Looking For THE PIPE

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Hello Pipe Puffers

I am looking for the ideal pipe in which to test out blends for rolling cigars. I used to smoke pipe many years ago in a different life. I had two examples of The Pipe made by Venturi, back then. They were plastic pipes, with a liner made of the same graphite stuff which NASA used to shield space capsules. This material would reflect heat unreal. So the heat inside the bowl would bounce right back into your wad of tobacco, leaving a clean bowl with no cake. I think that would be ideal for testing blends because you wouldn't get flavor from what had been in before.

Please PM me if you have a line on one.

TIA

 

[Jitterbugdude]

If you want to taste the pure flavor of your cigar tobacco I'd suggest a clay pipe. I have a box of unused ones, if you want a few let me know and I'll put them on a donkey to Dullaware for ya!

 

[DonH]

Corn cob pipes are also good for this purpose and you can get them for five bucks.

 

[webmost]

Corn cob pipes are also good for this purpose and you can get them for five bucks.

Corn cobs definitely add a taste. No doubt about it. Least not to me.

 

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If you want to taste the pure flavor of your cigar tobacco I'd suggest a clay pipe. I have a box of unused ones, if you want a few let me know and I'll put them on a donkey to Dullaware for ya!

I have read clay pipes suggested. Have never tried one. Some people I have read say porcelain pipes stay taste free whereas clay pipes soak in some tar and absorb a flavor.

Tell you what, if you'll have me, I'll ride over some fine weekend and bum a pipe off you. I'll bring you a fine cigar or two. Save UPS the trouble both ways. What you doing this weekend?

p.s. Here in Dull-Aware, we already got all the donkeys we need. Heck, the veep even comes from here.

 

[janetta007]

I have been looking for a small pipe also. Or something like a one hitter for break time when you can only get in a few puffs.

 

[Jpcouling]

Kiseru is a good way to go

 

[Matty]

Maybe this site could help. There seems to be one for sale.


http://www.thepipe.info/collectn/chart_t.html

 

[Desertpipe]

If you want to taste the pure flavor of your cigar tobacco I'd suggest a clay pipe. I have a box of unused ones, if you want a few let me know and I'll put them on a donkey to Dullaware for ya!

What Jitter says....

The Pipe is generally regarded poorly as a smoking instrument, thus they are available often on fleabay. The prolytic graphite liner is not absorbent, and as you noted reflects heat. This tends to increase steam from the tobacco and smoke hot, leading (in my experience) to the worst case of tongue bite imaginable. For the best information on this pipe.... http://www.thepipe.info/history/index.html
His site is also most interesting...follow the link on the right column.

Clays are better then cobs, as they do not impart flavor and can be fire cleaned to remove any ghosts that might develop.

 

[deluxestogie]

A note about porcelain pipe bowls. Their exterior gets hot. I don't mean, "Wow, that's getting pretty warm." I mean they get skin-peeling, blister-forming, 2[sup]nd[/sup] degree injury kind of hot. I have a Bavarian one that makes a lovely wall decoration.

As for corncobs, you need to break them in, before they lose that cobby taste. My favorite corncob today finished it's break-in some time in 1970. I find that it serves better for tasting tobacco than any of my meerschaums, but I've never touched it with aromatic tobacco.

Bob

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Ya have to learn how to smoke them while holding the stem. Not the most ergonomic way of smoking, but at least the bowls are small so it's a quick smoke.

Also, unless you put some beeswax on the tip of the stem good luck getting it unstuck from your lip!

 

[deluxestogie]

During the 17[sup]th[/sup] and 18[sup]th[/sup] centuries, clay pipes were made with very long stems for sanitary reasons. Inns would provide the use of a pipe when you bought some tobacco. After each use, the innkeeper would (hopefully) snap off a bit of the stem (the slobbery part), then re-dip the tip in beeswax.

Bob

 

[BigCasino]

I would find a meerschaum pipe, they smoke well and will handle heat, moisture, and will not ghost flavors from one blend to the next

 

[Knucklehead]

I would find a meerschaum pipe, they smoke well and will handle heat, moisture, and will not ghost flavors from one blend to the next

BigCasino beat me to my suggestion.

 

[webmost]

Yep I've been to that site. He's has that orange one for sale for ages. Has not replied to my email whether he's still got it. Maybe he's away on vacay, enjoying this gorebull warbling in Florida or sumpin.

You're right. I remember my The Pipes as being very hot and steamy. Only thing: zero cake.

Oh well. I'm off to get my last wisdom tooth hacked out tomorrow. Ought to schedule a dentist appointment every tax day. Makes it hurt less.

 

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Things are moving so slow because I am busier than a cross eyed boy at a three ring circus. However, I finally did get up and down with Jitterbugdude on Saturday. He brought me a couple clay pipes. We hung out at the farmette of a friend of mine, drank, told filthy jokes until the fairer sex arrived, and ate high toned cheese that smelt like toe jam. Jdude smoked his truly beautiful meerschaum pipe; I smoked a seegar; our affable host just blew smoke. Jbugdude regaled us with tall tales of his days as a polar explorer in the French Foreign Legion... or mebbe that was just what he was burning in the meerschaum.

Anyways, long story short, I tried out the pipe lab idea last night, put a pinch of crumbled each in a pipe in turn and tried to describe the flavor. I was truly disappointed. Every bowl lit hot and harsh. There was really no way to describe the tobacco taste in terms of what that variety of leaf might add to a cigar. So much for that method.

However, I did crumble up a patch of each baccy variety into its own single handball plastic tube in prep for the labs. A handball tube is sorta like the tube tennis balls come in, but smaller diameter and holds just one. Otherwise, clear plastic with a plastic cap. Just right to stick your nose in and get a good whiff of the effect. So I think I'll forge ahead just on the smellovision of it all.

Dunno if I'll have time to roll some tonight. Promised Bearswatter to take her out for Mexican for Cinco de Mayo.

El Grito de la Independencia!

 

[Jitterbugdude]

I think maybe a bigger bowl would yield better results. Those clays are very small.

 

[moscca]

I would find a meerschaum pipe, they smoke well and will handle heat, moisture, and will not ghost flavors from one blend to the next

+1 !