Cigars

[Wes/Tex]

The main secret to keeping the pipe lit is the proper amount of pressure when packing (tamping) the tobacco.

found the secret is to do it in three tamps...if that's the right expression. Put in a big pinch and push only about the weight of finger or hand. Second pinch harder and third with firm pressure. Light it well, tamp it gently and relight...often with same match since I use kitchen matches. Occasional tamp as ash gets thicker to keep it going and they usually burn steadily to bottom without relighting at all.

 

[robert reed]

I tamp with a 5.56 case from the 21 gun salute of a fallen comrade. Makes the smoke more spiritual.

 

[Rick Boylan]

I have a pipe tool that has the scraper, a tool to tamp and a tool to poke in the pipe to clear the hole for the mouthpiece. I found last night, that if I tamp harder than I was, I get a better experience. I just wasn't compressing the tobacco enough.

Thanks for all the advice. I think I'm on my way to a better pipe experience. :thumbsup: :grin:

 

[tenngun]

By the by the pipe tamper is one of my inventions. I Started pipe smoking when I was 19,just so I could do it at rendezvous My pipe seemed to go out about 1/2 smoked. Then one day cleaning my gun and smoking at the same time I cut off a couple of inchs from my wiping stick and used it as a tamper. Soon my smokes were going almost to the bottom with out diffuculty. Sharing with a friend who was also a pipe smoker I thought I could impress him ith my new invention. While we were smoking together I said 'You know how some times your pipe goes out when its about 1/2 done... well I found a way to fix that" "Tell me about it" he said as he pulled a pewter tamper from his pocket :redface:

 

[Rick Boylan]

:hatsoff:

 

[Grumpa]

I tamp with a 5.56 case from the 21 gun salute of a fallen comrade. Makes the smoke more spiritual.

Thank you, for sharing that.

 

[tenngun]

:rotf:

 

[tenngun]

I've had a few ofthose over the years, lost some, gave some way. I did have one that was truly pornographic as it had two figures on it and action that worked with the pressure of tamping. Gave it to my dad and over the years it was lost....I think my mom threw it out. Just have a peg that I cut from a wild cherry tree thats I've used about 15 years. Just last year I lost the one I carry in my truck that I had used for at least 10 years.
Some years ago I told my wie that a pipe shop in springfield mo had a nice meresham I was getting. It was patterened after Venus. I had kept a pipe fund that I would drop money in to and had planned to buy it for my birth day, About a week before my birthday my ife told me she had ran to town and got me the pipe I wanted. She had taken my pipe fund. She gave me a very fine cased well carved....Turks head.
Was it Rooster Cogbirn that said that women have no charity?

 

[Wes/Tex]

It's the thought that counts and looks like you got a keeper to keep you humble! :thumbsup:

 

[tenngun]

Well I do have a keeper and she has bought me some good pipes :haha:

 

[Alden]

I don't know how much of a keeper she is -- if it was a tasteful Venus. But I guess it could have been worse -- her jealousy might have had her get you a David pipe with an age-appropriate stem.

 

[Grumpa]

if it was a tasteful Venus-- her jealousy might have had her get you a David pipe with an age-appropriate stem.

:haha: :haha:

 

[tenngun]

:rotf: but I won't show her this post. After all I sm the soul of caution :haha:

 

[Alden]

Sometime a cigar is just a cigar Tenngun, but sometimes it's a pipe as this thread has turned. And hell hath no fury like a woman whose hubby lights another goddess' fire and then holds her till she's done.

I have actually refused to buy those risque tampers in the past, truth be told. One sutler that knew me took a small box out from behind the counter to secretly show me some of them like he was a crack dealer and I was an addict... lol.

16th thru 18th C. pipes of mine...

 

[Rick Son]

Native Americans used antler pipes, they may have sealed the bowl with clay

 

[Billnpatti]

Cigars are made of three grades of excellent quality tobacco, the filler, the binder and the wrapper. The wrapper is the prime grade of tobacco. The binder is the second grade of tobacco and the filler is the third grade. A properly made cigar cannot be simply rolled and smoked. It must be placed in a wooden cigar mould and pressed tightly in the mould to compress it and properly form it. After it has been left in the mould for a period of time, it is ready to be smoked and enjoyed. Without the moulding process, the tobacco is not properly compressed. It will be too loose and will not burn at a proper rate. Until the cigar has been properly rolled from excellent tobacco and moulded into a proper cigar, you will not be enjoying a proper smoke, you will just be putting leaves in your face and setting them on fire.

 

[Baxter]

Routine pipe-smoking is a "fiddly" habit, much akin to routine FL rifle shooting. :wink:

 

[Baxter]

Exactly so!

 

[tenngun]

:thumbsup:

 

[Alden]

As in the case of the Rocky Patel Edge I smoked this warm Winter's night. They will not stay lit for love nor money. I make allowances for that bargain-line's Sumatra though -- man are they nice. I have often been known to buy a whole sampler pack just to get at the one Sumatra in it, but now my regular guy is carrying these hen's teeth!