this, and the next two lifetimes. Probably at the very least!
I do have a number of metal tampers, including pipe nails, plated horseshoe nails, Czech tools, and one 1920s era pre-Czech-tool design that was included with an order for clay pipes that I got from Germany last year. The problem with these being, they manage to dig their own escape routes out of one's pocket all too quickly. I made the mistake of carrying a Czech tool in my pants pocket one summer only to find that the pivot had become a ball of rust from all the summer sweating.
I've promised myself that if I make myself any pipe racks, they're likely to get a hole made specifically for standing a tamper up in.
I am using the shorter ones to outfit pipe-starter-kits for gifting to people who are interested in taking up the pipe. Given how many there are left in the two bags of shorter ones, that should last me this, and the next two lifetimes. Probably at the very least!
I do have a number of metal tampers, including pipe nails, plated horseshoe nails, Czech tools, and one 1920s era pre-Czech-tool design that was included with an order for clay pipes that I got from Germany last year. The problem with these being, they manage to dig their own escape routes out of one's pocket all too quickly. I made the mistake of carrying a Czech tool in my pants pocket one summer only to find that the pivot had become a ball of rust from all the summer sweating.
I've promised myself that if I make myself any pipe racks, they're likely to get a hole made specifically for standing a tamper up in.
Human bone is really the only choice. I already have plenty of others and the question is what "would" I buy, therefore the correct answer is what I don't already have.
Maybe I'll stop into a store I know of and see if they still have that human hand (bones only) for sale. Let's see, if a hand sells for $550, how many bones would work as tampers from it and how much could I charge per custom made tamper?
Maybe I'll stop into a store I know of and see if they still have that human hand (bones only) for sale. Let's see, if a hand sells for $550, how many bones would work as tampers from it and how much could I charge per custom made tamper?
I usually grab a pipe nail which rather than a dull utilitarian object I see has a brilliant piece of industrial design simplifying form and function. I do enjoy a handsomely made willow tamper with a fireproof tamping end, and also own Czech tools, a stainless steel folding tool, and am always flirting with the colorful plastic tampers from Savinelli. I often say, only partly in jest, that you cannot lose a pipe nail; they will follow you home and hide in your cuff if necessary. They cost nothing, so that is the reason they are always there.
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