Alessio
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Post by Alessio on Jan 12, 2020 9:39:42 GMT -5
I often "reload". After a bowl, if I feel like smoking more, I just fill up another one or even third bowl and continue smoking with the same pipe.
It gets crazier. Sometimes I even go for another pipe mixture, usually a similar one, but sometimes quite different.
What do you think about it? Does anyone do the same?
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Post by Darin on Jan 12, 2020 10:16:37 GMT -5
There are no rules ... if it works for you then it's all good.
Personally, I'll load a Cob all day long if I'm out and about. Just use a pipe cleaner or two in between to keep it from getting sour / foul tasting.
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Post by kxg on Jan 12, 2020 10:30:36 GMT -5
That's the way my Dad and Granddad did it, and they were satisfied pipe smokers for many years. My first job after college, I worked for a guy who smoked a pipe almost non-stop. I never saw him with multiple pipes. Personally, I try to limit my briars to one smoke, but sometimes not. Like most of us, I have more than enough pipes to not necessitate multiple smokes in a row. I see nothing wrong with your method, especially if you use a pipe cleaner between smokes. If the pipe gets sour, clean it. After all, they are hunks of wood meant to burn tobacco.
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Post by papipeguy on Jan 12, 2020 11:33:58 GMT -5
If it works for you, great. Do you run a pipe cleaner through after each smoke?
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Post by hvacpipeguy on Jan 12, 2020 13:30:35 GMT -5
I do that all the time. My main thing I try to be mindful of the heat. If it has been smoking hot or wet, I'll let it rest so as not to risk damaging the briar. Other than that, as long as the blends are not ghosting or the tobacco tastes fine, then why not?
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Post by trailboss on Jan 12, 2020 14:55:14 GMT -5
Most all of my pipes do not have back to back bowls, but I have some pipes that are quite up to the task as long as I do my part with the pipe cleaner between smokes.
Not all pipes are created equal in back to back smokes...some are a one smoke and let it rest, some are a back to back will work, and some are Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead...them ones are the proverbial desert island pipe.
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Post by roadsdiverged on Jan 12, 2020 16:19:49 GMT -5
Mine depend on the pipe and what I'm smoking. If I freight train a pipe I let it rest. If it ends up being a wet smoke, I let it rest.
My poor old Grabow and my cobs will often get smoked all day long, several times a day.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2020 16:28:23 GMT -5
Just one more myth in a list of long ones on the art of pipe smoking. Smoke em all you want and then clean them and put them away and pick another one.
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Post by Kerley0319 on Jan 12, 2020 17:32:42 GMT -5
I do this with my cobs at work, but not in my briars or meers at home. Not to say I wouldnt if the urge to smoke another came over me. But definitly clean and return to its home after smoking.
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Post by calabash on Jan 12, 2020 17:35:05 GMT -5
If I'm really enjoying a blend, I'll often do a second one in the same pipe. Just run a cleaner thru it and around the bowl.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2020 23:25:20 GMT -5
My father had only one functional pipe at a time and smoked it repeatedly throughout the day, week, month, etc. At the end of each smoke, he simply banged it out on an ash tray. He only ran a pipe cleaner through it when absolutely required and only cleaned and reamed his pipe when it became unsmokeable, i.e., the cake was so thick that it would no longer draw and/or he could no longer get tobacco into the bowl. He was happy with just one tobacco blend, too. That said, he considered his pipe to be a utensil rather than a collectable or a functional work of art. He bought inexpensive pipes and smoked them until they fell apart. IMHO, he was a pipe smoker and I'm a pipe hobbyist. There were hobbyists in the past too, but I think the majority back then were smokers, whereas the majority today are hobbyists. Nothing wrong with either. Whatever floats your boat.
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Post by jeffd on Jan 16, 2020 1:24:15 GMT -5
If I am going to smoke more than one pipefull in a row, I smoke more than one pipe. I have more than one of my most favorite pipes, and once a pipe is smoked it goes on the "to be cleaned" pile. Once or twice a week I thoroughly clean up all the to be cleaned pipes, with pipe cleaners and q-tips, change the filters if any, and put in the "to be smoked" pile. No pipe gets smoked twice in a day, or twice in a row without a cleaning. So yea that means if I have six bowls in a day, it is most likely from six different pipes. They may all be Savinelli 320 EX, but not the same pipe. Works for me. Every time I light up a bowl it is from a freshly cleaned pipe.
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Post by gig on Jan 16, 2020 3:30:28 GMT -5
Do it all the time and it doesn't effect the pipe one bit, enjoy
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Post by sperrytops on Jan 16, 2020 14:33:38 GMT -5
You make your own rules on this one. Sometimes I'll smoke the same pipe for as many as four bowls, other times I switch after one. Just make sure to clean between smokes and get the moisture out with pipe cleaner or two.
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Post by monbla256 on Jan 16, 2020 16:23:43 GMT -5
Having aquired over 100 pipes in 40+ years of smoking I rarely smoke the same pipe twice in a day. But I do smoke the same blend all day in several ( usually 6 to 9 bowls a day) pipes. I have smoked the same pipe the next day but again only once for that day. But I always use a cleaner after a bowl letting it absorb all the residual moisture. If smoking one pipe bowl after bowl works for you, go for it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 19:10:04 GMT -5
Do it ALL the time. I aint getting up and going in the house just to get another pipe so I can have another bowl, or two, or more. I'll smoke the one or two pipes I have out in the shop till they get too wet to smoke and then the next morning I'll exchange one of the pipes in the shop for one of the dry ones in the house and carry on. I won't keep too many pipes in the shop because of the dust factors and it's just not a safe place for most of my pipes except for the ones I'm mak'en.
