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05-09-2005, 08:22 AM | #1 |
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Humidity and the Common Pipe?
OK, I recently got at new (to me) pipe off e-bay that is my new favorite pipe, it is like me, crusty, oversized, bent, and kinda ugly. Love at first sight. So I don't have much experience with a pipe, but this one takes more tobacco in the bowl than any other I have, and smokes noticably cooler. But it also starts gurgling more quickly than any other I have, and the stem is such, that I can't get a cleaner down to the bowl without removing the stem, which I can't do while smoking….
I have had the leisure of sitting down for an entire bowl and concentrating on my actions, and I notice, even without drooling into the pipe, even with doing nothing but puffin through it, it still ends up gurgling. My guess is, that this moisture is moisture from the tobacco driven out of the leaf by the heat of combustion. If this hypothesis is correct, am I smoking too wet of a leaf? How should pipe tobacco be humidified (if at all?) And I have a friend who lays out his tobacco for an hour or so before lighting, is this "dryboxing" a good idea, and for how long? And last, but (barley) related, anyone know where I can get one of those leather pipe pouches for a decent price??
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