djo
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Post by djo on Sept 13, 2021 12:32:46 GMT -5
We all have our favorite methods of applying fire to tobacco. Over the years, mine has evolved. When I first started smoking, I used a Zippo for a few years. Then I used matches for just a couple of years. Then I was a loyal Old Boy user for over a decade. Now I use Bics. You?
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 13, 2021 12:35:11 GMT -5
Tried them all. Corona Pipemaster is number one, another Corona is second.
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Post by Plainsman on Sept 13, 2021 13:18:40 GMT -5
I use a combo of wooden matches and Zippos. Matches always for the pre-light and first light. BTW, what direction do those Coronas throw the flame?
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 13, 2021 14:19:39 GMT -5
  Pretty ain’t it.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Sept 13, 2021 14:20:37 GMT -5
 But this is better!
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 13, 2021 15:50:17 GMT -5
Love the LSU lighter.
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Post by kxg on Sept 13, 2021 15:54:44 GMT -5
Either the Old Boy or the Old Boy knockoff; one works pretty much as well as the other.
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chasingembers
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First Name: Duane
Favorite Pipe: My Growing J. Everett Collection, Fifteen Day Bruce Weaver Set, Meerschaums, Oguz Simsek Skulls
Favorite Tobacco: Black Frigate,Solani Silver Flake, Yenidje Highlander, Angler's Dream, Watch City Slices, Salty Dogs, Mephisto, Ennerdale Flake, Rich Dark Honeydew, 1792 Flake
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 13, 2021 16:18:38 GMT -5
A Beattie demoted my Old Boys to display pieces.  |
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 13, 2021 16:50:59 GMT -5
Me too!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2021 16:53:48 GMT -5
I've used Zippos, Bic, Old Boys and always go back to the Bic.
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chasingembers
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Posts: 1,884
First Name: Duane
Favorite Pipe: My Growing J. Everett Collection, Fifteen Day Bruce Weaver Set, Meerschaums, Oguz Simsek Skulls
Favorite Tobacco: Black Frigate,Solani Silver Flake, Yenidje Highlander, Angler's Dream, Watch City Slices, Salty Dogs, Mephisto, Ennerdale Flake, Rich Dark Honeydew, 1792 Flake
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 13, 2021 17:06:01 GMT -5
Me too! Still have my eyes peeled for a brass one!👍 |
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Post by urbino on Sept 13, 2021 17:29:24 GMT -5
I generally use an Old Boy. Sometimes my Peterson (Old Boy clone, basically). Occasionally I'll still use a Zippo. In a pinch, a Bic.
Because the fluid evaporates so quickly, you really have to commit to a Zippo. If you don't use it several times a day, you might as well pour the fluid straight out of the can down the toilet.
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Post by trailboss on Sept 13, 2021 18:58:49 GMT -5
As with firearms, I go the mission specific route. Camping, outdoors or a chance of wind, the Zippo with the pipe insert. Travelling, staying at a hotel, pipe club meeting, it is generally now my Lotus pipe lighter, or my Dissim. At the house, I tend to use matches, and or the Lotus/ Dissim, or as a novelty the Beattie jet or Flamidor Flambeau.. My back up gun in all the above is a Bic, and matches. "Hey buddy, got a light?" was a great line back in the day, but these days it seems most people don't smoke publicly to ask for a light.  |
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chasingembers
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Posts: 1,884
First Name: Duane
Favorite Pipe: My Growing J. Everett Collection, Fifteen Day Bruce Weaver Set, Meerschaums, Oguz Simsek Skulls
Favorite Tobacco: Black Frigate,Solani Silver Flake, Yenidje Highlander, Angler's Dream, Watch City Slices, Salty Dogs, Mephisto, Ennerdale Flake, Rich Dark Honeydew, 1792 Flake
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 14, 2021 0:45:44 GMT -5
As with firearms, I go the mission specific route. Camping, outdoors or a chance of wind, the Zippo with the pipe insert. Travelling, staying at a hotel, pipe club meeting, it is generally now my Lotus pipe lighter, or my Dissim. At the house, I tend to use matches, and or the Lotus/ Dissim, or as a novelty the Beattie jet or Flamidor Flambeau.. My back up gun in all the above is a Bic, and matches. "Hey buddy, got a light?" was a great line back in the day, but these days it seems most people don't smoke publicly to ask for a light. Dyb, dyb, dyb. |
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Post by trailboss on Sept 14, 2021 20:26:18 GMT -5
DYB, scout motto Do your best.
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chasingembers
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Posts: 1,884
First Name: Duane
Favorite Pipe: My Growing J. Everett Collection, Fifteen Day Bruce Weaver Set, Meerschaums, Oguz Simsek Skulls
Favorite Tobacco: Black Frigate,Solani Silver Flake, Yenidje Highlander, Angler's Dream, Watch City Slices, Salty Dogs, Mephisto, Ennerdale Flake, Rich Dark Honeydew, 1792 Flake
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Post by chasingembers on Sept 15, 2021 5:51:35 GMT -5
DYB, scout motto Do your best. Indeed, for God, country, and community.👍 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 15, 2021 9:33:20 GMT -5
It seems that the world has forgotten about all the good that the Scouts did. They saved my life, along with a lot of my friends.
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Post by don on Sept 15, 2021 10:09:19 GMT -5
Some of my best times were in scouting.
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Post by Goldbrick on Sept 15, 2021 15:41:44 GMT -5
I always have a Zippo close at hand, and where the wife goes, so goes a bic or two, and it's a good thing too, when the Zippo runs low on fluid.
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JimK
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"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light".
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Post by JimK on Sept 20, 2021 9:17:13 GMT -5
When I began pipe smoking I used paper book matches, because that's what was around. Later, I moved on to wood matches, which I still use. However, if the day is a bit breezy, and the sun is out, I'll use a magnifying glass. Lighting a pipe on a breezy day with a match is just a waste of matches. And solar energy is free. Out camping in the evening, it's easy just to pull a dry twig from the wood pile and use it as a match.
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Post by don on Sept 21, 2021 7:46:17 GMT -5
I use matches indoors or if there is little to no wind outdoors. I always carry a Djeep butane lighter for when the matches are too difficult. If I am traveling light, I may just carry a cob, an OTC blend in a pouch, a twig tamper and the Djeep. Doing that more and more.
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