What is the Best Tip or Advice You've Ever Gotten About Smoking a Pipe?

[anotherbob]

That's okay. If anything I take great delight in the shocked looks on people's faces when they how much I eat and am as tiny as I am.?

I am bit chubby and I get the same effect.

 

[anotherbob]

So seems like the number one is go slower.

 

[Chasing Embers]

So seems like the number one is go slower.

Time for a prostate exam.?

 

[tschiraldi]

Stop overthinking and just smoke the damn thing!

 

[OzPiper]

the shocked looks on people's faces when they how
........... as tiny as I am.?

The secret is out.
I always presumed that those pipes of yours were massive.
Now I know they are just normal sized - it's just that you are a midget

 

[Chasing Embers]

The secret is out.
I always presumed that those pipes of yours were massive.
Now I know they are just normal sized - it's just that you are a midget

I'm 5'11" (1.8034m) but will never weigh more than 118 pounds.

 

[sandollars]

Yep, nearly twenty-four twelve ounce cans per day.

A pound of tobacco a month, 24 cans of Dew per day......

HOW ARE YOU STILL LIVING?????

 

[Chasing Embers]

A pound of tobacco a month, 24 cans of Dew per day......

HOW ARE YOU STILL LIVING?????

You forgot the cigarettes, dip, chewing tobacco, snuff, and 6 full meals per day. 2% body fat, and extremely overactive thyroid, and blood that says I'm not a tobacco user. I'm cursed.

 

[simong]

not sure what you mean by countersink.

Chamfer I think the Americans refer to it as.

 

[Cappy]

This one has been mentioned, but I will put it in the words of Marty Pulvers: "Dry the damn tobacco." NOTHING will shorten the learning curve more.

 

[Magpiety]

That's funny, my two main drinks are clogged and mt dew. So I'm already biased, but the combinations are amazing together.

I couldn't find "clogged" on a Google search, how do you make that?

Edit: 8 seconds later I realized it was probably "coffee"

 

[Streeper541]

It's not a chew toy.

 

[The Clay King]

Smoke slow. It's real easy to get that fantastic taste and then start "Chasing the Dragon" and huffing the pipe like train to get more only to get burnt tobacco and a bitter taste.

@Dudditz I agree

 

[The Clay King]

Lace Wars rules:
1) No smoke signals before a battle.
2) No smoking around ladies.
Sealed Knot:
No smoking on the battlefield (explosion risk).

 

[Chris81]

"use softy bits".
At first I thought they could be uncomfortable and useless (I don't really care about some teeth marks).
Then a seller sent me some as a "surprise" when I bought a couple of pipes and I gave them a try.
I'm finally able to clench some pretty heavy pipes without hurting my teeth now and without having to close my mouth in a weird way to keep them from falling...
I prefer smaller and lighter pipes but I have some heavier ones that now I can enjoy with my hands free.

 

[The Clay King]

Countersink the tenon, if your pipe smokes wet & gurgles. That's been about the best practical tip I've been given. Oh! Don't smoke Clan!! That was the other one. Life's too short to smoke that rubbish.

@simong I've smoked some Clan in my clay pipes...

 

[Kal]

Don't over think about it!
It's so easy a caveman can do it...

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

You forgot the cigarettes, dip, chewing tobacco, snuff, and 6 full meals per day. 2% body fat, and extremely overactive thyroid, and blood that says I'm not a tobacco user. I'm cursed.

Now that you mentioned it, I had noticed to eyes.

 

[warren]

For me it was "keep it simple and enjoy."

 

[btsteve]

Do not worry about relighting. If it goes out just relight. Trying to keep it going by puffing like crazy is a recipe for disaster.