packing a pipe

[tiltjlp]

The advice my dad gave me back in 1959 still works perfectly.


Dry your tobacco more than you think you need to.
Pack it looser than you think you need to.
Smoke it slower than you think you need to.
Tamp it less , and more lightly, than you think you need to.
Clean your pipes after every smoke, using pipe spirits of some sort.
Don’t worry if you have a few relights.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

(...advice that tilt repeats and stands by--with good reason: it helps, a lot!)