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Well.......there you go! Who says this forum can be low brow and un-educational ?
It can also be used on the inside of rings if you are prone to certain metals coloring your skin.
Our resident clay pipe addict hasn't chimed in yet - probably off with Wellington having a few bowls or something! 
OR . . . use Burt's Bees lip balm on the end of the bit and you're getting both a wax and a chap-stick-like coating in one go!
ChapStick did the trick.
I gave it its inaugural smoke with Sillem's Blau. Smokes fine and the flavours do seem to come out better than in a briar, although there's also a clayish taste in there too. Heated up my tongue a bit, though: wouldn't stay lit—yeah, yeah, after all these years my packing still sux.
I gave it its inaugural smoke with Sillem's Blau. Smokes fine and the flavours do seem to come out better than in a briar, although there's also a clayish taste in there too. Heated up my tongue a bit, though: wouldn't stay lit—yeah, yeah, after all these years my packing still sux.
I’d like to hear reports. I toyed with the idea but couldn’t find a good enough reason. I have meers for neutral flavour. I don’t like to hold pipes by the stem. I’m not likely to throw them in a fire to clean.
So what’s the point? Is it just to be anachronistic? I could see that.
So what’s the point? Is it just to be anachronistic? I could see that.
Not comfy for clenching either. At my age, I can see even that frail stem chipping a tooth. I clenched it a few times when shifting gears during my very, very short drive back from chuch and by the time I got home my incisive was complaining.
I don't see myself using the coals method for cleaning. Unnecessary if you ask me, since I fastidiously clean every pipe after every smoke, be it briar, Meerschaum, cob, or (now) clay.
Holding it by the stem feels kinda weird if you're not used to that—I'm used to holding my pipes by the bowl all the time, even when puffing: I can't puff on them when clenching them—but after a while you just get used to it quite quickly: 'accept it' as part of a clay pipe's 'mystique'. You can feel like this fellow below, only more sophisticated:
Or anachronistic.
I didn't buy the pipe to feel olde worlde—though I could take a selfie with me smoking it and pretend Rembrandt painted my portrait, I guess; I was just curious to try them out and also find out if they really smoke as cool as they say they do. And, for $13 what am I really losing if I end up not liking it? Some spend more on those Country Churlman, er Country 'Gentleman' cobs.
BTW, you're s'posed to hold Meerschäume by the stem too. All those oils from your hand will stain the sepiolite!
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The inexpensiveness of a clay has made me almost try one several times. I’m sure it’ll hit someday when I‘m awake at 3am for childcare duties and I’ll be unable to resist ordering one.
If I had a nickel for every piece of folksy wisdom about meers that I’ve ignored, I’d have enough to buy another meer.
Another reason I bought it was ready availability. (Oh, and that warm, fuzzy feeling about 'helping your local B&M'. )
I wouldn't go out of my way to get one, or pay shipping for one.
)I wouldn't go out of my way to get one, or pay shipping for one.
Would that be me?Our resident clay pipe addict hasn't chimed in yet - probably off with Wellington having a few bowls or something!
I'm pretty sure smoking any kind of tobacco pipe is already near peak-anachronicity.
Heh, I did worry at some point that people would see the white pipe and assume I was toking.
I've lost count of the number of clay pipes I've broken; Condorlover1 says I need to be more careful!
I only have one clay pipe, it's a Markus Fohr from SP. I haven't smoked it much yet. I want to use it more to make it get dirty so I can roast it in a fire, that sounds fun.
I never have purchased a clay, but someone posted the below site a long time ago which produces some appealing clay pipes with ebonite stems and are also supposed to be less fragile than old fashioned clays.
I had forgotten about it, but this thread reminded me. I'm wondering if anyone here has one of these:
I had forgotten about it, but this thread reminded me. I'm wondering if anyone here has one of these:
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