The Grandpa Experiment!!

[checotah]

I agree that your choice of tobacco will likely have the greatest impact on the results. Higher sugar content tobaccos will leave more unfavorable residue than lesser content ones. I'm guessing 1Q will be in the former category. Many years ago I smoked the same pipe nearly every day with no noticeable negative impact, but I was smoking SWR. I still smoke that pipe from time to time, but it has had a couple of good cleanings (in 50 years). Running a cleaner through the pipe regularly is likely the saving effort: that will remove much of the offending residue. BTW, when I was smoking during that mentioned phase, I seldom even ran a cleaner through the pipe. Yup, I was a heathen....
Do let us know how your experiment turns out...

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

@blueeyedorge - as I've mentioned a couple times in this forum when the subject of resting a pipe comes up; a friend of mind, who is a pipe maker, made a pipe for himself which he referred to as his remnant pipe. Since he's in his shop everyday working on pipes he's always smoking a pipe and sometimes he'll smoke 10 or more bowls a day. He did this same test to prove that if the pipe is made well it doesn't need rest. He smoked his remnant pipe everyday for one year. Some days it was once or twice a day and other days it was 10 or more. He smoked 1Q in it mainly as well. He didn't do any cleaning treatments on the pipe other than run a pipe cleaner through it occasionally. At the end of the one year the pipe which wasn't stained had a very dark natural stain to it, but other than it was in pretty good shape. The pipe now sits in the work shop of premium pipe maker Chris Morgan of Morgan Pipes. You can watch his video's about it on his YouTube channel.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1rU4Wc0QmE2hYqf9zRr2zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G5-pRUHYF0

You can skip ahead to about the 4:35 mark of the video as this is where he talks about the pipe. There are before and after pictures at the end of the video.
Good luck with your experiment.

 

[tennsmoker]

When I was a college student and broke, I bought my first pipe. It was a basket bulldog. I smoked a ton of green Sail through that pipe. Then someone told me about PA and SWR. I switched and smoked that pipe all the way through four years of college and my first job.
Nary a cleaner through the pipe. I did manage to carve out the cake with my knife from time to time. I copied many of my professors, who smoked a pipe constantly.
I really don't recall having a bad-tasting pipe all that time. I still have the old bulldog and still smoke it from time to time. I don't recall how it smoked back in the day, but it is a good smoker today.
I'm not sure if it ever had a cleaner through it.

 

[blueeyedogre]

Just an update here.....

Been smoking the Sav everyday, usually 2 to 5 bowls, it got 2 days without a smoke in the last month and only cause I had my little girl and I don't smoke around her. A pipe cleaner between bowls and a scotch dipped cleaner on sunday as a cleaning. No Issues at all other then a bit more cake then I am used to. No noticeable loss of flavor with the tobacco, if anything the last bowl of the day seems to have more flavor then the first. I've been smoking mostly Lane's 1Q with some cubed burley for the most part with a few bowls of Sutliff D-40 Vanilla and 4noggins Three Blind Moose here and there. The experiment will continue on!!

 

[psychpipes]

I doubt anything bad will happen to your pipe. My father smokes the same Stanwell Zebrano every single day all day and the only thing wrong with it is that he had to get a replacement stem because he dropped it on concrete.

 

[blueeyedogre]

Yeah, I'm not expecting much to happen I just get bored sometimes and this seemed like a good way to try and curb the PAD. lol

 

[fadingdaylight]

I smoke all my pipes everyday, the way I figure, if its cooled completely, its ready to smoke. I smoked the same Stanwell day in day out for a year, 2-3 bowls a day, sometimes ran a cleaner, sometimes forgot. After about 6 months I cleaned it with whiskey. Never had an issue. I still have it. Hell, I smoked it this morning. If the pipebis made right, it will endure.

 

[sablebrush52]

I knew a guy at one of the studios where I worked who owned one pipe, a Peterson, that he smoke numerous times everyday, and had done so for years. The thing was almost black, and it had originally been natural. The man loved smoking his one pipe and saw no need to ever own another.
I killed a couple of pipes by smoking them constantly, both Dunhills. But I think that it was more about the cheap and overly moist drugstore tobacco that I was using at the time, than anything else.

 

[spartan]

Got any pictures of the two dunhills you killed?

 

[sablebrush52]

Hi Spartan,

Got any pictures of the two dunhills you killed?

Nope. It was a long, long time ago, and I didn't take pictures of my pipes, dead or alive. But with the split shanks, cracks where the bowl and shank meet, cracks beginning to show along the sides of the bowls, and stems that rattled around in their respective tenons, they were really most sincerely dead.

 

[mso489]

My dad ran a similar experiment, and I can tell you the results. He chain smoked Granger in a series of pipes, but he would

always burn out a pipe before he bought another. Sometimes he'd use a burnt-out pipe to get him to the pipe shop to replace

a pipe, but mostly he'd toss out the used-up pipes. He lit up on his walk to the train to commute to work, smoked in the smoking

car, and smoked at his desk at work, and mostly smoked at home after supper until bedtime. One pipe, probably a dozen or more

bowls a day, no rotation of pipes. The pipe rested for about eight ours and during meals. As I remember, he got more than a year

out of each pipe. I'm not sure what make of pipe he smoked, but I believe they were American made, usually straight billiards in

dark smooth finishes. I don't think he used pipe cleaners more than once a day, and though he had a reamer, I think he rarely used

it. Pipes can take a lot punishment and are more durable than usually depicted.