I’d say three of my top five are in this pic. An X-Lighter permanent match, a skull tamper and the Decatur ashtray that Ithrifted, cleaned up and refinished. I also have a couple of favorite Zippos. Every other accessory I have is tied for 5th.
What Are Your Top Five Pipe Accessories?
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BiC lighters
Cheap Tampers
Well built pipe tool
Hot water
Buttner Reamer
That's the minimum. With the hot water flush, I don't often used pipe cleaners. I enjoy my Old Boys and FauxPonts. I like my leather tobacco pouch. I am happy with medium size matches. Zippo in a gale. Ball jars.
Pipe racks.
Cheap Tampers
Well built pipe tool
Hot water
Buttner Reamer
That's the minimum. With the hot water flush, I don't often used pipe cleaners. I enjoy my Old Boys and FauxPonts. I like my leather tobacco pouch. I am happy with medium size matches. Zippo in a gale. Ball jars.
Pipe racks.
Ive used them for over 30 years.
The first was a John Wayne rig for a pair of 1873 Colt Peacemakers and then rigs for 1911’s and Hi Powers.
They do exceptional work!
Can't believe nobody has mentioned a good pipe roll (or maybe I missed it)! I use mine more than any other accessory other than the bare minimum basics (matches, tamper, pipe cleaners).
8deco tamper
Kiribi lighter (surprisingly more reliable than all my old boys)
Neerup chamber brush
Flake plate
Pipe cleaner pottery thing I painted with my daughter when she was young.
I just use pockets. Less to carry.
Will a pipe roll do something a sandwich bag won't? Rolls simply take up more space than a sandwich bad which you can squeeze most of the air out of so the blend stays fresher longer.
Lighter
Tobacco Pouch
Pipe
Czech tool
Pipe cleaners are cool but optional for me as I just smack the open end of the pipe against my palm if the pack gets too tight. I learned that one from @Chasing Embers a couple of years back on the forum.
Tobacco Pouch
Pipe
Czech tool
Pipe cleaners are cool but optional for me as I just smack the open end of the pipe against my palm if the pack gets too tight. I learned that one from @Chasing Embers a couple of years back on the forum.
It's for travel purposes, not tobacco storage. Here's an example (mine is different but it's the same general idea):
Not there once blown out unless you have a bad tenon/mortise fitting.And you just leave all the stinky juices sitting in the shank/stem?
All of this reminds me of an event that the Los Angeles Pipe Club was holding in its early days. At that time we were meeting at a small tobacconist who was trying to make a go of it in Old Town Pasadena. It was a kind of show and tell event and the members were showing off their leather pipe bags, and other leather accessories, along with the small fancy artisan pipes that were popular 8-10 years ago.
I showed up with a beat up paper bag, and some of the members were giving me sort of smug looks. I sat down at the table and began to pull out the pipes I'd brought for show and tell, my 1908 Barling calabash, an 1883 Barling bent diamond shank billiard with a sterling silver windcap and silver fitments, a 1907 cased unsmoked Barling companion set, a 1909 Barling Motor windcap bent billiard, a cased Barling billiard with an amber stem, and so on and so on. It was fun to watch the reaction as the smug looks gave way to astonishment.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
I showed up with a beat up paper bag, and some of the members were giving me sort of smug looks. I sat down at the table and began to pull out the pipes I'd brought for show and tell, my 1908 Barling calabash, an 1883 Barling bent diamond shank billiard with a sterling silver windcap and silver fitments, a 1907 cased unsmoked Barling companion set, a 1909 Barling Motor windcap bent billiard, a cased Barling billiard with an amber stem, and so on and so on. It was fun to watch the reaction as the smug looks gave way to astonishment.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
I'm not disparaging your solutions. I just like to keep my pipe smoking as simple as possible and not have a lot of extraneous equipment to keep track of and fumble around with when traveling in the field. Just keeping track of all my photo gear is enough of a trial.
Since I am usually smoking a meerschaum, I simply blow back through the pipe stem. Every few weeks I clean out the acrylic stem with some warm water. If I'm smoking a briar and I happen to have pipe cleaners on me, I will use them when finished. Otherwise, I'm not too worried about it. I almost exclusively smoke C&D bulk blends so there is little to no moisture when I'm finished with a bowl a lot of the time.
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