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Post by Wolfman on Jan 16, 2020 19:38:47 GMT -5
There was once a time when I would never reload a pipe with the same tobacco,’or heaven forbid another blend. Lately I’ve been more relaxed about adhering to the ‘sacred pipe rule’. Life is too short for me to get hung up over trivial matters. Yesterday, i smoked three bowls of KBV Burlier Morning Pipe in the same pipe. I say do what makes you happy.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2020 19:52:17 GMT -5
I usually switch pipes between smokes, but I occasionally reload and smoke the same pipe and tobacco. I don't think this harms the pipe or the decreases the enjoyability of the smoke at all.
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Post by chasingembers on Jan 17, 2020 8:58:40 GMT -5
I smoke the same pipe twice per day for a week before changing pipes. Sometimes longer.
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Post by jeffd on Jan 19, 2020 14:09:29 GMT -5
I used to use limit my aromatic tobacco to one set of pipes, but with cleaning every pipe after every smoke this segregation by type of tobacco seemed unnecessary.
I have discovered the joy of layering, where the second bowl of tobacco is chosen to compliment what I just smoked. I have many pairs of blends I enjoy this way, and a few trios. It is usually weaker to stronger, less complicated to more complicated flavor, but not always.
Having multiple pipes, locked and loaded, facilitates the transition.
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Post by bigwoolie on Jan 24, 2020 15:32:38 GMT -5
I reload all the time. When I'm out and about for the day, I'm not carrying a bunch of pipes. Maybe the Joe Case bent egg, because it's a real handy size for carrying and clinching, and the Devil Anse cause it's even handier and fits in the tobacco pouch in my saddle bags or jacket pocket. If things look like they might could eventually get a little woolie, I'll switch right over to the Devil Anse. It has nothing to do with what tobacco I might be smoking. I'll smoke anything in anything. I'm cowboy like that. Any saddle on any horse, it dont matter. Just get 'er done.
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Post by dervis on Jan 24, 2020 16:22:42 GMT -5
Reload and refill here only bring out a pipe or two a day and smoke them all day. Sometimes just continues for hours working around the place.
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Post by crapgame on Jan 25, 2020 6:26:34 GMT -5
I do it all the time, I cant be bothered with several pipes and blends in the shooting/ fishing vest. When at home, and if I think about it I mat switch pipes but I really need to put an effort into doing so.
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Post by cgvt on Jan 25, 2020 11:06:45 GMT -5
I think we pipe smokers are over-thinkers.
Fill a pipe. Smoke it. Repeat as necessary.
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Post by crapgame on Jan 25, 2020 14:40:33 GMT -5
Let us settle this once and for all gang.. When someone buys a "Seven Day" pipe set..how many pipes does the set include? does it have fourteen? Twenty-one? Twenty-eight or even Thirty-Five?? No...... it will have SEVEN. One pipe for each day of the week, anything more than that is the preference of the pipe smoker.
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Post by Huxfords Hiatus on Mar 5, 2020 0:29:33 GMT -5
Typically will reload two to three times if I’m enjoying it and have the time.
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Post by Mac on Mar 5, 2020 11:06:21 GMT -5
I often "reload". After a bowl, if I feel like smoking more, I just fill up another one or even third bowl and continue smoking with the same pipe. It gets crazier. Sometimes I even go for another pipe mixture, usually a similar one, but sometimes quite different. What do you think about it? Dees anyone do the same? Yes, I do that. But most of the time, I am at home, and just grab a different pipe. I do batch cleaning, usually a dozen or so at a time.
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Post by BrunoT on Mar 5, 2020 16:34:10 GMT -5
I use Savinelli bags that are good for 4 pipes when going out. It fits my tobacco, cleaners, lighter... I don't like having stuff in different places. It also means I don't have to smoke the same pipe twice, which I don't like.
That said, smoking is a planned leisure activity for me. I imagine I wouldn't bother if I just wanted to smoke when I'm out and about. If I am somewhere on a trip, I will just run a cleaner through the pipe between smokes.
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 5, 2020 17:15:32 GMT -5
I would smoke a pipe about once our twice a week in the summer months, so this isn't an issue for me. However, on those odd occasions where I have the opportunity to smoke another bowl, I usually choose another pipe, just so I can experience a different pipe.
If I'm out somewhere and have the opportunity for more than one bowl, I'll just reload the same pipe. I've never had an issue, but I would run a pipe cleaner though the shank and bowl for good measure.
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Post by Huxfords Hiatus on Mar 5, 2020 21:15:03 GMT -5
Back to back again. Been breaking in a new pipe. Rattray’s Fachen 108. Was looking for an easy to clench pipe to go light on my choppers. First light weight pipe I’ve owned. I reloaded it twice and worked it pretty hard to test it. Got a little hot to hold but not unbearable. Pleasantly surprised with results so far.
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