Smoker's Corner (Page 7 of 10)

Wow, expensive man!

Resurrection!

I quit smoking cigarettes around New Year and changed to pipe (the normal one, that is) I wonder if there are fellow pipesters on the BBS?
Packing Samuel Gawith's Navy Flake now as after-dinner pipe.

hope you're fine again! And thanks for sharing your experience.

@Jens: Bad story man.

@bacon: Pipe, interesting, still never tried it really.

Pipe smokin' is the Linux of Tobacco consumption. Get a Vauen pipe for 30-40 Euro and a nice Virginia (no, not vagina) and you'll never look back on stinky cigarettes

You'll learn to respect tobacco and especially, learn to respect smoking - of course you already respect Frau Ivanova

*gives you a Davidoff*

Last edited by machinebacon (2012-03-08 14:32:09)

@pipe machine: Ok, let me find a decent pipe.

Many converts (who come from cigarettes) inhale. I needed a few days to completely switch over to puffing (inhale through pipe, exhale through the nose) but there is still around 5% going down the lungs
So, smoke it more like cigars.

For those who like the taste of cigars, there are some traditional (non-aromatic) tobaccos which resemble cigar quite a lot (some tobaccos are used for cigars and pipes), that's the nice thing about pipe smoking: there are soooo many flavours to choose from.

Last edited by machinebacon (2012-03-08 15:08:05)

^ Ha, sure! Though I don't have a big collection. My aim is to buy a pipe every "important" day (anniversary, xmas, birthday), so around 3 pcs a year.

On the left a few corncobs (for testing new tobaccos, they are quite neutral in taste and very cheap - so they don't count), on the right a Capitello Sports (no kidding, intended to be smoked in a half-time), some no-name rubbish which I use outdoors (hope i drop it and it breaks, so I can buy a new one) and a Dr. Boston Mistral 1501. All quite inexpensive, below 30 Euro. Next on the list is a Peterson Aran (that's for my birthday in October, sigh, gotta wait so long) and a Big Ben Maxim in white.

My tobacco collection is of much higher quality

Yes, rhowaldt, because you should usually, after each use, clean the pipe and then put it away for a day so that it can dry out. Some tobaccos leave condensate, so you need a few more in rotation.

About the differences in pipes: good question! Apart from the material used, they "smoke" differently (as in draught), they have different bowl sizes (some of them can be smoked for several hours) and there are versions with filter (e.g. 6mm, 9mm) or without filter. There are different shapes, like Billiard, Dublin, Canadian, Bent, Half-Bent, Churchwarden, ... too many to mention. Even the mouthpieces can be shaped differently, have different materials and behave differently - which also depends on the tobacco you smoke. The great thing about pipe smoking is that you learn how tobaccos differ, experience different tastes (I mean the non-aromatic, natural tobaccos) and it is a nice lesson for the tastebuds. I never knew that Virginia is a slightly sweet tobacco, and that the so-called Turkish or Oriental tobaccos have a quite typical, strong smell. Smoking cigarettes (after smoking pipes) is like a guessing game ("Which kind of tobacco is used there?")

As I said before, smoking pipes has taught me to respect the tobacco. You can't (or won't) smoke a pipe in a hurry. Choosing the right pipe, and tobacco, packing it, sitting back and enjoy the flavours, this cannot be done on the way to the bus station. It is a quite cost-efficient way of smoking (although pipe tobacco is not cheap) - you need less and can smoke for an hour or more.

Enough of this babble VLL!

I'd be more than happy if you would be a fellow pipester, Ivo. I recommend youtube, check the users ralligruftie and dieterniermann for excellent videos on that topic.