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Pipe Night Part Tres

Tonight, we revisit the pipe again, in Part 3 of our Pipe Night Series.  Join us as we talk pipes, tobacco, and a few useful tips and tricks to getting full enjoyment from your pipe.  Craig is smoking Westminster, and Kip something special….

Tonight’s Pipe Night Discussion

Pipe smoking and all its associated ephemera and methods are an art – and, a science.
Don’t focus on the tools of the trade.  Get basic – but suitable – gear, and experiment with tobacco until you find what suits your preferences.
Be simple.  It’s not as complicated as it looks.  It’s not as cumbersome. This hobby is all about enjoyment.
Don’t be “that guy”
Try stuff. Do stuff. Experimentation is key
Relights and tongue bites – and what you can do to prevent them.  Maybe a tip or two about relieving tongue bite should you have gone too far.
Tip o’the week:
Pipe cleaners – while smoking; after smoking; when cleaning.
Discuss drilling/tobacco issues: what you can do before even buying that pipe or tobacco; Tongue bite; prevention & treatment (Biotene/time, tobacco cut and drying)
Cleaning and maintenance between smokes.

Reminder: Don’t give up if at first it’s not the best experience; Do invest the time and an appropriate amount of money if you really want a lifelong hobby

What Else We’ve Been Smoking

Craig

Santos Miami
Crowned Heads Las Calaveras 2018(?)

Kip

Esencia “E”
Leccia Black
LTC Corona
GLP Virginia Cream

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Pipe Night part dos

Tonight is the long overdue 2nd installment of Pipe Night here on Half Ashed.  We ended up doing a pretty free-form, rambling, 2-hour show as we’re prone to do.  We covered a number of basic topics related to pipe smoking, some of which are listed below.  As with all things worth doing, pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve.  We don’t intend to tell you exactly how to do it; it’s up to you to find your own happy medium for enjoying the hobby to its fullest.  My only hope is to help you avoid some of the pitfalls that tend to discourage newcomers and drive them to abandon it before they even acclimate and get acquainted with the process.  I (Kip) have been a regular pipe smoker for a couple decades now, and fully confess there’s a lot I don’t know.  None the less, I enjoy it immensely – even if I have grown out of practice in recent years while focused more on cigars.  Earlier this year, I began to get back to my pipes much more frequently and realized just how much I truly enjoy them.  The pipes and their craftsmanship, the tobaccos and their many flavors, the tools and their utilitarian (and, at times, decorative) nature.  The whole nine yards.  I dig it, and I hope you will too.  There will be follow up shows in the same vein over the coming months, where we will detail various topics like types of tobaccos and components, different blending styles, differing cuts of tobacco, pipe shapes, various artists, etc.  But for starters, below are a few of the high points we hit on this episode.  I hope you will join us and dive in yourself….

• Loading up the pipe
• Initial lighting procedure
• Keeping your pipe lit
• Tamping
• Pipe cleaners
• Other misc. tools
• Cleaning and maintenance
• Tongue bite