@The Amish Tyrant I got into clay pipes after seeing re-enactors smoking them (Sealed Knot, Lace Wars etc). Going to the Derbyshire Woodland Festival this weekend; I'm going to smoke a clay (lit from the blacksmith's forge) while I'm there. I notice the 'cutty' pipes are 'clay shape' as I've mainly heard the term applied to short clays.
Come to think of it, I'd bet the cant of the cutty shape is related to it originating as a clay.
The process wasn't bad until they had to break the tooth from the jaw. It was dead and fused to the jaw. That sound triggered something primal. They hook you up to a machine that monitors your vitals my bp shot up for a couple seconds to a scary set of numbers.
Halfdan,My favourite pipe shape! Just bought a long stemmed clay pipe this afternoon, only paid GBP2 for it!
The stem is somewhere between a 'cutty' and a 'tavern pipe'. I like the look of churchwardens but they're easy to break - and the Viking / Redcoat blacksmith would have to come a bit closer to light my pipe
@PaulRVA Nice photo; are you a re-enactor? Yes you definitely need to get a clay pipe for your collection. Have you ever smoked one? Would a gun like that have been used by or against Redcoats?
I've never done it. If you pull the flame away while still drawing, the flame will never touch the rim.
That rifle would’ve been used against the Brown Bess and by Rogers Rangers and 75 years before the battle of New Orleans.
@PaulRVA I've got an Old Dominion Jamestown clay I ordered from Smokingpipes but I won't be ordering from them again after being stung by customs for tobacco. A shame as the Jamestown would have suited the Sealed Knot re-enactment (English Civil War) with its small canted bowl. The 'cutty' is my favourite pipe shape
Well yes and no. If you are a slob like myself you tend to roll the pipe on its side in your mouth and lite it thus burning some or all of the rim. With clays or meerschaum 'cutty' pipes this is to be expected and is probably some ancient pre-programmed mentally embedded action from the days of lighting your pipe from a gas jet light or one of those fancy Vesta matches made from phosphorus. @Chasing Embers method is probably great for briar pipes and more than likely correct but I am a creature of habit who just has no desire to vacate the 19th century!
Maybe I can figure a work around for you.@PaulRVA I've got an Old Dominion Jamestown clay I ordered from Smokingpipes but I won't be ordering from them again after being stung by customs for tobacco. A shame as the Jamestown would have suited the Sealed Knot re-enactment (English Civil War) with its small canted bowl. The 'cutty' is my favourite pipe shape
