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Wood Match Annoyance
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Yeah the diamond green strike anywhere matches suck.
That’s pretty slick. I haven’t seen one before.
I buy plain old grocery store matches (strike on box brand), nothing special but this very rarely occurs to me. I've been using matches for a decade now, so I guess practice makes perfect? I get in trouble when I toss my match into our flower bed, or stick them in my wife's flower pots.. (hey, they are biodegradable, right?)
Yep, I know exactly know what your talking about. I notice it when I light up in my indoor porch/smoking room. My favorite matches are these that my son brought back from a cigar bar in Boston. I like the thickness of the wood and the 4" length.
The problem is, I only have three boxes.
I'm going to try the matches Craig buys at Meijers.
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You folks using kitchen matches, have you tried smaller wooden matches?
I've been using matches for five decades. Guess I just don't have the touch, and don't know what the hell I am seeing or talking about. Need more practice, obviously.
I don't see why you'd want to turn the matches around. The tip comes flying off when you strike, right? Light them with a Bic instead of striking them. It'll either look very wise and clever or a bit strange, depending upon the person watching.
But I generally agree about the quality of matches. Even the most expensive Swan Vestas will break every so often, but it's a natural product, so it's not too surprising. I see some folks striking wooden matches while holding them unsupported near the tip. I learned to use cardboard matches from matchbooks where you need a finger almost directly behind the head,.which you retract as you strike. It helps avoid broken matches, but doesn't help much with tips that fly off. In my experience, matches that have been subjected to humidity are far more prone to failure.
Like the ones they used to (maybe still do) give away in classy restaurants and hotels? Those did work well. I had forgotten about them. The days of traveling with an expense account are long gone.
Yeah, I know what you mean. The Diamond green matches (I think it even happened with the red) throw small really hot sticky pieces almost every strike (I'm not pressing that hard.) It's extremely annoying. My skin has been burned. My clothes have been burned. Carpet. I like smoking inside and my knee-jerk reaction some time ago was to start lighting them with a Bic and that works, but I feel like an ahole doing this because I'm compensating for an inferior product that I spent my money on. Will not buy anymore.
To light the tail end. That way, I could hold the head between my fingers, waiting for a grim timing miscalculation to ignite both my pipe and my fingers.
yup sounds right.
Though in seriousness it does raise the question of what factor is different here. Why are a small number of people having that issue? And pretty much no one else?
Lighting the back end w a lighter would help avoid the sulphery smell when you light a match
maybe. Or it could be environmental or if you're getting them from one source it could be how they handled them before they got to you. Could be how you strike the matches. The point being it's not an issue most people are experiencing, so something is different. Hard to pin point what though. Or a good excuse to experiment.