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Post by exbenedict on Sept 25, 2018 22:33:45 GMT -5
When smoking your meerschaums, if you have any, do you concern yourself with the oils from your skin getting on the outside, or do you only hold by the shank? A friend was commenting on some of mine, and since my philosophy about pipes is that they are meant to be smoked and handled, I don't care about any marks as I intend to get them nice and dark anyway. Just curious as to how other people deal with them. Cheers!
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Sept 25, 2018 22:41:10 GMT -5
I am very new to meerschaum pipes but thus far I don't care if I touch them they're meant to be smoked and enjoyed
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Post by trailboss on Sept 25, 2018 22:46:05 GMT -5
I am by no means an expert on meerschaum, but here are my thoughts...
Certainly, when you are at a pipe show, in a store, or a friend shows you a newly acquired pipe, you should not hold the meerschaum with your hands, hold by the stem.
Personally, I hold my meerschaum pipes by hand, and I don't care if a friend does while looking at it...I have some old meerschaums that obviously went through hands long before I arrived on the scene and they have not suffered one whit. I am more about holding the pipe as solidly as possible so as not to drop it, ruining the pipe and holding the body of the pipe gives me the best purchase on it.
Since the word "purchase" as a I used it is archaic in our culture...
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Post by blackmouth210 on Sept 25, 2018 22:51:38 GMT -5
I hold my meers no differently than my other pipes.
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Post by antb on Sept 26, 2018 2:14:25 GMT -5
I hold my meers no differently than my other pipes. Ditto |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 4:32:45 GMT -5
I hold my meers no differently than my other pipes. +2 |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 26, 2018 5:41:00 GMT -5
Yup, hold it in my hand...which is usually not dirty anyhow.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2018 6:31:31 GMT -5
I hold my meers no differently than my other pipes. Yup, the same. Pipes made/carved using block Meerschaum will change color from smoking and the oils in one’s skin, so why hold differently then your other pipes. The pressed resin Meers I don’t care to smoke!! A couple of years ago I asked to see a few Meers at a J&R’s in a showcase, the sales person handed me the pipes grasping onto the Meer block. I’m sure they’ve been handled often but still looked pure white. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 26, 2018 7:43:52 GMT -5
 Yep, clean hands, then it colors with my brand of body oils, which for me it would be Spicy.! 
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Post by exbenedict on Sept 26, 2018 14:56:21 GMT -5
Coolio Julio!
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Post by danno44 on Sept 26, 2018 18:31:36 GMT -5
I smoke my Baki like any other pipe. If looking at a show or shop I only handle by the stem and IF the seller says OK to touch. Not sure why I look at them, my poor Baki doesn’t see enough use as it is...and not in the market to add any. Fun to look sometime though.
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Post by smellthehatfirst on Sept 26, 2018 20:00:34 GMT -5
Meerschaums have a wax coating on them, much like a briar. (Albeit I think meer coatings are often beeswax instead of carnauba wax.) I think it would take a lot of handling for your hand oils to do any damage.
But what do I know. I only own one meerschaum.
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Post by crapgame on Sept 26, 2018 20:40:09 GMT -5
same here..no difference in how i handle meers..cobs..and briars
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Post by rmb on Sept 27, 2018 12:36:42 GMT -5
I handle them the same as my cobs and briars, why would you want to smoke something you had to be that delicate with? Just be careful to not drop one!
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Post by monbla256 on Sept 27, 2018 18:09:45 GMT -5
I've got 3 that I've had and smoked for over 30 years now. I've always curled my forfinger around the meer stem at the bit with my thumb below. I find it a comfortable way to hold a pipe in general. When they are cold in the case I pick them up by the bowl. I NEVER, NEVER smoke them outside especially in Winter. For me they are a sit down focus on smoking and relax pipe.  |
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Post by crapgame on Sept 27, 2018 20:38:44 GMT -5
I've got 3 that I've had and smoked for over 30 years now. I've always curled my forfinger around the meer stem at the bit with my thumb below. I find it a comfortable way to hold a pipe in general. When they are cold in the case I pick them up by the bowl. I NEVER, NEVER smoke them outside especially in Winter. For me they are a sit down focus on smoking and relax pipe. absolutely agree!! |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 27, 2018 20:41:13 GMT -5
I've got 3 that I've had and smoked for over 30 years now. I've always curled my forfinger around the meer stem at the bit with my thumb below. I find it a comfortable way to hold a pipe in general. When they are cold in the case I pick them up by the bowl. I NEVER, NEVER smoke them outside especially in Winter. For me they are a sit down focus on smoking and relax pipe. absolutely agree!! Have to agree with this^^^^. I've got several, but don't smoke them all that much...really need to, or what is the point in owning them. |
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Post by smellthehatfirst on Sept 27, 2018 20:55:41 GMT -5
I've got 3 that I've had and smoked for over 30 years now. I've always curled my forfinger around the meer stem at the bit with my thumb below. I find it a comfortable way to hold a pipe in general. When they are cold in the case I pick them up by the bowl. I NEVER, NEVER smoke them outside especially in Winter. For me they are a sit down focus on smoking and relax pipe. I'm not afraid that the temperature will hurt a Meerschaum. No matter what temperature it is outside, if the Meerschaum is stored at room temp, then smoked, it experiences the same temp range.
Rather, I refuse to smoke my meer outside because I am a butterfingers. All of my "outside" pipes have greater or lesser amounts of "road rash" due to unplanned contact with hard surfaces.
The meerschaum is strictly a "sit still with a table" kind of smoke, for fear of drops.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2018 9:10:45 GMT -5
exbenedict this is a vintage Meer I just got. It was very lightly smoked and handled quite a bit. The discoloring is age and handling. imgur.com/a/jr9uNxK
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Post by trailboss on Sept 28, 2018 12:38:30 GMT -5
That’s a wild eye’d Sultan John, pretty cool... nice find.
John and I smoke our Meerschaums through the winters outside... never have issues.
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Post by beardedmi on Sept 28, 2018 13:55:28 GMT -5
That’s a wild eye’d Sultan John, pretty cool... nice find. John and I smoke our Meerschaums through the winters outside... never have issues. Winter in arizona is called summer in the rest of the world. Lol at least north of the mason dixon. |
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 30, 2018 21:21:52 GMT -5
I've had this one for five years and handle it like any other. Hasn't affected the coloring whatsoever. 2013  2018  |
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Post by trailboss on Sept 30, 2018 21:35:44 GMT -5
That’s a wild eye’d Sultan John, pretty cool... nice find. John and I smoke our Meerschaums through the winters outside... never have issues. Winter in arizona is called summer in the rest of the world. Lol at least north of the mason dixon.  |
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Yep, clean hands, then it colors with my brand of body oils, which for me it would be Spicy.! 
