If he can’t help you I can give you some tips by phone/video chat if you need. To me the most important things with keeping the pipe lit are the pack and the initial false lights.
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Thanks for the offers guys. I might have to take you up on that.
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Glad I stumbled upon this thread....not into pipes (yet...but the last thing I need is yet another expensive hobby! 
) but I do love a good cigar paired with a good whiskey....typically a pot-stilled single-malt Irish, though there are some Scottish drams that go down well too.
For those using Boveda packs to control the humidity in their humidor (even if it's just a tupperware container), if you have more than one pack, when one dries out, you can rehydrate it and reuse it. Don't throw it out! Put it in a sealed container with some water for a week, elevated out of the water, and the Boveda will be ready for another stint in the humidor when the current one dries out.
Speaking of checking humidity....I would forget to check the Boveda packs frequently and they would be bone dry when I did check. Finally built a RF-enabled humidity device that sits in my large humidor and sends humidity and temperature info to my home sensor system (yeah....I'm a technogeek...built/programmed my own using spare parts rather than spend $400 for a shiny gold one from Sweden! LOL). So now I get alerts when the humidity is out of range. Good cigars are not cheap (cheap cigars are rarely good), so this pays off.
I prefer butane cigar lighters. Got a butane insert for my leather clad Zippo which now works great as a cigar lighter and might be usable for a pipe, though it's a torch insert, without the bother and smell of lighter fluid.
I'm fortunate to be in Canukia, so can easily get Cuban sticks, though I think they are way overpriced and many Dominican and Honduran cigars are just as good a smoke, if not better, at much less cost.
When moose hunting, I always have a good stick in a metal tube in my pack, along with a small hip flask of good stuff, to celebrate when/if we get an animal on the ground. We hunt way in the back country so waiting till we get back to camp is just not fun.
Curious if anyone lights up at hunting height in a saddle? I've heard deer are not spooked by tobacco smoke, but am a bit skeptical of that.
) but I do love a good cigar paired with a good whiskey....typically a pot-stilled single-malt Irish, though there are some Scottish drams that go down well too.For those using Boveda packs to control the humidity in their humidor (even if it's just a tupperware container), if you have more than one pack, when one dries out, you can rehydrate it and reuse it. Don't throw it out! Put it in a sealed container with some water for a week, elevated out of the water, and the Boveda will be ready for another stint in the humidor when the current one dries out.
Speaking of checking humidity....I would forget to check the Boveda packs frequently and they would be bone dry when I did check. Finally built a RF-enabled humidity device that sits in my large humidor and sends humidity and temperature info to my home sensor system (yeah....I'm a technogeek...built/programmed my own using spare parts rather than spend $400 for a shiny gold one from Sweden! LOL). So now I get alerts when the humidity is out of range. Good cigars are not cheap (cheap cigars are rarely good), so this pays off.
I prefer butane cigar lighters. Got a butane insert for my leather clad Zippo which now works great as a cigar lighter and might be usable for a pipe, though it's a torch insert, without the bother and smell of lighter fluid.
I'm fortunate to be in Canukia, so can easily get Cuban sticks, though I think they are way overpriced and many Dominican and Honduran cigars are just as good a smoke, if not better, at much less cost.
When moose hunting, I always have a good stick in a metal tube in my pack, along with a small hip flask of good stuff, to celebrate when/if we get an animal on the ground. We hunt way in the back country so waiting till we get back to camp is just not fun.
Curious if anyone lights up at hunting height in a saddle? I've heard deer are not spooked by tobacco smoke, but am a bit skeptical of that.
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You’re in luck. Pipes aren’t expensive. 10 cob and a couple ounces of tobacco get you in the game. 20 bucks can get you easily 10 smokes including the cost of the pipe.Glad I stumbled upon this thread....not into pipes (yet...but the last thing I need is yet another expensive hobby!
For those using Boveda packs to control the humidity in their humidor (even if it's just a tupperware container), if you have more than one pack, when one dries out, you can rehydrate it and reuse it. Don't throw it out! Put it in a sealed container with some water for a week, elevated out of the water, and the Boveda will be ready for another stint in the humidor when the current one dries out.
