What Are Your Top Five Pipe Accessories?
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I struggle with smoking too fast/hot. Using my finger got me to slow down.
I carry a bamboo golf tee, because I see value in a concave surface to a tamp.
Years ago, my summer job, while in college, was with the local Electric power company. I was on the Right-of-way crew which cut trees and cleared the pathway for new lines to be built and/or trimmed the trees back from existing lines. Of the six men on the crew, I was the only kid and three of them smoked pipes. I never saw a single one of them (nor my dad, back in the sixties) use anything but their index finger to tamp. Granted, they were used to heavy labor and their fingers were callused, but the key is speed. Just a quick tamp to lower that top layer of ash and you keep going. We get all detailed in how to pack and light and smoke and tamp, etc...... but back in the day, it was not labored over in such detail.
Just lightly touch your finger to the ash, quickly and move it away. Even with my tampers, I do it with my finger half of the time.
Pipe knife, pipe cleaner, pipe stand, pipe lighter (IM Corona) and tobacco pouch,
Nah, life's too complicated as it is. Just fill the thing and smoke it.
Ahh ... smoking a pipe outdoors—the best. Invert the pipe to dump the excess ash, then use your pinky to tamp.
1. Zippo pipe lighter
2. Pipe Nail/tamper
3. Cheapo plastic folding pipe stand
4. Pipe Cleaner
5. Book to read
That's it!
2. Pipe Nail/tamper
3. Cheapo plastic folding pipe stand
4. Pipe Cleaner
5. Book to read
That's it!
Thinking of my current set up, and I can't come up with 5.
1. pouch or ziplock for on-the-go.
2. Lighter
3. Pipe nail, or other suitable tamper.
Pipe cleaners and paper towels for maintenance, but I wouldn't consider those as accessories. I guess I'm a prety simple pipe smoker.
1. pouch or ziplock for on-the-go.
2. Lighter
3. Pipe nail, or other suitable tamper.
Pipe cleaners and paper towels for maintenance, but I wouldn't consider those as accessories. I guess I'm a prety simple pipe smoker.
These are the five items I use every single time I smoke a pipe at home (my primary use-case):
1. Hide & Drink leather mat
2. Hide & Drink leather pipe stand
3. Savinelli Table Pipe Accesssories Kit (with bonus item: White Elephant pipe cleaners)
4. Savinelli Oceano pipe tamper (my most-used tamper, sometime gets swapped out for others)
5. Corona Old Boy lighter (my most-used lighter, sometimes gets swapped out for wooden matches or my Kiribi)
1. Hide & Drink leather mat
2. Hide & Drink leather pipe stand
3. Savinelli Table Pipe Accesssories Kit (with bonus item: White Elephant pipe cleaners)
4. Savinelli Oceano pipe tamper (my most-used tamper, sometime gets swapped out for others)
5. Corona Old Boy lighter (my most-used lighter, sometimes gets swapped out for wooden matches or my Kiribi)
I always feel like smoking makes my coffee taste really weird. Do you find it alters the taste, but you just don't mind it?
For me its the opposite. I find the coffee makes my pipe taste good. Kinda like a coffee and dessert or PB&J, or milk and cookie. I put cream and honey in my coffee although on occasion I drink it black. I always smoke in morning so coffee is a standard. Noting that I dont usually smoke VA or VaPer with coffee because the coffee interferes with me being able to taste what those offer. Bready, Grassy, Figgy, etc gets washed out with any drink for me. If anyone knows of a drink the accentuates VAs please share.
This showed up yesterday. I thought I’d spoil myself a bit. This is a nice brass box that has a real nice weight to it. Apparently the inside is going to tarnish because of the tobacco but I think I’ll just let go as is and see what happens. Some advice for the tin found in the product description is to line it with food grade carnauba wax , mineral oil, or simply keep the tobacco in a plastic bag. I’ve rubbed beeswax around the lid to improve the seal which doesn’t look great.
You may want to line it with wax paper. Brass can make the tobacco taste off.
Thanks I’ll take that advice.
Dont mix the tobacco with sardines!
Really tho...cool find. Brass does taste bad so wax paper is a very good idea. You can find the shape that folds over the best and that will also help keep moisture in. If you are handy maybe a strip of raw leather folded over.
Really tho...cool find. Brass does taste bad so wax paper is a very good idea. You can find the shape that folds over the best and that will also help keep moisture in. If you are handy maybe a strip of raw leather folded over.
My tamper is a few inches long,and is between my thumb and middle finger.My bowl cleaner is a wet cotton ball. I'm happy
Like most everybody here, I've a drawer full of tampers, accessories, lip condoms, buck pocket knives blah blah blah . . . what I took a snap of here are a few favoured things that I use that might be a bit out of the ordinary.
From top to bottom, a telescoping magnetic dowel I use as a tamper. Have two of them - one large one small. Let's me pick up lots of stuff magnetically, like reaching for a jar of tobacco rather than getting my butt up off the chair, as well as tamping the pipe.
Below that, a cosmetic tool I picked up. Original purpose was popping zits - the point is useful for enlarging the draft hole on cheap cigars, and the hook end is useful for loosening up tobacco in the pipe when the occasion arises. Q tips are always useful. The wirecutters are almost my most used accessory - I have a dozen or so longstems, and I use Churchwarden pipe cleaners almost exclusively. I cut them down to different sizes, or after running the long pipecleaners through the pipe. Drop pieces on the floor? The telescoping magnet gets double duty.
Then there is a small LCD flashlight and a pair of locking tweezers which finds a myriad of uses. The pipe cleaner is there for purposes of illustration and the TP, which I'm sure everyone has at hand, has a myriad of uses for slobs like me. I also use the stuff to clean the threads on my Falcon bowls and stems. Works great.
From top to bottom, a telescoping magnetic dowel I use as a tamper. Have two of them - one large one small. Let's me pick up lots of stuff magnetically, like reaching for a jar of tobacco rather than getting my butt up off the chair, as well as tamping the pipe.
Below that, a cosmetic tool I picked up. Original purpose was popping zits - the point is useful for enlarging the draft hole on cheap cigars, and the hook end is useful for loosening up tobacco in the pipe when the occasion arises. Q tips are always useful. The wirecutters are almost my most used accessory - I have a dozen or so longstems, and I use Churchwarden pipe cleaners almost exclusively. I cut them down to different sizes, or after running the long pipecleaners through the pipe. Drop pieces on the floor? The telescoping magnet gets double duty.
Then there is a small LCD flashlight and a pair of locking tweezers which finds a myriad of uses. The pipe cleaner is there for purposes of illustration and the TP, which I'm sure everyone has at hand, has a myriad of uses for slobs like me. I also use the stuff to clean the threads on my Falcon bowls and stems. Works great.
You'd find a different story amongst symphony musicians, many of whom smoke pipes and/or cigars. They don't use their fingers to tamp, especially the string players
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