How many times can you smoke a pipe?

[Zoomschwortz]

Originally Posted by caskwith

Heres a good method if you want to smoke many bowls in a day but dont want to carry around lots of pipes:

But a falcon or similar metal pipe and get plenty of spare bowls, one for each smoke of the day. Before you leave the house pack each bowl with tobacco, then unscrew carefully from the stem and wrap the bowl in either clingfilm or tinfoil, do this with each of the bowls in turn. Take one stem and as many bowls as you like, aslo take a few pipe cleaners and a few peices of kitchen paper, the whole shebang takes up very little room in your coat pocket.

When you want a smoke take bowl, unwrap, screw onto stem and smoke, when finished re-wrap (to keep your pocket clean) immeadiately wipe the trap with the paper and run a pipe cleaner down the stem, job done. When you want another smoker take another perfectly fresh bowl from your pocket. Nothing could be easier, cleaner or more tasty. You never have to worry about a bad tasting smoke and with the bowls wrapped in this way they will keep fresh in your pocket for days.

I need to find a good outlet for more bowls.

Kirsten sells seconds for $20 a piece but I can buy a complete Kirsten Mariner for $39.95


I may need to make up a travel pack.

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by Zoomschwortz

This is all a learning process for me. I'm still trying to figure out what cake looks like

That M card that Mister Maduro mentioned, can you smoke these without a rest period?

sez alt.smokers.pipe FAQ:

[SIZE=2]3.6 HOW DO I CARE FOR MY MEERSCHAUM?[/SIZE]

[SIZE=2]First, and most importantly, don't drop it. Meerschaum is fragile, and it is very unlikely that your pipe will survive a dive to the kitchen floor. Second, do not allow a cake to build in the bowl (firmly swabbing out all the ash residue with a bent pipe cleaner after each smoke should do the trick). If your pipe does start to build a cake, then ream it out very carefully. Third, if your pipe has a screw-in tenon (as many meerschaums do), then twist the stem off with a clockwise motion when removing it; twisting counter-clockwise could unscrew the tenon, and doing so repeatedly can strip out the shank. Finally, meerschaum is a very absorbent material, and does not require the "rest period" that briars do. Still, I would at least allow the pipe to cool before loading up and smoking it again.[/SIZE]