Speaking of checking humidity....I would forget to check the Boveda packs frequently and they would be bone dry when I did check. Finally built a RF-enabled humidity device that sits in my large humidor and sends humidity and temperature info to my home sensor system (yeah....I'm a technogeek...built/programmed my own using spare parts rather than spend $400 for a shiny gold one from Sweden! LOL). So now I get alerts when the humidity is out of range. Good cigars are not cheap (cheap cigars are rarely good), so this pays off.
I prefer butane cigar lighters. Got a butane insert for my leather clad Zippo which now works great as a cigar lighter and would likely be nice for a pipe, without the bother and smell of lighter fluid.
I'm fortunate to be in Canukia, so can easily get Cuban sticks, though I think they are way overpriced and many Dominican and Honduran cigars are just as good a smoke, if not better, at much less cost.
When moose hunting, I always have a good stick in a metal tube in my pack, along with a small hip flask of good stuff, to celebrate when/if we get an animal on the ground. We hunt way in the back country so waiting till we get back to camp is just not fun.
Curious if anyone lights up at hunting height in a saddle? I've heard deer are not spooked by tobacco smoke, but am a bit skeptical of that.
I made a little investment to my pipe game today. Actually I was putting a piece of heat shrink on my cob and somehow got the plastic bit too hot and it became flexible lol. I really didn’t think I had it over the flame long enough to do that. Anyway it’s probably ok but I went and bought a Savinelli at my local cigar store.
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Hey Red Beard are you still smoking the pipe? I’ve been enjoying my old cob this hunting season. I discovered the Frank method of packing and I do similar to that now. I’ve finally started to get the hang of it.
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Just stumbled onto this thread. Thanks for the resurgence @aclawrence. I have been working and studying for a few years now on opening my own cigar shop in my tiny town. So far, it's a very big hobby of mine.
Good luck with your cigar shop. Sounds like you’re putting in the work with your research. I picked up a cigar the other day but I pretty much stick to the pipe. It was a Perdomo robusto or something like that. It was light colored so I’m assuming it was a Connecticut. I haven’t tried any of the darker cigars. I do enjoy how you can light a cigar and they stay lit forever. I am determined to master the art of pipe smoking though lol. I’ve gotten a lot better at it but still have quite a few relights during the process.
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I’ve been craving getting into pipe smoking for some time now. I put it off for a while but I cannot any longer. Should I buy online or see if I can get what I need locally at a cigar shop?
Thinking I’ll start off with the ole cob. My dad said that’s what my great granddaddy use to smoke.
Thinking I’ll start off with the ole cob. My dad said that’s what my great granddaddy use to smoke.
That’s a fancy looking pipe. How many bones did that set you back?I made a little investment to my pipe game today. Actually I was putting a piece of heat shrink on my cob and somehow got the plastic bit too hot and it became flexible lol. I really didn’t think I had it over the flame long enough to do that. Anyway it’s probably ok but I went and bought a Savinelli at my local cigar store.
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I used to love the ocassional cigar while fishing or camping. Partially for the smoke and palrtially to keep the bugs down. But I had a serious tobacco addiction and can’t touch any of that stuff again. I’ve always envied you folks who could periodically engage with tobacco.
Check out your local shop for sure, but there will be more inventory online. Pipesandcigars.com used to be a favorite of mine.
Yeah same here. Wanted to get into smoking a pipe but that fired up the addiction again and so I had to throw it all away. Tried to let this thread die because of it.
Good for you Red. Sorry if I sent you that one after you quit. If I knew you quit I wouldn't have put it in there. Some great will power brother! Good job @Jammintree as well and anyone else who knows not to feed there addictions.
Stay Strong! It's okay to say No!
I'd definitely look local first, can't go wrong with a good cob pipe.
I have to be very stern with my self about using nicotine, chewing tobacco is my big weakness. Smoking a pipe doesn't give me the same hit of nicotine, but the process is more rewarding so it's easy for me to indulge in it occasionally. A can of chew wouldn't make it a week if I knew where it was but I have two bags of tobacco that have been aging in mason jars with only 2 dozen bowls smoked out of them over the last 2 or maybe 3 years.
It can be done. I smoked Marlboro Reds for 22 years and quit them 22 years ago. I was smoking 2 packs a day when I finally quit. Thank God!