packing and lighting flake tobacco

[Kyle Weiss]

Fair enough. We're more alike than you know, then.

Learn a bit more about the other techniques first, then advance toward a fold-n-stuff method. Patience is a virtue with this hobby.

If we're alike at all, please trial-n-error plenty and find what works, experimentation is encouraged. Making submit the tobacco to a focused urge will usually result in a painful tongue and unpleasant smoke. Fortunately, pipe smoking is not a race or an endurance contest, so the only winners, really, are those repeatedly satisfied.

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[beetlejazz]

Learn a bit more about the other techniques first, then advance toward a fold-n-stuff method.

Good point Kyle - this is what I did as well. It's good to try easier ways at first (cubing was "the thing" for me, while rubbing the flake out never worked... strange huh!) and then progress to the fold-n-stuff. I get the feeling it's not a very popular one here, but I think it gives me some of the most slow, even, fuss-free smokes nowadays. But first breaking the flake in a way or another gives you a better perspective to how much a given pipe can accommodate, and the expanding of the tobacco etc.

You'll get there, but you might save yourself a lot of trouble by approaching the problem from a couple of different perspectives.

 

[Anonymous]

Odd man out here. I molest the ash (gently) with the Czech pipe tool rod & tip it out before re-lighting.

IT just works.

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I still can't get fold'n'stuff quite right, and I get near "10" smokes on other methods (including cubing...). I've cut flakes in half and stuck the "grain" of the folded tobacco lengthwise into the pipe. That kind of worked, but failed halfway down. I've rolled them up and put the resulting cylinder in the bowl. Same thing. I've rolled flakes into a loose ball, and that worked a little better but...

...I just get along with a rough-chunk of the flake or cubing. It works, and one thing is for sure: I hate chasing and managing a troublesome bowl of tobacco for sh*ts'n'giggles. :lol:

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[Kyle Weiss]

Odd man out here. I molest the ash (gently) with the Czech pipe tool rod & tip it out before re-lighting.

IT just works.

:face:

https://www.brothersofbriar.com/t21295-relighting

So we're both odd. Go figure.

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[MisterE]

Folding and stuffing works a little better if you scrunch the 'bac like an accordion before stuffing. It just opens it up the flake a little so the edges can catch easier.

I still prefer cubing (I know I'm a broken record on this one) for the best flake experience. FWIW.

 

[Brewdude]

Did the fold and stuff a couple times. Guess I got lucky since it worked OK.

That, and the moisture level was just right....the pipe was right.....etc.......

Haven't gone there in a long while. Prefer to rub out. This works for me.

FWIW



Cheers,

RR

 

[Anonymous]

Making submit the tobacco to a focused urge will usually result in a painful tongue and unpleasant smoke.

Been reading many instruction manuals from Chinese-made stuff recently ? :lol!:

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[gravel]

Making submit the tobacco to a focused urge will usually result in a painful tongue and unpleasant smoke.

Been reading many instruction manuals from Chinese-made stuff recently ? :lol!:

:face:

More you should focus in your telling, Kyle. Reading enjoyment lucky happiness!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Sometimes my words come out in the wrong order. I left it because I thought it sounded classy.

I guess not. :lol:

PS, go sit on a tack, haters.

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