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***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***
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Good weekend and pipes to all! Starting with St. Bruno RR in a sacrificial Burak Connoisseur smooth Tankard with tapered stem.
Bowl #6 in the Tekin meerschaum with Bayou Morning
If you look really hard and squint with bifocals on you can see it’s starting to turn.
If you look really hard and squint with bifocals on you can see it’s starting to turn.
John Cotton Kentucky in an Abe Herbaugh. I love this pipe, my only complaint would be that the asymmetry of the rim seems to make it easier to scorch. I just have to be mindful is all. Maybe beveling would help with this? Dunno.
Rainy day at Kremers for the Derby City Pipe Club meetup.
Starting off with '98 Mcclelland MV24 in the Musico Set Special pot.
Starting off with '98 Mcclelland MV24 in the Musico Set Special pot.
Sutliff Maple Street in a Morgan Bones Lil Bill. I think Maple Street's topping is a little in your face but I like it after a savory breakfast
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Preparing for the next one up..
Emptied the rest of a tin of Miskatonic Mixture in to the Yorgos Mitakidis chimney.
Emptied the rest of a tin of Miskatonic Mixture in to the Yorgos Mitakidis chimney.
I wouldn’t recommend beveling and modifying the pipe. I would recommend a couple of changes to lighting:
1) Pack the tobacco an 1/8" to 1/4" below the rim (draw the flame to the tobacco).
2) Level the rim of the pipe when lighting it.
Level not bevel!
Often I will wet my fingertip and wipe it on the rim before lighting.
When I started doing that I began noticing a definite decrease in rim discoloration.
Reiner Golden Flake in an MM Anniversary Bulldog, nice smoke.
I avoid wetting the rims of my pipes with saliva these days—I tried it awhile back on someone’s recommendation to avoid rim charring—unfortunately, new Savinelli organic stains don’t fare well with saliva at all.
Passing the first third of this bowl of early 2000s Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.
No, I won’t modify it. My comment was more a “what if on the original design”. The flame of the lighter winds up hitting that spot no matter how carefully I pack. I just have to be careful with the lighter which is hard when I’m 99 percent outdoor smoker.
I do think it’s a little funny and tragic that we are constantly applying flame to wood and then get disappointed when the wood burns.
Minimizing damage is all I can hope for as a fairly heavy smoker.
McConnell Mature in the Il Duca B strawberry bent stack w/horn.
I do think it’s a little funny and tragic that we are constantly applying flame to wood and then get disappointed when the wood burns.
Yes and no—it’s not just wood—it’s often beautiful wood and there’s nothing wrong with wanting to preserve that. Pipes are unusual in that they’re functional art.
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