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[logandow]

I was smoking my new pipe when I heard a small click/crack sound has this happened to anybody else? It is a cheap china made pipe and there are no visible crack marks.

 

[logandow]

thanks!

 

[rigmedic1]

First bowl ever? Or your second or third bowl today? Sounds like wood expanding, may have partially cracked in the bowl. Had a poorly made thin walled bowl crack all the way through once because I smoked it several times a day without letting it cool down all the way. If I were you, I'd get a second pipe, and rotate em regularly. Or get a nice Peterson, Grabow, Savinelli....

 

[logandow]

first bowl ever

 

[ace57]

Fire it back up and see, just smoke it slow.

 

[unclearthur]

Sometimes overmoist tobacco will pop justy like WAY back when ya got a seed in the bowl. :roll:

 

[nathaniel]

It could be the moisture in the baccy like UA said... I used to hear that stuff all the time, then I started drying out my tobacco more and I notice it doesn't hardly do it anymore.

 

[baronsamedi]

:rofl: unclearthur haven't had to worry about hitting a seed in a long time. Although, another smoker found some ways that I was managing the bowl as I smoked kind of familiar. I assured him I had no idea what he was talkin about.

 

[logandow]

thanks I will go run it through later today when I have a chance.