Please Don't Do This To Your Pipes

[Kozeman]

These challenges hold true during coitus as well!!

And the repercussions of singeing the rim are much more severe.

 

[STP]

I generally use a Zippo, w/the pipe insert, when outside and matches while inside. I have never charred a rim with either.

I know overpacking, where the tobacco goes above the rim, can cause charring, and certainly those torch lighters if not careful.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Pretty sure you mean sooting or lava-ing or scorching. Charring is not superficial, and the damage to the briar is permanent.

Also a high pile of tobacco alone does not cause sooting, though it will make worse any poor lighting technique.

 

[02Knight]

Call me a cretin but if the price is right I'm not at all put off buying an estate pipe with some rim scorch. Reason being, I buy pipes to smoke so chances are they're going to end up in a worse state anyway....especially if I've been at the whisky.

I hear you on that one!

 

[02Knight]

I use one of these Nimrod Pipe lighters or a Zippo with the pipe insert, whichever is closer at the time, they seem to work well.

 

[jpmcwjr]

No, I’m comfortable with my use of the term, charring: chemical process of incomplete combustion of certain solids when subjected to high heat. Heat distillation removes water vapor and volatile organic compounds (syngas) from the matrix... but thanks

Except here the key is the "incomplete combustion of certain solids" where the solid is the briar. Any actual combustion of the briar is rare, but terrible when it occurs.

Happy sooting!

 

[STP]

Except here the key is the "incomplete combustion of certain solids" where the solid is the briar. Any actual combustion of the briar is rare, but terrible when it occurs.

Happy sooting!

Semantics

 

[warren]

I don't treat my pipes with the intent to satisfy a collector of used pipes. For me they are for my enjoyment. They are tools I keep in excellent working order and, don't obsess over the cosmetics too much. I don't apply the flame to the wood/cob/meerschaum so charring really isn't a concern though. They do get dings and scratches. Hell I've even, over the years, broken a shank or two.