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Post by olbluesmoke on May 23, 2024 6:51:38 GMT -5
How do you go about breaking in one of your new pipes?
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Post by NJDan on May 23, 2024 7:02:18 GMT -5
I smoke them. I don’t mean that sarcastically, I don’t do much different than smoke the new pipe. Maybe favor burley blends for the first few smokes.
It’s a great question, and I’ll be interested to learn what other patch members methods are!
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Post by coalsmoke on May 23, 2024 7:20:51 GMT -5
I smoke them. I don’t mean that sarcastically, I don’t do much different than smoke the new pipe. Maybe favor burley blends for the first few smokes. It’s a great question, and I’ll be interested to learn what other patch members methods are! I do the same thing, just smoke the pipe as I would normally do.
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Post by Darin on May 23, 2024 7:46:08 GMT -5
Yep ... same here.
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Post by Silver on May 23, 2024 8:21:29 GMT -5
Nothing special here. Just smoke it like any other pipe.
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Post by oldcajun123 on May 23, 2024 8:33:46 GMT -5
![oldcdgr](//storage.forums.net/6447321/images/juvLHSbPyjgJlrDFxGym.gif) Smoke it with Carter Hall.
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Post by lizardonarock on May 23, 2024 9:55:58 GMT -5
Just smoke it and remember KISS.
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Post by Goldbrick on May 23, 2024 10:36:57 GMT -5
![oldcdgr](//storage.forums.net/6447321/images/juvLHSbPyjgJlrDFxGym.gif) Smoke it with Carter Hall. I always used to do that, these days I just pack em with any good burley or non-aromatic tobacco in my rotation. If There is a special trick to break in, it's smoke slowly, and as always , no torch lighters, just soft flames. Time was, I'd pack 1/3rd bowl, next 2/3rd, and so on...now I just fill em and relax with a nice slow smoke. That's what it's all about in the first place ![Puffy](https://i.imgur.com/bP3a831.gif) , right?
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Post by Ronv69 on May 23, 2024 11:13:53 GMT -5
I never did the partial bowl sequence. If they have a bowl coating I just smoke them. If it's bare wood I coat the inside of the bowl with thinned honey. It cuts the break-in time way down and eliminates the wood smoke.
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Post by Mrs. Zarnicky on May 23, 2024 12:15:04 GMT -5
How do you go about breaking in one of your new pipes? Zarnicky good at breaking in. I breaking out tobacco and putting it in pipe. Then I smoking. Some places not allow pipe smoking so Zarnicky being careful. I not wanting to be arrested for breaking and entering new pipe.
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Post by turbocat on May 23, 2024 12:20:15 GMT -5
I just smoke them normally.
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Post by urbino on May 23, 2024 15:55:13 GMT -5
Not to sound like one of these commoners around here, but I just smoke it, too. I used to do the Carter Hall thing, but I really didn't notice a difference so it didn't seem worth the bother. I buy a pipe and it goes into the rotation like any other. I smoke whatever I feel like smoking in it, with no special packing or puffing techniques.
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Post by turbocat on May 23, 2024 16:25:33 GMT -5
I don’t fault or disparage anyone who has their favorite voodoo pipe rituals involving ashes, carefully making graduated small to larger offerings, etc., I certainly engaged in some of them in the past. I’ve just found through experience that, for me, they didn’t really make any difference.
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Post by trailboss on May 23, 2024 19:49:39 GMT -5
Some of the guys in the pipe club swear that breaking in a pipe with 1/2 full of tobacco results in a pipe that more evenly cakes as you progress.
Never tried that method myself, but I have had some pipes that did develop less than even cake after breaking in.
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Post by trailboss on May 23, 2024 21:28:57 GMT -5
Some of the guys in the pipe club swear that breaking in a pipe with 1/2 full of tobacco results in a pipe that more evenly cakes as you progress. Never tried that method myself, but I have had some pipes that did develop less than even cake after breaking in. Edit: I have had some pipes that did develop less than even cake in the bottom half after breaking in.
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Post by Scott W on May 23, 2024 21:36:57 GMT -5
Ive smoked pipes for a long time but wouldn't consider myself experienced.that said, ive always just smoked them.
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