When Does your New Pipe Begin to Sing?

[Hillcrest]

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[boston]

Very variable in my experience. I have Negoita and Heeschen and Ardor pipes that were marvelous from day one (or nearly so). And a very favorite Peterson (now) that took forever. Like over a year. I don't know why.

 

[sablebrush52]

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[OzPiper]

Hopefully before the fat lady comes on ?

 

[Briar Lee]

The vast majority of my pipes are “estate pipes”, but occasionally I get either a new pipe or an unsmoked old one.

All unsmoked Lee, Pipe Maker, and Briarlee pipes are good from the first bowl, like a cob. I credit oil cured briar.

But they don’t really become the best they’ll get until maybe 15 to 30 bowls.

Other brands might be torture for 15-30 bowls, or they might be pleasant from the first bowl. It depends, who knows on what?

I do leave a carbon build up in my pipes, but not a thick cake.

I like to say I have just enough carbon in the bowl to say there is some, and no more.

 

[Hillcrest]

If a pipe did sing ???

 

[spicy_boiii]

In my experience, a great smoking pipe smokes good from the start. It takes about a dozen bowls for it to start hitting prime.

Same. My good ones are better at first light then ok pipes are at bowl 40

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

"When Does Your New Pipe Begin To Sing"

After I've done many terrible things to it.
The next Pipe I smoke will have a freshly drilled 1/8" hole in the bottom of the chamber, I'm just choosing the victim now.

 

[danish]

Like with brass musical instruments, the mouthpiece (stem) has to fit you. The first bite on the pipe stem, will usually tell me, if the pipe will sing for me. Then come the other abilities, such as drilling, initial influence on tobacco taste and ability of passing a pipe cleaner, while smoking. If everything is ok, then the pipe will probably keep singing until it gets sour and/or tossable.