Any pipe smokers on here?

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How do you chaps clean your pipe? Is there a fluid wash I could be using?

I run a pipe cleaner through mine, change the filter regularly and scrape out the bowl but it's not the same as a new pipe.
 
MagicLantern said:
How do you chaps clean your pipe? Is there a fluid wash I could be using?

I run a pipe cleaner through mine, change the filter regularly and scrape out the bowl but it's not the same as a new pipe.
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Just that, I wouldnt do anymore.

When I started all that I read said you want to build up that burnt ash layer in the bowl and to not clean/scrape the bowl too heavily.
 
MagicLantern said:
How do you chaps clean your pipe? Is there a fluid wash I could be using?

I run a pipe cleaner through mine, change the filter regularly and scrape out the bowl but it's not the same as a new pipe.
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Regular pull through with a pipe cleaner. Occasional scrape with a knife, but rarely needs it TBH. You don't want to take the carbon right off and take the bowl back to wood or it'll burn. Just get rid of any lumps and high spots.
Every now and then I give it a thorough go through with cotton buds dipped in whisky. There are sanitising solutions you can buy but they smell and taste disgusting, like vaping fluid.

I decided to quit alcohol at Christmas. Just had enough of it, disturbed sleep etc. Anyway, I had a small amount of whisky left so I tipped it into a small jam jar and it makes a brilliant cleaning solution for pipes and imparts a faint flavour as well. They definitely smoke better afterwards.
 
Incidentally, having quit alcohol, a malt whisky with an evening pipe is no longer an option. However, after my blood pressure spike a few weeks ago I also quit caffeine (which made a big difference actually). I do like my frothy barista coffees, so I just went decaf. It dawned on me yesterday that now I can have as many coffees in the evening as I like. Good rich coffee (with a cinnamon stick in it) is a fantastic partner to pipe tobacco.
 
I had a Hedghog ‘thingmagigery’ looked like a clock key about an inch long with little raised bits that scraped the bowl as it was wound around, also had a folding pipe knife with a blade and a thin pointed rod.

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Pipe reamer. I just use a Petersons pipe knife with a serrated blade. Knocks off any lumps and keeps the bore smooth and circular.
The prong is very useful too for poking out any stray bit of baccy that gets stuck in the draw hole and causes gurgling.
 
Finch said:
I quit smoking cigarettes 17 years ago but always promised myself that if I lived to 80 I'd take up pipe smoking. I tried it in my youth and loved it.

Well, I've jumped the gun. 56 next year and I'm back on the pipe. Slight difference though - I don't inhale, just puff and cycle the smoke round my throat and nose without taking it into my lungs so I can savour the scent and flavour without coughing and gasping or becoming addicted. The best way to really enjoy tobacco.

I have to say, I'm thoroughly enjoying it. No coughing and wheezing; no addiction; just intensely soothing, warming and relaxing.

I've got two Ratterays briars and a Barling briar (and a selection of tobacco jars on the sideboard..)

My go-to evening smoke is Gawith Hogarth Exclusiv black cherry, which tastes and smells wonderful and doesn't taint the house with a stale stale tobacco smell. At work, at coffee time I smoke GH American coffee and caramel, sharpened with a pinch of GH Black Cavendish. Health puritans will probably say I'm mad, but I don't think so. I thoroughly recommend grown-up pipe smoking. But it is a somewhat expensive hobby...
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In 1979 I spent some time in hospital (Military) with an injury, the only other patient was a gentleman who was dying of throat cancer, a dreadful way to pass on. I understood he was a life long pipe smoker and was in his fifties. The experience certainly persuaded me that I would never smoke and certainly not a pipe. I can understand the attraction (love the scent of pipe smoke) but the potential price is too great. I wish you good health.
 
RescueMe0007 said:
In 1979 I spent some time in hospital (Military) with an injury, the only other patient was a gentleman who was dying of throat cancer, a dreadful way to pass on. I understood he was a life long pipe smoker and was in his fifties. The experience certainly persuaded me that I would never smoke and certainly not a pipe. I can understand the attraction (love the scent of pipe smoke) but the potential price is too great. I wish you good health.
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On the other hand, my grandfather smoked a pipe form the age of twelve til his death at 93. Life is for living and there's no telling what's around the corner. But I do listen to my body.
 
Didn't buy it in the end. Out of stock. Vauen say I should rest the pipe for seven days after each smoke. At that rate I'm going to need about 100 pipes...

Got to say though, that Vauen is beautifully made. Smokes lovely and cool too with a really thick bowl.
 
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