Pipes & Tobacco

What kind of pipes do you smokers use when at rondy or day treks? What kind of tobacco? Do you use leather bag or tobacco tin? Just wonderin-thanks

Flint50

I use a corncob. Not sure how PC it is, but they smoke very well for a cheap pipe. I don't know what the old-timers used to clean a pipe, but pipe cleaners are great for pipes and blackpowder firearms. I personally smoke an English blend, with lots of latakia and other orientals in it, and I'm pretty certain that stuff doesn't date to before 1820. :imo: I find clay pipes smoke too hot for comfort. graybeard

Burly & Bright and a clay bowl pipe with reed stem. Sometimes, a burlwood bulldog style that is a nicer smoking pipe.

I think a clay pipe for eastern trekkers or a small pipestone pipe in the west. Twist for tobacco.

Where can you get a twist of baccer these days?

Chuck

Where can you get a twist of baccer these days?

Chuck

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https://host96.ipowerweb.com/~frontier/c...product=tobacco :thumbsup: ::

YMHS
rollingb

white clay tavern pipe, half and half tobacco

I make my own pipes out of earthenware clay...helps to have a wife who is a potter with a kiln. I'll shoot some pictures over the weekend.

I get my tabac from Plumebleu, he makes a great kinnikinik with tobacco, sassafrass, dogwood, sweetgrass, and bearberry...awesome stuff, very smooooooth. I carry it in a--don't yell or laugh--small ziplock bag in a leather pouch along with my pipe. This is my one big cheat, but it keeps it from drying out. HOWEVER, I'm going to experiment with a waxed hemp bag to preserve freshness.

Also, carrying a pipe gives you other tools:
1: Knife sharpener
2: a small blow-pipe for your fire
3: a really cool little turkey call...just use it as you would a wing-bone call. Thank Plumebleu for showing me that, it works like a charm.

Do you guys lite your pipes with glowing char cloth?

Do you guys lite your pipes with glowing char cloth?

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tinder tube or on sunny days my burning glass...but usually I only smoke on the trail once camp has been established, so, I use the camp fire embers.

at rendezvous, I occasionally sneak a Bic "wheel-lock" in to expedite ignition....please, don't hate me...lol

at rendezvous, I occasionally sneak a Bic "wheel-lock" in to expedite ignition....please, don't hate me...lol

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It's a wheellock... :crackup:

I seen people use a burning stick before...

The char cloth actually works pretty good. Tastes funky, sometimes. That's what I get for using our old flannel bedsheets for char cloth.

Mosty often I use twigs from the Diamond Strike Anywhere tree.

hmmmmmmmmm...white man magic fire twigs.....goes well with white man magic fire-water (AKA Boy Scout Juice)

Them is called Lucifers.

where is this plumebleu you are talkin' about. do they have a web site?

He's a guy on this forum. I can put him in touch with you. He's one of my rondy/trekkin' pards.

sure, I'd love to try some of that smoke. I will be out of the office till monday, see ya' then.

I use a homemade pipe made from one brow tine and the base of a muledeer antler.

Sweetest smoking pipe I've ever owned! (But you really hafta' break in right - Don't try to break it in by smoking it or you'll blend in evergreens and armadillos for the next 6 weeks! - I fired mine up, took the (now-ex) wifes car and did two four mile road trips (2 bowls) with the pipe sticking out the window at 60 MPH. Worked like a charm!)

I grow my own tobacco and cure it with a little Jim Beam. Makes for a real good smoke!

...The Kansan...

I smoke a clay pipe, and a clay pipe with a reed stem. Leather tobacco pouch. Tobacco is whatever I have on hand! Current blend is a combo of a couple of modern cut blends (cherry, and chocolate),latakia,and twist tobacco.

Capt. William

I use a homemade pipe made from one brow tine and the base of a muledeer antler.

Sweetest smoking pipe I've ever owned! (But you really hafta' break in right - Don't try to break it in by smoking it or you'll blend in evergreens and armadillos for the next 6 weeks! -
...The Kansan...

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Oh, yikes....I guess not! I can't stand the smell of that burnt bone and antler when I use the dremel or table saw, so I sure wouldn't want it down my lungs!!!

SB