I've always admired the guys who have fun futzing with building up just the right kind of pipe cake.
Now what I love is discovering that my favorite pipe has built up an excessive amount of cake, and getting to scrape it out. For some reason, I find the experience of scraping out lots of carbon black to be very satisfying. I do it outdoors, because it's a delightful mess.
The scoop on a pipe nail works great, but when I feel special I use a Czech tool. It's gotta be a real Czech tool -- the Chinese knock-offs can't take the strain.
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+1Del wrote: ↑15 Sep 2022, 18:45 I've always admired the guys who have fun futzing with building up just the right kind of pipe cake.
Now what I love is discovering that my favorite pipe has built up an excessive amount of cake, and getting to scrape it out. For some reason, I find the experience of scraping out lots of carbon black to be very satisfying. I do it outdoors, because it's a delightful mess.
The scoop on a pipe nail works great, but when I feel special I use a Czech tool. It's gotta be a real Czech tool -- the Chinese knock-offs can't take the strain.
I get a very weird satisfaction out of it as well and do it the same as you using a pipe nail or Czech tool.
As for breaking in, put me in the stuff it with tobacco and smoke it group. I stopped futzing a long time ago and just smoke the darn thing.
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Am I the only one here who found this to be a miserably sour taste? As many here know, I was always a world class Aromatic smoker even! Do you just accept it and go on? It always seemed to take a couple dozen bowls to abate the taste.SlowToke wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 11:39+1Del wrote: ↑15 Sep 2022, 18:45 I've always admired the guys who have fun futzing with building up just the right kind of pipe cake.
Now what I love is discovering that my favorite pipe has built up an excessive amount of cake, and getting to scrape it out. For some reason, I find the experience of scraping out lots of carbon black to be very satisfying. I do it outdoors, because it's a delightful mess.
The scoop on a pipe nail works great, but when I feel special I use a Czech tool. It's gotta be a real Czech tool -- the Chinese knock-offs can't take the strain.
I get a very weird satisfaction out of it as well and do it the same as you using a pipe nail or Czech tool.
As for breaking in, put me in the stuff it with tobacco and smoke it group. I stopped futzing a long time ago and just smoke the darn thing.
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Friends don't let friends smoke aro's (or cOBs)MrPiper wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 12:12Am I the only one here who found this to be a miserably sour taste? As many here know, I was always a world class Aromatic smoker even! Do you just accept it and go on? It always seemed to take a couple dozen bowls to abate the taste.SlowToke wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 11:39+1Del wrote: ↑15 Sep 2022, 18:45 I've always admired the guys who have fun futzing with building up just the right kind of pipe cake.
Now what I love is discovering that my favorite pipe has built up an excessive amount of cake, and getting to scrape it out. For some reason, I find the experience of scraping out lots of carbon black to be very satisfying. I do it outdoors, because it's a delightful mess.
The scoop on a pipe nail works great, but when I feel special I use a Czech tool. It's gotta be a real Czech tool -- the Chinese knock-offs can't take the strain.
I get a very weird satisfaction out of it as well and do it the same as you using a pipe nail or Czech tool.
As for breaking in, put me in the stuff it with tobacco and smoke it group. I stopped futzing a long time ago and just smoke the darn thing.
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Don't get me banned bro!Jocose wrote: ↑09 Oct 2022, 12:32Friends don't let friends smoke aro's (or cOBs)
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When I was a brand new pipe smoker I tried all the novelty techniques. Never found them to do anything. I say just put your tobacco in it and start puffing.
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My traditional break-in, initial smoke, is PA. I'll also smoke a bowl of PA after a severe ream & clean, when the pipe reaches a point where nothing tastes right. It re-zeroes both the pipe, and me.
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