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Pipe and cigar talk

aclawrence said:
I’ll be honest with y’all guys. I’m still struggling with keeping my pipe going. I think I need to go down to my local shop and get some lessons lol. I spoke with the lady who works there and her husband (the owner) and she said he smokes 20 bowls a day sometimes. Geez is that even possible. He should be qualified to help me.


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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.
 
aclawrence said:
I’ll be honest with y’all guys. I’m still struggling with keeping my pipe going. I think I need to go down to my local shop and get some lessons lol. I spoke with the lady who works there and her husband (the owner) and she said he smokes 20 bowls a day sometimes. Geez is that even possible. He should be qualified to help me.


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Same here.
 
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! :tearsofjoy:) 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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tarafrost said:
Glad I stumbled upon this thread....not into pipes (yet...but the last thing I need is yet another expensive hobby! :tearsofjoy:) 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 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.
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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.
 
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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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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aclawrence said:
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 have never tried a pipe to be honest. I should try it.
 
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