I hear ya man. My personal taste is that I don’t like the pipe to age that neutral, either. Anti neutral pipe Ager’s unite.
Sorry/waterflushing
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Damn, that would give me a stroke. I was so happy when they came out with sliders.
yeah they're a huge pain in the asp it's does have predictive typing but it's more like madlibs typing. Though I do like having a phone that if it falls off a clliff into a toilet and then into a running washing machine... well if all that happens I can get a new one for next to nothing. And I still have two years unlimited for under 200 bucks. But the best thing is it keeps me from getting in trouble online.
So you tried flushing your pipe out by the well? Near the privy? All issues explained!
I do a water flush after every smoke and it really clears out all the ash and any bits of tobacco. I then wipe it out well with a paper towel. I then clean the stem with a pipe cleaner dipped in 151 Everclear and then I flip the non-alcohol side of the cleaner to absorb any residual moisture in the pipe. It only takes a few minutes of work and is well worth the effort ....imho.
Best to drink the rum and use warm tap water on the pipe...
first off the writing of and the event are days separated. Second the well is only for hiding incriminating evidence and the privy doesn't exist.
Aha! hence the saponification! Have you owned this pipe since it was new? If not, perhaps the original owner smoked a lakeland tobacco from it and with the water flush you cleaned everything out down to the lakeland ghost!
yeah but even if it is the greatest game, we don't talk about it online too much. And I think we're getting close to that point. I mean we talk too much about it and next thing you know Cosmic isn't taking our invitation for a "hunting" trip.
only one that's owned it. And it's one of those hints. The kind of hint that when you pick it out of some ones cooking, they're always like how did you know I put a pinch of cinnamon in that huge pot of chili. So not sure if it was there first, something in the water, something I smoked. Something in clean briar I never noticed before. ETC... But what fun is life without mysteries.
Though part of me wondered if it was a small reaction. Like fire place ash and water.
No thanks. I do water (hot) after a full alcohol retort of a tear-down, or when I don't care about the finish, which is rare, and only with estate restorations. Otherwise, you just can't tell what water will do to a finish. I used to do it more often, and found that some old estates have been mucked with a lot, and water can REALLY change the finish. I fully clean and/or restore every pipe I get right away (and stabilize the finish), then clean the interior with rum pipe cleaners after every smoke. It's been years since I've needed to do another "deep clean" on any of my pipes.
Joke aside, i tried it on a very old pipe that needed fresh breath , hot water and alcohol it work very well
Excellent! Though my back would be killing me after cleaning a couple of pipes.
all I am saying is children are small and it's a good way to instill respect and a work ethic. Time to clean daddies smoky face woods.
Might be worthwhile making a jug of diluted alcohol, just 10% ABV should be enough to keep it quite sanitary and probably eliminate most odors.
why whatever it is it's not noticeable now. To be honest I was more wondering if there might be more of a reaction going on when you water flush. More going on then just water mechanically washing away dirt. I have no idea how to test such a thing.