Relights?

[ashdigger]

Relights...... Relights....... I have no idea. I almost never smoke a pipe while sitting a completing life. I smoke my pipes while I'm working in my office, while I'm driving or while I'm reading. Because of those activities I don't pay attention to my rhythm of tamping and relighting, I just do it. Although a picture of my desk after a long day of piping looks pretty schizophrenic from the pipes, various lighters and baccy laying about.

 

[aldecaker]

Depends on the blend and how well I've prepped it. I'd say 3-6 is an accurate average for me. The way I look at it is this: In order to enjoy doing something, I don't necessarily have to be great at it. If you had to golf like Arnold Palmer in order to enjoy golfing, golf shops everywhere would be going out of business.

 

[foggymountain]

If you relight right away and then use a pipecleaner the drop in taste quality will be minimal. It comes from the moisture soaking into the unburnt tobacco instead of being vaporized by the heat.

 

[cally454]

I think the one match down to a fine white ash is a lot like Penthouse forums.

 

[aldecaker]

Really? I think Penthouse Forum is a much more scintillating read.

 

[toobfreak]

A lot of times if it starts going out you can bring it back or keep it from going out in the first place by keeping a hand over the bowl and letting the air swirl between your fingers with a bit of a vacuum as you draw.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

I used to get hung up on re-lights. Then I just quit thinking about it and started enjoying my bowl. Yesterday morning I was about 2/3 through a bowl of early morning pipe and realized I was still smoking from my char light. So then I started thinking about and concentrating on it. Of course it went out and I had to relight. And then again. So the moral to my story is I was enjoying the smoke immensely when I wasn't thinking about it. Concentrating on smoking ruins it...... At least for me.

 

[smokindreams]

Thank you everyone for your input, I feel much better because at time I feltl if you need to relight after a few times your doing something wrong.
Thank you friends!

 

[sablebrush52]

Relights are no big thing. Some blends take to the match readily and smoke with little to no need for a relight and others require a bit more encouragement. Ribbon cuts and shag cuts tend to need less relights than flakes. Don't worry about it. Just enjoy your pipe.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Just so long as your baccy is suitably dry and packed not too tightly then your relights should be kept to a minimum.
Just occasionally you might suffer a blockage that no number of relights will address, this is usually when a piece of tobacco is bunging up the draught hole. Two options here, either use a pipecleaner to unclog the blockage or use the spike of your pipetool to clear it by poking it down the bowl at where you assume the draught hole to be.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[seagullplayer]

I have heard of the "one light pipe smoke", but have yet to see it in real life.
I think all that stuff caught on trail cam's are doctored in some fashion.
I do find if I pack the pipe then set it aside for just 15 minutes it really seems to cut down on them.

I'm really glad I don't have to use matches. Those tree huggers would have a wanted poster out on me...

 

[toobfreak]

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[jkrug]

What's a relight??

I smoke every bowl down to fine white ash on a single light every time. :nana:

 

[aimlesswanderer]

Took a pinch of Coniston Cut Plug out of the pouch yesterday afternoon, broke the flakes a little more, but not to the point of being rubbed out, and left to air. After about 6 hours, I rubbed it out a little further and it was breaking rather than folding. I then packed a Mizzou, did the char light and left it to rest by the back door for smoking today.
I fired it up a few minutes after noon today, and it took several relights down to the halfway mark. The last couple of relights I did felt a bit steamy and I could feel more warmth in the bowl than I prefer. I set the pipe aside again, and will pick it up again this evening.
Just goes to show how much drying is really needed for some tobaccos.

 

[toobfreak]

Sometimes I sit a pipe down late at night that has more left in it, then the next day when I pick it up, it often smokes even better than the night before! Is that just another relight or do I count that as a new bowl? ::

 

[aimlesswanderer]

I do that frequently. I'm a low volume smoker anyway, and sometimes a good sized bowl can last me three days. It's like smoking a different tobacco every time, as it's soaked up all the juices of the prior tobacco, but all the excess moisture has dried off. It's almost like pouring a glass of rose wine which develops into a red wine and then develops further into a port. If I smoke several bowls in a day, none of them reach the same depth as one that's been smoked in installments over a couple of days. I have been known to have three part smoked pipes lined up at any one time.

 

[ophiuchus]

Well, I'll tell you what I think about all this. I ... oh, hell, gimme a sec, I've got to relight my pipe ...
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[philobeddoe]

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