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Arkansas Paul

Starting to Get Obsessed
Sep 8, 2022
205
1,994
Central Arkanss
Pack pipe with tobacco, smoke pipe.
That's all I do and I've never damaged a pipe (that I know of).

I do think it's important for the first few bowls to make sure to smoke it all the way to the bottom. If you don't think you're going to do that with a full bowl, maybe pack a half a bowl then.
 

lraisch

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 4, 2011
816
1,689
Granite Falls, Washington state
I usually follow the three step method to ensure a good start to forming a cake. I find this less necessary these days with the English blends I favor, but it's a holdover from when I smoked aromatics.
 

Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
6,745
22,882
Humansville Missouri
So, it is impossible and inconceivable that this is an advertising agency gimmick. It’s an agronomic certainty? Well, you live and learn.View attachment 382360

If Kaywoodie could fool 11 million customers per year into paying three and a half to ten times what a common dollar pipe cost, it might be all hype.

Wartime agencies determined there were 30 million American made pipes a year in 1940.

Today there isn’t 300,000. The market has declined until today it’s not one per cent of 1940.

I’d guess every last one today uses only the cuts reserved for Kaywoodies then.
 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate
Nov 12, 2014
47,052
126,636
you must be one of a few then,why is that may i ask.Better food at home,specialist diet.
I eat out at least once a week ,although most times a simple grillroom
I still get fast food, I just don't go to sit down restaurants as I don't like to eat around other people.
 
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