Do you actually rotate?

[Natch]

I don't rotate or rest my babies in a formal manner, and having around two dozen pipes (three dozen if you count all the Brissitt bowls for my Kirsten pipes) I can smoke a straight Va. three pipes in a row and use different pipes each time. However, after I smoke and clean a pipe, I leave the stem out and put it back in the pipe rack upside down (hanging upside down for air flow) and in a day or three when I'm looking for another pipe to fill, I partially replace the stem and return it to its normal position. It seems to allow me to give them at least a day or so rest before I use them again, and don't have to think about it.

I like not thinking. :mrgreen:

Natch

 

[PipedJimmy]

Hey guys, what would happen if I smoked the pipe I smoked today tomorrow?

 

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, what would happen if I smoked the pipe I smoked today tomorrow?

The Tobacco gods will freeze your lips to that pipe and it will have to be surgically removed. Scarring you both mentally and physically for life.

 

[Anonymous]

Hey guys, what would happen if I smoked the pipe I smoked today tomorrow?

Probably nothing.

 

[Wet Dottle]

Yes, I have a rotation scheme that ensures that each of my pipes are smoked once a month at the most. It used to be once every three weeks, but now reached the month due to some recent aquisitions. It's what works the best for me.

 

[PipedJimmy]

mentally and physically?! I'm not sure I could take that lol just wanted to know whether it would have any detrimental effects on the pipe, I'm breaking in a new Savinelli which fits a sh*t load of tobacco in it and it would be a shame to leave it to rest.

 

[jlong]

I've dedicated pipes to english, balkans, VaPer's, drug store burleys, etc or a single go to blend for the sake of ghosting. Mississippi Mud and Mixture 79 get their own pipe because they are loaded with ghosts. On average, a single pipe sees no more than one smoke a day. The same pipe rarely gets smoked more than twice a day since I like a variety of tobaccos during the day.

 

[flytyer]

I dont have the opportunity to smoke every day. So I have no rotation at all , I just pic the pipe i feel like smoking and enjoy.
At times the same pipe may get smoked a couple days in a row.
I have seperate pipes for english blends though. Evan if I did smoke daily I wouldn't have a set rotation. It seems more enjoyable
to smoke the pipe i want on any given day.

Joe ipe:

 

[Mikem]

I have no set rotation. Like others I kind of grab the pipe that best suits the blend I feel like smoking. I tend to smoke that blend (and pipe) for the rest of the day. If smoking more than one blend that day then I usually change pipes at the same time. Afterwoods I usually let the pipe rest a day or two. The exception would be my meerschaums, which I mainly smoke English blends in and have been known to smoke them a couple of days in a row before giving a rest.

 

[happypipester]

No particular rotation either, I just make sure they get @ least a day's rest (preferably two) between smokes. Speaking of smokes, it's about time fer a bowl!

 

[Eulenburg]

I decide what tobacco I am going to smoke, then select a pipe that fits my mood at that moment. I always rest my pipes...

That's exactly what I do, and that's what I call a rotation. It would never occur to me to smoke a given assigned pipe on a given assigned day.

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

To truly rotate n amount of days you would have to create a doc that says when the pipe was last smoked-too much work for me.

I try to rotate at least 3 days, but I'm sure that when I search my memory for when a pipe has had sufficient rest, those pipes that have had 2 days blur with those who have had 3 or 4.

 

[Buddy Springman]

To truly rotate n amount of days you would have to create a doc that says when the pipe was last smoked-too much work for me.

It's a simple project in Access. Just use conditional formatting - if last smoked date is <date()-7 then turn the background in the field light green.

Buddy

 

[Wet Dottle]

To truly rotate n amount of days you would have to create a doc that says when the pipe was last smoked

It isn’t that complicated. Simply have the pipes in order and smoke the next one in line. I know how often I smoke, therefore it’s easy to know how long it takes before reaching the end and start it over again. I have three “carrousels,” one for orientals & latakia blends, another for VA & VA/Per, and the other for burleys, and take a pipe from the corresponding group depending on the desired type of blend (yes, I also choose the blend first, then the pipe). There are enough pipes in each to ensure that each pipe is smoked once a month at the most, at my present smoking rate. That’s it.