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Just noticed all the typo's.....LOL.....I am not really that illiterate.....I think.

Never smoked an ipe but I have chased snipes. LOL X

I have several pipes here on my desk including a Calibash! (Sherlock Holmes Pipe) I don't smoke them all that much these days due to the fact that I always seem to get the tip of my tongue raw from the spices in pipe tobacco smoke. I love the taste, but the burn and the juice down the throat on occasion isn't good for the health. I don't get that with cigars and thus the reason I prefer these stogies to my pipe.

Goose ... the problems you describe, particularly the 'juicy' problem, are generally attributable to the pipe burning too hot. You'll want to be sure to keep the 'soot' residue to a minimum and perhaps draw a bit less heavily on it ... the soot can build up so thick that it restricts the volume of tobacco you can put in the pipe and can cause it to burn so hot you can scarcely touch the bowl ... sorta the same problem as if you let your chimney build-up get to the point the heat lights the house on fire ...

Oh,Oh, mtsheron...the book belonged to someone else...I found it..yeah..thats it...69

Thanks for the tips guys. The tobacco I use to buy was from The Tinderbox and they would dip into one of those big jars to get my bag filled. Can't remember what it was called now it has been so long...Some kind of cavendish though. Sweet aromatic stuff.

I don't care for flavored cigars. Are all cigar tobaccos aromatic?

I smoked a pipe for a year or so, and I did like it. But it was a real chore at times. Rotating the pipes out, caking the bowl and keeping it even, dealing with the excess moister...and when the wife saw the bill for a new pipe, she usually wasn't too thrilled.

good tobacco is good tobacco, whether it is rolled into cigars or processed for use in pipes, ... most of the pipe tobacco sold in drug stores is the equivilent of the cigars sold in drug stores and flavored pipe tobacco is even worse than flavored cigars ... cherry blend for pipes and swisher sweets cigars are cousins

If you go into a Tinderbox or a similar store anywhere, and purchase tobacco for a pipe, it is rare that you'd just get a bagful of tobacco from a single jar ... typically, they'd make you a blend using some of this and some of that ... the brand name tins you see on the shelves there are all blends ... the blends are 'aromatic' not because they're flavored, but because a good blend smells good ... it has a good aroma ...

Goose, next time you go into the Tinderbox for pipe tobacco, ask the guy to make a blend using a full, mature Virginia mixed with a bit of perique ('puh-reek') ... he might urge you to add a little latakia too, but tell him no ... be sure the cake in your pipe is scraped out pretty well (you DO want SOME, but if it's built up thicker than a nickle, its's TOO much ... a penny's worth of thickness is good) ... pack the tobacco firmly, but not tightly, light it evenly and after lighting, tamp it down lightly and re-light ... now, then ... don't smoke too quickly ... just as sucking on a cigar too heavily will make it burn hot, the same is true for your pipe ... draw frequently enough to keep it lit, but not enough that touching your cheek with the bowl feels too warm ... then let me know what you think ...

Really good (translation; really expensive) pipes don't require that little metal gizzy in the stem ... those and other filters of that sort are indicative of a second class (or less) pipe ... in a good pipe the briar itself serves as a filter and absorbs juices, etc ... which is why it requires drying out ... smoke a pipe today, let it rest and smoke a different one tomorrow ...

I used to smoke a pipe only occasionally when my "tasting system" was not working too well. St. Bruno tobacco will deliver flavor even when you have a cold. There were always problems with harshness and bite. I just didn't want to waste a good cigar on a stuffy nose. But six years ago, when the price of cigars skyrocketed, I bought about 300 sticks, at a price that was the highest I would pay, and vowed that I would learn to smoke a pipe! I succeeded. There are a few things that I learned.

Mainly, match the condition of the tobacco with the way you personally smoke. I'm a very slow smoker, a 6x42 corona will last me 50 minutes. I found that I like the tobacco to be drier than would be normal. This allows it to burn at the rate that I want to smoke. The fineness of the cut, how much it is rubbed out and how firm it's packed all contribute to the burn rate. Excess juice means the humidity in the tobacco is condensing rather than evaporating. The result is a fluid that leaches flavors from the unburned tobacco, like getting a small dose of Red Man, washes sludge into the smoke and delivers a dose of steam to your tongue. Ouch, that bites! And it’s probably being smoked hotter just to keep it going.

Other tips include allowing the pipe to dry out for six hours before resuse and following the false lighting regimen. That means overlighting the pipe in the beginning then tamping it down so that it is evenly packed on the top and goes out. After relighting, it will burn then burn down instead of up.

The good part is that pipe tobacco provides a much broader range of flavors than cigars do, albeit without the subtlety. More to the point of the original post, with pipe smoking it’s possible to learn the characteristics of individual tobaccos. Trying different Virginias then adding a dose of Perique is more instructive than smoking different Dominican cigars whose ingredients are not really disclosed. How do they make it taste of chocolate and leather and is that good?

The best part is that if something is not right about the tobacco, you can add more of what you like or take out what you don’t. SteveS wrote, sometime back, that Flor De Florez was lacking something. Yes they are. Flor De Florez are like pipe tobacco on a stick with false high notes. If it was actually pipe it could be fixed.

I like my wife to smoke my pipe, but she prefers a good torpedo. LoL

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Okay..I need a paragraph lesson as well. Sheesh.

oops didn't read BMW post before I posted. LOL

Cause the tars have built up at the end and that is what is harsh. I chopped up a cigar that was broken and put it in my pipe. It burned very mild and produced a lot of smoke. It did not taste the way it would have as a cigar.
Try putting a longer cigar in the pipe and test it that way. Then you should have a "holder". You have to be wearing a lab coat and pocket protector to insure valid results. Have fun!

Remember, cigar tobacco graded from one end of the cigar to the other to equalize the quality of the smoke. This is to compansate for the tar and nicotine which accumulates towards the end of the cigar while being smoked. The wrapper and binder are "supposedly" well matched to the cigar to provide a reasonably predictible quality for the type of cigar being made. Pipe tobacco is normally of a uniform type. No wrapper or binder grade tobacco and the leaves are not normally de-veined. I don't think I would want to mush a cigar into my pipe. You can buy a half pound of pipe tobacco for the price of a good cigar.