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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2018 0:04:00 GMT -5
Only Penzance in my Peterson XL23 Kinsale smokes great down to the ash section which leaves a nice taste to finish out the smoke. I can't figure out why this specific pipe and blend does this.
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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 19, 2018 0:31:55 GMT -5
Only Penzance in my Peterson XL23 Kinsale smokes great down to the ash section which leaves a nice taste to finish out the smoke. I can't figure out why this specific pipe and blend does this. ...Penzance is one of the few I am able smoke all the way down in almost any pipe, which is okay, but that's not the objective... if it happens, fine, if not, I don't care... I think the main bugaboo for me all those years ago was all the BS about building up a *cake* in the bowl... might have been in an early edition of the Carl Weber book... |
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Post by briarpipenyc on Mar 19, 2018 7:49:18 GMT -5
Drama is right.
I did some digging and I just read all this "wet heel"...."smoke gently, to gradually form cake at the bottom of the bowl" BS in the Carl Weber guide/book for teaching the newbs how to "correctly" smoke a pipe. This sage advice has been constantly reiterated, for decades.
This "smoke to the bottom of the bowl" issue was one of the main factors that caused me to stop piping for 15-20 years! Now, I don't give a fig!...but it's nice to see I ain't the only one who had this wet-heel problem.
I just dump the dottle and move on. Thanks to Drama..... for "The Subject Was Dottle" thread.
Frank
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2018 17:25:13 GMT -5
Source: the Internet is a dual edged sword.
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Post by nedwrecks on Aug 23, 2018 8:07:18 GMT -5
Smoking down to the bottom of the bowl is a wonderful technique for destroying a pipe. The heat generated in getting those few last strands burnt eventually causes cracks to form around the walls of the lower third of the chamber. It might, or might not take years to achieve this goal, but rest assured you will achieve it. As for fine white ash, that's another of those many, many baseless myths that pipe smokers love so much. Yeah, Balkan Sobranie (real stuff, not Germain's simulacrum) burned down to a fine white ash. But most blends burn down to a gray mottle, somewhat gritty ash. Enjoy your smokes. Don't overthink it. It's not about stunt smoking. Question... When breaking in a pipe would you recommend smoking to the heel, at least until there seems to be some cake built up? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 23, 2018 9:08:23 GMT -5
This reminds me of the lists I used to see about "Are you a real Biker". BS. I am happy to be a motorcyclist.
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Post by zver on Aug 23, 2018 10:01:37 GMT -5
I must be a pipe smoking poser. My pipe needs a relight every time I pick it back up from the table, where I put it when busy doing stuff. I dump out dottle on most bowls. My packing and tamping are not in rhythm with my puffing. So I must be a poser as well.
Since you all seem to have similar issues we can just sit at our table away from where the cool kids. The cool kids seem to be fighting about every little thing. We can have our good conversation while relaxing or working on projects. No stress. Just don't ask them any questions and we should be good. They will ignore us posers and let us have a good time by ourselves.
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Post by Legend Lover on Aug 23, 2018 10:01:58 GMT -5
Smoking down to the bottom of the bowl is a wonderful technique for destroying a pipe. The heat generated in getting those few last strands burnt eventually causes cracks to form around the walls of the lower third of the chamber. It might, or might not take years to achieve this goal, but rest assured you will achieve it. As for fine white ash, that's another of those many, many baseless myths that pipe smokers love so much. Yeah, Balkan Sobranie (real stuff, not Germain's simulacrum) burned down to a fine white ash. But most blends burn down to a gray mottle, somewhat gritty ash. Enjoy your smokes. Don't overthink it. It's not about stunt smoking. Question... When breaking in a pipe would you recommend smoking to the heel, at least until there seems to be some cake built up? You'll get varied answers to this. Some will say, only smoke a third of a bowl for the first few bowls, then two thirds, then whole bowls. Others will say, fill the pipe and smoke it and let whatever's going to happen, happen. I would lean to the latter of those. Years ago, before we got technical, people bought a pipe, filled it with tobacco and smoked it. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Aug 23, 2018 10:09:42 GMT -5
 Smoke what you like, like what you smoke, like how you smoke, be satisfied with yourself as a person and you will not follow crap advice. That’s my motto.
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Post by Legend Lover on Aug 23, 2018 10:18:52 GMT -5
Smoke what you like, like what you smoke, like how you smoke, be satisfied with yourself as a person and you will not follow crap advice. That’s my motto. Good advice. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2018 11:05:16 GMT -5
From day one, if there is moist dottle on the bottom of the bowl I don’t attempt to re-light.....tastes nasty. That’s the point I thoroughly clean the chamber. Most of my pipes have developed a thin cake on the heel of the chamber....takes time.
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Post by slowroll on Aug 23, 2018 19:15:58 GMT -5
Yep. Dottle happens. Dump it and load another.
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Smoke what you like, like what you smoke, like how you smoke, be satisfied with yourself as a person and you will not follow crap advice. That’s my motto.