Re: Read all the FAQs, Still Having Trouble Keeping Pipe Lit
- From: "Erik Collasius" <ecollas1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:25:33 -0400
This may help as well:
http://www.glpease.com/Articles/BreathSmoking.html
"drrr" <drrrrrrr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi everybody.
Well, I've been smoking the pipe a couple times a week for more than a
year now. I've tried all sorts of ways of packing the thing -- loosely,
tightly, Frank, gravity, upside-down-in-the-hand, the standard
three-layers, etc., etc., etc. I've tried all kinds of tobacco cuts, too.
Cubed, caked, ribbon, etc., etc...
And I just can't have a satisfying smoke because I can't keep the thing
lit for more than two or three puffs, unless I really heat the thing up
with constant smokestack-puffing.
Look guys, I KNOW that I'm going to have to relight a couple times during
an average smoke. Six, seven, eight times -- that would be fine for me.
But I have to make this really clear:
Unless I puff the heat nearly to pipe-melting extremes, I literally have
to relight after every one or two puffs on my pipe. It takes me perhaps
12-20 relights just to get a third of the way through the bowl. It's
insane.
And I've tried so many different ways of packing, and so many different
kinds of tobaccos, and three different pipes - and I'm just at my wit's
end. I've no clue how to get this working properly. And I hope you'll
have some further suggestions for me.
I've been lighting with hard wooden matches of the strike-anywhere
variety. I light two at a time, hold them alongside one another, and
inhale through my pipe, then as I'm inhaling (into my mouth, not my
lungs,) I lower the matches, leave them there a moment, then raise them.
I wait a few seconds, then repeat. I do this about six times, then start
in on the smoke. This is after having set the charring light, which is
basically the same procedure but repeated only twice. After the charring
I let the pipe sit for a few minutes before starting-up on the true
lighting.
I live in Florida, where it's rather humid, but most of my tobacco is
extremely dry, so it's not the case that the tobacco has been made damp by
the humidity.
Any ideas?
Thank you!
.
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