Hey all! I just got into pipe smoking and I love it so far. So the first pipe I bought was some cheep pipe from a head shop and I've been smoking out of this with no problems, I recently decided to invest in the hobby and bought a beautiful Peterson Kapet (b32) along with some Davidoff green mixture tobacco. So after smoking the Davidoff stuff I started getting a sour nasty taste so i figured it was the moisture in the tobacco. I then bought a dryer local blend and smoked it after giving my pipe an alcohol enema but the sour taste still lingers. Some one please help!
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Slow down a little, Choof.
How many times did you smoke it before it started tasting sour and nasty ?
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How many times did you smoke it before it started tasting sour and nasty ?
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Many Peterson pipes are stained by dipping the pipe into the finish (rather than painting it onto the outside.
You might be tasting some burning or dissolving wood finish.
Some of the folks here who own many Petes can provide some good strategies for fixing this.
You might be tasting some burning or dissolving wood finish.
Some of the folks here who own many Petes can provide some good strategies for fixing this.
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Was the inside of the bowl the same color as the outside is ?
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But a pipe that's sour the first time out couldn't be from residual wet nastiness. Unless it's a second-hand one that needs cleaned (?)
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Bought a Peterson a few months back; brand new, but every time I fired it up it had a horrible taste to it. I discovered it was not only the coating in the bowl, but also that the stem was oxidizing and leaving a bad taste. I slightly sanded the inside of the bowl with 1000grit sandpaper and whiskey'ed the daylights out of the stem. Smokes like a champ ever since.
Hope this helps.
Toon
Hope this helps.
Toon
I have only had a problem with the dip stained pipes in the early 2000's (year). The newer Pete's (post 2008) I personally haven't really had an issue with their new pipes but your mileage may vary. If it is a "new" to you but estate Peterson I would try again with a thourough cleaning using an alcohol that you drink (in my case I'm partial to whiskeys). If an estate pipe does it have a lot of built up cake? Maybe you are getting a ghosting from the Davidoff Green Mixture or a previous blend. Hopefully you did not use a "rubbing" type alcohol when you gave the pipe it's cleaning, if so that might also be giving you the sour taste in addition to the old blend.
On the older Pete's with the dip stain build up (which was inside the shank in addition to the inside of the bowl I found it necessary to lightly (and I mean lightly) sand the inside of the bowl using a 400 to 600 grit sand paper and giving the inside of the shank a thourough cleaning using pipe cleaners and whiskey. This took quite a few pipe cleaners until they came out clean with no residual red or brownish stain on the cleaner.
It may sound stupid but I had purchased a new Jirsa pipe (Czechoslovakia) that had a very sour taste to it from the get go. Found out the guy at the local B&M where I purchased it had a habit of cleaning the outside of the stems with a rag that he would use a cleaner on to clean the countertops of the store before giving you the new pipe. Used tooth paste and a tooth brush to clean the stem and the bad taste finally went away.
Hope this helps
On the older Pete's with the dip stain build up (which was inside the shank in addition to the inside of the bowl I found it necessary to lightly (and I mean lightly) sand the inside of the bowl using a 400 to 600 grit sand paper and giving the inside of the shank a thourough cleaning using pipe cleaners and whiskey. This took quite a few pipe cleaners until they came out clean with no residual red or brownish stain on the cleaner.
It may sound stupid but I had purchased a new Jirsa pipe (Czechoslovakia) that had a very sour taste to it from the get go. Found out the guy at the local B&M where I purchased it had a habit of cleaning the outside of the stems with a rag that he would use a cleaner on to clean the countertops of the store before giving you the new pipe. Used tooth paste and a tooth brush to clean the stem and the bad taste finally went away.
Hope this helps
I don't know when it was manufactured but I bought it unused. I've left it alone for 2days after a cleaning with whiskey. What I'm thinking is since there is hardly any cake build up I'm going to dedicate the pipe to dryer stronger stuff (maybe flake?). Good idea or bad?
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On the assumption, then, that this is a new, un-smoked pipe, with no bowl coating or stain, and it tasted sour the first time it was smoked, what I come up with is the memory of having read an interview with some well-known pipe maker whose name I don't recall now, years ago.
Asked if he could tell which of his pipes would be especially good-tasting while he was making them, he said he could : pipes he made from briar that "smelled like bread" while he was making them always got rave reviews from those who bought them.
On the other hand, experience had taught him that pipes made from briar that had an unpleasant aroma while being shaped would draw complaints. He'd developed a treatment process that brought these up to "unobjectionable," but they'd never be numbered among his famously good-tasting ones.
On the assumption he knew what he was talking about, this would seem to be a matter of the briar used having been improperly cured. If so, now what ?
Assuming you like the pipe, I'd send it to LL here (Precision Pipe Restoration and Repair) or Dave Walker (Walker Briar Works) for a "de-tox." Both have methods that work. It won't involve that much expense, but both have long queues of pipes awaiting their attention, so the turnaround time would be in months.
With no claim of infallability, this is the opinion (since you asked) of
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Asked if he could tell which of his pipes would be especially good-tasting while he was making them, he said he could : pipes he made from briar that "smelled like bread" while he was making them always got rave reviews from those who bought them.
On the other hand, experience had taught him that pipes made from briar that had an unpleasant aroma while being shaped would draw complaints. He'd developed a treatment process that brought these up to "unobjectionable," but they'd never be numbered among his famously good-tasting ones.
On the assumption he knew what he was talking about, this would seem to be a matter of the briar used having been improperly cured. If so, now what ?
Assuming you like the pipe, I'd send it to LL here (Precision Pipe Restoration and Repair) or Dave Walker (Walker Briar Works) for a "de-tox." Both have methods that work. It won't involve that much expense, but both have long queues of pipes awaiting their attention, so the turnaround time would be in months.
With no claim of infallability, this is the opinion (since you asked) of
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