The Traveling Pipester

[KevinM]

How do y'all pack your pipe necessaries for trips?

I've gradually come around to packing three size 4 Pokers in "pipe luggage" that I received as a gift. Before the gift I used a pipe box. Sometimes a cob Diplomat also comes along. I choose a tobacco that is cheerfully low maintenance. A Zippo and fluid, plenty of matches and cleaners, pipe nails. Everyhing gets put together in a large plastic freezer bag and is stored there (except the tobacco) between trips to avoid the need for redundant reassembly.

I leave behind anything that would be catastrophic if lost or broken.

The six-pack I buy locally.

 

[riff raff]

I'm much the same. Three pipes in my XL 2-pipe case. Three tins for 10 days in FL this past June was plenty. I take a fuel zippo and butane insert. Usually I take my GBD work horses/travel pipes and one with an acrylic stem for clenching while walking around. I raid the hotel bathroom for paper towels for my daily bowl wipe. Pipes, tobacco and lighter cases travel in my carry-on and the inserts get check in my luggage.

 

[Anonymous]

FWIW :

1) An aluminium pipe nail works better for the post-smoke bowl dressing than paper towels do.

2) If you don't take your travel pipes out of the travel kit (especially if it's a sandwitch bag), will they dry well enough after smoking them ? Doesn't seem like they would.

:face:

 

[riff raff]

FWIW :

1) An aluminium pipe nail works better for the post-smoke bowl dressing than paper towels do.

2) If you don't take your travel pipes out of the travel kit (especially if it's a sandwitch bag), will they dry well enough after smoking them ? Doesn't seem like they would.

:face:

I also pack of course a nail, my preference is the Brebbia. So, I do both the nail and the paper towel. I don't like much of a cake.

 

[KevinM]

FWIW :

2) If you don't take your travel pipes out of the travel kit (especially if it's a sandwitch bag), will they dry well enough after smoking them ? Doesn't seem like they would.

:face:

Good point. I prefer to leave smoked pipes out, though this is complicated a bit by anti-smoking regs in hotels. Sometimes I "rest" them out of sight in a drawer or in the SUV. And on returning home I leave them out until they pass the sniff test. Then back in the case. As long as I'm active with the pipe cleaners the pipes seem to thrive on traveling.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I leave my pipes out to rest in motels/hotels all the time and have never been confronted by the staff. They're welcome to make reservations for my business trip elsewhere for me if by circumstantial evidence they think I'm smoking in a room which I am not, and would like me to leave.

PS, pipe nails rule.

8)

 

[Doc Manhattan]

By car, I'll take two in my hardside case--usually one briar and one cob with a Walker "forever" stem, along with a pipe tool and a bag of cleaners. Depending on length and destination of voyage, I bring some quantity of kitchen matches and pipe cleaners. One or two tins of tobacco... trip are an excuse to break open something new for me.

By air, carry-on only, same pipe setup, but no matches, and a nifty made-of-briar pipe tool that came with a Caminetto pipe.

(More and more, though, I find myself using travel as a break from the briar, to get a tastebud reset. Less than a week, I don't even get the itch. Heresy, I know!)

 

[KevinM]

>>>I leave my pipes out to rest in motels/hotels all the time and have never been confronted by the staff.<<<

Neither have I (knockknock), but I've noted that resort signage here in the Socialist Republic of Nor'eastern Principalities has gotten increasingly restrictive. Granted, the language is usually dictated by local or state govts, not the proprietor, but the bargain seems to be, "Local govt pretends to regulate the conduct of outtastatuhs; the outastatuhs pretend to comply." Just like back in high school.

 

[kaiser83]

Just a heads up, TSA will allow you to take a pipe nail in your carry on. As will security in other countries. I keep a cob in my carry on and have a travel humidor I retro-fitted with padding that will carry 4 better pipes with no issues. I normally have a tin in the carry on with pipe cleaners also and a few tins in my checked bags.
As for hotels I actually jarred a couple tins in the hotel when I was in SC and had pipes left out and got no grief from the staff. I had a smoking room in Dubai and it was AWESOME to lay in a big bed and smoke a cob. It is all dependent on they type of travel and transportation combos you will be using.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Fortunately, Todd Harris has provided me with a small collection of hardwood "pipe nails" that should pass the airport/security test just fine...fortunately I never fly.

8)

 

[riff raff]

I carry a digital thermometer with a fold-out 6" spike, that nor my pipe nail never gets a sniff.

 

[kaiser83]

I will try to get my 3in1 through airport security in my carry on next time I fly. I know they allow a metal pipe nail type tamper in the US and at least also in the UAE. I am guessing my 3in1 will be confiscated because of the poker but I will find out. Maybe I will just try that one only in the US, I don't particularly want to deal with airport security in a foreign country with that spike. :affraid: But a cob in a carry on works great and no worries if by chance it breaks.

 

[Lesepfeife]

I travel almost every week so I bought a toiletry bag at Wally World for less than $10 that works great. There are compartments on the side that will fit most of my churchwardens (not all at once) and I use the other one of them for pipe cleaners etc. Inside there are loops that will hold "regular" size pipes. There's enough room in the body of the bag to hold a couple tins, a box of matches and some bags of week like P&C use for 2 oz. amounts. I keep my tools and traveling pipe rest in the compartment on the flap and there's a vinyl compartment that I assume is for soap, which I use for a paper towel and some Q-tips.

I haven't flown since I started smoking but have a project upcoming that may change that. I'm glad to have seen this thread because it reminds me that I will have to change my packing practice. I usually have a 4-in-1 with me and the 4th tool is a knife. Guess I won't be smoking any plug or rope on those trips unless I prepare them before leaving home.

When staying in a non-smoking room I've kept my pipe stuff in a drawer where I can leave things spread out and air can circulate around my briars. Fortunately my usual work site hotel does have smoking rooms. I usually get a lot less done in the evening if I have to stay in a non-smoking room.

 

[rothnh]

My Peterson pouch holds 2 pipes, tobacco, tool, pipe cleaners, lighter.

For extended trips, I have a 4 pistol gun case that can hold 10-12 pipes. I think it was like $25 or so.

 

[Nathan_58]

I fly with a single pipe pouch and a 3 in 1 all the time. Never been hastled about it. US only.