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seanv

Lifer
Mar 22, 2018
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11,203
Canada
I give my pipes a minimum three day rest. I also clean them very good between smokes. I think of my pipes as an investment in happiness and want them in top shape forever lol

 
Aug 14, 2012
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I like to rest a pipe a minimum of 5 days between smokes, but now that I am smoking very little I give it a few weeks. The more dry it gets the better it tastes. And yes you can smoke one pipe only many times a day. It just will not taste as good.

 

saltedplug

Lifer
Aug 20, 2013
5,192
5,118
I've read opinions such as foggy's about long rests being helpful. I still think resting is just another pipe myth, but what do I know?

 
Hey, at least it gives us the excuses we need to collect hundreds of pipes. Mostly, I rest mine to give the other pipes a chance to get smoked, but if out and about, I have no qualms with taking just one pipe to repack over and over. I don’t really find the flavor being any less with multiple smokes. But, I will take a straight Virginia or VaPer with me for multiple smokes in the same pipe. So, maybe if you smoke an aromatic or a Latakia over and over it will not taste as good, but that is just a guess, as I don’t do that.

 

perdurabo

Lifer
Jun 3, 2015
3,305
1,581
Yea, I believe this is pseudoscience, in the vain of Man Made Climate Hoodoo. Smoke the pipe how you want. I think the main thing is to not smoke a briar hot.

 

blendtobac

Lifer
Oct 16, 2009
1,237
217
It also depends on the pipe. There are some I own that just don't taste right when I smoke more than one bowl in a day and they may need one or two days rest before they taste right again. But I was given a pipe by a pipe maker who used very open engineering and he challenged me to smoke the pipe at least twice a day for a month to see if I could get it to smoke poorly. I did it for 27 days and never had anything but a great smoke. The only reason I stopped at 27 days was that I was getting tired of smoking the same pipe.
Russ

 

mnewb1

Might Stick Around
May 9, 2018
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31
So far, as I have been starting this hobby, I have acquired seven pipes so far, three dedicated to aromatics and four for non-aromatics...I do try to keep them clean after use and give them at least 24 hours between smokes
If this is not necessary I am concerned for my rationale to keep buying pipes... :)

 

davek

Part of the Furniture Now
Mar 20, 2014
685
952
In my OP on the thread I mentioned that I smoked cobs and that they might need less rest than a briar. I've found that to be true. I'm smoking a blend with Perique in it currently and it tastes better in a briar. After 3-4 bowls of it in a briar you can notice things getting a little wet, maybe even get a little gurgling. It still tastes OK though, and I don't intend to push it any further than than that. If you clean the shank and stem daily you can smoke a cob for weeks. They're just much more absorbent.
My takeaway. Resting a pipe is needed, but not as much as you might think. More significantly, the type of pipe and the construction of it matters a lot.

 

newbroom

Lifer
Jul 11, 2014
6,385
10,185
North Central Florida
Most of my pipes have been previously used.

The most important thing is that their airways are clear and properly made.

You can smoke a pipe as often as your tongue allows.

Taste's bad? Draw is choked? Clean it.

I do think there's a change in a piece of wood after repeated uses, but honestly? I haven't smoked a 'new' briar in about 50 yrs. back when I was just trying stuff for a change (cigars, pipes, snuff, chew) and didn't make the transition from cigs.

This second attempt at pipe smoking was much more successful with the discovery of this forum.

Now, four yrs into this hobby, I've got loads of different kinds of pipes to smoke and the idea of resting is almost moot.

 
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